Noyale Colin (MA/PhD) has been teaching theory and practice across all levels of undergraduate and postgraduate Dance courses at a range of universities and conservatoires in the UK. She has held leadership roles in research, including the role of Convenor of the University of Winchester's Centre for Performance Practice and Research and leader of the Research Excellence Framework for its Performing Arts Department. Noyale will shortly be starting a new permanent position as Dance Lecturer at the Rambert Dance School in London.
She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Qualified Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist and one of the executive board members of Dance HE.
Noyale studied at the Conservatoires of Nantes and Lyon (CNSM), before training in postmodern dance and presenting work at leading performing spaces in New York City. She subsequently pursued her career by exploring different movement and somatic practices including yoga, shiatsu and improvisation.
She led the dance departments at the University of Suffolk (2012-2015) and the University of Winchester (2020-2022). More recently, she was interim course leader for the MA in Expanded Dance Practice at the London Contemporary Dance School at The Place in London.
Noyale writes books and journal articles and produces practical works related to her research around issues of embodied practices and the notion of the collaborative self in performance.
Selected Published books and journals:
Dancing Arts for Health Series (Emerald Publishers, 2025)
Ethical Agility in Dance: Rethinking Technique in British Contemporary Dance (Routledge, 2024)
‘On Solidarity’, Performance Research Journal, Special edition (2022)
Collaboration in Performance Practices: Premises, Workings and Failures (Palgrave, 2016)
Noyale has extensive experience organising public engagement events such as book launches, talks and podcasts. She also ran community projects engaging university students with general public and health practitioners through intergenerational dance projects, inclusive dance workshops and roundtables on subjects including neurodiversity in HE and spirituality in dance.
She has recently offered consultation and project management services, including for the arts charity Aesop Dance to Health for whom she manages their pilot programme in Dance for Health in Southwest London. Noyale is the external examiner for the MA in Choreography at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London.
She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Qualified Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist and one of the executive board members of Dance HE.
Noyale studied at the Conservatoires of Nantes and Lyon (CNSM), before training in postmodern dance and presenting work at leading performing spaces in New York City. She subsequently pursued her career by exploring different movement and somatic practices including yoga, shiatsu and improvisation.
She led the dance departments at the University of Suffolk (2012-2015) and the University of Winchester (2020-2022). More recently, she was interim course leader for the MA in Expanded Dance Practice at the London Contemporary Dance School at The Place in London.
Noyale writes books and journal articles and produces practical works related to her research around issues of embodied practices and the notion of the collaborative self in performance.
Selected Published books and journals:
Dancing Arts for Health Series (Emerald Publishers, 2025)
Ethical Agility in Dance: Rethinking Technique in British Contemporary Dance (Routledge, 2024)
‘On Solidarity’, Performance Research Journal, Special edition (2022)
Collaboration in Performance Practices: Premises, Workings and Failures (Palgrave, 2016)
Noyale has extensive experience organising public engagement events such as book launches, talks and podcasts. She also ran community projects engaging university students with general public and health practitioners through intergenerational dance projects, inclusive dance workshops and roundtables on subjects including neurodiversity in HE and spirituality in dance.
She has recently offered consultation and project management services, including for the arts charity Aesop Dance to Health for whom she manages their pilot programme in Dance for Health in Southwest London. Noyale is the external examiner for the MA in Choreography at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London.
