In her collaborative MFA thesis project, There is a ladder: Reckoning the Contemporary Black Woman Perspective in Post/Modern Dance, Chania worked out identity, vulnerability, anger, physical exertion, and play to embody what she refers to as liberatory archival practices that preserve, innovate, and integrate a Black choreographic voice into an offering that expands fixed notions of Black womanhood.

Indigo’s MFA thesis aimed to experiment with this compositional methodology in the context of their own art-making practice through the composition of an opera:  “And you ghosts rise blue.”

Sadé M. Jones is a choreographer, a social psychologist, an alchemist, and in her own words “a healer”.  She approaches her work with a rare and profoundly embodied wisdom—one that doesn’t simply interpret theory, but breathes it into being.

emily liptow’s MFA thesis, Thresholding, is an immersive performance and community practice featuring an intergenerational ensemble working with movement and song inspired by Threshold Singing.

Natalia’s MFA Thesis, titled “welding borderlands | soldando las tierras fronterizas,” invites us to witness how our body can be a potent site where individual, familial, and communal experiences and memories can be evoked, accessed, and materialized.

A Maritime Haunting is an immersive sound installation that explores loss from Mediterranean border policies through vocal elements and sea sounds. Performers act as a Greek chorus, creating a collective elegy for lives lost during migration. Free and open to the public; no reservations required.

I took part in Puppet in Prague’s Marionette Carving + Performance workshop, an intense 22-day program that ran from August 8 to August 30 in the Czech Republic.

I received funding towards my honors thesis project, titled Maunakea and TMT: The Meeting Point of Scientific Exploration, Tourism, & U.S. Imperialism, that I am completing as part of my Program II (Environmental Humanities & Multimedia).