College of Arts and Letters

University of the Philippines Diliman
Kolehiyo ng Arte at Literatura



Rina Angela P. Corpus
Assistant Professor
dance studies, art theory, aesthetics, art and spirituality, expressive arts and healing

Rina Angela Corpus writes, moves and teaches coming from a lifelong interest in the arts, spirituality and sacred narratives in culture. She completed her BA in Art Studies and MA in Art History at the Art Studies Department of the University of the Philippines, where she now serves as an Assistant Professor. She finished her PhD Dance at the University of Melbourne, focusing on a practice-led research and performance of meditative movement which she calls galaw-nilay, using the solos of Filipina-American choreographer Kristin Jackson's as experiential studies.
Corpus studied and performed with the Quezon City Ballet, trained in Limon dance in New York, physical theater in Austria, nihonbuyo in Kyoto, and Qigong in Manila and Australia; published two books in dance, “Defiant Daughters Dancing” and “Dance and Other Slippages” (UP Press), and widely written essays on culture and dance for various publications. She has received an artistic grant from the National Commission for Culture and Arts, and various grants from the University of the Philippines. She is a contributing writer for the new edition of the CCP Encyclopedia of Philippine Art. She has also served as a contributing writer for GMA Online and Rappler.
In Melbourne, her most influential dance mentors were Helen Herbertson and Katrina Rank. She has performed with Katrina Rank's Fine Lines Dance group.
Corpus’ dance film, Still One, was part of the Official Selection for Luminous Frames Film Festival, Denmark in 2021. It has also been presented at the Melbourne Fringe, Muse Performing Arts Festival and BOLD Festival, Australia. Her poems have also been published in Philippines Free Press, Philippine Humanities Review, Madswirl, Tayo Literary Magazine and Sustaining the Archipelago: An Anthology of Philippine Ecopoetry.
She has run Mindful Flow movement classes in 2020-2021, integrating meditation with the expressive and movement arts.

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