Doctor Ronaldo Morelos

Doctor Ronaldo Morelos

LECTURER,
Communications (SoHCA)

Personal

UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)

  • Communications (SoHCA)

Contact

Email:R.Morelos@uws.edu.au
Extension:5541
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Location:BD.1.23
Penrith (Werrington South)
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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.

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Publications

Books

  • Morelos, R. (2009), 'Trance Forms: A Theory of Performed States of Consciousness', : Lambert Academic Publishing 9783838313634.

Chapters in Books

  • Morelos, R. (2006), 'Angels of Bali: The Sanghyang Dedari Trance Performance Tradition', Intercultural Music: Creation and Interpretation, Australian Music Centre 9780909168605.
  • Morelos, R., Macarthur, S., Macarthur, S., Crossman, B., Morelos, R. and Crossman, B. (2006), 'Introduction', Intercultural Music: Creation and Interpretation, Australian Music Centre 9780909168605.
  • Morelos, R., Macarthur, S., Macarthur, S., Crossman, B., Morelos, R. and Crossman, B. (2006), 'Introduction', Intercultural Music: Creation and Interpretation, Australian Music Centre 9780909168605.

Journal Articles

  • Morelos, R. (2006), 'The Aesthetics of the Oppressed', Australasian Drama Studies, 3.
  • Morelos, R. (2003), 'Review - Three Plays by Asian Australians', Australasian Drama Studies, 4.

Conference Papers

  • Morelos, R. (2008), 'Performing Victory: The Different Kind of War of Bush 43', 2006 Conference of the Australasian Association for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Sydney.
  • Morelos, R. (2002), 'Performing the Phoenix: September 11 and its Aftermath as Performed States of Consciousness', Australasian Drama Studies Association, University of Tasmania.

Research

Previous Projects

Title:Virtual and Interactive Performance Research Environment (VIPRE)
Years:2005-10-05 - 2008-05-31
ID:P0014812
UWS Researchers:Garth Paine, Ian Stevenson, Glen Mcgillivray, Ronaldo Morelos and Sarah Waterson
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney

Supervision

Doctor Morelos is available to be a principal supervisor for doctoral projects

Current Supervision

Title: Photography and the Painted Image: How Photographic Imagery is used in the Creation of Paintings in Post-modern and Contemporary Art
Field of Research:

Previous Supervision

Title:Perceptions, Impressions and Frames: Political Actors on the Stage of Human Life
Field of Research:
Thesis:Perceptions, Impressions and Frames: Political Actors on the Stage of Human Life

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