Biography
I studied and danced with key artists in the vital period of the 1970s and '80s in London (Dancework); New York (Robert Kovich and Dancers, Sara and Jerry Pearson, and Judith Moss and dancers); Sydney (Russell Dumas's Dance Exchange); and Melbourne (Dance Works). I am a widely published dance commentator and am co-editor of Writings on Dance. My research interests extend from philosophy of the body, through modern and post-modern dance to Indian and Indonesian dance cultures.
Read more on Sally's profileResearch interests
My research interests lie in the area of dancing experience and action, modern/post-modern and contemporary dance concepts, values and processes, philosophy of the body, and the historically and culturally specific modes of dance training.
I bring these concerns to bear on projects that investigate contemporary dance practices in Australia, the United States and Asia, especially India and Indonesia, and in thinking across the conventional division between Western and non-Western, modern and traditional practices. I am also involved in projects that explore the relation between dancing experience and dance aesthetics and between dance and other arts.
Affiliations
Chair and co-editor Writings on Dance Incorporated
Editorial Committee 'Senses of the Postcolonial' book series, Institute of Postcolonial Studies and Palaver;
Member Global Reconciliation Network.
Member IFTR
Teaching interests
My teaching interests are in the areas of dance composition, drawing particularly on the avant garde of the 1960s known as post-modern dance. I also teach the bodywork fundamentals that support and develop dancers kinaesthetic imagination.
I supervise Dance Internships, Honours and Masters and PhD candidates.
Research groups
I am a member of the 'Flows and Catchments' research group.
Publications
Reading Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog with Deutsch, Nietzsche and Nijinsky
S Gardner
(2023), pp. 1-20, Australian Feminist Studies, London, Eng., C1
Teaching the Dance Subject in Australian High Schools
S Gardner, O Millard
(2021), Vol. 21, pp. 103-113, Journal of Dance Education, C1
S Gardner
(2020), Vol. 11, pp. 245-258, Choreographic Practices, Bristol, Eng., C1
The struggle for gender diversity
S Gardner, P Komesaroff
(2020), Vol. 28, pp. 539-541, Australasian Psychiatry, London, Eng., C1
Young People's Experiences in Hip Hop Dance Participation
Jacinda Richards, Sally Gardner
(2019), Vol. 73, pp. 459-474, Dance and the Quality of Life, Berlin, Germany, B1
Fragile objects: A visual essay
M Chapman, J Philip, S Gardner, P Komesaroff
(2019), Vol. 16, pp. 185-189, Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, Berlin, Germany, C1
... dance for the time being: Russell Dumas in conversation with Sally Gardner
R Dumas, S Gardner
(2018), Vol. 21, pp. 379-390, Postcolonial studies, Abingdon, Eng., C1-1
On dance notation, or the process of recording movement on paper
S Gardner
(2017), pp. 168-203, To note: notation across the disciplines, Melbourne, Vic., B1
Uses of the sampur in the halus (Refined) style of Yogyakarta court dance
S Gardner
(2015), Vol. 32, pp. 228-244, Asian theatre journal, Hawaii, U.S., C1
S Gardner
(2014), pp. 10-12, Bodies of thought: twelve Australian choreographers, Kent Town, S. A., B1
S Gardner, R Dumas
(2014), pp. 13-17, Bodies of thought: twelve Australian choreographers, Kent Town, S. A., B1
Sally Gardner
(2014), Vol. 5, pp. 229-240, Choreographic Practices, Bristol, United Kingdom, C1
Choreography, or framed kinaesthetics
S Gardner
(2014), pp. 1-3, Framed movements, Melbourne, Vic., J2
Dancing and listening : Odissi across cultures
S Gardner
(2012), Vol. 33, pp. 411-425, Journal of intercultural studies, Melbourne, Vic., C1
Trio a, ranup lampuan and sovereignty
S Gardner
(2012), pp. 94-113, Writings on dance, Malvern, Vic., C1
Practising research, researching practice : thinking through contemporary dance
S Gardner
(2012), Vol. 18, pp. 138-152, Cultural studies review, Melbourne, Vic., C1
Beyond anthropomorphism: Odissi and the botanical
S Gardner
(2012), Vol. 4, pp. 157-165, Studies in South Asian film and media, Bristol, England, C1-1
From training to artisanal practice : rethinking choreographic relationships in modern dance
S Gardner
(2011), Vol. 2, pp. 151-165, Theatre, dance and performance training, Abingdon, England, C1
Introduction to the English translation
S Gardner
(2010), Poetics of contemporary dance, Alton, England, B1
S Gardner
(2010), Vol. 46, pp. 356-371, Forum for modern language studies, Oxford, England, C1
S Gardner
(2008), Vol. 13, pp. 55-60, Performance research, London, England, C1
Dancing beyond exercise : young people's experiences in dance classes
S Gardner, P Komesaroff, R Fensham
(2008), Vol. 11, pp. 701-709, Journal of youth studies, Cambridge, Mass., C1
The dancer, the choreographer and modern dance scholarship: a critical reading
S Gardner
(2007), Vol. 25, pp. 35-53, Dance research: the journal of the society for dance research, Edinburgh, Scotland, C1
Modern dance, domestic life and civil society
S Gardner
(2006), Vol. 15, pp. 1-19, Outskirts: feminisms along the edge, Crawley, W.A., C1
Dance classes, youth cultures and public health
R Fensham, S Gardner
(2005), Vol. 24, pp. 14-20, Youth studies Australia, Hobart, Tas., C1
Gendering discourses in modern research
S Gardner
(2004), pp. 1-11, Conference Proceedings: Dance, Rebooted: Initializing the Grid, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia, E1
S Gardner
(2003), pp. 234-242, Sexuality and medicine: bodies, practices, knowledges, Philadelphia, USA, B1-1
Funded Projects at Deakin
No Funded Projects at Deakin found
Supervisions
Mary-Kate Kennedy
Thesis entitled: You are now in Harmonic Poise: Modern dance interrogates verticality
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Shaun McLeod
Thesis entitled: The Movement Between: Dance Improvisation, Witnessing and Participatory Performance
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Olivia Mary Millard
Thesis entitled: From Score to Work: Making a Group, Improvising a Dance
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Raffaele Rufo
Thesis entitled: Re-engaging Touch in Tango: An Experiential Framework for Kinesthetic Listening
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Stephanie Elise Hutchison
Thesis entitled: Work: A poetics of endurance within the viscous solo Sampling: choreographic interventions for dance and circus
Master of Arts, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Sela Kiek
Thesis entitled: Dancing the Building: Movements between Bodies and Built Structure
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Sheridan Linda Lang
Thesis entitled: The Role of Memory in Establishing and Destabilising Choreographic Practice
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Shaun McLeod
Thesis entitled: Chamber: Dance Improvisation, Masculine Embodiment and Subjectivity
Master of Arts, School of Communication and Creative Arts