June 2023 PhD听Performance Studies, University of Alberta
June 2013 MA Dramatic Arts, University of the Witwatersrand
December 2008听 听BA Honours [Drama], University of Cape Town
December 2007听 听BA Film and Media Studies [Radio Production], University of Cape Town
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Lebogang Disele-Pitso is a lecturer at the 4844成人免费福利 in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts (VAPA). She obtained her PhD in Performance Studies from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.
Her听focus in theatre and performance includes dance, acting, directing, voice and more recently, dramaturgy. Lebo is a performer-researcher/scholartist听focused on interdisciplinary work听that explores the link between performance, gender and sustainable development. She is particularly interested in the use of Botswana traditional performance in research to cultivate and document women's leadership as a step towards gender equity in leadership.听
Dr. Disele-Pitso is also an active theatre-maker. Select performance credits include "Ogboingba Tries to Change her Fate" (Ribbon Rouge Foundation, 2024), "The Wolves" (Maggie Tree/Citadel, 2022), "Breaking Ground" (Mile Zero Dance, 2022), "The Space Between" (NextFest 2021, Expanse Festival 2022), "Freedom Journals: the Antidote to Violence as Care" (Brandon Wint, 2022); "All That Binds Us" (Azimuth Theatre, 2020) and "What (Black) Life Requires" (Expanse Festival, 2018). She has also dramaturged for David Kennedy (鈥淭he Lower Depths鈥, 2018) and Amanda Goldberg (鈥淏elleville,鈥 2020).
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Acting
Directing
Drama and Theatre in Education
Workshop/Devised Theatre
Play Analysis
Theatre Ethics
Voice
Movement
Gender
Performance
Decolonial feminism
Contemporary Botswana Theatre and Performance
Botswana performance traditions听
Performing arts in sustainable development
Directing听
Acting
Performance-as-Research
Gender and performance
African and African diaspora theatre and performance
Dance/Physical Theatre
Botswana traditional performance
Applied theatre
Disele, L. (2015) 鈥淚n Conversation: Interrogating and Shifting Societal Perceptions of Women in Botswana through Theatre鈥 in Plastow, J. Hutchison, Y. and Matzke, C. (ed)听African Theatre听14: Contemporary Women. London: James Curry. pp65-72听
Disele, L. (2015). 鈥淪earching for a Place: Identity and Displacement at Maitisong Festival鈥 in Rapoo, C. and Kerr, D. (eds) Pula: Botswana Journal of African Studies Vol. 29, Number 2. Gaborone. Pp234-242
Disele, L.听(2016).听鈥溾 in听Makgala, C.J. (ed)听Botswana Notes and Records Vol 48, Number 1.听Gaborone.听Pp 362-367
Disele, L. (2020). "Towards an Adaptive Dramaturgy" in听Agenda.听DOI:听
Disele, L. and Selman, J. (2022) 鈥淩eflecting from the middle: Ethics within an interactive theatre project working for social equity.鈥 in Afolabi, T. and Kandil, Y. (eds). Canadian Theatre Review Volume 1