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ProfessorRea Dennis

(she/her)

Professor

Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Communication and Creative Arts

Orcid identifier0000-0002-6214-3504 (opens in a new tab)⁠
  • Professor
    Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Communication and Creative Arts
  • +61 3 924 68234 (Work)
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Practice led research

Improvisation
Devised Theatre
Embodied forms of knowledge production
Posthuman dramaturgy and nature-centred performance
Acting techniques and self regulation
Hidden costs/labour in performing arts productions

Creative research and ethics

GRANTS

  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Developing an Online Practice Coaching Hub for Workforce Training
    24 Jun 2026 - 24 Mar 2027
    People funded by this grant:
    Anglicare Victoria - $30,000.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    One-take, online film-based approach to practitioner training artefacts: Pathways to change
    5 Jun 2025 - 31 Oct 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    Anglicare Victoria - $15,000.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Graduating degree of difficulty for online improvised scenario training:The Theatre of Life
    27 Feb 2024 - 26 Feb 2027
    People funded by this grant:
    Anglicare Victoria - $57,000.00
  • GRANT
    Reconnecting - collaborations with nature
    City of Greater Geelong1 Feb 2024 - 31 Jul 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    • Dennis R
    $8,800.00 - A collaboration with Platform Arts and artists in the LGAs of Geelong, Surf Coast and Golden Plains to create and present 'Encounters: performing posthuman futures'.
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Expert actors and 'real play' simulations as a site for skill rehearsal for Family Care professionals: A film-based approach.
    1 Nov 2022 - 31 Dec 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    Anglicare Victoria - $50,000.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Online, real time scenarios as an adult learning (training) context for rapid response workers.
    1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    Anglicare Victoria - $37,900.00
  • COMPETITIVE GRANT
    AusStage Phase 7. The AusStage Data Laboratory: immersive interfaces, interoperability, connectivity and customisable visualisation (opens in a new tab)⁠
    ARC led by The Flinders University of South Australia1 May 2021 - 31 Dec 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    • Dennis R,
    • Holledge J,
    • Bollen J,
    • Meyrick J,
    • Hamilton M
    ARC-LEIF $566,523.00
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  • GRANT
    A field trip to the future: Move, Make and Play
    18 Jan 2021 - 31 Dec 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Rea Dennis
    City of Greater Geelong - Creative Communities Grants - $7,500.00
  • GRANT
    Adapting collaboration - A remote art project
    16 Oct 2020 - 31 May 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Rea Dennis
    City of Greater Geelong - COVID-19 Quick Response Community Grants - 090 - $1,600.00
  • GRANT
    Move, Make, Play: An intergenerational arts-based approach to community building
    30 Nov 2018 - 18 Apr 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    • Rea Dennis
    City of Greater Geelong - Creative Communities Grants - $5,600.00