James Hewison

James Hewison is a Senior Lecturer in Dance at Edge Hill University, UK. He has made, performed and toured internationally in professional contemporary dance and physical theatre work since 1991 and was a founding member and Associate Artistic Director of Vtol Dance (1991 – 2000). James also has extensive performance credits with Volcano Theatre Company, about whose physical-theatre interpretation of Shakespeare’s Sonnets he wrote in his chapter, ‘Shakespeare and L.O.V.E: dance and desire in the Sonnets’, in The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Dance (2019, McCulloch and Shaw). James has recently published on, and created choreographic performance in response to the work of the surrealist artist Leonora Carrington: Leonora Carrington: Living Legacies, (2020, Cox, Hewison, Man, Shannon), and Imaginarium (Hewison and Man): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko8q80WsWQk. Edge Hill University, Department of Creative Arts, Ormskirk, Lancs, L39 4QP, UK. https://research.edgehill.ac.uk/en/persons/james-hewison ++44 (0) 1695 650782, email: hewisonj@edgehill.ac.uk