DANCE
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Dance Under Construction 2018
The way that Dance Studies defines dance and scholarship is constantly shifting. New questions of embodiment as a way of being and knowing on and beyond the stage abound. As disciplinary borders and the line between artist and scholar blur, we ask, what does dance do? And why should we pay attention to it?
Dance Under Construction (DUC) is an interdisciplinary UC forum in which graduate-level scholars meet to discuss each other's work and to reflect on new developments in the field of Dance Studies. The conference will include paper panels, performances, workshops, films, and feedback from faculty. Presenters are requested to be in attendance for the entirety of the conference in order to support each other.
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Rosemary Candelario
ASST. PROFESSOR OF DANCE: TEXAS WOMAN'S UNIVERSITY
Keynote Address: “Doing Dance and Dances that Do: On Adagio Activism, Spontaneous Choreographies of Protest, and My Trajectory as an Artist Scholar”
Dr. Candelario’s book Flowers Cracking Concrete: Eiko & Koma’s Asian/American Choreographies was published by Wesleyan University Press in 2016. She has published articles in the Journal of Theatre, Dance and Performance Training; The Scholar and Feminist Online; and The International Journal of Screendance, and has chapters in The Oxford Handbook of Dance and the Popular Screen, Contemporary Directions in Asian American Dance, and Race in the Vampire Narrative. Candelario’s choreography has been produced across the United States, and as a dancer she has performed in the United States, Brazil, Canada, Germany, and South Africa. Dr. Candelario teaches graduate theory and writing courses, advises PhD and MA students, and directs the International Dance Company at Texas Woman’s University.
Dr. Candelario's presentation is in Performance Lab (ARTS 166).
It is free and open to the public.
Schedule
Friday, April 6
9:00a-10:00a
Registration and Welcome
CHASS INTS 1113
10:00a-12:00p
Panel 1: Material Bodies
CHASS INTS 1111/1109
Performance: “CoiAzul”
Fabiana Della Giustina (Visiting PhD Candidate, UCR, Instituto de Artes Universidade de Brasília)
Workshop: “Vogue: Get Yo' Tenz”
Cuauhtemoc Peranda (PhD Student, Critical Dance Studies, UCR)
Paper: “‘An Environment with No Distractions’: Reconstructing The Spirit Moves’ Framing of Social Dance and Race”
Mallory Peterson (PhD Student, Critical Dance Studies, UCR)
12:00p-1:00p
LUNCH (provided for all presenters)
CHASS INTS 1113
1:00p-3:00p
Panel 2: Place-Based Memories and Imaginaries
CHASS INTS 1109 and outside
Workshop: “Meeting Arts Building”
Josie Bettman (MFA Candidate, Experimental Choreography, UCR)
Paper: “Flamenco in in Madrid and the Fight for Amor de Dios Dance Academy”
Theresa Goldbach (PhD Candidate, Critical Dance Studies, UCR)
Paper: “Choreotopias: Assaulted Desires in Asaltodiario's Street Choreographies in Mexico City from 1985-1994”
Juan Aldape Munoz (PhD Candidate, Performance Studies, Berkeley)
3:00p-5:00p
Presenter Gathering
CHASS INTS 1113
6:00p-7:30p
Performance Panel
ARTS 166
Performance: “Sort”
Marisa Plasencia (MA/PhD Student, Theater Studies, UCSB) and Maribel Plasencia
Performance: “Selfieography”
Alissa Elegant (MFA Candidate, Dance, Temple University)
Performance: “‘I Should... I Shouldn’t…’”
Kalila Kingford Smith (MA Candidate, Dance, Temple University)
Performance: “Here in the Background Between Two Figures”
Olana Flynn (MFA Candidate, Experimental Choreography, UCR)
Performance: Christina Leyva (MFA Candidate, Experimental Choreography, UCR)
Saturday, April 7
9:30a-12:00p
Panel 4: Accessing Identity
CHASS INTS 1111/1109
Workshop: “The Body Knows: Topographies of the Self”
Sarina Ramirez-Ortiz (MFA Candidate, Dance, UCI)
Paper: “The Dance of Posthumanism”
Kelly Bowker (PhD Candidate, Critical Dance Studies, UCR)
Workshop: “Preparing to Meet the World: Increasing Possibilities for Action through Embodiment”
Kira Mikayla Bessey (MFA Candidate, Dance, UCI)
Paper: “Improvisation as Transformation: A close reading of Earl Lovelace’s The Dragon Can’t Dance”
Rosalia Lerner (PhD Student, Critical Dance Studies, UCR)
12:00p-1:00p
LUNCH (provided for all presenters)
CHASS INTS 1113
1:00p-3:00p
Panel 5: Protest and Excessing Absence
CHASS INTS 1111/1109
Paper: “Freezing: A Position(ality) that Reveals Matter Matters”
Jason Noer (PhD Candidate in Theater Historiography, University of Minnesota Twin Cities)
Workshop: “Locating the Invisible Character in Physical-based Acting and Dance Training”
Nora Woolley (MFA Candidate, Playwriting, UCR)
Paper: “‘For a Better Future’: An Analysis of Stillness, the Potentiality of Othered Bodies, and the Nation-States’s Imaginary, or On the Deportation of Mexican Motherhood”
Irvin Gonzalez (PhD Candidate, Critical Dance Studies, UCR)
3:00p-5:00p
Panel 6: Archive
CHASS INTS 1109 OR 1113
Paper: “Post-Soviet Ballet Primas: Construction of Alternative and Protest Narratives”
Ania Nikulina (PhD Candidate, Critical Dance Studies, UCR)
Paper: “Tapping and Grafting Family Memories: Semiotic Cultural Performances in Chinese Vietnamese Stockholm”
Trangđài Glassey-Trầnguyễn (PhD Candidate, Anthropology, UCR)
Paper: “Deconstructing the Sadsad Kinetics: The Kaleidoscopic Features of Aklan’s Ati-atihan Festivals”
Jemuel Jr. Garcia (PhD Student, Critical Dance Studies, UCR)
5:00p-6:00p
Presenter Gathering
CHASS INTS 1113
Lecture Demonstration: “Between the Sections”
Graduate Students of Dr. Susan Ossman's Ethnographic Methods Course (UCR)
6:00-7:30p
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Rosemary Candelario
ARTS 166
"Doing Dance and Dances that Do: On Adagio Activism, Spontaneous Choreographies of Protest, and My Trajectory as an Artist Scholar."
Getting Around UCR
Registration and Conference Panels will take place on the first floor of the CHASS Interdisciplinary South building.
The Performance Panel (Friday) and Keynote Address (Saturday) will be in ARTS 166.
Parking permits will be available at the Information Kiosk
FULL ADDRESS:
University of California - Riverside
900 University Ave
Riverside, CA 92521
