The Institute for Performance Studies is delighted to welcome Gretchen Schiller as a Visiting Scholar for the 2024-25 academic year.
Dr. Schiller is Principal researcher at the Performance Laboratory at the University of Grenoble Alpes, France, where she is also a choreography researcher and professor.
She is in charge of the Arts in the Alps project and the Federal Structure for Research Creation, which is located in the new premises of the House of Creation and Innovation. She is a principal investigator at the Performance Laboratory - an IDEX label project that brings together academics from the fields of geography, performing arts and computer science over a period of 3.5 years. Her choreographic research focuses on the notion of embodied agentivity through participatory installations, "screen dances", performances, workshops and critical writing. Born in Canada and raised in Brazil, Colombia and Australia, she obtained her B.A. in Dance and Francophone Canadian Studies from the University of Calgary (Canada), her M.A. in Choreography from UCLA (United States) and her PhD from the Science, Technology and Art Research Program at the University of Plymouth (United Kingdom). She was also a student in the Visual Arts Department at MIT Cambridge (United States).
