Monika Lilleike (MFA, PhD, Kumu Hula) works as a freelance performance artist, stage director and lecturer in the field of Asian and Pacific Performance, European Experimental Performance Art and Theory. She is the head of the traditionally run hula school Halau Hula Makahikina in Berlin. Her research interest ties into: conditions of oral tradition, practices and aesthetics concerning cultural performance ... Read morepractices from the Pacific and Asia, procedures of cross-cultural translation, the senses and embodiment, stylization and embodied knowledge, the development of practice as research understood as methodological tool of cultural studies and performance analysis. Show Less