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Friday, November 14, 2008 - Click on the session title for detailed information

Time Session    
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Session 1 Studying the Self  
   
  • Dance Studies and Dance Scholarly Organizations
Miller, et al.
  Session 2 Feminisms, Communities and Displacements: Lecture-Demonstration  
   
  • Global Feminisms and Community Building: Place, Interaction, and Culturally Embodied Expression Among Refugee and Immigrant Women and Girls
Jackson/Vissicaro
  Session 3 Virtual Spectatorship, Moderator: Melissa Blanco Borelli  
   
  • Women Work It On Out: An Intergenerational Encounter Through Dance
King, J.
   
  • Construction Spectatorship: Duration and Perception in media choreographies of scale
Bench
   
  • You Dance I Watch, We Share- On YouTube.com: The Impact of Online Dance Videos on the Promotion of Dance
Chen
  Session 4 Disrupting Politics  
   
  • Panel
Briggs/Radeke/Stoltz
    Film Screening: Night Passage, by Trinh T. Minh-ha  
10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Session 5 Reading Choreographic Practices, Moderator:Kent DeSpain  
   
  • Creating Contemporary Ritual: The Choreographic Approaches of Anna Halprin and Lin Lee-Chen
Yong
   
  • Decoding the Modern Practice of Bharatanatyam
Keshaviah
   
  • Performing and Choreographing Gender in Eiko & Koma's Cambodian Stories
Candelario
  Session 6 Africanist Aesthetics, Moderator: Shani Collins  
   
  • Spatiality, Motility, Community: Choreographing Feminist Tactics in Urban Africa
Scott, Ariel
   
  • Embodying Femininity: Black identity in Motion and the Back and Forth Friction of the Embodied Concept of Ginga in Samba
Rosa
   
  • Borracha/Bounce
Scott, Anna
  Session 7 Pedagogical Re-Imaginings: Theses and Dissertation Options  
   
  • Re-imagining the Format of Dance Theses and Dissertations: Moving Beyond the American Academic Tradition
Caldwell, et al.
  Session 8 Activisms and Histories, Moderator: Erika Hand  
   
  • Women, Protest, and Dance
Faulkner
   
  • Decolonizing Anthropology and the Body of the Researcher
Banks
    Film Screening: Night Passage, by Trinh T. Minh-ha  
12:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.   Awards / Membership Luncheon Meeting  
2:00p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Session 9 Politicizing Feminist Gestures, Moderator: Diana Crum  
   
  • Dance Studies and Feminist Musicology: Gender and the Body in Stravinsky-Nijinska's Les Noces
Randel
   
  • Some constitutive processes of shifting feminist subjectivities: Ana Sokolow in the first half of the 20th century.
Reynoso
   
  • "Fight like a girl!”: Choreographing Femininity in Capoeira Angola
Hofling
  Session 10 Global Perspective: Moderator, Rosemary Candelario  
   
  • Globalization and Dance in West Africa
Doumbia
   
  • The Cultural body and The Politics of Difference: How Korean Dance is Commodified in the Politics of Tourism
Jae
  Session 11 Receptions, Moderator: Harmony Bench  
   
  • United and Severed: Collaborative Research and Cognitive Authority
Diekman/Schaffman
   
  • Looking at Her Power
Kieswetter
  Session 12 "Fair Use" and Dance Research: Dance Heritage Coalition Panel  
   
  • Using “Fair Use” to Free Archival Resources: Dance Heritage Coalition’s project to increase access to dance collections
Smigel et al.
  Session 13 Researching Dance: Workshop  
   
  • (RE)flexin’ methodologies – strategies for dance research
Hahn / Kisliuk
    Film Screening: Night Passage, by Trinh T. Minh-ha  
3:45 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. Session 14 Rewriting, Moderator: Nora Stephens  
   
  • Feminist Ethnography and Dance Ethnography as Mutual Analytics
Kwan
   
  • Puppetmistresses: Female Fan Vids that recontextualise the Performative Body
Dharmadhikari
   
  • Clothes Make the Woman: Women Tap Dancers and the Iconography of the Suit
Morrison
  Session 15 Case Studies in Modern Dance, Moderator: Dawn Springer  
   
  • Gender in American Protestant Dance: Local and Global Implications
Wright
   
  • “And I always got whatever I wanted from men without asking”: Martha Graham and the Spectres of Feminism
Thoms
   
  • Making the Case for “Black Dance” in the 21st Century
Amin
  Session 16 Choreographing History, Moderator: Diyah Larasati  
   
  • Beyond Descriptive – Unpacking Implicit Gendering in Dance Theory to Evaluate Consumers and their Behaviors
Huntington
   
  • Can the subaltern dance to the tune of global feminism?
Chakravorty
   
  • Decorporealizing the Oriental/Feminized Bodies on the Global Stage: A Study of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre’s Cursive Trilogy
Szeto
  Session 17 Dancing Spirits: Female Orisha Dance Workshop  
   
  • Traces of a “Tri”chotomy: Three Female Archetypes in Afro-Cuban Orisha Dancing
Thompson/Ulacia
5:30 p.m. Session 18 Film Screening: Night Passage, Q&A with Trinh T. Minh-ha  
       
8:00 p.m.   Hollins Fall Dance Gathering  
    Followed by Open Contact Improvisation Jam