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Postgraduate Essay Competition: Previous Winners
2011
FIRST PRIZE: Adam Alston (RHUL): 'Damocles and the Plucked: Audience Participation and Risk in Half Cut'RUNNER UP: Geraldine Brodie (QMUL/UCL): 'Translation in performance: theatrical shift and the transmission of meaning in Tony Harrison's translation of Euripides' Hecuba'
2010
FIRST PRIZE: Marcus Cheng ChyeTan (Trinity College, Dublin): ‘“Every Situation Has Its Rhythm”: Acoustic Mimesis and Sonic Exoticism in Tambours Sur La Digue’RUNNER UP: Aoife McGrath (Trinity College, Dublin): ‘Choreographing the Unanticipated: Death, Hope and Verticality in Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre’s Giselle and The Rite of Spring’
2009
FIRST PRIZE: Theron Schmidt (Queen Mary, University of London): ‘Unsettling Representation’
RUNNER UP: Ryan Hartigan (Brown University): 'Affective Temporalities: The Haka, Rugby, and Aotearoa-New Zealand in the UK'
2008
FIRST PRIZE: Natalia Theodoridou (Royal Holloway, University of London): ‘Hysteria and Trance: Shared Ground’
RUNNER UP: Catherine Curtin (Trinity College, Dublin): ‘Recovering the Body and Expanding the Boundaries of Self in Hijikata Tatsumi’s Butoh’
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