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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">Please forward this information to students interested in pursuing a career as directors, playwrights, designers, or dramaturgs through an MFA with access to funding,
full production facilities, and award winning supervisors in all of these areas.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US">The<b> MFA Drama Program at
</b>The University of Calgary’s School of Creative and Performing Arts (SCPA) welcomes applications for studies beginning in September 2018.
</span><a href="http://scpa.ucalgary.ca/drama/drama-graduate"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0070C0">APPLY HERE</span></b></a><span lang="EN-US"> by
<b>January 15</b>, 2018.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US">Working within the SCPA and alongside units in Dance and Music, our Drama students receive primary discipline-specific preparation at an advanced level and unique opportunities for interdisciplinary
exploration. Imagining the future of performance from roots to reinvention, the SCPA offers both intensive studio training and inspired intellectual inquiry, providing first class preparation for a wide range of exciting opportunities and vocations beyond
graduation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US">Applicants to the MFA in Drama can specialize in the following areas:
<b>Design/Technical</b>, <b>Directing</b>, <b>Playwriting</b>, and <b>Theatre Studies</b>. Students who join our graduate cohort work alongside faculty members and receive close supervision while learning how to produce, share, and apply their own original
creative and academic knowledge.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US">Graduate students choose our program because they wish to advance their practice and career opportunities in the performing arts, academia, and related industries, and to pursue research interests
through rigorously integrated creative practice, experimentation, and scholarship. Students are also attracted to the School of Creative and Performing Arts to learn with our accomplished faculty members, benefit from our substantial creation and production
facilities, and push boundaries through the interdisciplinary collaboration that our school and university community offers. Students are also generously funded and gain paid teaching and internship experience.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">To learn more about our award winning supervisors’ profiles, our current graduate students’ research and creation projects, and our local and national contexts, please take a look at our
</span><a href="https://scpa.ucalgary.ca/sites/scpa.ucalgary.ca/files/recruitment2017_web.pdf"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0070C0">GRADUATE INFO FOLDER</span></b></a><span lang="EN-US"> and visit our website at
</span><a href="http://scpa.ucalgary.ca/"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0070C0">scpa.ucalgary.ca</span></b></a><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Questions or requests for a conversation are always welcome.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Warm regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Pil<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Pil Hansen, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Assistant Professor:
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Drama, Dance</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Graduate Program Director:
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Drama<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">School of Creative and Performing Arts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">University of Calgary<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Honorary Adjunct Professor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Graduate Program in Dance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">York University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dramaturg<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Vertical City / Kaeja d’Dance
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/Dance-Dramaturgy/?sf1=barcode&st1=9781137373212"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Dance Dramaturgy:
Modes of Agency, Awareness and Engagement</span></i></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/performing-the-remembered-present-9781474284714/">Performing the Remembered Present: The Cognition of Memory in Dance, Theatre and Music</a></span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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