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To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video We recently interviewed 2020 Latino Media Arts Studies Senior Thesis Award winner and recent B.A. in Theatre and Dance graduate Ariane Stier about her project “Mírame: Deconstructing Latina Representation and Empowerment in Performance.” Stier discussed her process and plans for the future of the project, as well as her inspirations and goals as a theatre artist eager to amplify the voices of those who have been historically silenced. Gesel Mason was among five dance educators nationwide who spoke with Dance Teacher Magazine about last semester's transition to online courses. While universities nationwide are considering continued distanced learning, Mason and her fellow professors share what worked the ways assignments were adjusted in order to overcome the challenges of leading classes through a computer screen. Each semester, members of the dance area have traditionally come together to present a showcase of student work known as the “Dance Area Performance Showcase” or DAPS. This year, with the shift to online learning amidst shelter-in-place protocols, faculty and students have had to adjust their plans to preserve some semblance of what a normal semester would look like. For our dancers, this included reinventing their DAPS showcase as a YouTube playlist; sharing videos of online classes and experiments as well as virtual performances of their final projects. This August, Lisa B. Thompson will be amongst 26 playwrights presenting work at the Road Theatre Company's Summer Playwrights Festival. Thompson's play Dinner explores cultural and political differences between families as the parents of Joanna, an African American middle class woman, and her fiancé Jonathan, a wealthy Nigerian immigrant man, sit down to dinner. Her play will kick off the second week of virtual readings, streaming August 6, 2020.

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