Board of Directors

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Dr Jo Butterworth currently directs a part-time MA in Choreography at Fontys Professional University, Tilburg, Holland, and teaches on postgraduate courses at Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts (LIPA). Formerly Head of Dance at Bretton Hall, and subsequently Senior Lecturer in Dance at the University of Leeds, she initiated and directed the first BA Hons Dance programme in the North of England, and also an MA in Performance Studies. Research interests focus on dance making and its applications which led to the Arts Council-funded project The Greenhouse Effect: the art and science of nurturing dancemakers (1997-1999) and the publication of Dance Makers Portfolio in 1998. She received her doctorate from the University of Kent in 2002 and has published articles on choreographic processes and teaching models. Jo is Chair of Wayne McGregor | Random Dance Board, and a trustee of Northern Ballet Theatre. She chaired SCODHE, (Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education) and the Dance Section of ELIA (European League of Institutes of the Arts) and was a member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council peer review college. She is currently co-editing Contemporary Choreography: A Critical Reader for Routledge.