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Faculty Feats are a great resource for everyone to quickly discover what is happening with individual Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts faculty members.
Simon Dove, Director, Dance
2008-10-03
Simon Dove is the chair of ASU Herberger College Dance. He co-curated the second annual French Institute Alliance Française's (FIAF) Fall Festival 2008, Crossing the Line in New York City. The contemporary dance festival runs Sept. 16 - Oct. 5.
According to the FIAF Web site, Crossing the Line is described as: "Three weeks of inter-disciplinary contemporary works by artists who are transforming cultural practices on both sides of the Atlantic." A feature about the festival also was published in The New York Times Sept. 16.
Dove is the former director of the Springdance festival in the Netherlands and joined the Herberger College of the Arts in August, 2007.
Read The New York Times feature
Read a press release about Dove's ASU appointment
Project Date: September 2008
Pegge Vissicaro, Clinical Professor, Dance
2008-07-10
Pegge Vissicaro is the associate chair of ASU Herberger College Dance. She received a Fulbright Senior Specialists Award for research and teaching in Portugal at the Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa, Faculdade de Motricidade Humana. Vissicaro conducted the workshop: Global Networking for Cross-Cultural Dance Research. She also collaborated with colleagues at the university and surrounding area to identify existing art projects with refugees. As a result, they have designed a new research initiative involving dance and Angolan migrants.
Vissicaro's partnership with the educational and artistic community in Portugal began in 1996 when she received her first Fulbright Scholar Award to spend one academic year working at the Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa, Faculdade de Motricidade Humana and Instituto Politecnico de Lisboa.
Read Fulbright press release
Pegge Vissicaro's bio
Project Date: June 2008
Pegge Vissicaro, Clinical Professor, Dance
2008-07-09
Pegge Vissicaro is the associate chair of ASU Herberger College Dance.
She received a $10,000 Global Engagement Faculty Seed Grant Award. Funding for her project entitled, Global Networking for Cross-Cultural Dance Research: Strategies for Ethnographic Analysis of Macedonian Roma Dance Culture, is designed to assist faculty in building international relationships that add global perspective to programs of study, foster collaborative research and advance ASU's global engagement. Vissicaro's proposal was one of five chosen among 100 submissions throughout ASU.
One component of Vissicaro's project involves a partnership with ASU's Melikian Center for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies Critical Language Institute. The first effort of this partnership is a Web conference, July 21, 2008, between dance scholar, Elsie Dunin -- currently conducting research in Eastern Europe -- and approximately 120 students in the Critical Language Institute Summer Program. The presentation, Continuities and changes of the Romani Gjurgjovden (St. George's Day) and Erdelezi (coming of summer) in Skopje, Macedonia from 1967-2007, includes student interaction with Dunin and takes place in the Computing Commons Auditorium on the ASU Tempe campus from 1-3 p.m.
Project Date: July 2008