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State:
VIC
University:
The University of Melbourne
Status:
International Student
Discipline:
Education, Humanities and Social Sciences
Research Specialty:
Creative Art Research, Performing Arts, Psychology

Ioannis Sidiropoulos is an actor, dancer, artistic creator/director, drama and academic teacher, writer, and currently a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne – Victorian College of
the Arts, on the Melbourne Research Scholarship and the A.G Leventis Foundation Educational Grant. Ioannis studied Acting at Higher Drama School in Athens, Greece, graduating with excellent and earned his Master of Art in Physical Acting and Performance with distinction from the University of Kent in the UK.

Application of Research to Industry

The contribution of my PhD project is the combination of three components/fields, performing arts, music, and cognitive (neuro)science, with direct, pragmatic, and experimental processes in perception-action coupling with movement and brain mapping in response to sounds during movement and imaginative improvisation through a repeatable methodology. This combinational approach to creating an artistic output, created from pragmatic data, is new and just beginning to be explored. Thus, this work may also generate a new aesthetic approach for dance, physical theatre, and performance not generated from a personal aesthetic intention but based on the gathered and analysed data. Moreover, we may understand further the cognitive and perceptual mechanisms of the human brain and body to inform the teaching and artistic creation of performance practices where movement is generated and performed to music (theatre, dance, education, dance therapy, rehabilitation etc.). Also, it may offer potential benefits for cognitive neuroscience in the context of brain functions and creativity and for movement, dance, and music therapy where patients with disabilities and mental health conditions, may be examining their abilities to engage and express themselves in physical explorations and expression. Finally, it may offer to the universal human phenomena of theatre, dance, and creativity.

Key Skills

  • Arts
  • Photography
  • Filmmaking
  • Videography
  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology
  • Mental Health
  • Data collection and processing
  • Improvisation
  • Creative Writing
  • Poetry
  • Radio Producer
  • Work and Research Ethic

 

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