Faculty of Arts and Education

School of Communication and Creative Arts


   Ms Yoni Prior

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Position Senior Lecturer
Email yoni.prior@deakin.edu.au
Area School of Communication & Creative Arts
Phone +61 3 925 17652
Campus Burwood
Location Burwood
Role and profile Yoni is a Senior Lecturer in Drama.She lectures in performance skills, vocal technique, performance-making, digital and cross-disciplinary performance. She continues to practice as a performance-maker, writer and director.
Teaching responsibilities ACP 279, ACP 206/306, ACP 378, ACC 316
Bachelor of Contemporary Arts - Drama major sequence
Research interests Yoni is currently engaged in doctoral research investigating the creative management of resource limits in contemporary performance making and rehearsal. Current interests also include dramaturgy and digital performance.
Current research projects Digital Theatre Projects:http://www.deakin.edu.au/arts-ed/scca/dtp/index.htm
A series of collaborative projects between The Netherlands and Australia, Project Australia is a multi-perspectival and intercultural investigation into developing parallel literacies in making and interpreting performance.
Partners: University of Amsterdam. British Museum. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge.
Service to the University,
discipline or community  		 Chair, Big West Arts Festival 2004 - 2010.
Qualifications B.Ed (Victoria College, Rusden) 1981
M.A (Monash University) 1998.
Memberships Member - Back to Back Theatre Committee of Management
Peer Advisor - Australia Council of the Arts
International Federation of Theatre Research
Associate Editor - International Journal of the Arts in Society.
Conferences Fourth International Conference on the Arts in Society
28-31 July 2009
Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Venice, Italy
Ubiquitous Learning: An International Conference which was held 10-11 December 2010 at UBC Robson Square, Vancouver, Canada.
Australasian Drama Studies Association. Monash 2011,QUT 2012
Research link View Deakin associated research data

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22nd April 2013