How can performance deepen engagement toward relationship building and social change? What roles do aesthetics play in this work?
Rachael Van Fossen
- Part‑time Faculty Member
- Department of Theatre
- theatre for social change8
- socially committed art practice5
- experimental theatre16
- drama/performance27
- intercultural communication9
- community arts13
- collective creations12
- alternative dramaturgies
- research-creation34
- community-engaged research20
- performance studies12
- public pedagogies5
- documentary theatre3
- verbatim theatre2
- oral history performance8
- arts-based evaluation
- transdisciplinarity29
- arts-based learning27
- relational art6
- human rights32
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Luis C. Sotelo Castro
oral history performance, listening/hearing, experimental theatre
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Koby Rogers Hall
activism, social practice, research-creation
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Edward (Ted) Little
theatre for social change, dramatic theory, verbatim theatre
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Shauna Janssen
performative urbanism, spatial dramaturgy, public spaces
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Mark Sussman
experimental theatre, puppetry, performance studies
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Kathleen Vaughan
socially committed art practice, public pedagogies, place
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Norman Nawrocki
creative resistance, community arts, community organizing
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Sandeep Bhagwati
music making, research-creation, transdisciplinarity
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Jessica Carmichael
theatre directing, dramaturgy, acting
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Audrey-Anne Bouchard
design for the theatre, lighting design, drama/performance
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Bonnie Harnden
drama therapy, trauma and resilience, attachment
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Louis Patrick Leroux
experimental theatre, contemporary circus, drama/performance
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Noah Drew
voice, acting, voice training
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Eric Mongerson
design for the theatre, set design, lighting design
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Tim Schwab
documentary making, new media studies, first person media production
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Robert Reid
acting, stage poetics, old/new
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Janis Timm-Bottos
community arts, art hives, inclusion/exclusion
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Lynn Hughes
game studies and design, interdisciplinary soup, media arts
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Arseli Dokumaci
critical disability studies, performance studies, micro-activist affordances
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Guylaine Vaillancourt
music therapy, arts-based learning, participatory action research
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Nadia Myre
contemporary art, Indigenous cultural production, research-creation
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Liselyn Adams
performing arts, music making, contemporary music
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Erin Manning
movement, relational art, radical pedagogy
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Stephen Snow
drama therapy, ethnography, trauma and resilience
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Louise Samson
music making, piano, performing arts
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Floyd Favel
Indigenous performance theory, Indigenous theatre, performance studies
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Alice Jarry
materiality, urban futures, design for sustainability
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Laurel Young
music therapy, gerontology, community arts
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Amanda Dawn Christie
transmission arts, radio, intermedia
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Israël Dupuis
social design, community-university, digital media
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Emer O'Toole
performance studies, Irish theatre, activist art
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Emanuel Lowi
Inuit, Indigenous Peoples, contemporary Indigenous politics
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Giuliana Cucinelli
social impacts of technology, youth culture, social media
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pk langshaw
social design, research-creation, media arts
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Nicola Oddy
music therapy, voice, music making
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Amy Keith
drama/performance, design for the theatre, set design
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Rosemary C. Reilly
trauma and resilience, post traumatic growth, social creativity
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Kate Bligh
playwriting, Shakespeare, Jerzy Grotowski
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Catherine (Cathy) Richardson
Indigenous wellbeing, response-based practice, Indigenous Peoples
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Ursula (Ulla) Neuerburg-Denzer
acting, physical theatre, affect
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Katherine McLeod
Canadian literature, Canadian poetry, sound studies
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Angélique Willkie
dance dramaturgy, contemporary circus, Josephine Baker
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Raymond Marius Boucher
scenography, performance design, design for the theatre
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Anita Sinner
artwork scholarship, a/r/tography, research methods in art education
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Deborah Dysart-Gale
global engineering, social impacts of technology, citizenship
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Ricardo Dal Farra
music composition, electroacoustic studies, research-creation
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Yehudit Silverman
arts-based learning, masks, drama therapy
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Elizabeth L. Miller
documentary making, video advocacy, social justice
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Tagny Duff
viral media, biomedia, vitalities
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Vivek Venkatesh
hate crimes, racialization, radicalization
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Warren Linds
psychosocial risk, theatre for social change, performative inquiry