Lucia Ruedenberg Wright Address: 188 2nd Ave, #9 New York, NY 10003 Telephone: 212-254-3551 Fax: 212-254-6175 Email: lucia@lrw.net Homepage: http://lrw.net/~lucia

Education

• M.A. Dance Education, New York University, 2000
  
• Ph.D. Performance Studies, New York University, 1994
  Dissertation on Holocaust commemoration and collective identity
• M.A., Gallatin Division, New York University, 1985
  Thesis an autobiographical two-woman performance.
• B.A. Sarah Lawrence College, 1978
  Focus on dance and early childhood development.
• Languages: German, French, Yiddish, Hebrew
• Special Training
  • Internship, Renata Celichowska, Composition, NYU, 1999-2000.
  • Internship with Andre Bernard, Ideokinesiology, NYU, 1999-2000
  • Authentic Movement, Zoe Avstreih, 1998-2000
  • Native American Dance and Music, Lois Mofsie at the American Indian Community House, 2000-2001
  • Reiki levels I and II, 1999
  • Chi Qong, Hiroko Ishimura, 1998
  • Body Weather (Min Tanaka), Michelle Berne, 1983
  • Jazz Piano, Liz Gorrill, 1976
  • Ground and aerial training and First Jump Certificate, Lakewood Skydiving Center, 1983
  • Fashion Institute of Technology, draping and pattern making, 1974
  • Lester Polakov Studio of Stage Design, Costume Design, 1973

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Dance and Performance

BIO

Teaching

• Fieldwork Dance, sponsored by The Field, New York, Spring 2003.
• Authentic Movement: A Source for Choreography, sponsored by Movement Research, co-taught with Zoe Avstreih, New York, Spring 2000.

Original Work

• Facing the Crescent Moon, 15 minute solo, The Construction Company Sundays series, February 16, 2003.
• From the Ashes, a response to 9-11, performed monthly for one year, developed with the support of Dixon Place and The Field.
  
  October 25, 2001, Dixon Place at C.U.A.N.D.O.
  November 7, Dixon Place Open House
  December 5, Dixon Place
  January 9, 2002 Dixon Place
  February 6, Dixon Place
  March 6, Dixon Place
  March 17, The Field
  April 3, Dixon Place
  May 1, Dixon Place
  July 20, Women's Voices After 9-11, Summer Festival in Huntington, Long Island, Heckscher Park
  September 13, 2002 Earthdance, Plainfield, MA

• Hot House: Fall 2000, November 12, 2000, P.S. 122 Performance Space. , a performance series dedicated to improvisation.
• Pass Over, a 15 minute piece for seven dancers with white scarves. Original score by Chan Ji Kim.
  March 3 & 4, 2000, Frederick Loewe Theatre, NYU
  June 6, 2000, Sal Anthony's Movement Salon
  May 6, 2001, The Construction Company
• "Waters of Separation", solo performance for Holocaust Remembrance Day. Conceived and performed by myself. Directed by Leeny Sack. Village Temple, New York, 1987.
• "A Modern Fairy Story", an autobiographical piece on being children of Holocaust Survivors, conceived and performed by myself with Amelia Ender. Artistic Directors: Carolyn Thomas and Herzl Jacoby. International Conference for Children of Holocaust Survivors. City University of New York, 1984.

Performances

• War Play (dancer). Conceived and developed by Patti Bradshaw & Renata Celichowska. Music by Rene Mogensen. A Judson Church Evening of War Culture: April 3, 2003.
• Tender Fortifications (performer). Conceived and directed by Anne Hammel. Dixon Place: October 10, 31, 2000. The Theater Within at the Common Basis Theater: December 10, 2000.
• New Music Ensemble (dancer). Conceived and directed by Renata Celichowska in collaboration with the dancers. Frederick Loewe Theatre, New York University, May 1, 2000.
• Polar Glimpses (lead dancer). Choreographed by Kara Jill Linn. Frederick Loewe Theatre, New York University, April 28-29, 2000.
• The Faust Project (performer). Directed by Ann Wilson, Marymount Manhattan College, 1981
• Mermaids (dancer). Directed by Deborah Fortson, Theater for the New City, 1978.
• Butler's Lives of the Saints (performer). Directed by Ann Wilson, Wall St. Plaza, 1978
• The Maids (assistant director). A play by Jean Genet, directed by Hermann van Harten at Die Claque, Zurich, Switzerland, 1972.
• "Grey Lady Cantata," "Mississippi," "Christmas Story" (performer/puppeteer). Bread and Puppet Theatre, conceived and directed by Peter Schuman. Switzerland and Germany: December 1972.
• Prologue (performer). Espace Cardin, Paris, created by Robert Wilson, 1971.
• Watermill (mover). The Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds, directed by Robert Wilson, 1971.
• "Deafman Glance" (performer/dancer/props). Conceived and directed by Robert Wilson, State University of Iowa, Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York, Nancy Festival, Rome, and Theatre de la Musique in Paris: 1970-71.

Costumes

• Construction:
  Jon Kristianson, Shakespeare Festival, 2002-2003
  Barbara Matera, Shakespeare Festival, Ray Diffen, 1973-1975.
  7th Avenue fashion samples: Halston, Anne Klein, 1978-80.
  Freelance dressmaker for independent designers: Jenny Sharp, 1981-89.

• Design:
  Choreography for Solo & Group Dances (costumes). Dances by Kathy Appel performed at Washington Square Church, 1979.
  The Eternal Road (costume design). Choreographed by Fred Berk, performed by Livia Drapkin, 1974.
  Andorra (costume design). A play by Max Frisch, directed by Moshe Yassur for the Jewish Theatre Project at Henry Street Settlement, 1974.
  The Miracle of Saint Anthony (costume and prop design). A play by Maurice Maeterlinck, directed by James Howe at Chichi-Castenango, 1973.

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Arts and Technology

• My husband and I are partners in an Internet consulting business - lrw.net. We serve the educational, non-profit, and arts community. We support and develop open source/free software and work primarily in unix environments. I develop and maintain websites, maintain email lists, and do system administration tasks. I am familiar with the following languages: HTML, CGI, Perl, Shell.

• Website Design (http://lrw.net/author.html)
  • Hemispheric Institute
  • Streams On Line
  • Studio in a School
  • Impacts of Technology

• Technical consultant and Webmaster
  As technical consultants to The Hemispheric Institute, we design and implement the computer communications network that involves a distance learning collaboration via an interactive web site mirrored by participating institutions in Latin America and NYU. The Institute is directed by Diana Taylor, chairperson of the Dept of Performance Studies at NYU. It is a consortium of artists, scholars, and institutions in the Americas dedicated to exploring the relationship between performance and politics.
  URL: http://hemi.ps.tsoa.nyu.edu

• HTML instructor, private tutoring, class instruction, staff training
  Fall 1998.
  I have trained staff at Studio in a School to maintain their website. This is a non-profit organization that provides art programs for the New York City school system. URL: http://studioinaschool.org
  Spring 1998.
  At Frederick Douglass Literacy Center in Brooklyn, I taught highschool students with literacy deficiences to build websites. URL: http://www.readingcenter.org

• Technical consultant and guest artist
  1998-present
  The Waterways Project, a Community Based Organization that serves highschools in New York City.
  URL: http://www.tenpennyplayers

• Student Consultant and Webmaster
  1994-1997
  I worked at NYU's Academic Computing Facility as a consultant to students in the computer labs. I taught beginner classes in Macintosh and Windows applications and built GIGS: Grants in Graduate Studies, a gopher database. In 1997, as webmaster at NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science, I made GIGS accessible from the web with a search tool.
  URL: http://www.nyu.edu/gsas
  URL: http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/fininfo/gigs.html.

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Research and Teaching

• Special Training
  • Yad Vashem, Center for Holocaust Studies, summer 1988
  • YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Yiddish language, 1987
  • Languages: German, Yiddish, Hebrew, some French

• Teaching Internship Assisting Renata Celichowska teach a composition and choreography class, Program in Dance Education, NYU.

• Adjunct Faculty in Media Ecology
  NYU School of Education, Dept of Culture and Communication: Impacts of Technology: Culture and Communication on the Internet, spring 1998
  URL: http://lrw.net/impacts

• Research Fellow
  Writing, Play and Performance in Computer-Mediated Communication, a study funded by a grant from the Israel Science Foundation. 1994-1996. I was co-investigator with principle Prf. Brenda Danet, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Dept of Communications and Journalism and Dept of Sociology.
  URL: http://atar.mscc.huji.ac.il/~msdanet/overview.htm

• Adjunct Faculty
  The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Dept of Communications and Journalism: Culture and Communication on the Internet, fall 1996

• Adjunct Faculty
  Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Dept of Education: Introduction to the Internet as a Learning Environment and Tool for Learning: Skills and Issues. As a class, we created a website for the Department of Education, 1995-97.
  URL: http://www.bgu.ac.il/educate

• Postdoctoral Fellow
  Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Dept of Behavioral Sciences, Beersheva, Israel. I taught a class on "Holocaust Memory: Rituals and Ceremonies." I also tutored fellow staff and students on Internet skills and resources, 1994-1995.

• Teaching Assistant
  New York University, Department of Performance Studies: Dance History. 1987-88.

• Oral History Interviewer
  A Living Memorial to the Holocaust: Museum of Jewish Heritage. New York City, Spring, 1990.

• Archive Consultant
  Warsaw Ghetto Resistance Organization/ American Gathering for Jewish Holocaust Survivors. New York City, 1989-1990.

Child Development

• Graduate Research Assistant
  Arietta Slade, Sarah Lawrence College, Early Childhood Center. 1977.
  I did participant observation of mother and child interactions in 2 to 3 year olds, with attention to separation issues.

• Assistant
  Dr. Anni Bergman, Clinical Psychologist, New York City. 1983-85.
  I assisted Dr. Bergman in her private practice, with teaching and conferences, and meeting writing deadlines.

• Assistant
  Dr. Margaret Mahler, Clinical Psychologist, New York City. 1983-85.
  I assisted Dr. Mahler briefly with administrative tasks when she was homebound toward the end of her life.

• Editor
  Children's Express (a syndicated column by child reporters), New York City. 1987-1988.
  I transcribed interviews conducted by school age children, and helped write them up into articles.

Administrative Assistant

• Administrative Assistant
  American Gathering for Jewish Holocaust Survivors, New York City. 1992-93.

• Administrative/Research Assistant
  Dr. Yael Danieli, Director of the Group Project for Holocaust Survivors and their Children, New York City. 1981-1988.

• Graduate Assistant
  New York University, Department of Performance Studies: Departmental Newsletter, Archives, Events Organizer, Research Assistant in Folklore. 1985-88.

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Publications

• "The Second and Third Generations Where do we go from here?" A 20-minute talk on the psychology of the second/third generations to a lay but scholarly academic audience. Association for Jewish Studies, 29th Annual Conference December 21-23, 1997, Boston MA Panel: The Second Generation and Holocaust Memory in America, Europe, and Israel. Chaired by Ephraim Sicher.

• 1998. "Hmmm...wheres all that smoke coming from? Writing, Play and Performance on Internet Relay Chat" (second author, co-authored with Brenda Danet and Yehudit Rosenbaum-Tamari). In Network and Netplay: Virtual Groups on the Internet, edited by Sheizaf Rafaeli, Fay Sudweeks, and Margaret McLaughlin, AAAI/MIT Press.

• 1997. "Hmmm...wheres all that smoke coming from? Writing, Play and Performance on Internet Relay Chat" (second author, co-authored with Brenda Danet and Yehudit Rosenbaum-Tamari). In Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, (www.ascusc.org) Volume 2, Number 4: March, 1997, Network and Netplay, edited by Sheizaf Rafaeli, Fay Sudweeks, and Margaret McLaughlin, (http://www.usc.edu/dept/annenberg/vol2/issue4/danet.html).

• 1995. "Virtual Virtuosos: Play and Performance on the Computer Keyboard" (first author, co-authored with Brenda Danet and Yehudit Rosenbaum-Tamari). EJC: Electronic Journal of Communications 5(4): Special issue on Networked Virtual Realities (MOOs, MUDs, MUSEs, IRC, etc) and Communication. Available by email for members only: Comserve@cios.llc.rpi.edu. Message: Send Rueden V5N495. Viewable online at: http://lrw.net/~lucia/pubs/ejc.txt

• 1994. "Get GIGS: 'Grants in Graduate Studies' Goes Online." Academic Computing and Networking at NYU Vol.4, No.5.

• 1994. "Remember 6,000,000: Civic Commemoration of the Holocaust in New York City. Doctoral dissertation, New York University, UMI: 9502291. An electronic presentation of parts of the dissertation can be viewed online: "Forty Years of Rehearsal" (http://lrw.net/~lucia/pubs/wagro)

• 1994, 1996. "Jewish Resources in Computer Networking". Published in Shofar (Spring 1994), Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Review (Spring 1995), and Global Jewish Networking Handbook (1994) edited by Dov Winer for the Dept of Information of The World Zionist Organization. Updated, online version is viewable at http://lrw.net/~lucia/jewish96.html

• 1993. "Beginner's Guide to Networking on the VAX/VMS". Available from Help-Net by sending the following command to Listserv@templevm.bitnet: get vms-mail guide. Available via anonymous ftp from ftp://ftp.temple.edu/pub/info/help-net/vms-mail.guide. Also viewable at http://lrw.net/~lucia/pubs/vmsmail-guide.txt

• 1992. "Beginner's Guide to Networking on the VM\CMS". Available from Help-Net by sending the following command to Listserv@templevm.bitnet: get cms guide help-net. Available via anonymous ftp from ftp://ftp.temple.edu/pub/info/help-net/cms.guide. Also viewable at http://lrw.net/~lucia/pubs/cms-guide.txt

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Honors and Grants

• Graduate Assistantship, Dept Performance Studies, NYU, 1985-1989
• Memorial Foundation, dissertation award
• InterUniversity Fellowship Program, research grant to study in Jerusalem for two years
• Lucius Littauer Foundation, grant to complete the dissertation
• Israel Science Foundation, grant to research computer mediated communications, 1994-1996

Professional Affiliations:

• ISOC-NY: Chairperson, Internet Society, New York Chapter, http://www.isoc-ny.org
• LXNY: New York's Free Computing Organization, http://www.lxny.org
• AJS: Association for Jewish Studies, http://brandeis.edu/ajs

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References available upon request.
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