Bio Note: Lucía Piquero-Álvarez is a dancer and choreographer who has presented her choreographic work internationally, including several commissions and residencies such as ŻfinMalta: Malta’s National Dance Company, the Spanish National Dance Company, and Le Performance, France. She completed her PhD at Roehampton University in 2019 on the emotional import of 21st Century Euro-American contemporary theatre dance. Currently being head of the Dance Studies Department at the University of Malta, she researches embodied cognition and the experience of emotion in dance and has presented research at various conferences, as well as directed several practice research projects.

Affiliation: University of Malta, Malta

Homepage: https://www.um.edu.mt/profile/luciapiquero