Pegge Vissicaro (Emeritus)

Emeritus Professor,

Emeritus College

PEBE 127 TEMPE, AZ 85287-0304
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Long Bio

As a movement artist, dance maker, curriculum developer, educator, researcher, and community leader, Dr. Pegge Vissicaro facilitates courses for undergraduate and graduate students in movement, creative, and ethnographic practices. Vissicaro is a Fulbright Scholar and Specialist, directs her company Terra Dance®, and is president of Cross-Cultural Dance Resources. Publications include her widely distributed text, Studying Dance Cultures around the World, a chapter in 2013 book, Age and Dancing, articles in the peer-reviewed journals Ethnic Studies Review, Australia New Zealand Dance Research Society, Multimedia Tools and Applications, and The Review of Human Factor Studies as well as numerous contributions to the Foundation for Community Dance magazine, Animated. Vissicaro has presented papers and lectures, taught master classes and conducted residencies in Ireland, England, Korea, Scotland, Portugal, France, Brazil, Canada, Wales, and throughout the United States.

Research Activity

Vissicaro,Pegge*. Survivors of Torture Program for Positive Coping Part 2. Internat'l. Rescue Comm(9/30/2010 - 9/29/2011).
Vissicaro,Pegge*. Survivors of Torture Program for Positive Coping. Internat'l. Rescue Comm(2/1/2010 - 9/29/2010).
Vissicaro,Pegge*. Reconstructing a Doug Varone American Masterpiece. NEW ENGLAND FDN FOR THE ARTS(9/1/2008 - 9/1/2009).
Vissicaro,Pegge*, Robert,Mary Parkey. Guest Choreographer/Consultant Series. CITY OF TEMPE CULTURAL SERVICE(8/1/2007 - 6/30/2008).
Vissicaro,Pegge*, Robert,Mary Parkey. Guest Choreographer/ Consultant Series. AZ COMM ON THE ARTS(7/1/2007 - 5/1/2008).
Vissicaro,Pegge*. Reconstructing a Dance Masterpiece by Jose Limon. NEW ENGLAND FDN FOR THE ARTS(9/1/2006 - 6/30/2007).
Qian,Gang*, Qian,Gang*, Bedard,Roger Lee, Birchfield,David A, Candan,Kasim Selcuk, Etheridge Woodson,Stephani, Farin,Gerald E, He,Jiping, Hill,Gary Wayne, Ingalls,Todd Matthew, James,Jodi H, Li,Baoxin, Mcbeath,Michael, Olson,Loren, Panchanathan,Sethuraman, Rikakis,Thanassis, Sugar,Thomas, Sundaram,Hari, Sundaram,Hari, Vissicaro,Pegge. CISE RI: An Interdisciplinary Research Environment for Motion Analysis. NSF-CISE(9/1/2006 - 8/31/2011).
Vissicaro,Pegge*, Robert,Mary Parkey. Guest Artist Residency Series. CITY OF TEMPE CULTURAL SERVICE(8/1/2006 - 5/1/2007).
Vissicaro,Pegge*. Guest Choreographer Series. AZ COMM ON THE ARTS(7/1/2006 - 6/30/2007).
Vissicaro,Pegge*. Cross-Cultural Dance Resources Community Partnership. CCDR(5/1/2006 - 5/31/2011).
Vissicaro,Pegge*. Dance Arizona Repertory Theatre. CITY OF TEMPE(7/15/2005 - 5/31/2006).
Vissicaro,Pegge*. Celebrating the Nagrin Legend. AZ COMM ON THE ARTS(7/1/2005 - 6/30/2006).