rania lee khalildfa/ doctorate of fine arts, ma, lmsw, ba, artist
cinema antiplastique is born from twenty five years of rania’s embodied research within dance and video, community and family healing, postcolonial ecologies, third world feminism and african movements for independence (including the systematic dismantling of these movements by their former colonial masters). cinema antiplastique connects these practical dance, artistic and theoretical backgrounds to bring them to the people, sharing tools of embodiment for personal and collective growth for the future as well as the unfinished dreams and liberation movements of the past.
phd: artistic research, dance, video, postcolonial ecologies, university of arts helsinki, finland
masters of arts: practice based research, performance, university of warwick, england
(transferred from performance studies ma, nyu)
masters of social work: hunter college school of social work, new york city
postgraduate studies: live clinical, diversity fellowship, ackerman insitute for the family, nyc
bachelors of arts: dance and video, hampshire college, amherst ma
simons rock early college of bard, great barrington, ma
teachers
(including, yet not limited to) atsushi takenouchi (butoh dance)
nancy stark smith (contact improvisation)
susan klein (klein technique, release technique)
alito allessi (inclusive movement improvisation)
josé esteban muñoz (performance studies, gradute advisor)
richard foreman (experimental theatre and performance)
sippio small (systems and post structural family therapy)
laurie kaplan and david kezur (the above and narrative therapy)
annette arlander (video, phd supervisor)
taru elving and ros gray (art, ecology and artistic research, phd supervisors)
professorships and teaching
new york university, bfa program, interdisciplinary visual arts (present)
parsons school of art and design, the new school, mfa program in visual art, nyc
medrar for video art, cairo, egypt (present)
university of arts helsinki, finland
rania has lived, taught and studied on the continents of africa, europe and turtle island (north america). she is the daughter of egyptian immigrants to the u.s., who have since returned to egypt, where rania lived between 2007-2016. she is the mother of one daughter. rania lives with her family on stolen lenapehoking land, colonially known as brooklyn, new york city.
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