Dr Dr Deveril BA MA DPhil MA
Contact Details
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Biography:
| Deveril
is the co-convenor of the SMARTlab PhD Programme, and the incumbent co-convenor
of the new SMARTlab MA in Creative Technology Innovation. He also leads the
core research cluster on Performance Technologies. A professional film maker
and performer as well as trained philosopher, he has a diverse background and
range of skills. From studying Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway in the early
1990s, Deveril has moved through the fields of dance, new media and filmmaking
as practitioner, teacher and researcher. He currently specializes in moderating
and facilitating community film and media training for non-standard learners. Deveril is an expert in leading, documenting and assessing movement and video-based projects, especially those in school environments or with teachers and young people (mixed abilities). His academic work has included investigating the use of hypertext techniques in the analysis of dance. His practical work has been across the areas of dance-on-screen (artistic and documentary); live and mediated performance; teaching and facilitating film-making; and a variety of youth projects. He is an independent film-maker, who trained as a director and video-editor. Recent work has given him DVD-authoring expertise and high definition (HD) experience. Deveril has worked in a range of contexts in the arts, and as a teacher, researcher and supervisor across higher education, and a writer of academic, film and other texts. His film and video work has been shown on television and in festivals, and his main academic writing has been published by Dance Books and Macmillan-Palgrave. |
Research Interests
| Theories of Intertextuality Dance Film Analysis Hypertextual Analysis of Screen-based Texts Technology in Performance Immersive Environments with Dramatic Applications The Development of Interactive and Cinematic Narratives Anti-philosophy and the representation of experience and knowledge transfer Multimodal writing practices Implicit and Experiential Learning
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Book Chapters
| Deveril; (2008) ''Harpies and Pyjamas: the making of Heart Thief'' In: Janet Lansdale (eds). Decentring Dancing Texts: The Challenge of Interpreting Dances. London: Palgrave Macmillan. [Details] |
| Deveril; (1999) ''Too Many Cooks Mix the Metaphors: Marin and Spink, and the Sandman Link'' In: Janet Lansdale (eds). Dancing Texts. Intertextuality in interpretation. London: Dance Books. [Details] |
Other Journals
| Deveril; (2001) 'ACE Catalytic Conversions and Future Alert -- Online Debates' Dancing Times . [Details] |
| Martin Welton and Deveril; (2000) 'Exploding Perceptions -- Performing Theory: Theorising Performance' Society for Dance Research Newsletter . [Details] |
Conference Publications
Miles-Board, T., Deveril , , Lansdale , J., Carr, L. and Hall, W.; (2003) Decentering the Dancing Text: From Dance Intertext to Hypertext Fourteenth conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, Hypertext'03  [Details] |
Video/TV
| Litza Bixler and Deveril; (2003) Heart Thief. Video/TV [Details] |
Honours and Awards
| Year: 1995. Title: Winner of Pauline Hodgens Memorial Award for Dance Analysis |
Conference Contributions
| Deveril; (2003) Society of Dance History Scholars, Twenty-sixth Annual Conference. [Invited Oral Presentation], Dance History on Shannon's Shore, University of Limerick , 10-JUN-03 - 12-JUN-03. |
| Miles-Board, T., Deveril, Lansdale , J., Carr, L. and Hall, W.; (2003) description of AHRB Innovation Project. [National Refereed Conference Paper], Fourteenth conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, Hypertext 03, Nottingham University , 26-AUG-03 - 30-AUG-03. |
Committees
| Committee : Research Development Sub-Committee, School of Computing and Informatics, the University of East London |
| Committee : New Work Network Steering Committee |
Teaching Interests
| Dr Deveril teaches in the areas of dance on screen, technology in performance, video‐ making, critical theory, 20th century dance and theatre history, practice‐based research and textual analysis. His PhD was on Digital Dialogism: dance at the edge of language (University of Surrey, 2002), a multi‐narrative exploration of the relationship of dance and language, inspired by a variety of poetic and other writing modes, as well as investigating the influence of new technologies on writing and thought. As a filmmaker, Deveril is an expert in teaching teachers and schoolchildren how to make digital video and short films; the benefits of this are manifold across the curriculum and beyond. Deveril has also worked with youth groups on devised projects in club and other settings, including being integral to 4 annual SMASH! boys¿ dance/site-‐specific performances in Devon with Stacked Wonky and North Devon Theatres. Since 2006, Deveril was the Video Coordinator at The Place, the famous home of London Contemporary Dance which recently celebrated its 40th Anniversary at the forefront of British and international contemporary dance performance. At The Place, Deveril advised on and facilitated many aspects of dance, video and new media. |