The performance and creation of music, music theatre, and drama are important areas of scholarship at the DAN School.
Research themes include:
- Instrumental performance
- Vocal performance
- Acting
- Directing/Conducting
- Composing
- Playwriting
- Integration of performance and creation
- Integration of art forms and genres
| Researcher | Projects |
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Burge 
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Composing music for large ensemble, small ensemble, solo performers, and choir. Serenade for Strings to be premiered in Fall 2023 by three different Canadian Orchestras. Solo piano performances of my own music are an ongoing project and will be presented at the University of Alberta, University of Ottawa, and Queen's University in 2022-2023. |
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Christie  |
Rethinking choral practices Music theatre storytelling |
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Dalbec-Szczesniak  |
Solo, chamber music, and orchestral violin and viola performance Baroque performance practises Contemporary music |
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Legere  |
Bassoon performance, baroque bassoon, recorders, and Dulcian Historically informed performance practice Baroque and Renaissance music |
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Scala  |
Creating and performing a shadow puppetry play to accompany composer Dean Burry’s chamber setting of Alfred Noyes’ poem The Highwayman. The shadow puppetry piece incorporates overhead projection, traditional shadow puppets, and three-dimensional elements. Developing a puppetry piece tentatively titled Jars that includes tabletop puppetry, shadow puppetry, and film. Jars operates as a framed narrative and explores the themes of control and consumption. |
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Wheeler  |
Liveness Research-creation Virtual reality Digital theatre Directing |
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Rogalsky
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Live electronic music Field recording and environmental sound Sound synthesis and processing Improvisation and collaboration with custom software and hardware Multi-loudspeaker spatialization of sound |
