9:30-10AM COFFEE/TEA/REGISTRATION
10-11AM
Opening Plenary: Looking Forward, Looking Back @ Atrium
taisha paggett
Anusha Kedhar
Joel Smith
Linda Tomko
Jacqueline Shea Murphy
Imani Kai Johnson
Luis Lara Malvacias
11:15-12:30PM
Roundtable 1: Decolonizing Curricula in Dance Studies @ Screening Room
Hye-Won Hwang, “Worlding Dance in the US College Circles – Past, Present, and Future”
Dava Hernández
Rainy Demerson
Roundtable 2: (Re)framing, (Re)staging, (Re)articulating the Body in Dance Studies @ Brithinee Studio
Melissa Hudson Bell, “The Gutsy Series”
Anthony Shay
Adanna Jones, “Black Circulations: (Re)Locating & (Re)Articulating Caribbeanness through Gesture”
Roundtable 3: Navigating Careers in Dance Studies @ Hammond Studio
Maura Keefe, “From a Dance Specialist to Generalist to Pluralist: An Odd Career in Dance Academia”
Meghan Quinlan and Natalie Zervou
12:30-1:30PM LUNCH (catered) @ F-stop
A brief history of the MFA with Wendy Rogers
1:45-3PM
Performing Dance Studies I @ Atrium
Juliet McMains, “Pan Comido: Sub-Optimal Equilibrium of Erotic Exchange in Argentine Tango Tourism” with Cristian Santesteban
Won-sun Choi, “Arirang: at the moment”
Sue Roginski, “motifs and metaphors” with counterpoint/shift collaborators Irvin Manuel Gonzalez, Rosa Rodriguez-Frazier, Stephen Tanner, Tracy Tom-Hoon, Elizabeth Andrea Villalobos. Sound design by Patrick Doran-Sheeran
Alfonso Cervera, “Solo de : PC Num.5”
3:15-4:30PM
Roundtable 4: Framing Crisis, Trauma, and Reconciliation through Dance Studies @ Screening Room
Janet O’Shea, “Strange Bedfellows? Academic Disciplines in an Age of Right-Wing Populism”
Melissa Blanco Borelli, “Embodied Performance Practices in Processes of Reconciliation, Construction of Memory and Peace in Chocó and El Pacífico Medio, Colombia”
Shawn Womack, “Never Not Falling: Choreographing Relationships between dancers and movers with brain injuries”
Roundtable 5: Teaching Dance Studies – A Collaborative Sharing of Embodied Strategies @ Brithinee Studio
Rachel Carrico, J Dellecave, Michelle Summers
Roundtable 6: Choreographing Gender and Embodied Politics in Dance Studies @ Hammond Studio
Rachmi Diyah Larasati, “Decolonizing Theory and Staging Dance Technique: questions of politics of voice”
Hannah Schwadron, “At the Edge and In Your Face: The Appropriative License of Jewish Female Comedy”
Gabriela Mendoza-Garcia, “Las Adelitas- Folklórico Dancing as Women Soldiers: Choreographing Mexicana Gender Equity while Embodying Chicana Feminism”
4:30-6PM DINNER (on your own)
6-7:30PM
Performing Dance Studies II @ Atrium
Olana Flynn and Kendall Loyer, “Exposure”
Minerva Tapia, “Murito/Little Wall”
Karen Schaffman, “A Contact State of Mind” with Anya Cloud, (co-facilitator), Cornelius Stringer, Justin Morrison, Karen Schaffman (facilitator), Kristianne Salcines, Nina Watts, Nicole Carr, and Victor De La Fuente
casebolt and smith, “(the) More i see”
Crystal Sepulveda, “remedios”
7:30-8:30PM
Closing Plenary: Interrogating Dance Studies – Questions in/of/from the field @ Atrium
Jose Reynoso
Anthea Kraut
Ni’Ja Whitson
Maria Firmino-Castillo
8:30PM-MIDNIGHT AFTER PARTY @ F-Stop
With DJ Luke Kim and a performance by Tania ‘T’ Hammidi, “Foggy December Evening”