Research output per year
Research output per year
BA, MA, PhD
I am an interdisciplinary researcher and artist working across the fields of anthropology, phenomenology, performing arts, dance and cognition in skilled performance.
My research adopts phenomenological and cognitive ecological frameworks to investigate enactments of presence across different dance forms and cultural contexts.
I have been awarded Doctor of Philosophy in Cognitive Science at Macquarie University, Sydney (2020); I graduated M.A. in Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology at the University of Bologna, Italy (2012), and B.A. in Visual Arts at the University Paris 1 – Pantheon-Sorbonne, France (2009), after I trained professionally in ballet and contemporary dance across Europe for several years, working and studying with international choreographers such as William Forsythe, Wayne McGregor, Angelin Preljocaj, Carolyn Carlson; among many others.
Alongside my academic research, my artistic practice interrogates the interconnections of movement, emotion and environment and how their dynamical relationships shape embodied narratives and sense making. I am developing INFINITO, a longitudinal short dance film series that explores the relationship to illness and its transformational aspects from a phenomenological and auto-ethnographic perspective. The short film ABISSO (2018) received several acknowledgements including the 2019 CHASS Australia Prize for a Student in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, and won the 2018 Visual and Creative Ethnography Competition organised by the Australian Anthropological Society (AAS) and Australian Network of Student Anthropologists (ANSA). ABISSO has been selected for international film festivals including Dance Cinema, [C]Screen-Spring Dancefilm Festival 2020, Moving Images International videodance festival 2020, IntimateLens 2019, among others.
Phenomenology of the body
Dance and Performance
Illness experience
Ethnographic and Auto-ethnographic Methods
Cognitive Ecology
Cognitive Science, PhD, Macquarie University
Nov 2013 → Nov 2019
Award Date: 16. Apr 2020
Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Master of Arts, University of Bologna
Oct 2010 → Nov 2012
Award Date: 20. Nov 2012
Visual Arts, Bachelor of Arts, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Sep 2008 → Oct 2009
Award Date: 2. Nov 2009
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
Research output: Other contribution › Net publication - Internet publication › Communication
Research output: Contribution to conference without publisher/journal › Conference abstract for conference › Research › peer-review
Sarah Pini (Peer reviewer)
Activity: Editorial work and peer review › Peer review of manuscripts › Research
Sarah Pini (Guest lecturer)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talks and presentations in private or public companies
Sarah Pini (Peer reviewer)
Activity: Editorial work and peer review › Peer review of manuscripts › Research
Pini, Sarah (Recipient), 30. Oct 2019
Prize: Prizes, scholarships, distinctions
Pini, Sarah (Recipient), 13. Sep 2018
Prize: Prizes, scholarships, distinctions
Pini, Sarah (Recipient), 2018
Prize: Prizes, scholarships, distinctions
Pini, Sarah (Recipient), 2018
Prize: Prizes, scholarships, distinctions
Pini, Sarah (Recipient), 25. Nov 2017
Prize: Prizes, scholarships, distinctions
Sarah Pini 01/02/2021 → … |
Course: Teaching and supervision › Teaching