ResDance Series 7: Episode 4: Doing movement research through practice with Alexandra Baybutt In this episode, Alexandra shares insight into her experiences as an artist, researcher and somatic movement educator. Through situating her thinking in her research practice, we explore ideas around collaborative practices and experimental methods of festival making, the cultures of practice in dance, and the centrality of the body. Throughout this episode, Alexandra reflects upon her positionality as a researcher and the importance of sharing the voices of the people she researches to ensure their visibility is known. Alexandra has worked as a researcher, somatic movement educator, dramaturg and dance artist internationally since 2004. She is interested in questions of embodiment and the construction of space. Her mixed-methods PhD (Middlesex University, 2020) concerned contemporary dance festival curatorial praxis as a form of imperceptible politics and explored how the field contemporary dance mediates changes and transformations to the organisation of life in the former Yugoslav space, taking a long-term view of the dissolution of SFRY. Alexandra is a certified Laban Movement Analyst (2010) and registered somatic movement educator with ISMETA as a practitioner of the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System. Her artistic work includes collaboration with choreographer Stephanie Felber (DE) and dramaturgy for choreographer Tania Soubry (LX/UK). Alexandra's work has been published in range of contexts and journals including Global Performance Studies, Critical Stages, and Something Other. Staff biography: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/dr-alexandra-baybutt Contact details: Website: https://alexandrabaybutt.co.uk/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alexandrabaybutt.movement/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alexandrabaybutt.movement Other social media links: 1. PAWA / Moving Strings https://www.instagram.com/moving.strings/ 2. Whole Movement: https://wholemovement.org/ 3. Academia profile: https://ucl.academia.edu/AlexandraBaybutt Links to any published resources Youtube free Bartenieff Fundamental movement principles classes https://www.youtube.com/@alexandrabaybutt5570 My book https://www.routledge.com/Contemporary-Dance-Festivals-in-the-Former-Yugoslav-Space-independent-Scenes/Baybutt/p/book/9781032344645     Please share this episode with students, educators, practitioners, performers, and interdisciplinary researchers curious to learn more about dance research in action.