Alan Parker



About
Alan Parker is a choreographer, dramaturg, teacher and researcher based in Makhanda, South Africa, where he is currently employed as a Senior Lecturer in the Drama department at the University Currently Known as Rhodes. He holds a PhD in Live Art, Interdisciplinary and Public Art, from the University of Cape Town.
As a choreographer, Alan has presented a wide range of work at various festivals and platforms, such as the National Arts Festival in Makhanda, the Dance Umbrella in Johannesburg, the Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees in Oudtshoorn, the Cape Town Fringe and the Live Art Festival in Cape Town. Over the last fifteen year, he has also collaborated, as a dramaturg and performer, with his husband, South African performance artist and curator, Gavin Krastin, on projects that have been presented in Canada, Wales, Scotland, Switzerland, the Netherlands, the United States of America and Brazil.
Alan has been both a Live Art Fellow and a Writing Fellow at the University of Cape Town’s Institute for the Creative Arts. Since 2019, Alan has been the resident dramaturg for the Live Art Arcade, a non-profit company and annual performance platform focused on the mentorship and development of early-career or emerging artists working in the fields of live art and performance art. Alan currently heads the Network for Embodied Research in Africa (NERA), a body-based research and community-building initiative, established in 2022.