Experts Guide

Arreola has more than twenty years of professional experience as a theater and dance artist, including Grotowski's Objective Drama Project at the University of California-Irvine in 1987 and Workcenter in Pontedera, Italy until 1989. Arreola has Suzuki, contemporary dance and Butoh training and founded the experimental dance theatre company Mujeres en Ritual in 1999. She has worked as a performer, teacher, director and movement specialist in Mexico, the United States, Nicaragua, Canada, Poland and India.

Kokai is an award-winning educator, playwright, scholar and administrator and past recipient of the Presidential Excellence Award for Teaching and an award for Innovative Pedagogy through the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Region 8 and the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. She has been recognized for her design and use of assessment in curricular and programmatic decision making.

Robison is Professor of Musicology and Early Music Ensemble director at the University of South Florida, and has been on the School of Music faculty since 1977. He teaches history surveys, graduate history seminars, symphonic literature, intercultural composers and other topics at USF. He received his Doctorate in Musicology from Stanford University in 1975, where he specialized in Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque topics with an emphasis on historical performance practices. Since 1990 his research interests have become more global through his work on contemporary composers from diverse Asian, African and Latin American cultures.

Mason jumps out of airplanes, and her practice incorporates photography, craft and performance to expose how individual responses to collective trauma are shaped. Other work has focused on appropriating visual mediation following afflictive events such as the Rodney King beating or undocumented U.S./Mexico border crossings in order to draw awareness to systems of violence and power. In an installation titled “Love Letters/White Flag: The Book of God” (2009-2016), Mason hand embroidered Eric Harris’ journal entries leading up to the Columbine High School massacre on vintage handkerchiefs.