International Health Humanities Network Membership
Anna Furse
Professor Anna Furse was Head of Department of Theatre and Performance from 2011 to 2015. She leads the MA in Performance Making at Goldsmiths - an international laboratory programme in performer-driven theatre/dance/live art making.
Anna is developing a new project with the overarching title THE THEATRE OF OUR BODIES, 2016 -18. A new performance collaboration, THE ANATOMY ACT, is a Residency commission with CREATE Ireland within their CAPP EU scheme, also funded by the Arts Council England. It premieres in November at Live Collision Festival and will tour thereafter.
An interdisciplinary talks series, AUTO -SCOPOPHILIA, co-curated with Dawn Kemp, Dawn Kemp Director of Museums and Archives, Royal College of Surgeons, will take place at the Old Operating Theatre Museum, the Freud Museum and Goldsmiths in Spring 2017, funded by The Wellcome Trust.
Anna is working on a book, NEUROTICAS, for Digital Theatre and a chapter on her career for The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Women on Stage, eds. Jan Sewell and Abigail Rokison (2018).
Humanities Subjects
- Anthropology
- Dance
- Drama
- Literature
- Opera
- Philosophy
- Theatre
- Visual Arts
Health Care Areas
- Disease
- Gender and health
- Health Science
- Illness
- Medical
- Mental health
- Pain
- Psychology
- Public health