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Dance Under Construction 8:
Breaking It Down

 

SCHEDULE

April 7, Friday

2:00 – 3:00pm Registration

3:15 – 4:45pm Graduate Student Presentations

Panel: Breaking the Archive: Hip Hop as Resistant Choreography
Location: ARTS 100
Moderated by: Jacqueline Shea Murphy (UC Riverside, Dance)

Carla Melo (UCLA, Theater Department)
Live from the Front: Slamming Mass-Media Archive through the Tactics of Witnessing

Ariel Scott (Columbia University, Anthropology)
Staging Street: Traversing Choreographies in Contexts

Panel: Performing Gender
Location: ARTS 166
Moderated by: Erika Suderburg (UC Riverside, Art)

Darryl Kent Clark (SUNY Brockport, Dance)
“BrainStorm” from The Substance of Glitter, an MFA Thesis

Denise Posnak (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Dance)
Up There, Dance Film

Victoria Watts ( George Mason University, Cultural Studies)
“I am for you what you want me to be”: the naked body, the semiotic and the risk of a co-opted intelligibility.

5:30 – 6:30pm (dis)junctions Keynote address by Dr. James Kincaid (USC)

6:45 – 7:45pm Reception

8:00pm Performance by Bre Performing Ensemble


April 8, Saturday

9:00 – 10:00am Registration

10:15 - 11:45am Graduate Student Presentations

Panel: Constructions of National Identity
Location: PE 102
Moderated by: Anthea Kraut (UC Riverside, Dance)

Annie Cheng (UC Riverside, Dance)
Performing Ethnicity/Authenticity: Negotiating Ethnic Identities on Contemporary Chinese Dance Stage

Adrienne Stroik (UC Riverside, Dance)
Turner Bodies: Superseding Ethnicity

Elizabeth Venable (UC Riverside, Dance)
Irish America, Nationalism, Race and Popular Irish Dancing

Panel: Sound, Rhythm and Science
Location: ARTS 100
Moderated by: Renée Coulombe (UC Riverside, Music)

Courtney Andrews (SUNY Brockport, Dance)
Investigating Rhythms of Movement

Jenn Joy (NYU, Performance Studies)
Scattering Sound: Choreographing Movement as Language

Mathew Sandoval (NYU, Gallatin School of Individualized Study)
The Body’s Potential: The Science of Elizabeth Streb

Panel: Choreographic Methodologies
Location: ARTS 166
Moderated by: Margit Edwards (California State L.A., Dance and Theatre Arts)

C-c Braun ( Arizona State University, Dance)
Wild Child

Cynthia Ling Lee and Jin-Sook Yang (UCLA, World Arts and Cultures)
underwater, light refracts: I translate you into me

Hana van der Kolk (UCLA, World Arts and Cultures)
All at Once: Dancing The Ridge in New York City Parks (a performative reading)

12:00 – 1:15pm Lunch

1:30 – 2:30pm Keynote address by Dr. André Lepecki

2:45 – 4:15 Graduate Student Presentations

Panel: Re-Viewing Ballet’s Past and Present
Location: PE 102
Moderated by: Jill Nunes Jensen ( Loyola Marymount University, Dance)

Rachel Mann (UC Santa Barbara, English)
"Her heart is breaking, her mind wanders, her feet begin to move...”: Enacting and Embodying Giselle's Mad Scene

Cortney Mild ( University of Utah, Ballet)
Antinomy in the Choreographic and Pedagogical Styles of August Bournonville

Stephanie Powell ( Long Beach City College, Dance)
African-American Ballerinas in Classical and Romantic Ballet

Panel: Applications of Laban Movement Analysis
Location: ARTS 100
Moderated by Sally Ness (UC Riverside, Anthropology)

Ramie Becker (UC Riverside, Dance)
Solid, Liquid, Man and Machine: Motifing Popular Dance Forms in the Digital Age

Hilary Bryan (UC Davis, Theater and Dance)
Who Wants to Fight? – BodyMind either/or and/or both/and

Shakina Nayfack (UC Riverside, Dance)
Butoh Fu, Becoming Movement:  Notions and Notations of Transformation

Panel: Collaborating Choreographies
Location: ARTS 166
Moderated by: Alison Bory (UC Riverside, Dance)

Liz Casebolt (UC Riverside, Dance) and Joel Smith ( Scripps College, Cerritos College)
In the Space Provided

Cid Pearlman (UCLA, World Arts and Cultures)
Dancers: Harmony Bench and Hana van der Kolk
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Sue Roginski and Rosie Trump (UC Riverside, Dance)
The Grand Gesture

4:30 – 6:00pm Graduate Student Presentations

Panel: Interfacing Dance, Computers and Audience
Location: PE 102
Moderated by: Derek Burrill (UC Riverside, Dance)

Harmony Bench (UCLA, World Arts and Cultures)
Windows98 : Choreographies of Interruption

Catherine Massey (NYU, Gallatin School of Individualized Study)
Shifting in Our Seats: Breaking Down the Dance Audience

Latika Young ( Florida State University)
“Vlogging,” “Dorky Dancing,” and the Rise of Self-Produced Dance on the Internet

Panel: Dancing Ways of Knowing
Location: ARTS 100
Moderated by: Melissa Blanco (UC Riverside, Dance)

Mary Elizabeth Anderson (UC Davis, Theatre and Dance)
Site Maps the Body and the Body Dances Site: Breaking in New Cognitive Maps in Site Specific Performance

Noemie Solomon (NYU, Performance Studies)
Breaking the ground of L’Opéra de Paris: Jérôme Bel and the unfolding of affective gestures

Emily Wilcox (UC Berkeley, Medical Anthropology)
Technique and Innovation: Theorizing and Historicizing “Virtuosity” as a Keyword in Performance Studies

Panel: Dancing Identities
Location: ARTS 166
Moderated by: Cindy Garcia ( Occidental College, Anthropology)

Mark Broomfield (UC Riverside, Dance)
Dance of the Male Goddess – Dancing the Divine

Justine Lemos (UC Riverside, Anthropology)
ORIENTations

Laura Osweiler (UC Riverside, Dance)
How Experimental Processes Become a Subject within Middle Eastern Dance