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Dr Angela Pickard
PhD, MA, BEd (Hons).
Senior Lecturer. Programme Director for Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Dance Education
Dr. Angela Pickard has performed, created, taught and presented dance locally, regionally and internationally in her roles as dancer, choreographer, teacher, advisor, consultant and academic.
Angela studied ballet and contemporary dance styles. She has worked with a number of independent and mainstream choreographers and artists in a range of collaborative and creative projects and performances in a multitude of theatre, site, school and community based settings in Kent, London and Europe. More recently, Angela has worked with young talented dancers at London Contemporary Dance School, Northern Ballet Theatre, Leeds and The Royal Ballet School, London as part of her work ‘Investigating Talented Dancers.’ She is currently involved with the satellite Centre of Advanced Training (CAT) programme for local (Kent and Medway based) young talented dancers in partnership with Trinity Laban Conservatoire for Dance and Loop Dance Company.
Angela is responsible for the organisation and management of the Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Dance Education programme at University Centre Folkestone. She teaches the ballet component of Technique and Style, Dance Pedagogy, Choreography and Dance Research. She is also Artistic Director and choreographer of UCF (University Centre Folkestone) Dance Company.
She has been external examiner for early years and research modules for the BEd (Honours) at Wolverhampton University and is currently chief external examiner for the PGCE at Exeter University.
Angela’s research interests place the corporeal body as central to examination. She is particularly concerned with the relationship between the body and identity in dance and how social worlds shape human bodies. Her PhD was a longitudinal, ethnographic and empirical study of the social world of ballet and the embodiment of young ballet dancers. She applied Pierre Bourdieu’s critique of the perpetuating social order and theoretical concepts of field, habitus and capital.
Angela has presented and published work on the body, gender and pedagogy. She is an active member of Dance UK, Foundation for Community Dance, Youth Dance England South East Youth Dance Network and the British Educational Research Association Special Interest Group Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy. She has received funding for research and projects from The Arts Council, Department for Education and Schools (DfES), Youth Dance England, Youth Sport England and South East Youth Dance Network.
Selected Conference Presentations
13th Commonwealth International Sport Conference, People, Participation and Performance Paper presentation ‘My hobby has become my ambition: Investigating Talented Dancers’ Melbourne, Australia (March 2006)
3rd EASS (European Association for Sociology of Sport) conference The Changing Role of Public, Civic and Private Sectors in Sport Culture. Paper presentation ‘The Lived Experience of Young dancers’ perceptions and understandings of the body in dance culture’ Jyvaskyla, Finland (July, 2006)
AIESEP, World Congress, The Role of Physical Education and Sport in Promoting Physical Activity and Health. Paper presentation ‘You need the strength of a rugby player but be nimble like an athlete’: Exploring physical identity in young male dancers. Jyvaskyla, Finland (July 2006)
Gender and Education Association International Conference, Paper presentation ‘You need the strength of a rugby player but be nimble like an athlete’: Further exploration of physical identity in young male dancers. University of Dublin, Ireland (March 2007)
British Education Research Association Annual Conference, Two paper presentations ‘Girls, Bodies and Pain: Negotiating the Body in Ballet’ and ‘Learning to be a dancer’: Looking through different lenses, University of London, England, (September 2007)
British Education Research Association Annual Conference, Paper Presentation
‘A totally consuming pleasure and an adrenaline high’: Pleasure, Power and Performance in Ballet, Manchester University, England (September 2009)
Selected Publications
Wellard, I, Pickard, A. and Bailey, R. (2007) ‘A shock of electricity just sort of goes through my body’: Physical activity and embodied reflexive practices in young female ballet dancers, Gender and Education, 19(1) pp. 79-91.
Pickard, A. (2007) ‘Girls, Bodies and Pain: Negotiating the Body in Ballet’ In Wellard, I. (ed.) Re-thinking Gender and Youth Sport, London: Routledge, pp. 36-50.
Pickard, A. and Bailey, R. (2009) Crystallising experiences among young elite dancers, Sport, Education and Society, 14 (2), pp. 165-181.
Bailey, R. and Pickard, A. (2010) Body Learning: examining the processes of skill learning in dance, Sport, Education and Society, 15(3), pp. 367-382