Dr Ruth Hellier-Tinoco 

Lecturer 

Arts 

Email:

Ruth.Hellier-Tinoco@winchester.ac.uk  

Phone:

+44 (0) 1962 827184 

Address:

Expertise

Mexican performance practices, Latin American dance and music; dance anthropology and ethnomusicology; extended vocalisation; community arts (adults with a learning disability); theatre in education/ drama in education.
Practice-as-research in performance and dramaturgical practices.

Publications

Mexican performance practices, nationalism, tourism and twentieth-century
Women singers in global contexts;
Extended vocalisation;
Community theatre practices and applied drama.
Recent publications:
Under review Vocal Herstories: Women Singers in Contemporary Global Contexts. Edited collection, editor: Ruth Hellier-Tinoco, with afterword by Ellen Koskoff.
Forthcoming: Mexican Dramaturgies and Memories: Contemporary Theatre and Performance in Mexico. (contracted)
Forthcoming Embodying Mexico: Tourism, Nationalism and Performance. New York: Oxford University Press.
Forthcoming “Corpo/Reality, Living-Dead, and Voyeurs: Night of the Dead on the island of Janitzio, Mexico.” Performance Research (Memento Mori) Vol. 15, No. 1 (March 2010)
2009 ‘Mexico, But Not Mariachi’ Classroom Music, Rhinegold Publishing. Autumn Term 2, 2009/10
2009 ‘Dead bodies/live bodies: death, memory and resurrection in contemporary Mexican performance.’ In Performance, Embodiment, & Cultural Memory, edited by Colin Counsell & Roberta Mock, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
2008 ‘¡Saludos de México (el auténtico)!: Postales, anuncios espectaculares, turismo y cuerpos actuantes’, Fractal, Mexico City, No. 46
2005 ‘Becoming-in-the-world-with-others: Inter-Act Theatre Workshop’, Research in Drama Education: Special Edition on Ethics, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp.159-173
2004 ‘Power Needs Names: Hegemony, Folklorisation and the Viejitos Dance of Michoacán, Mexico’. Annie J. Randall (ed.) Music, Power and Politics. Routledge: New York and London, pp.47-64
2003 ‘Experiencing People: Relationships, Responsibility and Reciprocity.’ British Journal of Ethnomusicology 12/1, pp.19-34

Research Interests

Performing Arts and Drama.
Performance Histories and Analysis; Theories of Performance; Performance Skills: voice and singing; Applied Drama Practices: community and disability arts; Performing in Cultural Contexts.

Funding Awards and Professional Membership

Standing Conference of University Drama Departments (SCUDD)
Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education (SCODHE)
National Association of Music in Higher Education (NAMHE)
British Forum for Ethnomusicology (BFE) – committee member
International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM), Study Group for Ethnochoreology
Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM), USA
Congress on Research in Dance (CORD)
International Dance Council (CID), UNESCO
Practice as research in performance (PARIP)
PALATINE
The Magdalena Project
Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS)