Writing up/Writing down: Making Sense through Sensory Engagement

McKenzie, V. (2017). Writing up/writing down: making sense through sensory engagement. ECU Researchers on Writing, Edith Cowan University. Writing up research can be formulaic and conventional, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. We rely on certain formulae and conventions to clarify meanings, to create a 

It’s nothing… Ben-Ary and Harwood’s Immaterial

McKenzie, V. (2017). It’s nothing… Ben-Ary and Harwood’s Immaterial.  Available from: Immaterial Introduction In Susan Glaspell’s one-act play Trifles (1916), a group of men and women try to figure out the story behind an apparently senseless murder. While the men focus on material facts present 

Underscore Alchemy: Extending the Underscore for Creative Artists

McKenzie, V. (2015). Underscore Alchemy: Extending the Underscore for creative artists. Contact Quarterly Contact Improvisation Newsletter 40(1), Winter/Spring 2015. ‘Underscore Alchemy’ is a research project designed to investigate how artists from disciplines outside the performing arts might engage with Nancy Stark Smith’s collaborative improvisation model, 

Review of ‘Isabelle of the Moon and Stars’

McKenzie, V. (2015). A Review of ‘Isabelle of the Moon and Stars’. Westerly, October 2, Perth, Australia. From the beginning of S.A. Jones’ Isabelle of the Moon and Stars, we learn that Isabelle is different. She is isolated from fellow passengers on a train when 

A WA Icon Loops the Loop

McKenzie, Vahri (2015). A WA icon loops the loop. Dancewest, March 2015, 8-9. The work is an artists’ profile of Chrissie Parrott, a choreographer of international standing, published in dance west, the WA edition of the Australian Dance Council magazine. It draws on my case