Research

Qualifications

BA in Performance Studies (Acting), L.I.P.A.
MA in Directing, CSSD
PhD (ongoing) ‘The Boylesque Encounter’, Roehampton University.

BRITish HEart researches and teaches across the disciplines of performance studies, queer theory, popular dance and entertainment, comedy and the body. As a practice as research practitioner he critically investigates the performance methods of stripping, burlesque and boylesque striptease and historical and current contemporary sex entertainments. Through his work, as a male stripper and explicit performer, HEart is most concerned with the lived experiences of these events, of the value of the bodies involved in these performance practices and the practitioner’s methods of performance.

He has studied in theory and practice approaches to character and text and contemporary movement. He studied cabaret and musical theatre under Dr Nicolas Philips and Cultural Real Politik under Dr Donna Soto-Morritini. During his postgraduate MA in directing he specialized in emergence as collective practice, as well as studied Tanztheater under Anna Sanchez-Colberg, scenography under Peggy Phelan and site specific under Improbable Theatre.

He has been a board member of and performer at ‘Kleinkunst’ the series of events produced by the Centre for Excellence in Training for Theatre (CETT), he has lectured undergraduate media and theatre students on the subject of burlesque striptease, is the founder of the Brighton Institute for Boylesque and holds workshops on boylesque striptease and erotic performance.