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PEERS Mentors

Sher DoruffSher Doruff, PhD, works in the visual, digital, and performance arts in a variety of capacities.

For the past fifteen years her work has been situated in the expanded field of artistic research practice as an artist, writer, tutor, mentor, and supervisor. Her research practice currently explores fabulation and fictive approaches to writing in and through artistic research. She is currently head of the THIRD program at the DAS Graduate School (Amsterdam University of the Arts), mentoring and collaborating with 3rd cycle/PhD artist researchers.

She has taught and supervised artists in many European schools and universities including the University College Dublin, Leiden University, University of East London, Norwegian Artistic Research Program and the Gerrit Rietveld Academy of Art and Design. Her forthcoming Last Year at Betty and Bob’s An Actual Occasion completes the Betty and Bob trilogy, published by 3Ecologies/punctum books. She has also published numerous texts in academic and artistic contexts.

https://www.atd.ahk.nl/en/das-research/research-groups/3rd-cycle/third-3rd-cycle-research-groups/third/sher-doruff/

Thomas DeFrantzThomas F. DeFrantz is Chair of African and African American Studies and Professor of Dance, and Theater Studies at Duke University. He is past-president of the Society of Dance History Scholars, an international organization that advances the field of dance studies through research, publication, performance, and outreach to audiences across the arts, humanities, and social sciences. He is also the director of SLIPPAGE: Per-formance, Culture, Technology, a research group that explores emerging technology in live performance applications. He convenes the working group Black Performance Theory and the Collegium for African Diaspora Dance. Source: The Black Scholar

https://danceprogram.duke.edu/faculty-profile/thomas-f-defrantz

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Jenny FuhrJenny Fuhr is a musician and anthropologist/ethnomusicologist based in Berlin. For the past fifteen years, she has been closely collaborating with Malagasy musicians in Madagascar and in their transnational communities and diasporas across Europe.

In her own musical practice and research - and within their mutual depen-dence - she is particularly interested in the meaning and experience of oral transmission/oral culture, the role and use of (written) language as well as questions of translation and improvisation.

Having specialized in Performance Studies, African Music Studies and Indian Ocean Studies, she holds a MMus from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London and a PhD from the University of Southampton. She regularly performs with her duo partner Erick Manana, their joined formation “Madagascar Roots Band” as well as with her string quartet “Lokanga Köln Quartet” at music festivals and on international stages (e. g. Olympia, Casino de Paris (FR), Palais du Sport (MG), Berliner Philharmonie (DE)). She likes to create a bridge between her research and her public performances, i. e. in forms of lecture recitals and has been working as a freelance radio journalist (BR, SRF, HR, WDR) for several years, creating music features with in-depth interview material.

Övül DurmuşoğluÖvül Ö. Durmusoglu is guest professor and mentor in the Graduate School in University of the Arts in Berlin and a visiting professor for Art and Discourse in Hochschule für Bildende Kunst Braunschweig.

In her multifaceted practice as curator, writer and educator, she researches intersectional forms and narratives of contemporary political subjectivities. Övül was one of the curators for the Steirischer Herbst festival in Graz; curator/director for YAMA public screen in Istanbul; artistic director for the Sofia Contemporary 2013 ‘Near, Closer, Together: Exercises for a Common Ground’. She curated different programs for the 10th, 13th and 14th Istanbul Biennials; coordinated and organized different programs and events at Maybe Education and Public Programs for dOCUMENTA (13).

She recently curated the two part exhibition and public program ‘Stars Are Closer and Clouds Are Nutritious Under Golden Trees’ in MMAG Foun-dation, Amman. This year she co-curates 2nd edition of ‘ Die Balkone’ in Berlin, 3rd edition of Autostrada Biennial in Prizren and 12th Survival Kit exhibition in Riga with Joanna Warsza. Originally from Ankara, she lives in Berlin.

https://www.udk-berlin.de/en/research/graduate-school/team-contact/oevuel-oe-durmusoglu/

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https://www.atd.ahk.nl/en/das-research/research-groups/3rd-cycle/third-3rd-cycle-research-groups/third/emilie-gallier/

Emilie GallierEmilie Gallier is a choreographer researcher based in the Netherlands. She recently completed her artistic PhD from the Centre for Dance Research (Coventry University), with the support of the THIRD research group at DAS Graduate School (Amsterdam), in which she developed the idea and practice of reading (documents/documentation) in and as performance (Reading in Performance, Lire en Spectacle – the solitude of reading merged with the collective nature of an audience, 2021, http://post-cie.com/texts.php).

Emilie works through dance and choreographic practices in multi-modal and multi-disciplinary settings. She develops performances, publications, edible documents, visceral practices, dances, dreams, conversations, and peer exchange within spaces of the stage, the page, telephone, and studios. Her interests are at the intersection of experimental performing art practices, poetic documentation, the act of reading as a gesture of participation (through withdrawal and absence), imbricated imaginations, entangled ecosystems, living soils. Her continuous engagement with artistic research as a ‘bookworm’ who nibbles scores and other documents, as a researcher, practitioner, collaborator, peer, tutor, and implicated spectator, shapes her immanent attention and experience with formats of writing and publishing. Informed by dance, she moves with the unwritten, which thrives in the written, and she attends to what practices do.

Emilie is a tutor at DAS Graduate School, guest teacher at art schools and universities in the Netherlands (ArtEZ, Fontys, Leiden University). She also publishes in peer-reviewed journals (Performance Research), and co-edits dance books (ongoing with De Nieuwdansbibliotheek).

Since 2014 she has been working for the Graduate School of the Berlin University of the Arts, a two-year fellowship programme for artists from all disciplines. As research associate and programme coordinator Jenny Fuhr is interested in exploring cross-disciplinary research strategies and further developing and experimenting with collaborative working methods with the international fellows.

https://www.udk-berlin.de/en/research/graduate-school/http://madagascar-music.com

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Friederike LampertProf. Dr. phil. Friederike Lampert graduated her ballet studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt / Main and studied applied theater studies in Giessen. In 2007 she completed her doctorate in theater studies with the thesis «Dance improvisation. History, theory, process, communication» at the Free University of Berlin.

She has worked as a dancer in various dance ensembles (with Amanda Miller, amongst others) as well as a research assistant in research projects at the University of Hamburg, Tanzplan Deutschland, Codarts-University for the Arts Rotterdam and the Palucca Hochschule für Tanz Dresden.

She teaches dance theory and practice and is involved in various choreo-graphic projects. Since 2018 she has been a professor for choreography at the ZHdK in Zurich. Her main research interests being oral dance history, dance techniques, choreographic procedures and university didactics of dance.

https://www.zhdk.ch/person/prof-dr-phil-friederike-lampert-215150

Marisa Godoy is a dance practitioner-researcher and teacher with a background in contemporary dance, improvisation and somatics. Her creative practice involves stage productions, video installations and per-formances in alternative spaces. Under the label OONA project, she has collaborated with the main dance and theatre venues in Zurich, while also performing in national and international festivals in England, France, Germany, Russia, among others. As a dancer, she performed in works by William Forsythe, Massimo Furlan and Michel Schröder. Marisa holds an MSc in Dance Science, worked as research associate at the Institute for the Performing Arts and Film at ZHdK (2017-2021), and is currently a PhD candidate at C-DaRE/Coventry University. She was awarded the Kulturelle Auszeichnung der Stadt Zürich (2004), Video Documentation Prize by Swiss Dance Archive (2012) and Werkstipendium der Stadt Zürich (2013). Marisa has been in several expert panels, including ZKB Prize/Zürcher Theater Spektakel, Migros Kulturprozent and Accademia Teatro Dimitri, and was a board member of the Verein Tanzhaus Zürich (2011-2017).

Marisa Godoy

http://www.oonaproject.ch/

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VK Preston is Assistant Professor of History at Concordia University. Their research draws from approaches in performance historiography with a particular focus on dance. VK works across histories of the performing arts in order to address cultural histories of practice, embodiment, and stigma. This research analyses histories of the emotions and the senses in intersectional analyses of race, gender, disability and cultural privilege.

VK comes to performance scholarship by way of practice, following pro-fessional training in dance and theatre. Their work draws from approaches in performance studies and historiography through early modern critical race studies, movement and gender studies. Dr. Preston’s writing appears in Theatre Journal, The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment, Performance Research, TDR/The Drama Review, The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theatre, Canadian Theatre Review, and History, Memory, Performance. VK’s current writing projects include studies of art and performance entangled with the colonial invasion of the Americas, from baroque performance to contemporary visual and performance art. Their approaches engage with histories of the Atlantic world, and of Turtle Island, addressing genealogies of racial capitalism, decolonization, non-binary gender, historical memory, and translation. They are currently working on their first monograph.Source: https://www.uarts.edu/vk-preston

VK Preston

https://www.vkpreston.org/

Stefanie Lorey is the head of the theatre directing major at the Zurich University of the Arts. She studied applied theater science in Giessen and held a scholarship in the Dorothea-Erxleben program at the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig and in the artistic-scientific graduate college “Versammlung und Teilhabe. Urbane Öffentlichkeiten und performative Künste” in Hamburg.

Since 2001 she has been realizing projects with Bjoern Auftrag under the label “Auftrag: Lorey”, which move on the border between theater, performance and installation art.

Her dissertation entitled “Performative Sammlungen” has just been publis-hed by transcript und subTexte (series of publications by the Institute for the Performing Arts and Film, ZHdK)

Stefanie Lorey

https://www.zhdk.ch/person/183905

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John-Paul Zaccarini is Professor of Performing Arts at the Research Cen-tre of Stockholm University of the Arts, responsible for the Profile Area Bodily and Vocal Practices. He has been a practitioner in theatre, dance, mime and circus with a focus on poetry and the spoken word as both performer and director/dramaturge and choreographer for 32 years. He currently supervises 2 doctoral candidates and as Associate Professor in Circus he supervised one more to completion. He has completed 3 artistic research projects since he was awarded his doctorate in 2013. He is currently researching the intersections between art, therapy and activism in his project FutureBlackSpace which is a creative space for BIPOC to work with Radical Healing and decolonizing artistic research in majority white institutions and fields.

John-Paul Zaccarini

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nLvR88_K5k&t=4shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-f3NIOcJ3Q&t=5s

https://www.lambdanordica.org/index.php/lambdanordica/article/view/711

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9dzaBheHkMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MzYS9tUhic