{"id":2875,"date":"2009-03-30T13:56:52","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T17:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesviews.net\/?p=2875"},"modified":"2017-02-23T13:28:13","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T18:28:13","slug":"senior-to-use-watson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2009\/03\/30\/senior-to-use-watson\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior to use Watson award to study South African, Indonesian theater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2010\/08\/sulochanadissanayake8827-lo.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2010\/08\/sulochanadissanayake8827-lo-200x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"Sulochana Dissanayake &#039;09\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the ultimate aim of teaching contemporary drama in her native Sri Lanka, a Bates College senior has received a 2009 Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to study performance arts in South Africa and Indonesia. Sulochana Dissanayake of Pita Kotte, Sri Lanka, is one of 40 recipients of the 2009 fellowship, a $28,000 award supporting a year of independent research abroad.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>What Dissanayake learns during her Watson year will support her ambition of creating a theatrical practice that brings social and political issues to Sri Lanka&#8217;s rich performance traditions. She hopes to &#8220;establish an institution that provides the equivalent of an undergraduate degree in theater and the performing arts,&#8221; Dissanayake explains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the ultimate aim of teaching contemporary drama in her native Sri Lanka, a Bates College senior has received a 2009 Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to study performance arts in South Africa and Indonesia. Sulochana Dissanayake of Pita Kotte, Sri Lanka, is one of 40 recipients of the 2009 fellowship, a $28,000 award supporting a year of independent research abroad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[4,11010,133],"tags":[10774,6881,6889,7575,8114,8115,8289,71,9087,9160],"class_list":["post-2875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-life","category-arts","category-creativity","tag-asia","tag-performance","tag-performing-and-visual-arts","tag-robinson-players","tag-sri-lanka","tag-sri-lankan-performance-arts","tag-sulochana-dissanayake","tag-theater","tag-visual-arts","tag-watson-fellowship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2875"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88823,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875\/revisions\/88823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}