Summer Research Awards Announced
Congratulations to the following students who received summer research funding as a part of their participation in the CWPS Graduate Certificate program:
- Fabiola Torralba, MFA Program in Dance
Queering Liminality: Migration, Space and the Decolonial Imaginary (Mexico) - Sydney Schiff, MFA Program in Dance
International Influences on Zouk Dance Movement and Culture
(Toronto, Paris, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Warsaw, Katowice, London) - Ruby MacDougall, Doctoral Program in Asian Languages & CultureHow Identity and Culture are Embodied/Resisted through Corporeal Performance of Ethnic Minority Dance Forms in China (Yunnan, China)
- Adam Shead, MM Program in Improvisation
Improvised Music: Narrative, Culture, and Performance (Amsterdam) - Kiran Bhumber, MA Program in Media Arts
Development of “ The Electronic Shawl” (Kolkatta and Mumbai, India) - Laura-Ann Jacobs, PhD Program in Educational Studies
Local Hawaiian Counterstories (Hawaii, US) - Ellen Myers, MA Program in Southeast Asian Studies
New and Imagined Spaces of Freedom or Confinement for Young Indonesians in Facebook, (Central Java, Indonesia) - Alyssa Wells, PhD Program in Musicology
Adaptations of American Drum Corps Rehearsal and Performance Practices (Japan and Netherlands) - AJ Covey, MM Program in Percussion Performance, MM Program in Chamber Music
Musical Pedagogy of Non-Western Cultures (India and Bali)
The following Faculty received CWPS funding for summer research in the field of Performance Studies:
- Kelly Askew, Post socialist Poetics: Articulations of Populist Politics in Tanzania
- Amy Chavasse, Collaboration and Creation with Tanz Tangente in Berlin and Krakow
- Frieda Ekotto, Vibrancy of Silence: Artistic Performance of Lesbians in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Anita Gonzalez, Black and Irish Maritime Performance
- Mike McGovern, Culture and Contestation: Non-violent Challenges to the State by Ethnic Minorities in Myanmar
- Mbala Nkanga, Memory and the Exploration of the Past in African Theatre and Performance
- Damani Partridge, Filming the Future of Detroit/Filming the Future from Berlin: African Perspectives
- Stephen Rush, Summer Study of Carnatic Performance in Mysore, India
- Emily Wilcox, Choreographing Transnational Asia: Roots and Branches Tour
Release Date:
05/19/2017
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