DCA Award Winners
DCA winners 2008 The winners of the Dwight Conquergood award for 2008 were Rebecca Caines, an emerging scholar from Australia and based in Belfast and Farah Yeganeh and Masoud Nourmohammadian, Activist-artists from Iran.
In her statement to the judges Rebecca writes, ‘Dwight Conquergood left a legacy of community activism and academic rigour that is both inspiring and difficult to live up to. It is a legacy that inspires me, as a young researcher, to continue to aim for new critical tropes and new ways of working with community politics. I strongly believe that community-based performance needs more international critical scholarship and academic partnership.’
In their letter of application, Farah and Masoud write, ‘Our papers, which concern a community excluded from the dominant Globalised agenda and ideology, aim to familiarize other voices, world views, value systems and beliefs with the Iranian community in order that a conversation can be established between this culture and the world. By attending, we make grounds for a kind of interregnum: possibilities about bridging disciplinary frames, cultures and politics between Iran and wider contexts of Performance Studies in the West.’
