• TOO Episode 224 - Conversation with Master Balinese Academic & Performer, John Emigh

  • Apr 22 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
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TOO Episode 224 - Conversation with Master Balinese Academic & Performer, John Emigh

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    In this episode, Adam and Budi sit down with Balinese academic and performer, John Emigh, to discuss his extensive career.

    JOHN EMIGH is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University, where he taught and directed regularly from 1967 to 2009; from 2009 to 2018 he taught in the Brown/Trinity MFA program for actors and directors. He has also taught at NYU, Tufts University, and the Yale School of Drama. He was a founding member of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) and of Performance Studies International (Psi), has served on the governing board of Psi, and was founding Chairperson of the Association for Asian Performance. He is the author of Masked Performance: The Play of Self and Other in Ritual and Theatre, based on extensive research on performance in Bali and India, co-author of the forthcoming Illustrated Prahlada Nataka of Odisha: Text, Translation, Music, and History of a Remarkable Theatrical and Devotional Tradition in India, and has written pioneering articles linking the fields of Neuroscience and Performance Studies. With his wife, Ulrike, he made the documentary fllm, Hajari Bhand: Jester without Court, now available on YouTube. He has directed over 80 plays in university and professional theatres, has performed one-person shows based on Balinese topeng (masked dance and theatre) throughout the US and Asia. and has presented invited papers and conducted workshops in Shanghai, New Delhi, Calcutta, Denpasar, and Brussels, as well as at numerous US and international conferences and universities. In 2009, he received the Association for Theatre in Higher Education’s Career Achievement Award for Educational Theatre.

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    Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi Miller
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