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<\/p> <\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]Laura Cecilio <\/b>(she \/ her)\u00a0 \u00a0<\/i><\/strong>\r\n<\/strong><\/em>Pontifical Catholic University of S\u00e3o Paulo (<\/strong><\/span>PUC-SP<\/a>), Department of Communications and Semiotics Visiting scholar (2024)\u00a0<\/i>\r\n<\/em>Laura Cecilio is a Brazilian performing artist and scholar. During her residency at UCR, she was a PhD student<\/a> in the Communication and Semiotics Program<\/a> at the Pontifical Catholic University of S\u00e3o Paulo (PUC-SP<\/a>). Since 2021, under the supervision of Professor Christine Greiner<\/a>, PhD and with funding from CNPq<\/a>, Cecilio has been pursuing her doctoral research titled \u201cNetworks of Resistance and Their Micropolitical Narratives.\u201d Her research explores the expressive potential of Brazilian queer existences through performative arts such as music, dance, and literary forms.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\nIn 2024, she was awarded a <\/span>CAPES-PDSE<\/span><\/a> scholarship, which supported her residency at the University of California, Riverside. As a Visiting Scholar in the <\/span>Dance Department<\/span><\/a>, she worked under the guidance of Professor <\/span>Mar\u00eda Regina Firmino-Castillo<\/span><\/a>, PhD to complete a chapter of her dissertation; Cecilio also developed and presented the practical portion of her research, a performance project titled \u201cFic\u00e7\u00f5es\u201d-\u2013which began in music venues in S\u00e3o Paulo-\u2013and was <\/span>performed in the Dance Department<\/span><\/a> at UCR in June 2024. During the second part of her UCR residency, Cecilio was in residence in the <\/span>Music Department<\/span><\/a> working under the supervision of Professor <\/span>Walter Clark<\/span><\/a>, PhD, who supervised further development of “Fic\u00e7\u00f5es\u201d and supported her research at the UCR\u2019s <\/span>Experimental Acoustics Research Studio<\/span><\/a> (EARS), culminating in her performance presentation at the <\/span>University of Arizona in Tucson<\/span><\/a> in October 2024.<\/span>\r\n\r\nCecilio is also a performer\/singer in different projects such as \u201c<\/span>Soturna<\/span><\/a>\u201d (Burlesque Jazz music) \u201c<\/span>Manati Peixe-Banda<\/span><\/a>\u201d (Brazilian Progressive Psychedelic music) and \u201c<\/span>A Drama<\/span><\/a>\u201d (Nova M\u00fasica Popular Brasileira).\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nCV<\/span><\/a>\r\n\r\nlauramcecilio@gmail.com<\/span><\/a>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text animation=”fadeInUp”]Rebecca Chaleff<\/strong>\r\nChancellor\u2019s Postdoctoral Fellow (2017-2018)\r\n<\/strong><\/em>Rebecca Chaleff\u00a0<\/em>is a Chancellor\u2019s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Riverside. She holds a Ph.D. in Theater and Performance Studies from Stanford University with a minor in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Rebecca\u2019s research emerges at the intersection of dance studies, queer theory, and critical race theory to focus on the (dis)embodied transmissions of affective histories in performance. Her current project,\u00a0Choreographic Legacies<\/em>, analyzes how choreographically embedded legacies of the Western canon circulate across time to uphold and\/or contest the sociopolitical imperatives of European imperialism transnationally. Her writing has been published in\u00a0TDR\/The Drama Review<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Performance Research<\/em>\u00a0and is forthcoming in\u00a0Dance Research Journal<\/em>\u00a0and the\u00a0Futures of Dance Studies\u00a0<\/em>anthology. In 2017, Rebecca was honored to receive the Centennial Teaching Assistant Award at Stanford; she enjoys teaching introductory and advanced courses in dance and performance studies that encourage creative thinking between dance history and critical theories of race, gender, and sexuality. As a dancer, Rebecca has had the pleasure of performing with GERALDCASELDANCE, Pat Catterson, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company Repertory Understudy Group, Douglas Dunn and Dancers, Molissa Fenley and Company, and the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company, among others.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text animation=”fadeInUp”]Noriko Karube<\/strong>\r\nFulbright Visiting Student Researcher (2017-2018)\r\n<\/strong><\/em>Noriko Karube is a Japanese Ph.D. candidate in Cultural Anthropology at Graduate School of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. She is a recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship in Visiting Graduate Researcher Program 2017-2018, sponsored by the Institute of International Education and the Japan-U.S. Educational Commission (Fulbright Japan) and she is affiliated by the Department of Dance at the University of California, Riverside. She is also receiving a Research Grants 2017 of the Institute for the Culture of Travel. Under the support of these sponsorships, she is currently working on her Ph.D. dissertation project which will discuss Hula, a native Hawaiian traditional dance, in California.\r\nShe received her first BA in Literature (German Literature) in 2006 from the School of Letters, Arts and Sciences 1, Waseda University, and a second BA in Literature (Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture) in 2010 from the School of Culture, Media and Society, Waseda University, after working for one of Japan’s largest international law firms in Tokyo as a secretary for approximately four years. In 2012, she completed her Master’s program and received a degree in Literature (Cultural Anthropology) from Graduate School of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Waseda University under the direction of Prof. Masao Nishimura.\r\n\r\nHer current research interests are varied such as intangible Cultural Heritage, especially the art of dance and memory, an impact of globalization and tourism on sacred traditions, and authenticity and diversity of hula. As a side project, she has been actively working on the cultural impact of development for telescopes on the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawai\u02bbi.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text animation=”fadeInUp”]Fabiana Marroni Della Giustina\r\nVisiting Scholar (2017-2018)<\/em><\/strong>\r\nFabiana\u00a0Marroni Della Giustina is a Brazilian Dancer and a theatre arts professor at the Federal University of Bras\u00edlia\/UnB since 2009 in the Department of Arts. She is a visiting scholar at the University of California, Riverside in the Dance Department and has been awarded with a scholarship from the CAPES Foundation. Her research is entitled \u201cThe Skin That Overflows Movement \u2013 A Research on Dance, People and Objects\u201d which she has been developing since 2015 through the graduate program at the\u00a0University of Bras\u00edlia<\/a>.\u00a0Fabiana\u00a0holds an M.A. in dance and education from the same program with a thesis titled \u201cDancing Playing to Play Dancing\u201d which was published in 2009. She completed her specialization in Educational Psychology and Contexts at Catholica College of Uberl\u00e2ndia\/MG in 2005. She concluded a Licentiate Degree in Artistic Education\/Theatre Arts\u00a0in 1999 from University of Bras\u00edlia\/UnB. After graduation,\u00a0Fabiana\u00a0served for nine years\u00a0as an Arts Professor in the Education State Department of the Federal District Government \/GDF. At the same time, she was a professor in the theatre department at the Federal University of Uberl\u00e2ndia \/ UFU (2003-2005). As a dancer,\u00a0Fabiana\u00a0has had the pleasure of performing with\u00a0Basirah \u2013 N\u00facleo de Dan\u00e7a Contempor\u00e2nea, Cia M\u00e1rcia Duarte, Alaya Dan\u00e7a, among others.\r\n\r\nHer doctorate research has been influenced from the formation of \u201cCollective CoisAzul\u201d that is composed of dancers and a blue bean bag chair.\r\n\r\nwww.coisaazul.com<\/a>\u00a0\/ #CoisAzul Instagram\r\nfabianamarroni@unb.br<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text animation=”fadeInUp”]Tria Blu Wakpa<\/strong>\r\n<\/strong>President\u2019s Postdoctoral Fellow (2017-2018)\r\n<\/strong><\/em>Tria Blu Wakpa is a 2017-2018 President\u2019s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Dance Department at UC Riverside, where she will work with her faculty mentor, Professor Jacqueline Shea Murphy. Tria will receive her Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from UC Berkeley in May 2017. Her research focuses on the continuities and contradictions among Native American education, incarceration, and performance in educational and carceral facilities. Tria has recently published articles in\u00a0The American Indian Culture and Research Journal<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Dance Research Journal<\/em>\u00a0and served as a guest editor for special issue journals that feature writing by people who are imprisoned. She has also taught a wide range of interdisciplinary and community-engaged courses at public, private, tribal, and carceral institutions. Tria is the founder and co-facilitator for the Race and Yoga Working Group and the co-founder and co-facilitator for the Race and Yoga Conference and\u00a0Race and Yoga\u00a0<\/em>journal. She holds an M.A. from UC Berkeley in Ethnic Studies, an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from San Diego State University, and has decades of training in martial arts and yoga. Tria is grateful to have received support and recognition from numerous sources for her scholarly and creative work including: the Ford Foundation, Fulbright, and Dancing Earth: Indigenous Contemporary Dance Creations.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]I am text block. Click edit button to change this text. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapibus leo.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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