Her research interests include feminist aesthetics, dance history and alternative spiritualities. She trained and danced with the Quezon City Ballet and now teaches Raja Yoga meditation and practices the healing arts of shibashi-chiqong. Her first book “Defiant Daughters Dancing: Three Independent Women Dance” (UP Press, 2007) is a groundbreaking feminist research on Philippine contemporary women dancers, and now available in e-book formats at Apple, Amazon, Flipreads, and Barnes & Noble. Check out her author interview by Flipreads, book review by writer Agnes Prieto, and view her blog at: http://rinacorpus.typepad.com/blog/. She can be reached at email rinacorpus@gmail.com.