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June 25, 2006
The Missing Peace
The Fowler Museum

As an opening evening kick off to the summer sessions program and introducing the Fowler Museum's exhibit The Missing Peace: artists explore the Dali Lama. A multi-media art exhibition bringing together 88 respected artists representing 30 countries. I curated an evening of live dance performance artists expressing their interpretations of peace vs. conflict alongside such visual artists as Richard Avedon, Ken Apteker, Laurie Anderson, Guy Buffet, Bill Viola, Katarina Wong, and Michael Rovner.

Participating dance artists: Leigh Foaad, Jackie Lopez, Taisha Paggett,
Ana Maria Alvarez, Cesar Garfiaz, James Datu, Victor Najarro,
Kyle Kashiwagi

March 20 and March 28, 2003
LAUSD Student Choreography Workshops

I participated in a series of workshops for middle and high school students from throughout the Los Angeles Unified School District held at WAC and at The Debbie Allen Studios. The focus of my workshops was creating autobiographical movement based theater. I led the students through the process of moving and writing and performing autobiographical work as an ensemble and utilized the students' original choreographies as part of the dance elements of the piece. The students were enthusiastic and receptive and hopefully all left with a practical sense of how to begin to use their stories and choreographies to create original dance theater in their own schools and groups.

July 1- August 5, 2001

I participated in a multi-cultural symposium entitled, "Family Traditions"' hosted by Peter Tokofsky, professor of Folklore in the Dept. of World Arts and Cultures. Included in the five week project was several fascinating presentations on different world cultures by a variety of authors and reserachers -- the holiday and life celebrations found in various cultures.

In addition, several former Marshall Theatre Workshop students and I did a rather moving presentation for the symposium based on our personal experiences being involved with Theatre Workshop. We all spoke about the process of creating relevant, autobiographical theater based on the real life experiences of hundreds of students from a variety of backgrounds. The reaction to our presention was quite positive and affirming. Thanks to those students who took part in this very memorable day at UCLA.

		Maria Celis, Angel Saenz, Tommy De La Cruz, Cristina Aporangao, Gina Tucker, Kevin Kane, Chi Kim & Mihran Kirakosian participate in a presentation at the "Family Traditions" symposium at the Public Policy Building on July 12, 2001.

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