About
Gretchen Schiller is a choreography researcher, professor and Principal researcher at the University of Grenoble Alpes, UGA. Her choreographic research focuses on the notion of embodied agency and kinaesthetic awareness through participatory installations, “screen dances”, performances, workshops and critical writing.
She is in charge of the Arts in the Alps project and the Federal Structure for Research Creation located at the Maison de la création et de l’innovation at UGA. She was the principal investigator of the Performance Laboratory – an IDEX label project that brings together academics from the fields of geography, performing arts and computer science over a period of 3.5 years and now co-directs the second edition of the Performance laboratory, Listening to Performance with colleagues in biomechanics, cultural studies, performing arts and sociology. She directs the RESCAM project which brings together over 20 universities developing research creation across France and is also the Canada-US representative for the GATES fellowship programme at the MaCI.
Born in Canada and raised in Brazil, Colombia and Australia, she obtained her B.A. in Dance and Francophone Canadian Studies from the University of Calgary (Canada), her M.A. in Choreography from UCLA (United States) and her PhD from the Science, Technology and Art Research Program at the University of Plymouth (United Kingdom). She was also a student in the Visual Arts Department at MIT Cambridge (United States).