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Joni Barnard Joni Barnard completed her MA in Choreography from Rhodes University, 2009, and is currently a Movement Lecture in the Drama Division of the WITS School of the arts. Her research interests lie in the exploration of body politics in performance. Her works, such as Epicene: Portrait in Two, Crisscrossed and Topdeck, have been performed on platforms such as the National Arts Festival, The Dance Umbrella and the Sibikwe Dance Festival. Joni is an avid campaigner of the relationship between the arts and education. She has taught Movement Studies and Voice Training at Rhodes University and was involved in exciting projects in the Eastern Cape. From 2007 – 2009, she taught dance classes to children in Joza, Grahamstown, with the Amaphiko Township Dance Project, led by UBOM! Eastern Cape Drama Company. Under this project, she implemented Dance as a Matric Subject in two high schools in Joza, 2008. From 2008 to 2009 Joni taught Dance as a Matric Subject at Grade 9, 10 and 11 levels. In 2010 and 2011, Joni performed for the Johannesburg based Well Worn Theatre Company in the Pollution Revolution, a children’s educational theatre piece that toured over one hundred schools in Gauteng. Joni is currently involved in the On the Edge Drama project led by Untouchable Productions. This project involves teaching performance skills to school children between the ages of six and eighteen. Joni’s approach to performance and performance studies is one that advocates the notion of collaboration, improvisation and play. She is a founding member of the production house Stash the Suitcase collective, an administrator of the South African Artists Against Apartheid Collective and a member of the theatre improvisation group Causing a Scene.
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Munyaradzi Chatikobo Munyaradzi Chatikobo is currently the Programme Manager of Drama for Life. He is an arts administrator and performing arts manager. He is also an educator, an aspiring Cultural leader and a facilitator in applied drama and theatre in developmental, education, health, arts, culture and youth projects. He has vast work experience in arts education management, which is backed by sound academic background and in-service training in various aspects of performing arts management. Munyaradzi graduated from University of Zimbabwe in 1995 with a Special Honours in Theatre where he was awarded a University Book Prize. In 2009 he successfully completed a Master Arts Degree in Dramatic Art under Drama for Life in the Division of Dramatic Art-Wits School of Arts. His research area was ‘Examining Sustainability of Drama and Theatre Initiatives in Southern Africa: A Case Study of Southern Africa Theatre Initiative (SATI).’ The study was about unpacking, understanding and interpreting the macro politics of drama and theatre initiatives in southern Africa with focus on partnership and programming policies of Northern and Southern NGOs. It was to an attempt establish the underlying philosophy that informs decisions that influence the sustainability or rather lack of sustainability of drama and theatre interventions in southern Africa. Munyaradzi has work experience in government, non-governmental organisations and private sector, where he held positions of administrative assistant, administrator, programme officer, programme manager, production manager, general manager, consultant and board member in Zimbabwe, Malawi and South Africa. |
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Kennedy Chinyowa - Head of Dramatic Arts Kennedy Chinyowa is currently the Head of the Division of Dramatic Art and Senior Lecturer in Applied Drama and Theatre. Previously, he was an NRF postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Drama and Performance Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (2006 – 7). He was also a second postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Drama and Film Studies at Tshwane University of Technology (2008 -9). He has taught at several universities including the University of Zimbabwe, Griffith University (Australia), University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) and Tshwane University of Technology (South Africa). He was a visiting scholar in the Centre for Applied Theatre Research at Griffith University where he obtained his PhD degree in Theatre for Development. He has won numerous research awards including the American Alliance for Theatre in Education’s Distinguished Thesis Finalist Award, Griffith University’s Postgraduate Research Scholarship, the International Postgraduate Research Scholarship and the University of Zimbabwe’s Staff Development Fellowship, to mention a few. Apart from presenting several papers and workshops at international conferences, he has published widely in books, refereed and accredited journals such as Research in Drama Education (UK), Studies in Theatre and Performance (UK), Drama Research (UK), Nadie Journal (Australia), Literary Criterion (India), South African Theatre Journal and Alternation (South Africa). |
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Nicola Cloete - Lecturer Nicola is a lecturer in the Division of Dramatic Art at the University of the Witwatersrand. She was awarded a Canon Collins Scholarship in 2004 and received her MA in Gender, Culture and Politics from the University of London in 2005. Her dissertation focused on the relationship between racial identities and gender roles in recent South African fiction. Her research areas include depictions of National Identities; the Location of Coloured Identity; Gender and Nation; Gender and Education and the intersections between gender, race and sexuality. Nicola is co-researcher on the Division of Dramatic Arts? Teaching and Learning project which focuses on evaluating the necessary skills for increased academic success. Nicola currently teaches undergraduate courses in Drama and Film studies and postgraduate courses in gender and performance. Nicola also serves as a member of council of the Market Theatre Foundation. |
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Jane O'Connell Crewe - Lecturer Jane Crewe completed her MA in Arts and Culture Management through Wits University (2007), a Professional Diploma in Dance Studies from the Laban Centre London (2002) after receiving her BA Honours in Physical Theatre, Choreography, Design, Dance Repertory and Theatre Studies from Rhodes University (1999). She lectures in Physical Theatre, Dance for Camera, Arts Management, Creative Movement and Dance Education. She holds a keen interest in contemporary performance practice, specifically within the fields of Physical Theatre, Dance Theatre and Dance for Camera. Whilst consulting in the area of arts management and devising/performing her own work, she also conceived and implemented the first year of ‘Small Stakes’ in 2008, a contemporary dance festival providing an alternative platform for amateur choreographers. She was appointed to the SATI/DAC 2008/2009 lobbying committee for dance. Particular current focal areas include Dance for Camera and the need for innovative arts management practices in order to promote sustainable creative practices within local arts organisations. As a result, Jane has been instrumental in implementing and supervising Drama for Life’s Company Laboratory internship in 2011, Small Stakes II and Re-visioning Dance festivals for 2012. |
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Jenni-Lee Crewe Jenni-lee Crewe is currently works as a stage designer and design lecturer for the Drama Division in the Wits School of Arts. She teaches Design and Production studies as well as Contemporary Performance. She received her MFA in Design & Theatre Production from Tulane University in New Orleans in 2006. Before that she worked for the First Physical Theatre Company as their Education Officer as well as a Choreographer, Designer and Performer. During this time she also taught choreography and design studies at Rhodes University after completing her BA Honours degree. Jenni-lee has done design work in New Orleans as well as choreographing, devising and designing theatre work in South Africa. While working for the First Physical Theatre Company, she co-wrote with Professor Gary Gordon the Dance Educator’s Handbook for high school learners and developed the Professional Training Course for adult learners in dance and dance composition. Her predominant area of research interests lie in the relationship between body, image and text in contemporary performance but also include tracing current trends in improvisation in South Africa, as well as investigating transatlantic connections in performing identities. |
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Dr. Haseenah Ebrahim - Senior Lecturer Dr. Haseenah Ebrahim is a Senior Lecturer in the Division of Dramatic Arts. She received her Ph.D. in Film/Media Studies from Northwestern University (Illinois, U.S.) in 1998. Dr. Ebrahim teaches in the areas of film and television studies, including courses in children’s/family films, African/Diaspora cinema, cinema and nationhood, contemporary Bollywood cinema, and issues and debates relating to global flows of television programming, and the social contexts of television reception. Dr. Ebrahim’s current research and teaching interests includes questions of ideology and narrative strategies in children’s films, debates relating to media culture and consumption, and the textual and marketing strategies of commercial cinemas, specifically Hollywood, Bollywood and Nollywood, both globally and in the South African context. She is also currently editing an anthology of essays on cinema in post-1994 South Africa |
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Tamara Gordon Tamara Gordon is a registered Dramatherapist with the Health Professions Council of South Africa. Tamara trained in the Sesame approach to Drama and Movement Therapy at the Central School of Speech and Drama- University of London. Tamara currently works in various fields as a therapist, facilitator and educator. Her client experience is in adult mental health (acute and forensic psychiatry); child an adult moderate to severe learning and physical difficulties; child and adolescent emotional behavioural difficulties and the elderly with dementia. Tamara currently lectures Applied Drama and Theatre for the Wits School of Arts and Drama for Life. Tamara joined the Drama for Life team in 2006. Tamara coordinates Applied Drama and Theatre third year, fourth year and masters courses including the Drama for Life core course and Introduction to Dramatherapy. As a member of Drama for Life she has coordinated two of the four Africa Research Conferences, and is a member of the Drama For Life research committe |
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| Craig Higginson Craig Higginson is a writer and university lecturer. His novels include Embodied Laughter, The Hill, Last Summer and The Landscape Painter. His plays include Laughter in the Dark, Lord of the Flies, Dream of the Dog, Ten Bush (co-written with Mncedisi Shabangu), The Jungle Book (adapted from a version by Tim Supple), Brer Rabbit (adapted with Gina Shmukler), The Girl in the Yellow Dress and Little Foot. He has worked as a co-writer/ dramaturge on plays including Truth in Translation and The Table. Craig’s plays have been performed around the world and won several awards in South Africa and the United Kingdom . His plays are published by Oberon Books, Methuen and Wits Press. His novels are published by Picador Africa and Jacana. Craig is the Literary Manager of the Market Theatre. He has an MA in Creative Writing from Wits. His writing is represented by PFD literary agency in London . |
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Greg Homann - Lecturer Greg Homann holds a BA Dramatic Arts degree from Wits University and an MA (with distinction) in Text and Performance Studies from The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and King’s College London. He is the division’s portfolio holder for Writing and Directing. He lectures courses in South African theatre, directing, comedy, representational theatre and writing. His primary area of research is in contemporary South African theatre with an emphasis on post-apartheid plays. On behalf of The Wits School of Arts Homann manages the Tisch (New York University) Study Abroad Program and is the portfolio holder for Publicity and Marketing. As a professional theatre practitioner he works as a director, writer, producer and actor. Professional directing credits include the new South African musical Sauer Street; The Talented Mr Ripley for the Liberty Theatre on the Square; the South African adaptation of Lord of the Flies for the Market Theatre; the romantic comedy, Chatter; Mike van Graan’s Brothers in Blood (winner of Best New South African Play Produced 2009); Nicky Silver’s Pterodactyls (nominated for six Naledi Awards including Best Production and Best Director); the hit musical revue, Tomfoolery; and the pocket version of The Pirates of Penzance. He is the editor of a collection of plays entitled At This Stage. Plays from post-apartheid South Africa (Wits University Press, 2009) which includes two of his essays on contemporary South African theatre. |
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Levinia Jones Levinia Jones holds a BADA Honours degree from Wits University majoring in Physical Theatre and Performing Arts Management. She is currently the DFL Projects Manager and Festival Director. She took up this position in 2010 after returning from travels across India and Thailand. She has curetted the past two DFL Sex Actually Festivals.This year has also seen Levinia lecture at Wits University on the Performing Arts Management course at fourth year level. In May she co-choreographed (with Jessica Denyschen) a physical theatre performance titled T/here for the Wits Arts and Literature (WALE) festival. She was the Festival Director for the WALE Festival in 2010. In 2008 she choreographed 23 Doors for the Small Stakes Festival in Johannesburg. In the same year she was also nominated for an MEC award for her performance in Touch, choreographed by Athena Mazarakis.From 2008 to 2009, Levinia was the Programme Manager for DFL. During this period, she assisted with the Initial Drama for Life Workshop Festival and the first Africa Research Conference in Applied Drama and Theatre. Levinia has been privileged enough to see four years of DFL students through the Scholarship programme. With ten years of professional teaching experience, Levinia has taught drama and movement in South Africa and Botswana, both privately and within the school syllabi. She has taught I.E.B, O.B.E, A Level, Trinity College London, South African Guild and Matric drama systems. Levinia’s students have ranged from three years to adults.Levinia co-authored the Creative and Performing Arts syllabus (student and teacher manuals) for the Botswana Department of Education, published by Longman Botswana. In addition, she created and facilitated teachers training programs in the new syllabus for schools in Botswana. Levinia is passionate about holistic education, development and using the performing arts as a tool for healing. |
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Jessica Lejowa Jessica Lejowa holds a Bachelor of Arts from Rhodes University, a Bachelor of Arts in Dramatic Art with Honours, and a Master of Arts in Dramatic Art from the University of the Witwatersrand. She lectures in the Performance, Drama and Film and Research Project portfolios in the Division of Dramatic Art. She has directed a number of productions with students and professional theatre makers, including They Were Silent with Kabi Thulo, The Wages of Sin and Roberto Athayde’s Miss Margarida’s Way. She has participated in various theatre and arts festivals, among them the National Arts Festival, The Wits Arts and Literature Experience, the Drama for Life Festival and the 969 Festival. As a facilitator, director and performer, Lejowa’s work has revolved around the investigation of ritual in theatre and power dynamics in gender, race and religion, with a particular focus on the lived experiences of women in Africa. Additionally, Lejowa is interested in renegotiating and transgressing accepted theatre practices as a way of creating a theatre that is more inclusive and reflective of changing political and social currents. She is the author of Auto-ethnography as Performance Practice in an African Context: Negotiating gender and culture through performance practice (LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. USA and UK. 2011) |
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Tsepo wa Mamatu - Lecturer Wa Mamatu holds a BA Dramatic Art degree and a Master degree from Wits University. He is currently based at the Wits School of the Arts where he lectures in the field of politics and performance, writing, politics of representation and theatre studies. As an artist he has challenged the new order and his voice of dissent has been heard in productions like 100% Zulu Boy, which confronted head on the headless monster of the ruling party and the internal war it was finding itself in, and Stompie, which sought to speak back to the life of Winnie Mandela. Currently he is writing his new play, Mbeki and other Nightmares which will premiere at the Grahamstown Arts Fringe Festival. He continues to run workshops in the fragmented outback?s of the country, teaching youngsters skills in performance, and directs plays that offer oppositional purviews to the mess our country finds itself in. As a writer he is collaborating with Andile Mngxitama on a book on the representation of blackness in the post 1994 era, and is currently engaging with his doctoral studies, which are centered around the capacity of blackness to govern. He was chosen as the Johannesburg Repertory Fellow 2009. |
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Warren Nebe - Lecturer Warren Nebe has extensive experience as a theatre director, theatre and performance studies teacher, and drama therapist. He studied drama therapy, performance studies, directing, theatre of the oppressed and educational drama at New York University with acclaimed people like Augusto Boal, Richard Schechner, Robert Landy, Sue Jennings, Tian Dayton, Jonathan Fox, Ceciley O'Neill and Chris Vine. Warren also trained as a Clinical Practitioner of Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy at the New York Institute of Psychodrama under the supervision of Robert Siroka and Jacquiline Dubbs-Siroka. Warren is currently Senior Lecturer and Coordinator for Performance Studies, Directing and Applied Drama and Theatre Studies at University of the Witwatersrand, School of the Arts. From 2007, an introduction to Drama Therapy will form part of the BADA (Hons) Applied Drama and Theatre curriculum and MADA studies. This served as foundation courses for the proposed MA Drama Therapy launched in 2009. He is also developing a major SADC project that will focus on training top teachers and performers from 14 SADC countries in Applied Drama and Theatre Practices, including Drama Therapy for HIV & AIDS education. |
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David Peimer - Associate Professor David Peimer is an associate professor in the Division of Dramatic Art. He is a former Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University, where he did his MA. He has presented papers, directed plays and done workshops at Oxford University, London University, Columbia University, Toronto University, Bristol University and New York University (Prague). His plays include; Smell, Last Revolt, Scavenger?s Dream, Serpent?s Mate and Armed Response. In 2002 President Havel invited him to stage theatre in Prague where he created a major art installation with performances for the prestigious 2003 Prague Quadrennial. He has directed numerous plays, including texts by Shakespeare, Aristophanes, Beckett, Buchner, Heiner Muller, Fassbinder, Durang and Mamet. His awards include; George Soros Fellowship, Goethe Inst Fellowship and the South African Amstel Playwriting Award. He was a guest artist and international visiting fellow at New York University (Prague Division) in 2006/7 and in 2007/8. Peimer's most recent publication is a new book of plays entitled Armed Response. Plays from South Africa.
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Sarah Elizabeth Roberts - Associate Professor Sarah Roberts is an Associate Professor within the Division and took up the post of the Skye Chair in April 2011. Her teaching, creative work and research interests straddle multiple areas of creative and scholarly work and synthesize in the Research project course introduced in 2010: “Mapping relations between Theatre, drama and Performance”. She lectures and teaches across the spectrum of these terrains and from first year to post-graduate levels. She is currently working towards completing her Doctorate – which synthesizes approaches to improvisation training, play theory and its presentation, reception and interpretation in relation to questions of status and the rhetoric of value. She is nationally recognized multi award winning production designer who works with diverse sectors of the theatre and arts community. Highlights of 2011 include designing the South African premiere of Race (David Mamet) for the KZN Playhouse Theatre company and also the concept development and design of the opening ceremony for the 123rd Olympics Committee Conference held in Durban and launched on the Opera stage of the KZN Playhouse. She is the production designer of the acclaimed Kwela Bafana! Showcased at Sibikwa Community Theatre before transferring to the Victory Theatre (Johannesburg). Costume designs for productions in 2011 include Stuur Groete Aan mannetjies Roux (the Lauricke Rauch musical); Tree Aan (for Deon Opperman and Packed House productions) Aladdin (the national Children’s Theatre) and staging and concept developments for the Joyous Celebration 2012 national tour.
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Benita de Robillard - Lecturer My current research project explores some of the nomadic meshings of sexualities, socialities and politics in the post-apartheid milieu. These explorations engage feminist, queer and cripqueer theories in addition to somatechnics and critical sexuality studies. At present I teach Film and Media Studies courses in the Wits School of Arts and supervise postgraduate work rooted in feminist and queer ways of thinking. Selected Publications: • ‘Iraq, 9/11, abu ghraib: death and empathy’ Ecquid Novi: South African Journal of Journalism Research Vol.27: No 1: 49-72. (2006). • ‘‘Girls’ and Virginity: Making the Post-Apartheid Nation-State’ Agenda no. 79 December (2009). • ‘Something ‘New’ That’s Been Here All Along? Polygamy and the Afropolitan Bridal Couple in South African Bridal Magazines’. Taking a Hard Look: Gender and Visual Culture in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Cambridge Scholars Press. Isbn: 978—1-44380-982-5 (2009). Selected Conference Presentations: 2011: • ‘“Our Caster”: (Dis)embodied (un)belonging in the Post-Apartheid Nation-State’ presented at the VIII IASSCS. International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society: Naming and Framing of Sexual (In)Equality conference held at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain (6-9 July). 2008: • ‘Polygamy and Politics in Post-Apartheid South Africa’ presented at the 5th Global Persons and Sexuality: Probing the Boundaries conference hosted by Interdisciplinary.Net, Salzburg, Austria (November). 2007: • ‘Something ‘new’ that’s been here all along The Afropolitan bridal couple in the South African bridal magazine’ presented at the Gender and Visual Culture conference hosted by The Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Pretoria (June). 2006: • ‘Here comes the bride: fantasies and technologies of heterosexual selfhood in the contemporary south african bridal magazine’ presented in the opening plenary session at the Gender Studies Here and Now conference hosted by FOTIM in Johannesburg (January). • ‘Thoughts on the politics of authentication and authorisation staged within South African media coverage of the Jacob Zuma rape trial’ presented at Doctoral Summer School conference on Identity Formation in the Black Atlantic. The politics of authenticity, authorisation and truth. University Federal de Bahia, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil (October). • ‘Brides, Really Fake Virgins and 100% Zulu Boy: thoughts on the heterosexual politics of the post apartheid setting’ presented at The Borderpolitics of Whiteness Conference hosted by the Department of Critical and Cultural Studies at MacQuarie University, Sydney (December). 2005: • ‘Iraq, 9/11, abu ghraib: time, death and empathy’ (Invited Paper). Arts and Reconciliation conference hosted by the University of Pretoria (March). • ‘Here comes the bride: fantasies and technologies of heterosexual selfhood in the contemporary south african bridal magazine’ delivered at the Self and Subject: African and Asian Perspectives conference hosted by the Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies, Open University, Edinburgh (September). 2004: • ‘9/11: time, death and empathy’ presented at the Visual Culture/Explorations conference hosted by the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Pretoria (July). • ‘Iraq, 9/11, abu ghraib: time, death and empathy’ delivered at the War in Film, Television, and History conference in (Dallas, November). |
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Bailey Snyman - Lecturer Bailey Snyman has a Degree in Organisational Psychology, Philosophy and Drama from Rhodes University. His higher education includes a Masters Degree in Choreography, Contemporary Performance Studies and Dance History. Bailey was a resident performer, choreographer and educator with the First Physical Theatre Company form 2002 – 2006. In 2006 Bailey founded the Matchbox Theatre Collective with Nicola Haskins. The Matchbox Theatre Collective works extensively with Schools and Arts Development Programmes across the country. The company’s most recent work “The Anatomy of Weather” won a Standard Bank Gold Ovation Award at the National Arts Festival in July 2011 and was selected to represent the Grahamstown Fringe and the Amsterdam Fringe Festival in September 2011. Bailey was recently announced as the recipient of the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for 2012. He is currently a lecturer in Movement and Physical Theatre Studies at Wits School of the Arts. He has choreographed numerous works on the Wits students; most notably RUSH, THE GAME, CLOCKWISE, The Satyricon and MAGNETIC. Bailey has performed internationally at the Bonnie Bird Theatre in London as well as with African Footprint in Mexico and the USA and has been part of the panel for numerous forums including, PANSA, Attik!, Siobhan Davies and the Goethe Institut of South Africa. He has also worked with acclaimed theatre makers PJ Sabbagha, Dada Masilo, Tracy Human and Craig Morris on numerous productions. Bailey’s research areas include History as Discourse and “Terrorising the Body” (which is the focus for his Doctoral Studies). He has also published and article “Crossing Boundaries” for the SATJ 2011 Physical Theatre edition. In 2012 Bailey has been commissioned to make a work on the Northern Dance Project in Cape Town, has received a grant to create a new work from the Dance Forum, will be creating new work based on the novel Moffie by Andre Carl van der merwe for the Main Festival in Grahamstown 2012 and will be making a new dance work for DODA entitled Carrying the Fire in September. |
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Jill Waterman - Lecturer Jill Waterman works as a major-time lecturer in Dramatic Art and Arts Culture and Heritage divisions within the Wits School of Arts. She specialises in Arts Management at an undergraduate and post-graduate level. Recent short courses she has devised as curriculum developer and facilitators are; Introduction into Arts Leadership, Monitoring and Evaluating an Arts Project, Marketing in the Arts, and Governance and Boards in the Arts. This project was run in collaboration with ACT and the Kingdom of the Royal Netherlands. A research paper on implementation of the new short courses called: ACT Building Blocks Master Classes in Arts Management, will be out at the end of 2011. Jill’s other interest lies in Dance and physical Theatre. Her research paper entitled: Sustainable Leaps: Managing, Marketing and Fundraising Processing National Arts Council (NAC) Three-year Funded Dance Companies (2006-2008) Can be found on the NAC research website. She also works as an independent researcher and consultant and in this capacity has headed and been involved in several successful rural, national and international projects. These include: About Arts Business, Swartland Development Foundation, Malmesbury, Western Cape and Bag Factory, Johannesburg; Cultural Entrepreneurship through Tourism Take Aways; iSimangaliso Wetland Park World Heritage Site (The Greater St Lucia Wetland Park Authority), KwaZulu-Natal; Tshwaragano In Touch Integrated Dance Project with British Council and the NAC; Arts Management Skills Training for NAC, BASA and ACT; and the FNB Dance Umbrella Choreographic Residency, with FNB Dance Umbrella Festival and the NAC. Jill has worked closely with numerous organisations such as the Federated Union of Black Artists, the Curriculum Development Project, Cultural Radius, Create SA, the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA), Music Active and the Bag Factory. |
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Sarah Jane Woodward - Lecturer Sarah Woodward has a Masters degree in Theatre and Performance, specializing in Theatre Voice Practice, from the University of Cape Town. She joined the Drama Department at Wits University in 2008, where she holds the portfolio in Voice studies. She is particularly interested in the linguistic anomalies among young adults which often lead to interesting and vibrant vocal exploration. She believes in performance poetry as a key into the vocal landscapes of actors by exploring audience engagement, vocal texture rhythm and pitch. Her research focuses primarily on disordered spaces as an intersection on the voice, creating a heightened experiential engagement for the listener, and leading to a greater physical and vocal freedom for both the speaker and receiver. She is adamant that the pre-conceived notions around voices in South Africa need to be dismantled, especially ideas around standard speech and accent modification. |
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Visiting Scholars and Research Fellows in 2012 Ms Adrienne Sichel, Resident Writer/Artist Prof Esther Hausler, Visiting Scholar |
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Sessional Staff in 2012 Professor Hazel Barnes, MA (Lancaster) Mr Gerard Bester, BADA (Wits) Ms Tamara Guhrs, BA Hons, MA (Rhodes) Ms Leila Henriques, Performance Diploma (Oxford) Ms Gina Holloway Mulder, BADA (Wits) Ms Tarryn Lee, BADA (Wits), ATCL, LTCL (Trinity College) Ms Grace Meadows, BADA (Wits), MADA (Wits) Ms Toni Morkel, Higher Diploma (Natal) Ms Gina Shmukler, BADA Hons (Wits), MADA candidate (Wits) Ms Clara Vaughan, BA Hons (Rhodes) Ms Anne Williams, BA (Rhodes), ATCL, LTCL (Trinity College) Mr Darryl Els, BADA (Wits) |
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Guest Staff & Supervisors in 2012 Mr Munyaradzi Chatikobo, BA Hons (UZ), MADA (Wits) Vinoba Krishna, BA Social Work Hons (Durban Westville) |
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Theatre Directors for 2012 Makhaola Ndebele, James Carins, Jenni-lee Crewe, Clara Vaughn, Tarryn Lee, Bailey Snyman, Prof. Esther Maria Häusler, Pieter Dirk Uys, Helen Iskander, Tamara Guhrs |
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