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Kate
Al-Shamma
Georgetown University professor Kate Al-Shamma moved to Washington DC in 2018 after teaching and performing in the San Francisco Bay Area for more than 25 years. She holds a doctorate in theater and a master's degree in communication. In theatre, Kate specializes in Shakespeare, choreographic image theater and oral history performance. She is a theater director and acting, voice and movement coach. In the field of communication, Kate has conducted extensive research in performance studies, voice science and rhetoric. She specializes in field methodologies, with a particular focus on performance ethnography.
At Georgetown, she teaches “public speaking” and “advocacy,” with an emphasis on personal encounter and community building. All of Kate's classes are designed to help students be more aware of the present moment and to be more connected to each other.
She is a university professor at the School of Social and Human Sciences of Paris-Est Créteil University and works in the field of language teaching in relation to the performing arts. She is also a faculty member of the École Normale Supérieure de Paris-Créteil and a full member of the IMAGER research group. Her research focuses on the role of aesthetics in language learning and teaching. In her latest projects, she explores how a performative approach to language teaching through the paradigm of enaction (Varela) could pave the way for a new perspective on the role of arts education, especially theatre, in the development of empathetic skills, which she says are a major component of cross-cultural competence. The doctoral theses she supervises explore the links between the arts and language education.
Joëlle
Aden
Derek
Goldman
He is director of the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics at Georgetown University , co-founded with Ambassador Cynthia Schneider. An award-winning director, playwright/adaptor, designer of new works, producer, festival director, educator and published scholar, he is Chair of the Performing Arts Department and Director of the Theater and Performance Studies Program. His artistic work has been seen nationwide, Off-Broadway and overseas. He has directed more than 100 productions and is the author of more than 30 professionally produced plays and adaptations. He is the founding director of Unesco 's UNITWIN Global Network for Higher Education in the Performing Arts (based in Shanghai), partner of the TCG for the creation of the World Theater Initiative , and he was vice-president of the International Theater Institute (ITI) . He has received numerous awards and major grants. In 2016, he earned the prestigious President's Award for Distinguished Scholar-Teachers as well as his Ph.D. in Performance Studies from Northwestern University .
Actor and director, he attended workshops before taking classes at the Strasbourg Conservatory of Dramatic Arts. He obtained a Performing Arts License in parallel with artistic practice.
In 2012, he invented with Geoffrey Goudeau an actor collective giving birth to Traumer and participated in the first creation: Crises , by Lars Norén. In 2015, he staged the cabaret Que d'Espoir by Hanokh Levin for the 65th Franco-Israeli diplomatic anniversary supported by the City of Strasbourg and the DRAC Alsace. He also plays in Les Enfants d'Edward Bond with the Traumer collective , and meets the conductor Simon Rigaudeau with whom he adapts and directs Carmen de Bizet, a project supported by the City of Colmar and the Alsace Region in 2016. In 2017, he founded the company Coup de Chien and created Les Idiots de Claudine Galéa in November 2018 at La Maison des Arts in Lingolsheim with the support of the Grand'Est Region. It is also in 2018 that he experiments with writing and adapts the tale La Petite Fille aux Allumettes by Andersen, which he will sketch on the set.
It brings together a new collective of artists in 2019, the Escadrilles Poétiques, whose mission is to radiate joy in the streets. In 2020, he created Quartier 3 : Destruction Totale by Jennifer Haley co-produced by TAPS Strasbourg, supported by the City of Strasbourg and the Grand'Est Region
Christophe
Müller
