rania lee khalildfa/ doctorate of fine arts, ma, msw, ba, artist
cinema antiplastique is the culmination of twenty five years years of rania’s creative interdisciplinary practices within dance, video, post colonial ecology and community healing over the past, as well as the result of her embodied experiences within varied countries and cultures.
rania is the daughter of egyptian immigrants to the u.s., who have long since returned to egypt, where she lived between the years 2007-2016. she is the mother of one daughter, and the grandaughter of three generations of egyptian pan african-asian feminists. inspired by her studies of the systematic dismantling of revolutions in the 1960’s and 70’s, rania created cinema antiplastique to carry on the work of our ancestors through integrated and embodied art and healing practices which resource communities and the individuals within them.
phd: artistic research. dance, video, postcolonial ecologies, university of arts helsinki, finland
masters of arts: practice based research in performance art, university of warwick, england
masters of social work: hunter college school of social work, new york city
(transferred from performance studies ma, nyu)
postgraduate studies: live clinical, diversity fellowship, ackerman insitute for the family, nyc
bachelors of arts: dance and video, hampshire college, amherst ma
simons rock 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 past / present
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
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