Graduate Students

B.F.A. in Modern Dance, minor in Native American Studies, University of Utah

Talia is an enrolled member of the Pauma Band of Luiseño Indians. She aspires to research and document the performance of her peoples' culture and identity within both historic and contemporary contexts. Her...Read more about Talia Dixon

B.F.A. in Community Arts, minor in Individualized Interdisciplinary Studies, California College of the Arts; M.A. in Performance Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Laila Guadalupe is the daughter of a Roma mother and Mexican father and raised by her grandmother and aunties in...Read more about Laila Guadalupe Espinoza

B.A. in Art History, Global Gender Studies, University at Buffalo; M.A. in Performance Studies, NYU

Patricia is a first-generation American from a Brazilian family who largely grew-up in upstate New York. Her research explores cultural geographies and performance theory for the...Read more about Patricia Gomes

M.F.A. in Studio Practice, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; M.A. in Performance Studies, New York University

Zihan is a queer artist from Singapore with a research focus on distended and pragmatic gestures of resistance under illiberal regimes. His work strives to reconcile the...Read more about Zihan Loo

M.A. in Communication Studies, California State University Northridge; B.A. in Communication Studies, California State University Northridge

Fernando is a first-generation student, performer, and spoken-word artist. His research is centered in areas of performance, diversity, and equity...Read more about Fernando Martinez

B.Sc. in Life Sciences, National University of Singapore; M.A. in Theatre Studies, University of Amsterdam; M.A. in International Performance Research, University of Warwick

Aparna is an Indian classical dancer and performance studies scholar based in Singapore. Her research thus far has...Read more about Aparna Nambiar

B.A. in Ethnic Studies, minors in African American and Chicano Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Pablo is the son of Puerto Rican and Ecuadorian migrants, a US Navy veteran/war resister, student-parent, spoken word artist and Bombero from the South Bronx, New York. With...Read more about Pablo Paredes

Evan Sakuma (he/they) 'comes out' from the East Asian ethnic enclave of Monterey Park, CA. Their work, hardened further by the 'Queerantine', centers the performance of care within queer communities of color. While a theory head at times, Evan incorporates praxis of 'Gaysian' community building...Read more about Evan Sakuma

B.A. in Theatre Arts, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota; M.A. in Applied Theatre Arts, University of Southern California

Rebecca is a theatre artist, educator, and organizer with a commitment to community engagement through participatory practice. Her...Read more about Rebecca Struch

Silk Worm's work deals with dance and trans studies. Her practice as both an artist and researcher emerges from years of engagement with the Bay Area’s queer nightlife as a drag queen, DJ, and producer. At Berkeley, she intends to research butoh and its relationship to Bay Area...Read more about Silk Worm