Biography

alys longley was born in July 1978 in Auckland, New Zealand. She studied for a Bachelor of Arts degree at Otago University in Theatre and Modern Literature and Film followed by a Masters Degree in Dance Studies and a PhD in Performance Studies from Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia. An interdisciplinary artist, writer and teacher, alys’s work exists as live performance, artist-book, installation, film, education curriculum, poetry, performance writing and lecture- demonstration. Over the last decade, alys has been exploring mistranslation studies, working across languages and disciplines to explore the spill of ideas beyond conventional systems of meaning, through a series of international artistic-research projects in Berlin (Germany), Santiago (Chile), Coimbra (Portugal), NYC (US), Chicago (US)Auckland (NZ), Welllington (NZ), Vienna (Austria) and Stockholm (Sweden). alys is a Professor based in the Department of Dance Studies, University of Auckland, since 2006.