Okanagan Date

1. THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA- Okanagan Date: February 12, 2015 1. SURNAME: Kenney FIRST NAME: Denise MIDDLE NAME(S): R. 2. DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL: Creative Studies 3. FACULTY: Creative and Critical Studies 4. PRESENT RANK: Assistant Professor SINCE: July, 2007 5. POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION University or Institution Degree Subject Area Dates University of British Columbia MFA Film Studies (Directing) 1997-2001 Ecole Jacques Lecoq, Paris Certificate Physical Theatre 1992-1994 (January) University of Alberta B Ed Drama/ Language Arts 1987-1989 University of Alberta B A Drama/ English (Distinction) 1982-1987 Title of Dissertation and Name of Supervisor Thesis Film: OTHER EYES: Looking Both Ways in the Artist’s Studio Supervisor: Sharon McGowan Special Professional Qualifications • Permanent Teaching Certification, Alberta, Canada, 1991. • Professional Education Permit, Washington State, U.S., 2004. • Pilates Mat Work Instructor Certification, 2005. • Directors Guild of Canada Permittee Registration # 4250, 2002. • I.A.T.S.E. Permittee #B145, 2002. • WHMIS OTHER TRAINING Stott Pilates Matt Instructor Bodycentre Studios Seattle, Washington 2006 Certification DVD Studio Pro (Digital Cineworks Film Coop Vancouver, B.C. 2005 Production) Final Cut Pro Editing (Digital Cineworks Film Coop Vancouver, B.C. 2004 Production Writing for Film National Screen Institute Edmonton, Alberta 1994 Bouffon Philippe Gaulier London, England 1994 Comedy Rick Zoltowski London, England 1994 Movement & Architecture Jacques Lecoq LEM Paris, France 1993 Dance Webb, Tarver, Hilderman, Decidedly Jazz, Edmonton, Alta., 1989-1992 Toronto Dance Theatre, Divida Monk, Victoria, BC. Maria Formolo, Silvain Emard, Dulcinea Langfelder, Jeff Hall, Pierre Paul Savois. Auditioning for Film Leslie Swan Edmonton, Alberta 1990 Acting for Film Stephan Scaini Edmonton, Alberta 1990 Singing Elsie Hepburn Edmonton, Alberta 1989 Augusto Boal Theatre Forum Headlines Theatre Edmonton, Alberta 1989 Page 2/26 Shakespearean Monologues Michael Langham Edmonton, Alberta 1987 Scene Study Robert Benedetti Edmonton, Alberta 1988 French Study University of Caen Caen, France 1983 Commedia Dell Arte Jean Pierre Depuis Caen, France 1983 Speech Arts (12 years) Bonnie Shaw Terrace, B.C. 1982 6. EMPLOYMENT RECORD (a) Teaching employment prior to coming to UBC. *For all professional theatre and film related work please refer to ARTISTIC WORKS and PERFORMANCES. University, Company or Organization Rank or Title Dates Olympic College (Bremerton, U.S.A.) Visiting Assistant Professor 2005-2006 Shoreline Community College (Seattle, U.S.A.) Sessional Professor 2005 Douglas College (New Westminster, BC) Sessional Professor 2000-2004 University of British Columbia Teaching Assistant 1997-2000 University of Alberta Sessional Professor 1996-1997 Keyano College (Fort MacMurray) Sessional Professor 1997 National Screen Institute (Edmonton/Vancouver) Coordinator, Instructor 1991-1997 Grant MacEwan College (Edmonton) Sessional Professor 1995-1996 Theatre Alberta (Artstrek) Instructor 1989-1994 Victoria School of Performing & Visual Arts (Edmonton) Teacher 1989-1992 (b) At UBC Rank or Title Dates Assistant Professor 2007-2013 7. LEAVES OF ABSENCE University, Company or Organization Type of Leave Dates at which Leave was taken Freelance Theatre, Film and Television Work Maternity Leave 2006-2007 8. TEACHING (a) Areas of special interest and accomplishments Teaching Accomplishments Perhaps one of my greatest accomplishments as an educator has been to successfully integrate my research and my teaching. With colleague Neil Cadger, I established Inner Fish Performance Co., a not-for-profit society in 2010 dedicated to offering funding and national and international educational and professional opportunities for emerging interdisciplinary artists. The SSHRC funded Eco-Art Incubator project, for which I am co-investigator alongside Nancy Holmes, has also provided funding and national and international educational and professional opportunities for Graduate and Undergraduate students at UBC O and for local artists and environmental organizations. In 2014 Rachel Martens, an MFA Graduate Student under my supervision received a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships: Master's Scholarship (SSHRC) and Shimshon Obadia, an undergraduate student under my supervision, received an Undergraduate Research Award of $5000 and was chosen to represent the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies in the UBC Okanagan Our Stories campaign as an example of excellence in undergraduate research. Through Directed Studies, Work Study and an Undergraduate Research Assistantship with Page 3/26 me, Obadia has been working on the Fascieux Creek project in partnership with The Eco Art Incubator and École K.L.O. Middle School. Shimshon delivered a paper at a Performative Ecologies conference at the University of Alberta in the fall of 2013 and he will also deliver a paper discussing this eco art project Daylighting Fascieux Creek at the Association for Environment Studies and Sciences conference in New York, June 2014. I am also supervising Shimshon in the creation of a documentary about this project. Program Development My primary objective as an educator here at UBC Okanagan has been to establish the BFA degree in Interdisciplinary Performance. I have helped design and later refine this program and shepherded it through the department, faculty, and senate curriculum committees. I later helped to establish a Minor in Performance by the same process. I have shared the position of program coordinator or have been sole program coordinator for the Interdisciplinary Performance program from 2007-2013. Innovations in Teaching I was involved in the Digital Media Commons Pilot Project that won a Curriculum Innovation Award under the leadership of History Professor Jessica Stites Mor. Working with History Professor Stites Mor and Cultural Studies Professor Dr. Daniel Keyes we helped to establish a Media Centre. The aim of the project was to utilize existing resources to integrate digital media training into the classroom. I have also served on the campus-wide Media Services Advisory Committee. In the classroom, my teaching is my research, and in my research, my students are often my collaborators. While it might be common for students to co-author papers in academia, in my discipline it is rare that students have the opportunity to work alongside their professors or professionals in the creation of a new work. The process requires extensive negotiation and mentorship, but the benefits to the students are many. Not only do these projects build students’ professional portfolios for future career opportunities, but through collaborative creation with professors and professionals, valuable experiential learning regarding form, content, and methodology occurs. My research projects have also provided extra-curricular learning opportunities for students in the form of workshops, funding for projects, and work-study. Teaching Philosophy My research and teaching in the Interdisciplinary Performance program at UBCO is anchored in devised creation work. It is a form of creation in which the script originates not from a writer, but from collaborative, usually improvisatory work by the artists themselves. Unlike many forms of theatre that draw from already existing material, this style of practice is uniquely positioned to create work in response to current events as they unfold and in response to specific community concerns. The work is inextricably linked to the communities within which it is made. While my teaching within the performing arts has always privileged the body situated in place, I am interested in further developing its potential to offer different epistemologies. (b) Courses Taught at UBC Session Course Scheduled Class Hours Taught/Week Number Hours Size Lectures Tutorials Labs Other Winter 14/15 IGS 539J 39 1 2 THTR 201 65 11 5 THTR 482 65 8 5 THTR 485 39 1 2 Film 100 52 84 3 2 (Screenings) THTR 103 65 19 5 THTR 401 65 16 5 Winter 13/14 THTR 482 65 6 5 THTR 483 65 6 5 THTR 201 65 14 5 IGS 520 39 5 4 VISA 371 52 18 4 Summer 2013 Directed Studies 39 1 2 485 G Winter 12/13 Thtr 103 65 20 5 Page 4/26 THTR 482 65 6 5 THTR 483 65 6 5 THTR 102/202 65 25 5 Winter 11/12 Thtr 101 65 15 5 THTR 482 N/A 1 5 VISA 371 52 15 4 IGS 520D 39 4 4 Film 100 52 100 3 2 (Screenings) Directed Studies 39 1 2 539 Directed Studies 39 2 2 485 Summer 2011 Directed Studies 39 2 2 485 Winter 10/11 Film 100 52 100 3 2 (Screenings) Thtr 103 65 26 5 Thtr 201 65 12 5 VISA 460B 52 4 IGS 520D 39 7 4 Winter 09/10 Film 100 52 100 3 2 (Screenings) Thtr 101 65 22 5 Film 220 52 85 3 2 (Screenings) Thtr 280A 65 18 5 Thtr 480C 65 6 5 Winter 08/09 Film 100 52 74 3 2 (Screenings) Thtr 101 65 18 5 Film 220 52 47 3 2 (Screenings) Thtr 201 65 14 5 Winter 07/08 Film 100 52 86 3 2 (Screenings) Thtr 130 65 11 5 Film 220 52 67 3 2 (Screenings) Thtr 130 65 26 5 (c) Graduate Students Supervised and/or Co-Supervised Student Name Program Type Year Principal Co-Supervisor(s) Start Finish Supervisor Rachel Martens IGS MFA 2013 Denise Kenney Lara Haworth IGS MFA 2008 2011 Denise Kenney Graduate Students Supervised as member of Supervisory Committee Student Name Program Type Year Principal Co-Supervisor(s) Start Finish Supervisor David Kadish IGS MFA 2013 Alexandra Dulich Lorna Tureski IGS MFA 2010 2014 Michael V. Smith Julia Prudhomme IGS MFA 2011 2013 Stephen Foster Portia Priegert IGS MFA 2010 2012 Nancy Holmes Ozgul Akinci IGS MFA 2010 Transfer to PhD Virginie Magnat Tanya Woloshen IGS

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