Performing arts

This class comprises research and experimental development in performing arts.
Parent Category
Sub-Categories
Indigenous performing arts
Music therapy
Musicology and ethnomusicology
Interpretive dance
Choreography
Theater Interpretation
Art therapy
Performing arts, n.e.c.
 
 
 

Graduate Degree Programs in Performing arts

Doctor of Philosophy in Music, Emphasis Ethnomusicology (PhD)

The program can accommodate interests in ethnomusicology’s wide range of geographic areas and intellectual issues. We strongly encourage performance, close interaction with related disciplines (anthropology, area studies, sociology, linguistics, etc.), as well as border crossing within music (...

Doctor of Philosophy in Music, Emphasis Musicology (PhD)

The M.A. and Ph.D. programs in musicology at the UBC School of Music offer students advanced training leading to professional careers in teaching and scholarly research. Graduate students enjoy a program that balances sound historical methods with critical interpretation, and forges...

Doctor of Philosophy in Theatre (PhD)

The Ph.D. program offers students the opportunity to pursue theatre studies through coursework, comprehensive examination preparations and a doctoral dissertation project.  Students are expected to give primary attention to an area of expertise of their choice while training in the broader...

Master of Arts in Music, Emphasis Ethnomusicology (MA)

The program can accommodate interests in ethnomusicology’s wide range of geographic areas and intellectual issues. We strongly encourage performance, close interaction with related disciplines (anthropology, area studies, sociology, linguistics, etc.), as well as border crossing within music (...

Master of Arts in Music, Emphasis Musicology (MA)

The M.A. and Ph.D. programs in musicology at the UBC School of Music offer students advanced training leading to professional careers in teaching and scholarly research. Graduate students enjoy a program that balances sound historical methods with critical interpretation, and forges...

Master of Arts in Theatre (MA)

Please note that the applications for the MFA in Design/Production, Costume stream and Lighting stream are pausing for one year and there will be no in-take into Fall 2023.  Applications for Fall 2024 will open in late September 2023. The two-year M.A. program offers students the opportunity to...

Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and Theatre (MFA)

We are Canada's oldest and most respected MFA Program in Creative Writing. Offering an unprecedented 11 genres for potential study, students work in a learner-centered, workshop-driven program which offers an exciting breadth of choices, award-winning faculty and a setting in one of the world's...

Master of Fine Arts in Theatre (MFA)

Please note that the applications for the MFA in Design/Production, Costume stream and Lighting stream are pausing for one year and there will be no in-take into Fall 2024.  Applications for Fall 2025 will open in late September 2024. M.F.A. in Theatre in Design/Production The Master of Fine Arts...
 

UBC Researchers conducting research in Performing arts

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Fung, David

School of Music, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Performing arts; performing arts, music, piano, piano performance, intersections between music and visual arts; historically informed performance,

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Hermiston, Nancy Jane

School of Music, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Performing arts, n.e.c.; Other medical sciences; opera, voice, theatre, interdisciplinary work with a diversity of fields and opera; Opera training and its effect on sculpting the brain - Wall Opera Project, Hermiston/L/Boyd/J Werker

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Marshall, Hallie

Department of Theatre & Film, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Performing arts; Ancient Greek Theatre; Arts and Cultural Traditions; Classics; Contemporary British Theatre; Cultural Industries; History of the Book; Literary or Artistic Work Dissemination or Reception Contexts; Performance and Theatrical Productions; Poetry; Reception Studies; Religion, Culture and Space; Theatre; Tony Harrison

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Rizzotti, Patrick

Department of Theatre & Film, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Performing arts; design; Design and Planning of Space; Theatrical Productions; Virtual Reality; Augmented reality; design for new works; devised work; narrative visual experience; production design; site specific experiences; theatre design

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Zaiontz, Keren

Department of Theatre & Film, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Performing arts; Performance studies; experimental performance practices; performance and the city; the cultural politics of festivals and mega-events; art-activism and social movements
 

Student & Alumni Stories in Performing arts

Claire Fogal

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Theatre (PhD)

Western Canadian Evolutions of Decroux and Grotowski in Theatre Pedagogy, Practice and Performance

Matthew Tomkinson

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Theatre (PhD)

Peter Weiss’s Marat/Sade: A Podcast

Julia Ulehla

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Music, Emphasis Ethnomusicology (PhD)

Living Song: A Multi-Generational Investigation of Moravian Folk Song

Kirk King

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Music, Emphasis Ethnomusicology (PhD)

Kadekaru Rinsho: His Life, His Music, and His Role in Restoring Okinawan Identity

Eshantha Peiris

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Music, Emphasis Ethnomusicology (PhD)

Up-country Drumming in 20th-century Sri Lanka: a Social History of an Evolving Musical Vocabulary

Jason Winikoff

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Music, Emphasis Ethnomusicology (PhD)

The Music of the Masks: Zambian Luvale Percussion, Makishi, and Timbral Aesthetics

Aram Bajakian

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Music, Emphasis Ethnomusicology (PhD)

Navigating nostalgias: Musical identities in the Armenian diaspora

Fabiola Bazo

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice (PhD)

Exhibition: Feminist and queer interventions in contemporary urban popular music in Peru

Stephen Oppong

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Theatre (PhD)

21st century receptions of classical greek theatre in Africa.

Laen Hershler

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Language and Literacy Education (PhD)

Exploring Holocaust Survivor Reflections Through Community-Based Performative Inquiry
 
 
 
 
French Name
Arts d'interprétation, du spectacle ou de la scène
French Description
Cette classe comprend la recherche et le développement expérimental en arts d'interprétation, du spectacle ou de la scène.
 
 

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