rania lee khalildfa/ doctorate of fine arts, ma, msw, ba, artist
cinema antiplastique is born from over thirty years of rania’s embodied practices in dance and video, family & community healing and postcolonial studies.
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)
susan waltner (experiential anatomy)
nancy stark smith (contact improvisation)
susan klein (klein technique, release technique)
daphne lowell (authentic movement, undergrad advisor)
josé esteban muñoz (performance studies, gradute advisor)
sippio small (systems and post structural family therapy, ackerman advisor)
laurie kaplan and david kezur (the above and narrative therapy, ackerman advisors)
richard foreman (experimental theatre and performance)
annette arlander (video, phd supervisor)
taru elving and ros gray (art, ecology and artistic research, phd supervisors)
professorships and teaching (selected)
new york university, bfa program, interdisciplinary visual arts
parsons school of art and design, the new school, mfa program in visual art
university of arts helsinki, finland
jesuit institute, alexandria, egypt
rania has lived, taught and studied in egypt, finland, england and turtle island (north america). she is the daughter of egyptian immigrants to the u.s. who returned have long since returned to cairo, where rania lived between the years 2007-2016.
rania’s doctoral artistic research and beyond includes interspecies and indigenous ecologies, third world feminism and african movements for independence, with an eye on the systematic dismantling of these movements by their former colonial masters.
rania is the mother of one daughter, dances and works in cinema antiplastique, brooklyn.
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