Christine Balt
PhD
Biography
Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning. (Expected: 2020)
Christine was born in Johannesburg and studies physical theatre and performance studies at Rhodes University in South Africa. She completed her MA, in which she examined intersections of site, ritual and embodiment in performances of post-Apartheid subjectivities. She taught in classrooms across South Africa and Asia before setting in Toronto, where she has applied her training in contemporary performance practices to the teaching of drama and English in school. She has also worked in community theatre in which she has contributed to the staging of projects exploring inter-generational relations, sexual consent education, and mental health. She continues to examine her interests in embodiment and site in relation to interactions of land-based pedagogy, performance, and place-making in the urban context.