rania lee khalildfa/ doctorate of fine arts, ma, msw, ba, artist
cinema antiplastique is born from twenty five years of rania’s embodied research within dance and video, family & community healing and postcolonial studies. her artistic research includes anticolonial thought, interspecies and indigenous ecologies; third world feminism and african movements for independence (including the systematic dismantling of these movements by their former colonial masters). cinema antiplastique connects embodied movement with practical therapeutic and theoretical backgrounds. like many of her heroes, rania believes that the importance of artists and intellectuals is to create third world strength and unity, through beauty and the simple sharing of deep ideas.
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)
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
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 returned to egypt, where rania lived between 2007-2016, spanning years of revolution and counter revolution. rania is the mother of one daughter. she lives with her family on stolen lenapehoking land, colonially known as brooklyn, new york city.
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