DANCE OF STILLNESS
RINA ANGELA CORPUS
Education
University of the Philippines BA Art Studies 1993 Cum laude
University of the Philippines MA Art Studies 2004
Most Outstanding Thesis, UPCWS
University of Melbourne, Victorian College of Arts, PhD Dance, 2016-19
Professional Experience
Assistant Professor, Department of Art Studies, University of the Philippines,
on faculty since 2003-present (currently on study leave)
Campaigns Officer, Legal Rights Center, 1997-2003
Awards and grants
Melbourne Research Scholarship, University of Melbourne, 2016-2019
Metro Manila Commission Professorial Chair Lecture Award, University of the Philippines, 2013
International Publication Award, University of the Philippines, 2008
Atty. Lontok-Cruz Award for Outstanding MA Thesis, Center for Women's Studies, University of the Philippines, 2006
Nancy Sena Faculty Grant, University of the Philippines, 2005
Recent essays in refereed journals
Emancipating the Writing Life. Review of Charlie Veric's Histories, Kritika Kultura, no. 25, 2015.
Boys Do Dance: Revisiting the Male Dancer in Billy Elliot,
DIsclab Journal, Aug. 2013
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Queer, Flippant and Contemporary , DIsclab Journal, Oct. 2013
Postscript to Fil-Am History Month, DIsclab Journal, May 2013
Ballet as/in the Homeland, DIsclab Journal, Dec, 2012
Ballet in the Dark: Reviewing the Black Swan, Humanities Diliman, Vol. 8, no. 2, 2011
Pedestrians Dancing, Humanities Diliman, Vol 8, no 1, 2011
Dance of the Madwoman: Social realism in Agnes Locsin's Sayaw Sabel, Humanities Dilman, Vol 7, no. 2, 2010
Peace Profile: Jayanti Kirplani, Peace Review: Journal of Social Justice, Routledge-Taylor & Francis, London, March 2008
Recent articles
“Narratives in Meditative Movement,” VIBE: Southbank Arts Review, University of Melbourne, 2020, pp. 51-54.
“Mapping out Contemporary Dance in the Philippines”, Art Archive (vol.1), Japan Foundation, 2017
“Performing the Mutya: A re-enchantment of our times,” Greenpeace.org, April 2016
Pakiusap, Meditative dance, sound healing and poetry for Women’s month, Ef Studios, Quezon City, March 3, 2019
Pakiusap, solo dance at Women’s Day Summit, SM Aura, Manila, March 8, 2019
Natsuwa Hotaru, Solo Performance for Traditional Theater Training, at Oe Noh Theater, Kyoto, Japan, August 2016
Meditations, Solo dance for the exhibit, ‘I Put a Spell on You Because You’re Mine’ by visual artist Dominc Mangila, Vargas Museum, UP Diliman. December 1, 2015.
Blessing, Solo dance for Ditta Sandico's 30th Year in Fashion, Quezon City, November 12, 2015
Mutya ng Ilog, Dance Film, Shown at the Performance Studies International Conference, De La Salle University, Manila, november 2015.
Sacred Space, Dance Film, Co-choregoraphed with Ea Torrado, shown at Inner Space Manila, October 2014.
Feeling Great, the Cebu Normal University Centennial Celebrations,
June 15, 2011