Dr Margaret Ames

BA (Llundain) MA (Cymru) Graduate Diploma (Surrey) PhD (Aberystwyth)

Dr Margaret Ames

Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance

Department of Theatre, Film & Television Studies

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Please note: The Welsh version of this profile contains additional or more detailed information.

Profile

Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance

Teaching

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Research

Margaret's area of research is Performance and Disability with a particular interest in work made by and with people with learning disabilities. Aberystwyth based dance-theatre company Cyrff Ystwyth form the focus of this enquiry and they produce new work every year at Aberystwyth University.

Devising Theatre, particularly in a Welsh cultural context. Disability and performance. Director/producer for Cyrff Ystwyth Dance Company, who participate in long term practice based research project.

Co-Investigator with Central School of Speech and Drama University of London on AHRC funded project. 'Challenging 'Liquid' Place'.

Member of International Federation of Theatre Research Working Group: Performance and Disability.

Presented at inaugural meeting of Performance and Disability Working Group at the Hemispheric Institute Encuentro 2014.

Guest Contributor to NO LIMITS Berlin, festival symposium 2013 and 2015 with members of Cyrff Ystwyth

Publications

Ames, M, Four Movements / Pedwar Symudiad, 2025, Performance.
Ames, M 2025, 'Gesture, Dance, and Learning Disability', Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 315-330. 10.3828/jlcds.2025.18
Ames, M 2025, 'Unwriting interpretations and inscriptions of lack and re-writing capacity through shared embodied action in dance theatre', Paper presented at 17th Biennial Conference of International Society for Ethnology and Folklore 2025, Aberdeen, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 03 Jun 2025 - 06 Jun 2025.
Ames, M 2024, 'Gestural Choreographies: Moving Between Bodies', Didaskalia, vol. 2024, no. 179, pp. 165-187. 10.34762/5w7g-ce96
Ames, M, 'In My Younger Days', 2024, Performance, Aberystwyth University.
More publications on the Research Portal