The Place's Dance Industry Interviews: Dr Ruth Pethybridge

In this new series, Industry Interviews, we have honest conversations with people within The Place's community of artists to map the current climate of dance today. The next video in this series is with Dr Ruth Pethybridge where she talks about how dance artists can change the world.
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About Ruth
Dr Ruth Pethybridge is a Dance Artist, Researcher, and Senior Lecturer in dance at Falmouth University, she has also worked extensively as a practitioner in the Community Dance sector. Her research interests centre on the body as a form of cultural knowledge and the politics of participation in dance. Ruth is passionately curious about the ways in which dance can operate to support the causes of social justice as well as creating structures that enable more people to participate in the art form she loves. Most recently she has worked as a senior research investigator exploring creative dance with young people who have had adverse childhood experiences as part of the ATTUNE project (Oxford University/Falmouth University).
She regularly publishes and presents her work internationally: Recent publications include ‘Dancing through the hard stuff’: Repetition, Resilience and Female Solidarity in the landscape - Rosemary Lee’s Passage for Par (Routledge 2019) and ‘From Direct Action to Being There: The Ambiguous Politics of Community Dance and the Occupy movement (a historiography)’ (Dance Books, 2020).