RESEARCH AT TEXAS WOMAN'S UNIVERSITY | |
FACULTY PROFILE SYSTEM | |
| Name: | Tony Earnest Medlin, PhD |
| Title: | Assistant Professor |
| Department: | Drama |
| Email address: | wshkspr@hotmail.com |
| Description of research activities: A career based on performance and scholarship provided Dr. Medlin with varied and disparate interests in the performing arts. His past research and performance experience includes the Commedia dell'Arte, oriental philosophy (particularly martial arts and their application to theatrical forms), and American Sign Language (ASL). All three areas share the unifying influence of expressive, theatrical gesture. | |
| Keywords: Jean-Louis Barrault, Aikido, Commedia Dell'Arte, Johnny Simons and the Hip Pocket Theatre, Sam Shepard, The Red Clay Ramblers, Julie Taymor, Deaf Theatre, Martial Arts, Clownwork, Shakespeare, Mardi Gras Indians, Stage Combat | |
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