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Time Session    
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Session 33 Re-reading Tradition, Moderator: San San Kwan  
   
  • Lewoz a fanm, women’s lewoz: Notions of gender and sexuality in a Guadeloupean traditional dance form
Cyrille
   
  • Innovations in Global Bharatanatyam and Contemporary Indian Dance
Katrak
   
  • 3” Golden Lotus: The Tradition of Bound Feet as Depicted in Contemporary Choreography
Knox
  Session 34 Queer Femininities, Moderator: Susan Leigh Foster  
   
  • Neglected Imaginations: Unwieldy and Strange Femininities
Garcia, et al.
  Session 35 Balletic Point(e)s, Moderator: Tessa Chandler  
   
  • The Women Behind the Woman: New York City Ballet Corps Members Perspective on Gender
Croft
   
  • Between Resistance and Restraint: The Corporeal Practice of Ballet
Zahra
   
  • Utube, Beyonceworld, and second Life: do girls still go to Ballet?..
Taylor
  Session 36 Science Gender Body, Moderator: Wendi Wagner  
   
  • A physical experience while watching dance
Wildschut
   
  • Signifying Women – The Politics of Gesture in Modern Dance
Roffe
10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Session 37 Translocations, Moderator: Ashley Anderson  
   
  • Choreographing the Political Uncanny Body of Transnational Dislocation: Elia Arce’s Fifth Commandment
Wolf
   
  • Looking Backward and Forward at Authenticity: the “authentic” Hula and Chinese Dance in Hawai’i
Letoto
   
  • Going Native: the Question of Ethics and American Cultural Appropriation of Butoh Dance
Calamoneri
  Session 38 Panel, Moderator: Allison Bory  
   
  • Localized Feminisms/Globalized Spaces
Bory, et. Al.
  Session 39 Interpreting Femininities: Moderator: Makeda Thomas  
   
  • Reclaiming the Feminine: Bellydancing as a Feminist Project
Moe
   
  • Vai Sambar! American Meaning Making in Afro-Brazilian Dance
Damon
   
  • Mata Hari: Fictions of Femininity and Exoticism
Kolb
  Session 40 Historical Inscriptions, Moderator: Gina Kohler  
   
  • Gendering in the Ascription of Symbolic Meaning to Dance in Germany?
Mathis-Masury
   
  • Hortense Lieberthal Zera’s Solo Never Sign a Letter Mrs. (1939),
    an Early Exploration into the Restrictions of Social Etiquette Rules
McPherson
   
  • “Victory Garden: Ruth Page’s Danced Poems in the Time of World War II”
Meglin
12:15 p.m.   Farewell Drumming Circle