Jane Turner

Biography

Jane Turner is Principal Lecturer in Contemporary Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her research engages with ethnography, spectator experience and dramaturgy. She has published work a monograph on Eugenio Barba, as well as articles and book chapters on theatre anthropology, Balinese and intercultural performance, performer training and embodiment, as well as critical evaluations of contemporary British theatre. She recently worked as an ethnographer and dramaturg on a collaborative research project with Proto-type Theater and MMUle that culminated in a touring performance titled The Good, The God and the Guillotine in 2013. She is currently working on a research project examining the components of legacy and intercultural dialogue with specific reference to Odin Teatret and, especially the historical and current value of Third Theatre groups.