Dissertation is titled “Process-Based Aesthetics in a Product-Based World: Somatic Awareness as a Critical Lens on Art-Making and Money-Making in the Modern West”.

Nina Galin developed works that integrate theatre, dance, and both classical and contemporary music, since 1987. From alternative venues in New York City to the converted warehouses of San Francisco’s Mission District, to the formica tabletops of southern California Starbucks stores, Galin blurs boundaries between audience and performer, and incorporates explicit awareness of place into each performance. As an artist, educator and citizen, she explores connection and complexity on somatic, aesthetic, social, political, and economic levels of experience. A broad concept of musicality underlies Nina Galin’s approach to performance.