Jayne McKee
Senior Lecturer in Dance, Programme Leader Dance Education & Teaching, Undergraduate Dance Programme Coordinator
About
Jayne graduated from Laban with a BA (Hons) in Dance Theatre in 1990. She went on to perform with Transitions Dance Company in 1991.
She has performed and taught extensively in the UK, Europe, America and Japan, working with David Massingham, Jamie Watton, CanDoCo, Gary Lambert, Fin Walker, Sonia Rafferty & Amanda Gough, Adventures in Motion Pictures and The Cholmondeleys.
In 1996 she was Dance Captain at La Scala, Milan working with Amir Housseinpour, and also on the musical Notre Dame De Paris in the West End from 2000 to 2001.
Jayne has taught extensively for Laban, London, and is a fully qualified Sports & Remedial Massage Therapist.
Research Output
Book Sections
McKee, J. and Harman, G. (2024) Subjective Perspectives: Foregrounding (the) self in dance practice. In: The Female Dancer: A Soma-scientific Approach. Routledge, London, pp. 237-248. ISBN 9781032466897 10.4324/9781032466897
Conference or Workshop Items
McKee, J. (2023) Finding space: internal-external, body-space dialogues in dance practice. In: Laban Bartenieff Movement Summit, World Arts & Embodiment Forum, March-April 2023, East 15 Acting School, University of Essex. (Unpublished)
Needham-Beck, S., McKee, J. and Harman, G. (2018) Training load and injury occurrence in undergraduate dance students. In: International Association of Dance Medicine and Science 28th Annual Conference, October 25-28, 2018, Helsinki, Finland. (Unpublished)
McKee, J. (2015) Fascia and Dance: Exploring the Science Behind the Somatics. In: 3rd International Dance and Somatic Practices Conference, 10-12 July 2015, Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE), Coventry School of Art & Design, Coventry, UK. (Unpublished)
McKee, J. (2015) Students as Partners in Dance Research: Changing My Approach to Teaching. In: Teaching & Learning Conference, May, 2015, University of Chichester.
Theses
McKee, J. (2020) Dancing the Fascial Body: A New ‘Line of Flight’? Masters theses, University of Chichester.
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