BETWEEN COUNTRIES AND DREAMS

About the Author Rina Angela Corpus is an Assistant Professor of Art Studies at the University of the Philippines where she gained her BA in Art Studies and MA in Art History. She formerly danced and trained with the Quezon City Ballet and participated in workshops on Limon dance technique in New York. Her research interests include dance history, feminist aesthetics, spirituality, and gender in the arts. She has published two books about dance and art studies with the University of the Philippines Press, namely Defiant Daughters Dancing: Three Independent Women Dance (2007) and Dance and Other Slippages (2014). Her critical essays have appeared in various platforms such as Bulawan, Transit, Diliman Review, Humanities Diliman, and Philippine Humanities Review. Her research has been presented at the Congress on Research in Dance in New York. In 2012, she was a guest artist at Topaz Arts in Queens, New York. Her poems have appeared in Philippine Humanities Review, Tayo Literary Magazine, Wilde Magazine, Madswirl, and Philippines Free Press. EMANCIPATING THE WRITING LIFE