I am a French artist, movement practitioner and researcher living and working in the UK. My transdisciplinary practice is influenced by training in fine art, performance and somatics, particularly key figures such as Deborah Hay, Lisa Nelson, Anna Furse, Patricia Bardi, Marie-Gabrielle Rotie, Mårten Spångberg, Seke Chimutengwende and Martin Hargreaves. I recently completed a PhD in Theatre and Performance at Goldsmiths, University of London (2025), where my research critically examined the politics and economics of touch in somatics and everyday life, focusing on issues of consent, exclusion, and progressive feminist epistemologies. My doctoral project proposed a new framework for understanding touch through a socio-political and intersectional lens, contributing to contemporary debates in performance studies and embodied research.

 

My work is mostly collaborative and dialogical. It spans live performance, performance writing, video/performance to camera, voicework, site-specific performance, installation, sculpture, and more recently drawing. All are, for me, interconnected media and aesthetic experiments through which I explore the precarity and vulnerability emanating from touch, that is, the relational field, attempting to give form and intelligibility to sensorially-grounded phenomena that are slippery and elusive, and escape representation. I am also a published author in peer-reviewed publications such as Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices, and Body, Space & Technology and have presented my work at major international conferences and festivals, including TaPRA (Theatre and Performance Research Association, UK) and Body IQ (Germany).

 

Like my research, my teaching philosophy is grounded in anti-oppressive pedagogies, critical inquiry, and embodied learning. I work to foster a student-centred environment that encourages experimentation, reflexivity, and interdisciplinary dialogue. Drawing on my eclectic training and expertise, I design learning experiences that integrate theory and practice, to support diverse learning styles and identities, in order to arouse students/participants’ curiosity so they develop their own creative and critical voices. I am committed to cultivating spaces where they feel safe to take intellectual and artistic risks.

 

In addition to my research and teaching, I have held roles as a research assistant, forum convenor, and mentor, and have actively contributed to anti-racist and feminist initiatives in performance and dance.

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Contact: maud.lannen@ntlworld.com

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