INTERDISCIPLINARY SCHOLAR, CREATOR, PERFORMER, TEACHING ARTIST
Research: Music Cognition and Movement Perception
MUSIC AND MOVEMENT - LABAN
We hypothesize that Laban efforts, deliberately encoded into conducting gestures (since conducting inherently uses gesture as metaphor), can be accurately and consistently decoded by viewers as movement qualia.
Dramaturgy and Installation
"Dirty Hearts" - Sonia Sanchez
"Dirty Hearts" (1971) examines oppression and corruption through allegories about the nature of American power and its connections to race and gender and wealth. "Dirty Hearts" lyrically inquires what liberation means when imperialism, racism, and misogyny play a proscriptive game of control.
Research and Dramaturgy
THE MUSINGS OF A MUSIC DIRECTOR AT BAYLOR THEATRE
Welcome to my collection of ideas and inspirations for Urinetown. These resources helped me prepare to music direct Baylor Theatre’s production this Spring 2021.
I’ve curated here my inspiration, exploration, and labor of helping create this performance.
Hope you enjoy it!
selected conference presentations
The Adventures of Alice on Stage: Three Musical Adaptations
Liturgies of Resistance: The Hymnal “A Canção do Senhor na Terra Brasileira”
Liturgies of Resistance: The Hymnal “A Canção do Senhor na Terra Brasileira”
The 2015 Baylor Libraries Symposium – “Alice at 150”, Waco – TX, USA, 2015
ABSTRACT: Lewis Carroll’s characters and episodes found in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland have inspired dramatists and composers in various journeys to adapt this sesquicentennial work. Carroll’s expressions of fantastic literature and his witty character inscri
The 2015 Baylor Libraries Symposium – “Alice at 150”, Waco – TX, USA, 2015
ABSTRACT: Lewis Carroll’s characters and episodes found in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland have inspired dramatists and composers in various journeys to adapt this sesquicentennial work. Carroll’s expressions of fantastic literature and his witty character inscription have served as a deep well for stagecraft. This presentation will identify and analyze the shared attributes of three musical stage works, while exploring the unique form and themes of each play in comparison to one other and to the matrix provided by Lewis Carroll: a nineteenth-century British work by creative team Henry Saville Clarke (book and lyrics), Walter Slaughter (music), and Aubrey Hopwood (additional lyrics); an early twentieth-century American play for children by Harvey and Harriette Gaul; and lastly the twentieth-first-century Broadway musical by Jack Murphy (book and lyrics), Gregory Boyd (book), and Frank Wildhorn (music).
Liturgies of Resistance: The Hymnal “A Canção do Senhor na Terra Brasileira”
Liturgies of Resistance: The Hymnal “A Canção do Senhor na Terra Brasileira”
Liturgies of Resistance: The Hymnal “A Canção do Senhor na Terra Brasileira”
Political Theology Network Inaugural Conference – Emory University, Atlanta – GA, USA, 2018
ABSTRACT: This paper explores Christian hymnody that originated in Brazil during the decades of 1960 and 1970, compiles in the hymnal A Canção do Senhor na Terra Brasileira (The Song of the Lord in Brazilian Land) which is consonant with the Liberat
Political Theology Network Inaugural Conference – Emory University, Atlanta – GA, USA, 2018
ABSTRACT: This paper explores Christian hymnody that originated in Brazil during the decades of 1960 and 1970, compiles in the hymnal A Canção do Senhor na Terra Brasileira (The Song of the Lord in Brazilian Land) which is consonant with the Liberation Theology movements of Latin America. Consideration will be given to the work of Jaci Maraschin and Simei Monteiro, editors of A Canção, in the light of ethnographic, ethnomusicological, and intersectional analyses. Special attention will be given to the historic narratives linking liturgy with public theology as resistance to injustice in Brazil. The hymnal emerges from a diverse body of Christian denominations present in Brazil and reacts to the various ways the Brazilian Christian communities have responded to injustice through the Eucharist, baptism, music, and preaching. Through capturing songs present in the hymnal this case example highlights the importance of A Canção in consolidating the liturgical vocabulary of Brazilian Christian communities. A Canção connects through liturgy and song several Liberation Theologies, such as economic criticism, embodiment, and eco-theological discourses. This focus elevates the creative force behind one of the most influential hymnals in global Christianity, published during the periods of Resistance and Decompression in the Brazilian Military Dictatorship (1964-1985).