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9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Session 19 Issues of Dance in Education, Moderator: Carla Stalling Huntington  
   
  • Dance Education and Technology: Working at the Intersection of Conflicting Paradigms
Bendix, et al.
   
  • Dancing Americanness: Jane Addams’ Hull House as a Site for Dance Education
Herzogenrath
   
  • Reflections on Maya Deren's Forgotten Film
Jeong
  Session 20 Choreographing [Popular Dance] History I, Moderator: Thomas DeFrantz  
   
  • Dancing Like a Girl: The Oral History of B-Girls in NYC in the 1990s
Park
   
  • Smooth Criminals: Mimicry, Choreography, and Discipline of Cebuano “dancing inmates”
Perillo
   
  • Dancing to Make Space: Cuban Hip-Hop Trio Las Krudas and Performances of Social Change
Wood
  Session 21 Biohistories, Moderator: Ananya Chatterjea  
   
  • Improbable Hope, Joan Myers Brown, and Philadelphia Dancing- A Biohistory of Art and Race
Dixon-Gottschild
   
  • Playful Warriors: Africanist Aesthetics, Gender, and Identity in Motion
Todd
  Session 22 Workshop  
   
  • Writing Body Stories: Creating Fierce/Pink/House
Gilbride/Davidson
  Session 23 Welcome and Introductions by the Vice President for Academic Affairs: Jeanine S. Stewart, Ph.D.
and Donna Faye Burchfield
Conference Keynote Address: Trinh T. Minh-ha
 
2:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Session 24 Dance in Social Contexts, Moderator: Anna B. Scott  
   
  • Saturday Night at Noyes Rhythm Camp
Brooker
   
  • The Refinement of Ragtime Dancing and the Mass Marketing of Modern Social Dance
Robinson
   
  • Followers on the Dance Floor/Leaders in the Dance Industry:
    A Cross-Generational Comparison of Female Pioneers in 1950s Mambo and 1990s Salsa
McMains
  Session 25 Engendering Shifts, Moderator: Alex Smith  
   
  • “She Dances Like A Man”: The High-Heel, Low-Heel Controversy for Women in Tap
Hill
   
  • The “Effeminate Dancer” in the Greco-Roman World: The Intimate Performance of Ambiguity
Deagon
   
  • His Style Becomes Her: Female to Male Transvestism in the Early History of Western Concert Dance
Cabeen
  Session 26 Gus Giordano and the Female Body: Lecture-Demonstration  
   
  • Gus’ Legacy: A dynamic rewriting of the female dancer’s body by jazz dance artist Gus Giordano
 
  Session 27 Theorizing Paradigms, Moderator: Jeffrey Bullock  
   
  • Methods to Create a New Paradigm for a Feminine Equality
Danitz
   
  • Of the Absence of Dance: Feminisms and Pragmatisms in the Writing of Dance Theory
De Spain
   
  • Choreographic Critiques of a Transnatioanl Feminine
Foster
  Session 28 A B-Girl in NY: Rokafella, Hip-Hop and Choreographing Gender: Workshop  
   
  • "hip hop should've been the vehicle": Rokafella/New York 2005
Gilliam
4:00-5:30pm Session 29 Queer Readings, Moderator: Cindy Garcia  
   
  • “In Search of Something Else”: Tiffany Tamaribuchi, Taiko Drumming, and Queer Spectatorship
Ahlgren
   
  • The Many Deaths of John Wayne: Toward a Butch-Femme Aesthetic of Democracy
Carpenter
   
  • Sahdji - An African Ballet - Queer Connections and the Myth of Solitary Genius
Geduld
  Session 30 National Identity, Moderator: Juliet McMains  
   
  • Assessing the role of dance in presenting China’s national identity in the 2008 Olympic Games
Ashton
   
  • Stariray Dances: Perspectives in Philippine Vaudeville Dance
San Juan
   
  • Running Like a Girl:
    A Look at British Suffragettes and Modern Dance Artists in the Early Twentieth Century
Blakely
  Session 31 Choreographing Feminist Spaces: Ananya Dance Theatre  
   
  • Dancing to Witness, Dancing to Transform
Wilcox/Brown/Tinsley
  Session 32 Thoughts on Dance Education: Lecture-Demonstration  
   
  • New Dance Education Solutions
King/Nielson
8:00pm   Hollins Fall Dance Gathering