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School of Arts

Lliane Loots

Lliane Loots

Lecturer

DisciplineMusic, Drama and Performance

Emaillootsl@ukzn.ac.za

Contact Number031-260-1142

CampusHoward College Campus

Office AddressOffice 101, Hut 1, Studio 1, Drama and Performance Studies

Degrees Held

  • BA, Hons, MA, PhD (University of KwaZulu-Natal) – 2018

 Research Interests

  • Dance Studies, with a focus on Africa and the Global South
  • African feminist and intersectional performance studies
  • Dance and Disability Studies

Teaching Interests

  • Physical Theatre and Dance in Africa
  • Intersectional body politics and feminist histories to imagine contemporary performance making – especially in Africa and the Diaspora.
  • South African contemporary dance –  histories, theories and praxis

Selected Publications

Journal Articles

  • Loots, L (2023) “Dancing Climate Activism in Africa: An interview with Mozambican dancer and choreographer Rosa Mário”, Agenda, 37:3, 40-46, DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2023.2230272
  • Loots, L. 2022. “’Who are the mythological and hybrid mermaids in our digital and analogue world of contemporary performance narratives?’ − a conversation across oceans between two dance makers.” AGENDA. Vol. 36. Issue #1. (still in process)
  • Loots, L. 2021. “Decolonising dance pedagogy? Ruminations on contemporary dance training and teaching in South Africa set against the specters of colonisation and apartheid”. Theatre, Dance and Performance Training 2021. Vol. 12, No. 2, (p184–197)
  • Loots, L. Hutchison, Y, & Mbele, O. 2020. “Voicing the Imaginative in Africa: three creatives”. AGENDA. Vol. 34.3 2020 (p126 – 136)
  • Loots, L. 2018. “Encountering Dancing Shakespeare/s: José Limón’s The Moor’s Pavane, Dada Masilo’s the bitter end of rosemary and Gregory Maqoma and Helge Letonja’s OUT OF JOINT”. Shakespeare in Southern African (SiSA). Vol #31 2018
  • Loots, L. 2018. “Embodied storytelling: using narrative as a vehicle for collaborative choreographic practice – a case study of FLATFOOT DANCE COMPANY’s 2016 HOMELAND TRILOGY (South Africa and Senegal)”. South African Theatre Journal. Vol 31 No1. (p58 – 71)
  • Loots, L. 2016. “The autoethnographic act of choreography: considering the creative process of storytelling with and on the performative dancing body and the use of Verbatim Theatre methods”. CRITICAL ARTS 30 (3) 2016 (p370 – 391)
  • Loots, L. 2013. “ ‘Body Politics’ and negotiating gender violence and child sexuality through FLATFOOT DANCE COMPANY’s youth arts interventions programmes in KwaZulu-Natal – a case study (2003 – 2013)”. AGENDA No97/27.3 2013 [p28 – 38]
  • Loots, L. 2011. “Revisiting gender ecology and eco-feminism: a profile of five contemporary women water activists”. AGENDA No 88/25/2 2011. [p6 – 16]
  • Loots, L. 2011. “Framing ‘The Politics of Water’: a response to the free flowing river that genders the debates around water”(Editorial). AGENDA No 88/25/2 2011. [p 1 – 5]
  • Loots, L. 2010. “The body as history and memory: a gendered reflection on the choreographic ‘embodiment’ of creating on the socially constructed text of the South African Body”. SOUTH AFRICAN THEATRE JOURNAL. Volume 24 [p105­- 124]
  • Loots, L. 2009. “Navigating African Identities, Otherness, and the ‘Wild Untamed Body’ in Dane training and pedagogy in South Africa: A Case Study of Flatfoot Dance Compamy’s Dance ‘Development’ Programmes”. In GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON DANCE PEDAGOGY: RESEARCH AND PRACTICE. Ed: Randal, T. (2009). Leicester: UK.

Chapters in Books

  • Loots, L (2024). “Dance Curator as Archivist: JOMBA! Memory and Mourning”. From: Murray, A. & Betty, M. (eds). THE CREATIVE ARTS: ON PRACTICE, MAKING & MEANING. Cape Town: Dryad Press.
  • Loots, L (2024). “ ‘Engaged Pedagogy’  with Hope: Dance Instruction to heal form Violence in South Africa”. From: Carter, C. & Dhungana, RK (eds) EDUCATING FOR PEACE THROUGH COUNTERING VIOLENCE: strategies in curriculum and instruction”. London: Routledge.
  • Loots, L (2023). “Framing the intersectional gender politics of the Sibikwa legacy”. From: Klotz, P. and Ndaba, S. (eds). STRATEGIES FOR SURVIVAL AT SIBIKWA 1988 – 2021: LANDMARKS OF SOUTH AFRICAN THEATRE”. London: Routledge.
  • Loots, L (2012). “Voicing the Unspoken: Culturally connecting race, gender and nation in women’s choreographic and dance practices in post-apartheid South Africa”. FROM: Freidman, S (ed) (2012). Post-Apartheid Dance: Many Bodies, Many Voices, Many Stories. Newcastle upon Tyne (UK) – Cambridge Scholars Publishing.