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School of Performance

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Full-time faculty

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    Jens Richard Giersdorf
    • Professor, Contemporary Dance, School of Performance
    • Chair, Contemporary Dance, School of Performance
    Research areas: dance studies, dance and politics, epistemologies of dance education, dance histories, queer studies, dance analysis, choreography as knowledge system
  • Angélique Willkie
    • Associate Professor, Contemporary Dance, School of Performance
    • Concordia University Research Chair in Ecologies of B/black Performance
    • Special Advisor to the Provost, Black Integration & Knowledges
    • Chair of the Concordia University Task Force on Anti-Black Racism
    • Artist in Residence, USINE C | Centre de création et de diffusion
    • Fellow, Royal Society of Canada
    Research areas: dance dramaturgy, contemporary circus, choreographic practice, transdisciplinarity, performing arts, dance technique, identity, ethnicity, voice, movement, performance, improvisation, human body, decolonial dramaturgies
  • Lília Mestre
    • Assistant Professor, Contemporary Dance, School of Performance
    • Co-director LePARC - Performing Arts Research Cluster within MILIEUX Institute for Arts Culture and Technology, Concordia University, Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology
    Research areas: expanded choreography, transdisplinarity, performativity, community, collectivity, bio politics, co-learning, scores.
  • Joshua Rager
    • Associate Professor, Music, School of Performance
    • Chair , Music, School of Performance
    Research areas: jazz, improvisation, piano, music composition, musical ensembles, solo performance, jazz culture, musical accompaniment, performing arts, jazz theory, ear training, rhythm, music theory, listening/hearing, music education
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    Sandeep Bhagwati
    • Professor, Music, School of Performance
    • director, matralab - lab for research-creation in the performing arts , Fine Arts
    • GM500-21, Music, School of Performance
    Status: Canada Research Chair for Inter-X Art (2006-2016)
    Research areas: music, musicking, music composition, comprovisation, research-creation, transdisciplinary aesthetics, interactive scores, trans-traditional musicking, experimental theatre, situative scores, dramaturgy, performance, contemporary music, improvisation, intercultural music, artistic research, music notation, music technology, voice, computer music, opera, music theatre, piano music, orchestra music
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    Ricardo Dal Farra
    • Professor , Music, School of Performance
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    Georges Dimitrov
    • Associate Teaching Professor, Music, School of Performance
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    Meghan Gilhespy
    • Assistant Professor, Music, School of Performance
    • Coordinator, Jazz Studies, Music, School of Performance
    Research areas: Improvisation, extended techniques, gender studies, jazz historiography, voice
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    Norah Lorway
    • Area Coordinator (Electroacoustic Studies) , Music, School of Performance
    • Assistant Professor, Music, School of Performance
    Research areas: artificial intelligence, live coding, responsible AI, spatial audio, HCI, computer music language development, electroacoustic music, audio visual composition, live electronics, music plugin development, real-time interactive computer systems
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    Eldad Tsabary
    • Professor, Music, School of Performance
    • (formerly Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies), Fine Arts
    • (formerly Department Chair), Music, School of Performance
    Research areas: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Creativity, Research-Creation, Electroacoustic Music, Laptop Orchestra, Live Coding, Improvisation, Telematics, Spatial Composition, Mini Opera, Cataclysmic Scenarios, Multiplicity, Neurodiversity, Music Education, Technical Ear Training, Motivation, Music Technology.
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    Ana Cappelluto
    • Professor, Theatre, School of Performance
    Research areas: scenography, audience, devised theatre, found space, theatre design, lighting design, set design, production design, actor-space relationship, design for the theatre, video in theatre, theatre technology, mise-en-scene, contemporary circus, contemporary dance, 7 Doigts
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    Raymond Marius Boucher
    • Senior Lecturer, Theatre, School of Performance
    Status: Extended-term appointment
    Research areas: scenography, production design, design for the theatre, set design, costume design, drama/performance, experimental theatre, preservation of creative processes, mise-en-scene, acting, audience, stage management, art direction for film/video, art direction for the theatre, arts administration, heritage preservation, performing arts, Quebec studies
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    Jessica Carmichael
    • Associate Professor, Theatre, School of Performance
    Research areas: Directing, Acting, Creation & Playwriting, Dramaturgy, Avant Garde Theatre, Devising, Dance Theatre, Performance Studies, Theatre for Social Change, Cultural Continuity, Indigenous Storytelling, Landscape Connectivity, Embodiment, Youth Culture
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    Meghan Moe Beitiks
    • Assistant Professor, Theatre, School of Performance
    • Member, Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology
    • Member, The Performing Arts Research Cluster (LePARC)
    Research areas: Performance, Ecology, Sustainable Design, Trauma Theory, Equity, Intersectionality, Remediation, Studio Arts
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    Noah Drew
    • Professor, Theatre, School of Performance
    Status: on sabbatical until July 1, 2026
    Research areas: voice, acting, Fitzmaurice Voicework, presence, public speaking, nervousness, somatics, embodiment, drama, theatre, performance, storytelling, interdisciplinarity, listening, sound, sound design, music composition, playwriting, devised theatre, performance creation, collective creation, dramaturgy, performing arts, immersive performance, live games, ethnographic performance
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    Shauna Janssen
    • Associate Dean, Academic Programs & Pedagogy, Fine Arts
    • Associate Professor, Theatre, School of Performance
    • Concordia University Research Chair in Performative Urbanism (2018-2023), Fine Arts
    • CO-Investigator Hexagram, Fine Arts
    Research areas: site-specific performance practice, dramaturgy, intermedial performance creation, scenographic practices, 3D creative technologies & performance, Queer-feminist practices, hemispheric performance, performance & public space, theatre & architecture
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    Ursula Neuerburg-Denzer
    • Associate Professor, Theatre, School of Performance
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    Robert Reid
    • Associate Professor, Theatre, School of Performance
    Research areas: acting, jeu, theatrical traditions, theatrical biomechanics, Meyerhold, mise en scène, directing, spoken word, experimental theatre, contemporary dramaturgy, co-presence, commun, popular theatre, stage dynamics, grotesque, Jingju, Beijing opera, Chinese opera, performing arts, Quebec drama studies, Italian theatre
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    Luis Carlos Sotelo Castro
    • Associate Professor, Theatre, School of Performance
    Research areas: oral history performance, listening/hearing, experimental theatre, research-creation, social innovation, documentary theatre, walking, participatory processes, sound, activism, war and memory, theatre for social change, relational art, storytelling, representation, drama/performance, violence, performance studies, Latin America, participatory art
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    Mark J. Sussman
    • Professor, Theatre, School of Performance
    • Director, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture
    Research areas: performance studies, material performance, avant-garde and experimental theatre, animation of public space, object theatre, performance ethnography, Hemispheric performance, magic,cantastoria, political circus, parades, pageantry, collective creation, festival, pedagogy

Part-time faculty

Professors Emeritus

  • Silvy Panet-Raymond
    • Professor Emeritus, Contemporary Dance, School of Performance
    Status: Professor Emeritus
    Research areas: choreography, creative process, mobility, moving borders, creative approaches to public space, artistic transmission projects
  • Michael Montanaro
    • Professor Emeritus , Contemporary Dance, School of Performance
    • Co-director Topological Media Lab
    Research areas: transformation, transmutation, proposition/purpose, alchemy, illusion, possession/conflict, intermedia, movement, technological animation, sensory adaptation, prediction, performing arts, transparency, non-invasive systems, surroundings/the surrounded, interactivity, virtual environments, urban futures
  • Kevin Austin
    • Professor Emeritus
    Status: Retired
    Research areas: music composition, electroacoustic studies, aural acuity, aural skills, ear training, aural perception, live electroacoustics, tonal music theory, atonal music theory, psychoacoustics, metamusic, metalinguistics, James Joyce, metempsychosis, pedagogy, curriculum development, synesthesia
  • Mark Corwin
    • Professor, Music, School of Performance
    Research areas: electroacoustic studies, music composition, listening/hearing, aural perception, acoustics, performing arts, music making, digital sound technology, sound design, recording arts, performance art, surround projection, surround recording, sound, interactivity, surround sound, recording engineering, location recording

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