{"id":534,"date":"2014-03-14T14:48:55","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T14:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/?p=534"},"modified":"2014-03-18T16:04:55","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T16:04:55","slug":"sound-image-space-research-centre-sisrc-welcomes-new-member-and-a-new-research-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/2014\/03\/14\/sound-image-space-research-centre-sisrc-welcomes-new-member-and-a-new-research-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"Sound-Image-Space Research Centre (SISRC) welcomes new member and a new research focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The School of Music and Fine Art would like to welcome a new member of staff to our Sound-Image-Space Research Centre SISRC. Dr Freya Vass-Rhee.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2014\/03\/Freya.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-535\" alt=\"Freya\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2014\/03\/Freya.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr Freya Vass-Rhee, also a new member of staff, lecturing in Drama and Theatre for The School of Arts in Canterbury, joins SISRC to bring a new area of research into the Centre.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Vass-Rhee\u2019s primary focus is Visuo-Sonic analysis of dance and theatre performance from cognitive interdisciplinary perspectives and is also a member of the Centre for Cognition, Kinesthetics &amp; Performance, based at Canterbury, where she is in the process of organising a visit in later this spring by Kate Stevens (MARCS Auditory Labs, U. Western Sydney), who is a specialist in music and cognition with an avid interest in dance and sound.<\/p>\n<p><b>Dr Freya Vass-Rhee Profile:<\/b><br \/>\nFreya studied Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the University of California, Los Angeles before completing a PhD in Dance History and Theory in 2011 from the University of California, Riverside with the dissertation &#8220;Audio-Visual Stress: Cognitive Approaches to the Perceptual Performativity of William Forsythe and Ensemble.&#8221; From 2011 to 2013, Freya was an Associate Researcher with the Dance Engaging Science workgroup of the Motion Bank project (The Forsythe Company, Frankfurt). Her research has appeared in <i>Dance Chronicle<\/i> and in edited volumes on dance dramaturgy and the work of William Forsythe.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to her academic career, Freya worked as a professional dancer, ballet mistress, teacher, and choreographer with companies in Europe and the U.S. Her training includes classical\/neoclassical ballet, contemporary and modern dance, period styles of musical theater dance, jazz, and tap dance.<\/p>\n<p>From 2006-13, Freya served as dramaturg and production assistant to choreographer William Forsythe. She has also freelanced as dramaturg for choreographers including David Dawson.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/staff-profiles\/profiles\/drama\/vass-rhee.html\">View Dr Freya Vass-Rhee profile<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The School of Music and Fine Art would like to welcome a new member of staff to our Sound-Image-Space Research Centre SISRC. Dr Freya Vass-Rhee. Dr Freya Vass-Rhee, also a new member of staff, lecturing in Drama and Theatre for The School of Arts in Canterbury, joins SISRC to bring a new area of research &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/2014\/03\/14\/sound-image-space-research-centre-sisrc-welcomes-new-member-and-a-new-research-focus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sound-Image-Space Research Centre (SISRC) welcomes new member and a new research focus<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[81427,24626,1252,124,70],"tags":[87251,18593,133917],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":541,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}