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Karen Kaufmann PARTV 191 |
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Karen serves as the Director of The Creative Pulse and is a professor in the Dance Program at The University of Montana. She received her Master's Degree in Dance Education from Antioch University. Karen's primary interests involve the uses of dance in education. She authored Inclusive Creative Movement and Dance--a textbook for classroom teachers on teaching dance in the classroom. She serves as the artistic director of The CoMotion Dance Project--a dance company that tours interdisciplinary performances for K-8 schools and offers workshops for classroom teachers. Her most recent work, Fire Speaks the Land: An Active Audiences Dance Performance, uses dance to teach about fire science, ecology and forest regeneration. Her choreography has been performed in Saratoga Springs, New York, for the National Dance Associations, Dance Pedagogy for the 21st Century Conference. In 2008 she started MoDE (Montana's Model Dance Education Project) which prepares and hires professional dance educators in western Montana schools. This grant-funded program uses bodily-kinesthetic teaching across the curriculum. During the academic year, Professor Kaufmann teaches these undergraduate courses: Dance in Elementary Education, Teaching Movement in the Schools, Dance as a Healing Art and Junior/Senior Seminar. She has been a core faculty member of The Creative Pulse for many years.
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Rick Hughes McGill 233 |
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| Rick serves as both Director of the School of Media Arts and Director of Academic Affairs for UMOnline at The University of Montana. He is one of the founding faculty members of the Media Arts program and teaches in the area of Integrated Digital Media. His teaching experience includes rural and urban elementary arts education programs and he has been a faculty member in both Music and Theatre at UM. Rick's current research focuses on online learning technologies and the artistic application of digital technology in the Arts. |
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Dr. Randy Bolton
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| Randy served as Chair and Co-Chair for the School of Theatre & Dance for many years. He first came to The University of Montana in 1977 to head the professional actor-training program. He is one of the founding core faculty in the College of Visual and Performing Arts' The Creative Pulse: A Summer Graduate Program for Master Teachers in Arts and Humanities. He has directed extensively for the School and Montana Repertory Theatre in the past thirty-three years. He has conducted various workshops and seminars for "civilian" performers in the everyday world ranging from interpersonal communication skills to increasing personal power. He is also a poet. | ||
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Dr. Jillian Campana
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| Dr. Jillian Campana has lived and worked in theatre communities in the Middle East, Latin America, Southeast Asia, Scandinavia, and the U.S. Much of her Theatre work has been in the area of rehabilitation, and she has developed several projects focusing on drama as a tool in the recovery process of brain surgery survivors, former sex workers and street children. She has been honored at the John. F. Kennedy Center for her directing, and is committed to the use of Theatre as a force for Social Change. Jillian is happy to be returning to the UM faculty as a Professor of Physical Theatre after spending four years in India developing a company, Studio Three Theatre, dedicated to cross-cultural art works. |
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Dr. Lori Gray 406.243.2865 |
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| Dr. Lori Gray is an Assistant Professor of Music Education at The University of Montana. She teaches elementary and secondary music methods courses for undergraduate music education majors and non-majors, and graduate courses in music education. Lori holds a Doctor of Musical Arts from Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, a Master of Arts in Teaching, a Bachelor of Music in Music Education, and a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. She taught in public and private schools for six years as an elementary and middle school general music specialist in San Antonio and Dallas. Lori's research interests include music teacher identity, reflection, professional development, mentoring, and the preparation of future music teachers. |
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