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Kristina Johnstone
Kristina Johnstone is a dance practitioner and teacher, and currently chair of drama at University of Pretoria, School of the Arts. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa) and is a Certified Movement Analyst (CMA) in Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies. She has lectured part-time at the University of Cape Town and the Makerere University Department of Performing Arts and Film (Kampala, Uganda). She is a co-author of the book Post-Apartheid Dance: Many Bodies, Many Voices, Many Stories (2012). Kristina’s research interests stem from a desire to trouble colonial practices and epistemologies in performance and movement education, and to challenge orientations towards humanism, universalism and whiteness in her own work, while seeking to engage possibilities for a decolonial choreographic and artistic praxis. For some of Kristina’s recent work see: www.kristinajohnstone.com.
