His recent research explores the relationship between theatre and technology in movement-based performance.  Movement provides the conceptual lynchpin of his dissertation, which articulates an emergent aesthetic paradigm: screen performance.  In contrast to traditional notions of televisual technology, this study proposes the screen as a conceptual model that mediates phenomena excluded from the formal construction of theatre and film.  The development of this theory proceeds through close readings of artists who explore the disciplinary margins between dance, installation art, and cinema: filmmaker Chantal Akerman and choreographers Yvonne Rainer and William Forsythe.  His current research considers literary examples of screen performance in texts that use translation as a theme to explore the experience of individuals relegated to cultural margins, especially women and immigrants.  These artistic applications of translation lay the groundwork for his next project, which will study “sonic performance” in sound art, language-based plays, and experimental musical theatre.

Ryan maintains a website on the subject of performance at http://ryanplatt.net/.

Choreography : Revival choreographer for Welsh national Opera’s Magi FluteShe Stoops to Conquer & A Laughing Matter (Out of Joint / Royal National Theatre) Romeo and Juliet & Private Lives (Mercury) Brothers Karamazov, Maybe and Private Lives (Manchester Royal Exchange) India Song (Clywd), Goliath, Voyage in The Dark, A Wedding Story, (Sphinx). Master of Movement  at The Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.

Other teaching includes LAMDA, Colby London Programme, British European Studies Group, Penn State summer school, Laboratorio Internationale Teatro Degli Astrussi in Montalcino and St Mineato, Accademia Silvio D’Amico, Rome. Conservatoire in Stratford Ontario.Canada.

!st, 2nd and 3rd productions including Medieval Mystery Plays, Restoration Comedy and Musical Theatre

Jane is pleased to be designing Rhinoceros.  Favorite design credits include Well, Doubt, The Pillowman and Jesus Hates Me at Denver Center Theatre Company, I Am My Own Wife at Theatreworks, Woody Guthrie’s American Song at Colorado Shakespeare Festival, WMKS at Missouri Repertory Theatre, It Ain’t Nothin’ But The Blues at Theatre Aspen and Bat Boy for Omaha Playhouse in her home state, Nebraska.  In her spare time Jane lights exhibits for the Denver Art Museum, including Artisans and Kings: Selected Treasures from the Louvre and Inspiring Impressionism.  Jane received her MFA in lighting and costume design from University of Missouri Kansas City.

Graduated from the renowned National Institute of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan. Sun is a performer, choreographer and a teacher of dance.

He works with many notable dance companies such as the Tai Gu Tale Dance Theatre, the Dance Forum Taipei Dance Company (2001-2003) and Taipei Dance Circle (2004). He also worked with a musical theatre company (Godot Theatre Company) and an avant-garde theatre company (Critical Point Theatre Phenomenon) in Taiwan.

He presented his works Next Stop (2001), Who Lose the Ball? (2002) and 8 (2003) performed at National Experimental Theatre and the Crown Art Festival. For further developing his unique dance style, he had worked with a theatre director to create a cross-discipline piece Rebirth Love in 2002. The latest piece Cross (2005) was presented with multimedia projector effect and was shown in Young Artists Club sponsored by National Culture and Arts Foundation.

Sun also teaches and choreographies for numerous local dance companies and schools around the island of Taiwan. This is such as Wan-Zhu Dance Company, Lin-Long Dance Company, Shui-Yi Dance Company etc. Currently, Sun is selected to represent Taiwan to present his solo piece and to tour five cities in Asia sponsored by the Little Asia Dance Exchange Network Project.

Brian Hapcic has been working in theatre and the entertainment industry since 1989. Before arriving at UNCO, he was employed as a Professor of Lighting and Sound Design at the University of Southern Maine, as well as the University of Southern Mississippi.  He is a member of USITT and I.A.T.S.E. local 339, and has completed designs for theatre, opera, dance, television, video, and media installations. Some credits from over 100 designs include work with such companies as the Maine State Music Theatre, The Southern Arena Theatre, The Montana Repertory Theatre, Bigfork Summer Playhouse, and The University of Southern Mississippi Repertory Dance Company. He earned his MFA in Lighting Design and Technology from The University of Montana, and a BA in English from Ohio University. In 2004 he was awarded the KCACTF Faculty Fellowship for meritorious achievement as a professor of Lighting Design.

Ms. Amin has earned degrees in Dance from the State University of New York at Buffalo and in Arts Administration from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.  Upon completion of her studies Ms. Amin was invited to serve the university as Interim Coordinator of Multicultural Programs.  She has continued her professional development as a member of faculty and the Department of History and in the Africana Studies Program in addition to her role as Outreach Coordinator for the Race and Social Policy (RSP) Research Center at Virginia Tech.  Currently, Takiyah is pursuing a Ph.D. in Dance (concentration in Cultural Studies)at Temple University as a Future Faculty Fellow in addition to earning certificates in Women’s Studies and Teaching in Higher Education.

Sherman’s choral work, (“Service for the Dead in Bosnia-Herzegovina” and “Graveside”, a movement from the same work) has been performed throughout the world. In  2001, Ms. Sherman was commissioned to write “Song of Songs” (soprano, string orchestra and harp) for the San Jose Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Barbara Day-Turner. In 2005 she was commissioned by The Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia to write “The Happiest and Unhappiness of Men”. Also commissioned by SJCO and Aubreys END Foundation, “The Songbird and the Eagle” (a fable for Soprano, Girl Soprano, Narrator, Chorus, String Orchestra, Flute, Piano and Percussion) premiered in December of 2006.  http://kdsherman.com