Overspill: Presences, Processes & Perspectives

Overspill is a new interdisciplinary research seminar series convened by Acting & Performance Lecturer Dr Sophie Swoffer. It consists of in-conversation evenings and practice sharing events with artists and individuals working across the creative industries. This research series focuses on celebrating the practice of artists who are making important work that also pushes against and explodes beyond the understood boundaries of creative work. Presence and agency will be considered as central themes throughout Overspill and how the artist might use their practice to respond to and/or challenge ideas around self and identity. 

The launch event will feature first guest speaker Dr Funmi Adewole Elliott, Senior Lecturer in Dance at De Montfort University. She holds an MA in Postcolonial studies and PhD in Dance Studies. Her present research interests include dance as a profession, storytelling as performance, the Dance of Africa and the diaspora in the cultural and creative industries and…