Biographies
Thora Tenbrink is a Professor of Linguistics at Bangor University (Wales, UK) who uses linguistic analysis to understand how people think, and has published numerous articles addressing how language represents concepts and thinking across domains of life. She is author of Cognitive Discourse Analysis: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and Space, Time, and the Use of Language (Mouton de Gruyter, 2007), and has co-edited various collections. Her website is available at: http://knirb.net.
E-mail: t.tenbrink@bangor.ac.uk
Kate Lawrence has lectured in dance and performance at Surrey and Bangor Universities. She has produced twenty vertical dance works and Gwymon (2014) was selected for British Dance Edition in 2016. Kate published the first scholarly article on vertical dance and in 2017 completed her PhD on the subject. She is a founder member of Vertical Dance Forum. Recent essays have been published in the journals Choreographic Practices and Performance Research. Her website is available at: www.verticaldancekatelawrence.com
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Vertical dance is a new hybrid form of dance that uses the equipment of rock climbing for working at height to suspend dancers off the ground, typically, but not always, against a wall or other type of surface that they use as a vertical dance floor (Lawrence 2010).
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