Monica FA W Santos trained in anthropology at the University of the Philippines Diliman and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), where she specialized in Socio-Cultural Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology and the Anthropology of Human Movement. She learned Labanotation and attended advanced classes at the Dance Notation Bureau in New York City. Her dissertation, in progress, is about ballet dancing in the Philippines. While at UIUC, she was a graduate fellow of the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities and worked as assistant to the editor of the Journal for the Anthropological Study of Human Movement (JASHM). She was Guest Editor of Musika Jornal 12 for its special issue on Music and Movement, and published “Philippine folk dances: a story of a nation” (2019) in Narrativizing Bodies, a special issue of the Journal of English Studies and Comparative Literature. Her extension work includes projects that promote the performing arts in the Philippines and Southeast Asia, interdisciplinary research that interrogates development work conducted in poor communities in the country and lectures on research methods in social anthropology and the anthropology of human movement and its possible applications to the preservation of expressive cultures. She has also trained in various performing arts traditions, including classical ballet, Balinese gamelan music and dance, and kulintang playing. (214 words)
Performing Arts, Language and Culture, Linguistic Anthropology, Anthropology of Human Movement, Anthropology of Performance
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