Performance

Nora Alter

Professor of Theater, Film, and Media Arts
Nora Alter was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Making Time: Art Across Gallery, Screen and Stage Screening at the Arts Research Center on April 20, 2012.

Nora Alter is a professor at Temple University’s School of Theater, Film, and Media Arts. She served as Chair of the Department from 2009-2013. She is founding director of Temple’s Venice Study Abroad Summer Program and is former founding Director of FMA’s Los Angeles Study Away Program. Alter is culturally fluent in European and North American arts and culture. Alter completed her PhD in Comparative...

Per Ananiassen

Theater Scholar, Dramaturg, and Theater Director
Per Ananiassen was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Nordic Time Zones Conference at the Arts Research Center on March 26, 2014.

Per Ananiassen is a Norwegian-Sámi theater scholar, dramaturg and theater manager. He was dramaturg at Trøndelag Theater 2001–2008, and is artistic and general manager at ...

Sima Belmar

ARC Fellow and Continuing Lecturer in TDPS at UC Berkeley
Sima Belmar was an ARC Fellow in 2012 – she was chosen in the graduate and faculty category.

Sima Belmar earned her Ph.D. in Performance Studies from TDPS in 2015, and holds an M.F.A. in Dance from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Her scholarly writing has been published in The Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices, Performance Matters, L'avventura, and the Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies (2016). Sima was a dance critic for the San Francisco Bay Guardian from 1997-2003. Currently, she is the creator and host of the ODC podcast...

Linda Brumbach

Creative Producer
Linda Brumbach was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Re-staging / Re-construction / Re-enactment Symposium at the Arts Research Center on August 13, 2012.

Linda Brumbach is an independent creative producer based in New York City working across mediums of performance, installation, and film. She founded her company Pomegranate Arts in 1998 to center her practice around both helping to realize an artist’s vision and supporting ambitious provocative work that often falls outside of traditional genres and structures. Pomegranate Arts has produced the Olivier Award-...

Naomi Bragin

Dancer, Artist, Writer, Scholar
Naomi Bragin was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2015 – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Naomi Bragin is a dancer, writer, wanderer, wonderer—collaborating with other artists to heal and recreate worlds.

Black Power of Hip Hop Dance: On Kinethic Politics, her current writing project, tells stories of streetdances created by youth living in California during the 1970s Funk & Disco eras, whose everyday artistry helped set foundations for global contemporary...

Shane Boyle

ARC Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies at Queen Mary University, London
Shane was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2009 – he was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Shane Boyle began working in the Theatre and Performance Department at Queen Mary, University of London after completing his PhD in Performance Studies at UC Berkeley and his BA in English at Duke University. Before moving to London, Boyle held postdoctoral appointments at Stanford University and Harvard University.

Boyle's research focuses on the political economy of performance from a Marxist and communist perspective. He is particularly interested in postdramatic...

Kevin Bott

Community-Based Theater Artist, Scholar
Kevin Bott was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Cross Sector Conference on April 28, 2016.

Kevin Bott is a community-based theater artist and scholar whose interests lie at the intersection of healing, freedom, justice, and movement-building, as well as in the mutually supportive relationship between individual excellence and collective creation. Bott is the founder and artistic director of Ritual4Return, which he began developing in 2008. His 2010 doctoral dissertation is entitled “A Ritual for Return: Investigating the Process of Creating an Original Rite of...

Jonah Bokaer

Choreographer, Media Artist
Jonah Bokaer was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Making Time: Art Across Gallery, Screen and Stage Screening at the Arts Research Center on April 20, 2012.

Jonah Bokaer has cultivated a new form of Choreography merged with Visual Art & Design. American & Middle Eastern, he has deeply interwoven an international career as an exhibiting museum artist; with a touring multi-ethnic dance company; with a nonprofit practice that has succeeded in delivering 4 arts facilities for younger artists.

Sven Åge Birkeland

Artistic & Managing Director of Norway's BIT Teatergarasjen
Sven Åge Birkeland was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Nordic Time Zones Conference at the Arts Research Center on March 26, 2014.

Sven Åge Birkeland was the artistic and managing director of Norway's oldest and most prestigious international theatre, BIT Teatergarasjen, the dance biennial Oktoberdans and the theatre biennial Meteor. In addition, he was sought after as a curator and advisor for programs of festivals and venues, within Norway as well as internationally. In that capacity he influenced the curatorial processes and development of many performing...

Lisa Bielawa

Composer, Producer, and Performer
Lisa Bielawa was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Re-staging / Re-construction / Re-enactment Symposium at the Arts Research Center on August 13, 2012.

Composer, producer, and vocalist Lisa Bielawa is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow and a Rome Prize winner in Musical Composition, who takes inspiration for her work from literary sources and close artistic collaborations. She is the recipient of the 2017 Music Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters and a 2020 OPERA America Grant for Female Composers. She was named a William Randolph Hearst Visiting Artist...