Doctor Ronaldo Morelos
Biography
Ronaldo Morelos is a Course Advisor and Lecturer in Performance and in the Honours program at the School of Communication Arts in the University of Western Sydney. He holds a Ph.D. in the field of Theatre and Performance Studies from the School of Creative Arts in the University of Melbourne in Australia. His dissertation is entitled Trance Forms: A Theory of Performed States of Consciousness (2004). Previously he wrote his MA (Research) thesis at the Queensland University of Technology on Augusto Boal and Theatre of the Oppressed, and produced a documentary entitled Como Querem Beber Agua: Augusto Boal and Theatre of the Oppressed in Rio de Janeiro (1995). In recent years Morelos has worked as an actor, writer, director and facilitator of theatre.
Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise
Theatre and Performance Studies
Arts Research
Publications
Book
Trance Forms: A Theory of Performed States of Consciousness
(Lambert Academic Publishing, Cologne 2009). ISBN 9783838313634
Book - Edited Volume
Intercultural Music: Creation and Interpretation
(Australian Music Centre: Sydney 2006). Edited with Sally Macarthur and Bruce Crossman. ISBN 9780909168605
Book - Chapters
"Angels of Bali: The Sanghyang Dedari Trance Performance Tradition" in Intercultural Music: Creation and Interpretation. Edited by Ronaldo Morelos, Sally Macarthur and Bruce Crossman (Australian Music Centre: Sydney 2006)
Journal - Articles
"Book Review - Augusto Boal, The Aesthetics of the Oppressed (New York: Routledge 2006)" in Australasian Drama Studies Journal [49], October 2006 (ADSA, Melbourne).
"Book Review - Three Plays by Asian Australians, Don Batchelor, ed., (Brisbane: Playlab 2000)" in Australasian Drama Studies Journal [40], May 2002 (ADSA, Melbourne).
"Augusto Boal, Cultural Activist" in Mask Magazine, June 2000 (Drama Victoria, Melbourne).
"Book Review - Rainbow of Desire: The Boal Method of Theatre and Therapy" in NADIE Journal [19], June 1995 (National Association for Drama in Education, Brisbane).
Conference Papers
Performing the Success of Bush 43: The Surge of Rhetoric and the War President in the 79th Month.
Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance, University of Melbourne, July 2007.
Performing Victory: The Different Kind of War of Bush 43
Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance, University of Sydney, July 2006.
Performing a Presidency: Consciousness, Crisis and Doctrine in the Making of Bush 43
Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance, Charles Sturt University, July 2005
Performing the Presidency: Crisis and Doctrine in the Making of Bush 43
International Perspectives on Peace and Reconciliation, University of Melbourne, July 2003
Performing the Phoenix: September 11 and its Aftermath as Performed States of Consciousness
Australasian Drama Studies Association, University of Tasmania, July 2002
Cults of the Mystical and Radical in Artaud, Beckett and Grotowski
Drama Australia, University of Melbourne, October 2001
Psychological Realism as Performed States of Consciousness
International Federation for Theatre Research, University of New South Wales, July 2001
Theses
"Trance Forms: A Theory of Performed States of Consciousness"
Ph.D., University of Melbourne 2003
"Symbols and Power in Theatre of the Oppressed"
M.A. (Research), Queensland University of Technology 1999
Video Works
Documentary
"Como Querem Beber Agua: Augusto Boal and Theatre of the Oppressed in Rio de Janeiro"
(Queensland University of Technology: Brisbane 1995). ISBN 9780646476711
