Katherine Mezur
Fellow
Katherine Mezur is a scholar/artist whose research focuses on transnational dance/theatre performance, gender studies, and new media performance in the Asia Pacific region. She holds a Ph.D. in Theatre and Dance, emphasis on Asian Performance, from the University of Hawai'i, Manoa. She is author of Beautiful Boys/Outlaw Bodies: Devising Female-likeness on the Kabuki Stage (Palgrave Macmillan), a history of the kabuki female gender performance and its contemporary practices, aesthetics, and politics. She choreographs and directs musicals, and experimental performance/media works. Her current research/practice focuses on the migrations of corporeal cultures through performance and visual art, which includes contemporary butoh's "diaspora" and dance theatre/media works by North East Asian artists. She has taught at Georgetown University, the University of Washington, Seattle, and CAL Arts. Her articles appear in journals such as Discourses in Dance and Women and Performance. She is an advisor/director for the "New Dance" grant program at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, (San Francisco, CA).
Katherine Mezur is a scholar/artist whose research focuses on transnational dance/theatre performance, gender studies, and new media performance in the Asia Pacific region. She holds a Ph.D. in Theatre and Dance, emphasis on Asian Performance, from the University of Hawai'i, Manoa. She is author of Beautiful Boys/Outlaw Bodies: Devising Female-likeness on the Kabuki Stage (Palgrave Macmillan), a history of the kabuki female gender performance and its contemporary practices, aesthetics, and politics. She choreographs and directs musicals, and experimental performance/media works. Her current research/practice focuses on the migrations of corporeal cultures through performance and visual art, which includes contemporary butoh's "diaspora" and dance theatre/media works by North East Asian artists. She has taught at Georgetown University, the University of Washington, Seattle, and CAL Arts. Her articles appear in journals such as Discourses in Dance and Women and Performance. She is an advisor/director for the "New Dance" grant program at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, (San Francisco, CA).
