Research

Interested in the complexity of the corporeal, Dr. Shantel Ehrenberg's research centres on dance and dance studies, yet also engages with a wide range of other disciplines, including feminist theory, performance philosophy, critical race theory, posthumanism, phenomenology, cultural studies, cognitive science, practice research, and ethnography. She is interested in knowledge from the perspective of the mover, context, and discourse, and how meaning is made out of complex lived experiences in relation to the body. One of Shantel's key areas of research is investigating the complexities between felt experiences of the body and objects which reflect back a body, such as mirrors, videos, and ultrasound devices. She thus explores the in-between spaces of being in the world, particularly related to the imagination and becoming.