Annabel’s primary reaseach is on the dance movement therapy
(DMT), particularly the application and the techiniques of DMT in
healthcare. How should we across the floor of the ward? What are
the effective techniques the dance therapist can employ to “move”
the patients’ maladaptive bodies and their skeptical minds? What
are the safety measures the dance therapists need to take to
protect themselves during challenging, difficult, and
unpreditable sessions?
Ashley Teodorson-Taggart is a 6th year student in the Performance
Studies Graduate Group. She has Designated Emphases in Science
and Technology Studies, Feminist Theory and Research and Studies
in Performance and Practice.
Ash’s work emerges from a 15 year practice as a full spectrum
community birth doula and career staff member at the Women’s
Resources and Research Center.
Erika Tsimbrovsky is a dancer/choreographer/multidisciplinary
artist, with three decades of experience of collaboratively
creating artwork with diverse communities. She is multicultural
and multilingual and has lived and practiced in six countries.
BHA in English/Theater Arts from Carnegie Mellon UniversityMFA in Film/Video/New Media from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Anuj Vaidya is a media maker, curator, and educator, who is
currently pursuing his doctorate in Performance Studies at UC
Davis. His praxis engages a diverse range of forms and strategies
that include theater and performance, multi-media installation
and story-telling, social practice, curatorial practice, arts
education, and artivism. Deeply invested in collaboration, Vaidya
seeks to break down the divide between artist and audience by
engaging them not only as content consumers but also as
co-creators through participatory processes. His work pays due
attention to the material, social, and intellectual impacts of
our storytelling and media technologies, reminding us that we
must be attentive to both the footprint and the brain-print of
the stories we tell.
B.F.A., New York University, Tisch School for the Arts in Film and Television
Adam Wright is a Doctoral student in Performance Studies working
with Colin Milburn and Patrick LeMieux on mixed reality
technologies, Media Studies, and STS at the University of
California at Davis. After earning his BFA from New York
University Tisch School for the Arts in Film and Television, Adam
produced television content on technological and scientific
innovation and video games for both the BBC at White City in
London and Comcast’s G4 Network in Los Angeles.
