Research Interests

Anna Macdonald is a dance and moving image artist who focuses on the relationship of the body, time and affect. She specialises in participatory research and her work has generated interdisciplinary findings in the fields of law, health and science, within large-scale projects supported by AHRC, Arts Council England and Wellcome Trust. In her ongoing collaboration with Marie-Andrée Jacob (professor of law at Leeds University), they concentrate on the innovative application of dance as a legal method. Currently based at UAL: Central Saint Martins, Anna is the Course Leader for the social practice postgraduate degree, MA Performance: Society.

Additional Information

  • PI AHRC funded Network - Choreography of Consent: Experiments in Dance/law research (2024-2026)
  • Practitioner in Residence at Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, UoL (2023)
  • Visiting Fellow at Institute liberal Arts, Keele University (2020)
  • Board member of AHRC funded Somatics and Pain network
  • Board member UAL Research Ethics Sub-committee

Other Information

Link: https://annamacdonaldart.co.uk/

Publications

Latest Publications

Please see link: https://researchers.arts.ac.uk/2109-anna-macdonald/publications for full publications list.

Macdonald, A (2024) Reasonable Adjustments: Movements of Care in Art for the Sake of Care: Special Issue International Journal of Education and the Arts.

Macdonald, A (2024) Keeping in time: Mastery, as a condition of colonial and patriarchal discourse, and the temporality of screendance. In LO:TECH:POP:CULT : Screendance Remixe. London: Routledge, pp 128-147.

Jacob, M., Macdonald, A. (2019) A Change of heart: Retraction and the body. Law Text Culture (special issue entitled Legal materiality). Article articulating the use of screendance-as a form of legal research.