Erin Brannigan

Erin Brannigan is Associate Professor in Theatre and Performance at the University of New South Wales, working on the unceded lands of Bidjigal clan of the Dharawal Nation, alongside the Biripai, Dharug, Gadigal, Gumbaynggirr, Ngunnawal and Wiradjuri peoples. She is of Irish and Danish political exile, convict, and settler descent. 

Her publications include Dancefilm: Choreography and the Moving Image (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), Choreography, Visual Art and Experimental Composition 1950s -1970s (London: Routledge, 2022) and a companion monograph to the latter, The Persistence of Dance: Choreography as Concept and Material in Contemporary Art (Ann Arbor: Michigan University Press, 2023). 

She has published various chapters and articles in film, performance and dance journals and anthologies and regularly presents on dance for ABC Radio National. Her research project Precarious Movements: Dance and the Museum (2020-2024) with Tate UK, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of NSW, Monash University Museum of Art, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Shelley Lasica and Zoe Theodore produced an award-winning online sector resource, precariousmovements.com, an anthology Precarious Movements (Melbourne: NGV, 2024), and co-commissioned 6 case studies by artists Shelley Lasica, Victoria Hunt, Amrita Hepi, Atlanta Eke, Riana Head-Toussiant and Rochelle Haley.