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Pegge Vissicaro, Clinical Professor, Dance
2008-07-10
Pegge Vissicaro is the associate chair of ASU Herberger College Dance. She received a Fulbright Senior Specialists Award for research and teaching in Portugal at the Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa, Faculdade de Motricidade Humana. Vissicaro conducted the workshop: Global Networking for Cross-Cultural Dance Research. She also collaborated with colleagues at the university and surrounding area to identify existing art projects with refugees. As a result, they have designed a new research initiative involving dance and Angolan migrants.
Vissicaro's partnership with the educational and artistic community in Portugal began in 1996 when she received her first Fulbright Scholar Award to spend one academic year working at the Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa, Faculdade de Motricidade Humana and Instituto Politecnico de Lisboa.
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Pegge Vissicaro's bio
Project Date: June 2008
2008-07-09
Pegge Vissicaro is the associate chair of ASU Herberger College Dance.
She received a $10,000 Global Engagement Faculty Seed Grant Award. Funding for her project entitled, Global Networking for Cross-Cultural Dance Research: Strategies for Ethnographic Analysis of Macedonian Roma Dance Culture, is designed to assist faculty in building international relationships that add global perspective to programs of study, foster collaborative research and advance ASU's global engagement. Vissicaro's proposal was one of five chosen among 100 submissions throughout ASU.
One component of Vissicaro's project involves a partnership with ASU's Melikian Center for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies Critical Language Institute. The first effort of this partnership is a Web conference, July 21, 2008, between dance scholar, Elsie Dunin -- currently conducting research in Eastern Europe -- and approximately 120 students in the Critical Language Institute Summer Program. The presentation, Continuities and changes of the Romani Gjurgjovden (St. George's Day) and Erdelezi (coming of summer) in Skopje, Macedonia from 1967-2007, includes student interaction with Dunin and takes place in the Computing Commons Auditorium on the ASU Tempe campus from 1-3 p.m.
Project Date: July 2008
2008-05-19
Pegge Vissicaro, associate chair at ASU Herberger College Dance and president of the Cross-Cultural Dance Resource Collection (CCDR), was instrumental in bringing the collection to the ASU Herberger College of the Arts and its department of dance. The collection's new home is due to the generosity and vision of Elsie Dunin, a leading dance scholar and is expected to open in spring 2009.
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Pegge Vissicaro's bio
Project Date: May 2008
2007-01-05
Studying Dance Cultures around the World is an introductory text for college and university students in dance appreciation and humanities based courses that facilitate the critical examination of dance in its varied contexts around the world. The focus of this instructional tool is to provide a holistic approach that addresses key topics for learning about dance cultures, situated within a broad theoretical framework.
Studying Dance Cultures around the World is the first book of its kind specifically designed to advance the field of multicultural dance education. Multicultural dance education exemplifies the zeitgeist of the past 30 years concerning a heightened consciousness about dance cultures of the world. This spirit continues to grow since the demand for providing effective multicultural learning environments and instructional tools to compare diverse ideas and information is rapidly expanding due to an increasingly dynamic global society. People are recognizing and valuing cultural study as a skill that encourages greater acceptance toward those practicing different customs and traditions, which may lead to more benevolent relations between all humans. Studying Dance Cultures around the World is a point of departure for expanding multicultural dance curricula and serves as a catalyst to further develop content, learning strategies, and resources to strengthen the field as well as explore new directions.
Pegge Vissicaro's bio