ProfessorRea Dennis

(she/her)

Professor

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

  • 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

TEACHING EXPERTISE

Units developed and delivered include: Research Methods, Practice-led Research, Theatre Practice, Improvisation, Applied Theatre, Devised Theatre, Viewpoints

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Awakening somatic intelligence for health and well being in ageing
    Sally Jane Davison - School of Communication and Creative Arts
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The Fascia Network, landscape of queer inference and reshaping
    Sarah Marie Gottlieb - School of Communication and Creative Arts
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Improvisation, affect and self-regulation: dance and affective neuroscience perspectives
    Michaela Mariah Berton Gerussi - School of Communication and Creative Arts
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Rage and Grief; working with queer bodies in site specific performance work
    Davina Wright - School of Communication and Creative Arts
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Performing Teaching: Co-creating performance art with teaching academics as creative inquiry into practice, performativity and professional development in a neo-liberal university
    Elissa Jane Kiddell - School of Communication and Creative Arts
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    OUT OF THE RUINS- Australian Sites, Inspirited Landscapes and theSocial Sacred
    Louise Heidi Morris - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2018
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Form Mind Body Space Time : The Geometry of Human Movement
    Daniela Bertol - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2017
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Re-engaging Touch in Tango: An Experiential Framework for Kinesthetic Listening
    Rafaelle Rufo - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2020
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The Killing Shed: Building Performance from Pieces of Self
    Marc Metzger - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2020
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    How Australian presenters program contemporary dance in performing arts centres
    Elizabeth Gibbs - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2023
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Cultural Alliance and Relationality in Australian First Nations Intercultural Mainstream Theatre Rehearsal Practice
    Kirsty Reilly - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2021
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Embodied Approaches in Archiving Dance: Memory, Disappearance, Transformations and the archive-as-body
    Erica Charalambous - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2022
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Director | Mother | Outlaw: Counter-narratives in theatre directing and mothering
    Katharine Hayley - Jade Maudlin - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2022
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The Object of Life
    Jack Parry - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2023
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Practices of Textuality: Temporalities of Textile and Textual Production
    Jordana Leah Infeld - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2025
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The Creative Facilitator: Principles and Practice in Outdoor Participatory Performance
    Glen Lawrence Walton - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2026
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Harmonising Purpose: Cultural Leadership and Contemporary Australian Professional Orchestras
    Samuel Joseph Cairnduff - Management Discipline Group - 2025
  • COMPLETED MASTERS SUPERVISION
    In Plain Sight: Australian Women Directors and their rehearsal room practices in the contemporary theatre context
    Michele McNamara - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2020
  • COMPLETED MASTERS SUPERVISION
    Preparing for Action!: an investigation into actor-direction for the screen
    Rohan Jones - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2020