Carla Melo

"OPEN_Borders: Behind The Scenes " runtime aprox. 8:22

Located at Experimental Digital Arts, UCLA

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Dr. Carla Melo joined the ASU Herberger College School of Theatre and Film in the fall of 2007 after earning her PhD in the critical studies program at UCLA's Theater department. She is also a performance artist with an interdisciplinary background that merges theater, movement and visual arts.

Her experimental performance work seeks to investigate structured improvisation and to push boundaries between performance, audiences and sites as well as between the popular and the avant-garde. She has trained with world-renowned Augusto Boal and was part of the initiative that formed the first center for Theater of the Oppressed in California. She is also the co-founder and co-director of Corpus Delicti Butoh Performance Lab, a group of 'movers' whose performative protest has been highly visible -- on the streets, shopping malls, cemeteries, theaters and galleries of Los Angeles since the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. Her performance work has been seen at Highways Performance Space, REDCAT, Theater of Note and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others.