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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US">Dear CanDrama community,
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US">We would love for you to have to have this information available when you advise advanced students about graduate degree options. Please do feel free to share.
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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 2019.
</span><a href="https://arts.ucalgary.ca/schools/creative-performing-arts/drama/graduate"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0070C0">APPLY HERE</span></b></a><span lang="EN-US"> by
<b>January 15</b>, 2019.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US">Working alongside Dance and Music programs, 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://arts.ucalgary.ca/schools/creative-performing-arts/sites/arts.ucalgary.ca.schools.creative-performing-arts/files/2019_mfa.pdf"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0070C0">GRADUATE INFO FOLDER</span></b></a><span lang="EN-US">.</span><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">Associate Professor:
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<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">Division of 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">University of Calgary<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<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
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Calls<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:#2E74B5;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><a href="https://www.psi2019calgary.com/posts"><span style="color:#2E74B5">Call for Proposals</span></a>: Performance Studies international #25 in Calgary on ELASTICITY<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:#2E74B5;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/8240"><i><span style="color:#2E74B5">Frontiers in Psychology</span></i><span style="color:#2E74B5"> Research Topic
‘Performance in Theatre and Everyday Life: Cognitive, Neuronal, and Applied Aspects of Acting’ (open for submissions)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Books<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:#2E74B5;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/performing-the-remembered-present-9781474284714/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#2E74B5">Performing the Remembered Present:
The Cognition of Memory in Dance, Theatre and Music</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:#2E74B5;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><a href="http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/dance-dramaturgy-pil-hansen/?sf1=barcode&st1=9781137373212"><i><span style="color:#2E74B5">Dance Dramaturgy: Modes of Agency,
Awareness and Engagement</span></i></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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