{"id":29310,"date":"2013-03-03T19:24:58","date_gmt":"2013-03-03T19:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=29310"},"modified":"2013-03-03T19:28:12","modified_gmt":"2013-03-03T19:28:12","slug":"mfa-thesis-choreographies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=29310","title":{"rendered":"MFA Thesis Choreographies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davislifemagazine.com\/2013\/02\/mfa-thesis-choreographies\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>MFA Thesis Choreographies<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davislifemagazine.com\" target=\"_blank\">Davis Life Magazine<\/a><br \/>\nDavis, California<br \/>\n2013-02-28<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theatredance.ucdavis.edu\/season\/prod_details.aspx?p=49\" target=\"_blank\">UC Davis Department of Theatre and Dance<\/a> is proud to present MFA Thesis Choreographies: \u201cLigilo\u201d by Jarrell Iu-Hui Chua, in collaboration with Bobby August Jr., travels through the worlds of memories, dreams and present realities to investigate touch and its effects on relationships; \u201cTransmutation\u201d by Christine Germain, in collaboration with Andrea del Moral and Deirdre Morris, examines questions of personal identity and shifts in identity. <em>MFA Thesis Choreographies <\/em>opens at Mondavi Center\u2019s Vanderhoef Studio Theatre on Thursday, Feb. 21 and runs through Sunday, March 3.<\/p>\n<p>The title of Jarrell Iu-Hui Chua\u2019s work \u201cLigilo\u201d means \u201clink\u201d in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Esperanto\" target=\"_blank\">Esperanto<\/a>, a language that represents the choreographer\u2019s ethnic sensitivities. She and collaborator Bobby August Jr. are both \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=329\" target=\"_blank\">hapa<\/a>,\u201d a term that Chua lovingly uses to describe their half-Asian heritage. Their hapa experiences of prejudice growing up in America are a core element in the choreography as is personal trauma from which Chua is recovering.<\/p>\n<p>Emanating from these painful themes, \u201cLigilo\u201d portrays anger and violence as two performers, Chua and August Jr., physically connect and disconnect. Most emphatically, the piece explores the positive dimensions of human touch in erotic love, humor, tenderness and other aspects of humanity and healing. The spiritual touch of bathing a loved one conveys hope and tranquility. This is both the heart of \u201cLigilo\u201d and the basis of its foreign title as Esperanto (literally meaning \u201cone who hopes\u201d) was intended to foster peace among peoples of differing cultures&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davislifemagazine.com\/2013\/02\/mfa-thesis-choreographies\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MFA Thesis Choreographies Davis Life Magazine Davis, California 2013-02-28 UC Davis Department of Theatre and Dance is proud to present MFA Thesis Choreographies: \u201cLigilo\u201d by Jarrell Iu-Hui Chua, in collaboration with Bobby August Jr., travels through the worlds of memories, dreams and present realities to investigate touch and its effects on relationships; \u201cTransmutation\u201d by Christine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,16,125,8,20],"tags":[13836,13835,13833,13834,9012],"class_list":["post-29310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-asia","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-bobby-august-jr","tag-christine-germain","tag-davis-life-magazine","tag-jarrell-iu-hui-chua","tag-university-of-california-at-davis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}