Christine Bacareza Balance will continue research for and development of Renaissance Renegade, an archival and critical companion to Jessica Hagedorn’s performance and theater work. Created in collaboration with Lucy San Pablo Burns (UCLA) and Hagedorn herself, this project aims to bring more critical attention to Hagedorn’s deep roots as a performer, playwright, and collaborator in New York City’s theater/performance worlds from the late 1970s until today. 

Christine Bacareza Balance is an associate professor of performing & media arts and Asian American studies at Cornell University. For the past thirty years, she has worked at the intersection of arts, culture, and education in university, philanthropic, and non-profit/community-based settings. Author of the award-winning book Tropical Renditions: Making Musical Scenes in Filipino America (Duke University Press, 2016) and coeditor of the artist/scholar anthology California Dreaming: Movement and Place in the Asian American Imaginary (University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2020), her scholarly essays have been published in various academic journals. Committed to public humanities, she has successfully led projects including “Afterlives of Martial Law,” a multi-site, multi-program public partnership with Visual Communications in Los Angeles. She is currently working on a book project entitled, “Making Sense: Poetics, Performance, and Philippine Martial Law.”