Felicity Kerr
Lecturer in Dance Education, BA (Hons) Ballet Education Programme Manager
Felicity joined the Faculty of Education in September 2020, having previously worked as a Lecturer at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, and at Bird College Conservatoire for Dance and Musical Theatre where her expertise lay in dance history, contextualisation and analysis.
In her current role in the Faculty of Education, Felicity is excited to be contributing to a wide range of modules on a variety of programmes and, to be undertaking a range of teaching activities from teaching the BABE technique Ballet and Contemporary modules to developing CPD Sessions for the wider RAD community. Felicity has extensive experience both in private and public school sector teaching. She is also an experienced RAD teacher, having taught both in her hometown of Taunton (South West of England) and London (since 2013).
Qualifications
AFHEA, LRAD (Iris Truscott Award), ARAD, Specialist Diploma in Choreological Studies, MRes Dance (Intellect Postgraduate Prize), BA (Hons) Contemporary Dance
Teaching and Management
Teaching areas include:
- Diploma in Dance Teaching Studies
- BA (Hons) Dance Education
- BA (Hons) Ballet Education
- Professional Dancers’
- MA in Education (Dance Teaching)
Research Interests and Projects
Felicity is accomplished in violin, piano, and voice, and has an extensive musical background which informs her current research interest in the relationships between music and dance through a choreological lens of Choreutics and Space Harmony.
She is the director and choreo-composer of FlickerrDance Company, an integrated music and dance research-based performance company which has been generated through her MRes democratic model. Her professional work has been shown at Resolution (The Place, London), Somerset, Bristol and Bournemouth.
Professional Activities
Membership(s):
University and College Union
Royal Academy of Dance (Teaching Member)
People Dancing
One Dance UK