Pauline Boivineau

Pauline Boivineau is a Lecturer in Performing Arts and Academic Director of the Master's in Live Performance at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Angers. She holds a PhD in History (2015) and focuses on contemporary dance, gender studies, and feminist approaches in performance. Her research examines forgotten female choreographers, relationality in live performance, and the Nantes choreographic scene.

She leads programs like ANR SCAENA (cultural scenes analysis) and PACE (collaborative arts research). Teaching includes Gender and Performance, Cultural Policy, and Methodologies in Master's theses. She co-directs the TU-Nantes theatre studies and contributes to interdisciplinary teams like CHUS and IDHAL.

Key publications explore topics like artistic mediation, feminist choreography, and urban dance scenes. She frequently presents at international conferences (ACFAS, Lyon, Montreal), analyzing gender dynamics in performance and cultural policy.