A former soloist and principal dancer with major dance companies in North American and Europe, Andrea Davidson holds an MA in Screendance and a DEA and Ph.D. in Interactive studies from Université Paris VIII where she taught courses in screendance and dance and new media from 1999-2008 before joining the University of Chichester, UK, in 2007 as a Senior Lecturer in Dance. She also taught at Université Nancy 1 (1999-2006) and London Metropolitan University (2007-09) and has been a visiting professor at Universidade Federal do Bahia, Brazil, (2014); Bilgi University, Istanbul, (2011-2012); WasedaUniversity and Tama Arts University in Japan (2004); and in various Académies des Beaux Arts in France (1999- 2001). She is regularly invited to give seminars, conferences and workshops internationally.

Author of the book Bains Numériques #1: Danse et nouvelles technologies (2007) and numerous articles and papers on the subject of dance and new media for books, journals and conferences, she coedited a special edition of the Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices entitled Somatics and Technology (2013) following a symposium of the same name she organized at the University of Chichester in 2012. Recent contributions include 'Mediated and Mediating Bodies' (2018) online conference proceedings of the international colloquium Cybercorporealities: nomadic subjectivity in digital contexts, Université du Québec à Montréal; ‘New Realities of the Body in Contemporary Performance: Québec, European and Latin American Perspectivesʼ (with I. Choinière and E. Pitozzi) online conference proceedings of the ISEA 2017 International Symposium of Electronic Art in Manizales, Colombia; ‘Technological Poetics in Danceʼ (2017), Revista Repetório, Universidade Federal da Bahia Press; ‘Extending the Discourse of Screendance: Digital Danceʼ, a chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies (2016) in (ed.) Douglas Rosenberg, Oxford Press; ‘ONTOLOGICAL SHIFTS: Multi-sensoriality and embodiment in a third wave of digital interfacesʼ in Embodiment, Interactivity and Digital Performance (2016), (eds) Tamara Ashley and Emma Meehan, Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices No. 8.1, Intellect Press; ‘Mediated bodies and Intercorporeality: Isabelle Choinière's Flesh Wavesʼ (2016), Archée revue d'art en ligne: arts médiatiques et cyberculture; and ‘Somatics: An orchid in the land of technologyʼ in Somatics and Technology (2013), (eds) Andrea Davidson and Sarah Rubidge, Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices No. 5.1, Intellect Press.

Also an award-winning choreographer-videographer and new media artist, Andrea Davidson is a recipient of the UNESCO Grand Prix International Videodanse (2002) in New Media; the Special Jury Prize of the Festival Napolidanza Il Coreografo Elettronico (2000); and the Prix de l'Écriture Multimédia de la Fondation Beaumarchais (1997). Following the creation of a dozen choreographies for the stage and screendance (1989˗1995), her pioneer interactive choreography La morsure (1998˗2001) received critical acclaim and was presented in major international festivals, exhibitions and art institutions. Other works include the interactive telematic dance performance Inter_views (2009) with Jem Kelly; the screendances Scènes Saint˗Denis (2009) and Paroles trouvées (2009); the octophonic, videochoreographic, optical installation Paroles trouvées (2007) with French composer Dominique Besson; the installation Anaphorique(s) (2006) and multimedia scenography D’anna-chronique…pavlova moi (2005) for Spanish choreographer Anna Ventura; the interactive installation Double Jeu (2004) for the Académie de Cirque Fratellini, Paris; the interactive installation DiaPH (2002) and multimedia performance Maâlem Expérience (2001˗2002) with Moroccan Gnawa master Mahmoud Ghania; and multimedia performance Paysages Humains (2001) with theatre company Faim de Siècle. Since 2006, she has also created and produced many videoclips and DVDs for independent musicians in Paris.