3rd Nov 2014 6:30pm-8:00pm
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Peter Hulton is a documentary writer and film-maker.
He is the founder and director of Arts Archives – an international digital moving image resource for performance research initiated by the Council of Europe – and has created the Exeter Digital Archives of Performance Practice at Exeter University, UK. His audio-visual documentaries have accompanied publications for leading publishers Routledge, Methuen, The Drama Review and the Open University, and include the DVD-ROM which accompanied Psychophysical Acting ( by P. Zarrilli) selected as the most outstanding theatre studies book in 2010.
His filming of Anna Halprin, the American dancer, provided the core of the DVD-ROM Anna Halprin, Dancing Life, published in 2014 in Belgium by Contredanse and he is currently collaborating on a DVD-ROM for Routledge entitled Yoga and Actor Training, to be published in 2015.
His video stage projections have been shown at a number of European festivals and accompanied the multi-media performance “The Still Small Voice of the People” which represented Cyprus at the International May Festival, Wiesbaden, Germany in 2011.
He is a past recipient of the John Whiting Award for New Playwriting, U.K. In 2012/13, he worked on an audio-visual installation for the Centre for Mood Disorders, U.K. funded by a Leverhulme Trust award - this material has now been streamed for the internet.
He has been a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, and taught for many years at Dartington College of Arts, U.K., becoming its Principal for a while in the 1980s. He is on the Editorial Board of the journal Performance Research and of the internet resource the Routledge Performance Archive and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, London.
