TACTICAL BODIES: THE CHOREOGRAPHY OF DANCING SUBJECTSDUC/CORD SPECIAL TOPICS CONFERENCE

APRIL 19-21, 2013UCLA

Friday April 19, 2013

*Denotes performance/practice as research[GKH = Glorya Kaufman Hall]

11:45-1:15pm

Transformation, Translation, Interpretation [GKH room 200]Moderator: Anurima BannerjiAlison D'Amato Anna and Lawrence Halprin: Choreographing Body and Environment with the RSVP CyclesLa Teesa Joy Walker* Physical Beats: The Phenomenological Study of Abstract ChoreographyJia Wu* Diasporic Chinese Body - MAMA/Medea

Critical Origins [GKH room 208]Moderator: Jacqueline Shea MurphyMika Lior Postcolonial Migrations in the Global Marketplace: (Re)Signifying Orixá PracticesClaudia Brazzale Afropean Bodies: Choreographies of ResistanceAnisha Rajesh The Fingers Behind the Spectacle- The Invisible Labor of Craftsmen, Costumiers and the

Drummers in Kathakali and Kutiyattam

Embodied Poetics: Creative strategies of incongruity [GKH room 230]Moderator: Lionel PopkinCid Pearlman & Denise Leto Collaboration, Poetries, Movement and Music: Your Body is Not a SharkTelma Joao Santos* On a Multiplicity

DUC/CORD 2013 SCHEDULE March 28, 2013 draft

THOMAS KAMPE FELDENKRAIS workshop [GKH room 240]

1:30-3pmMoving audience[GKH room 200]Moderator: Peter CarpenterKelly Bond and Melissa Krodman* Choreographing Spectatorship: Performance as ResearchI-Wen Chang Choreographing of spectatorship: an Asian Female’s Photo Essay in ParisCecile Paskett and Rachel Shaw Choreographing Space: Preparing Audiences for Participation

Protest and Revolution[GKH room 208]Moderator: Rosemary Candelarioduskin drum Occupy San Francisco Bodying Bodies MultipleLeila Tayeb Dania Ben Sassi: Sonic/ Transnational/ Choreography/ in RevolutionOlive Mckeon Choreography in and as Political Praxis: On the West Coast Port Blockade

Critical Inscriptions[GKH room 230]Moderator: Alison D’AmatoKaustavi Sarkar "Grammatology" of a Performing BodyMegan Nicely CHOREOGRAPHY AS FUTURE WRITINGWendy Rucci Subjectivity and Gaga

3:15-4:45pmThe Task at Hand: Virtuosity and Materiality in the Performances of Yve Laris Cohen and Narcissister[GKH room 200]Moderator: TBDPre-constituted panelNarcissterAriel OsterweisJeanne VaccaroDUC/CORD 2013 SCHEDULE March 28, 2013 draft

Choreographic Information: Technological Productions Bodies and Their Movements[GKH room 208]Moderator: Dino DincoPre-constituted PanelAllison WyperPatrick Keilty Micha Cardenas (video)

Modes of Participation[GKH room 230]Moderator: Lindsay Baron HunterRachel Oliver The Choreography of Communitas: Ritual and Kinesthetic Connection in Flash ChoreographiesSahar Sajadieh Choreographing Response: Online Game of Shopping and the Digital Puppet MasterRebecca Pappas Title TBD

5-6:30pmSpotlight Panel[GKH room 200]Moderator: Doran GeorgeAndre Lepecki From choreo-politics to choreo-policing: dissensus, mobilization, revolt.Judith Hamera Moving Deindustrialization: Detroit, Counter-Choreography, and the Trouble with RuinsRaquel Monroe A Nude Badu: Disruptive Choreographies of Mourning and Nostalgia

6:30-8pm [GKH Courtyard/Garden Theater]Introductions and Acknowledgements: Alison D’Amato, Doran George, Sarah Wilbur (conference co-chairs)OPENING COMMENTS: Dr. Susan Leigh Foster

Saturday April 20, 2013

*denotes performance/practice as research

DUC/CORD 2013 SCHEDULE March 28, 2013 draft

930am-11amBeing Observed[GKH 200]Moderator: Larry LavenderKrista Bower The Choreography of Community Service: a case studyMelissa Hudson-Bell Feed Me: The Choreography of Audience Engagement at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena

Center for the ArtsKimberly McKinson* FINDING OGUN

Constructing Capacity[GKH room 208]Moderator: Annie TuckerAngela McGuire Countering Censorship: Advancing and Creating New Modalities for Different Bodies in The

Visual Arts (Movement in the Context of Two-Dimensional Visual Art)Cara Gargano Anne-Marie Alonzo's dansécriture: Choreographing the Immobile BodyJennifer Aubrecht Choreographing Yoga Bodies: The Search for Perpetual Youth in Late-1940s Hollywood

GERALD CASEL MEDITATION WORKSHOP Choreographing the Mind – A Practice to Map the Meandering Mind[GKH room 230]

KATHY WESTWATER WORKSHOP Pain Practices[GKH room 240]

11:15-12:15KEYNOTE SPEAKERIntroduction: Susan Leigh FosterKeynote Address: Dr. Gabrielle Brandstetter[GKH room 200]

12:15-1:30pm KEYNOTE RECEPTION[GKH Courtyard/Garden Theater]

DUC/CORD 2013 SCHEDULE March 28, 2013 draft

1:45-3:15pmCritiquing the Institution[GKH room 200]Moderator: André LepeckiLarry Lavender Unfastening the Proscenium ParadigmLiz Maxwell Choreographic Offerings: Examining the Hidden Agendas in Dance Concert Programming in

Higher EducationJose Reynoso* Social Class and other choreographies: Constructing the dance scholar and "his" stage

Production Panel [GKH room 208]Moderator: Dan FrootCristina Rosa Choreographing ideas otherwise: a look at the landscape of contemporary dance in BrazilBonnie Brooks The Last Dance: Choreographies of ClosureKristen Stoeckeler Stripped Club: a Dance through Money, Management, and the Grind

Movement and Action in the Production and Distribution of Art Objects [GKH room 230]RoundtableVeronique d'EntremontUCLA Art Department

Tempo and Tactics[GKH room 240]Moderator: Jens GiersdorfMonika Jaeckel* Thinking on the move: Diffractive practices as embodied ‘agential intra-action’Owen David and Tara Willis Choreography that Resists: Stillness, Dance, and the Tactics of Occupy Gwenyth Shanks Suspended Stillness: a balanced step through air, the Funambulist and the Capitalist Critique

3:30-5pmMeta Choreographies of the Dance Company [GKH room 200]Moderator: Bonnie BrooksDUC/CORD 2013 SCHEDULE March 28, 2013 draft

Jill Nunes Jensen Redirections: Energy Made Visible through Alonzo King's ConstellationJames Moreno Choreographing SpectatorshipPeter Carpenter* Rituals of Abundance for Lean Times #7: Divisions of Labor

Colonial Encounter [GKH room 208]Moderator: Angeline ShakaSandra Chatterjee Rethinking Choreography through a Postcolonial LensRuth Hellier-Tinoco When Moctezuma met Cortés….: choreographies of encounter, incursion, and terrorPallavi Sriram 18th Century Thanjavur Durbar Hall: The Choreographies of Colonial Modernity

Choreographing Authority in Community Arts Interventions[GKH room 230]RoundtableSarah LeddyMeena MuruguesanJenna Delgado

Local, national, global[GKH room 240]Moderator: José Reynoso Areum Jeong “Choreographing” a Narrative of “Koreanness”Meghan Quinlan Digitization and Glocalized Hip-Hop Aesthetics: Palestinians Breaking in the Gaza StripJen Petrie “When can we all dance?”: The Politics and experience of multicultural dance and

choreography in rural southeast Ohio

Un-masking Dance Making: Choreographies of Production[GKH room 101, first floor]RoundtableSimone FortiDan FrootRennie HarrisLionel PopkinDavid RousséveDUC/CORD 2013 SCHEDULE March 28, 2013 draft

Cheng-Chieh YuSarah Wilbur (moderator)

5:15-6:45pmThe Composition of Curating[GKH room 200]Moderator: Polly RobertsDino Dinco* The Choreographies Before and Beyond The WorkCristina Goletti (Un) W.R.A.P./ Undoing Writing Research And Performance: A Case Study on Curatorial

Practices and Feminist Methodologies in the context of a university dance departmentAnna Laura, Wieczorek CHOREOGRAPHING AND CURATING AUDIENCE

Duos and Gender[GKH room 208]Moderator: Linda TomkoErica Ocegueda Gitano/payo: A Dancing DuelVictoria Mateos de Manuel To dance "in" man: Flamenco and genderCarl Schottmiller Choreographing Gender Studies 101

Pedestrian Life[GKH room 230]Moderator: Hannah SchwadronAdrienne Stroik Choreographing Consumers: Absorbing Spatial Experiences of the World’s Columbian

ExpositionRyan Platt Walking and the Singular Movement of MemoryRaegan Truax* Performing in Duration: Choreographing Time

Suiting up: It's Bigger than the Body in Corporate Culture

[GKH room 240]Moderator: Karen SchaffmanPre-constituted panelRose Pasquarello BeauchampDUC/CORD 2013 SCHEDULE March 28, 2013 draft

Colleen CulleyJanet Schroeder

Moving Mass Culture [GKH room 101, first floor]Moderator: Lorenzo PerilloRuping Wang Dancing Religion: When traditional and pop cultures collideMaggie Leung Non-dancing Bodies’ Dance Tradition: Ballroom and Latin Dancing in Hong KongHelen Simard Dance There be Rock: A choreographic re-framing and analysis of the AC/DC documentary

"Let There Be Rock"”Pivot Point”[Wilson Plaza, outdoor quad just outside of GKH]Alexx Shilling11am-4pm “Pivot Point” {durational performance}

Sunday April 21, 2013

*denotes performance/practice as research

10-11:30am

TIM MILLER WORKSHOP 11am-1pm[GKH room 200]

Faith and the Afterlife [GKH room 208]Moderator: Al RobertsEmily Wright Positioning Faith: Testimony as Choreographic Device in American Protestant DancePriya Thomas Muscular Fantasies and Choreographic Forerunners of the Nonhuman Other: Tupac Shakur’s

Holographic Performance (Coachella, 2012)Katherine Mezur Medial Ghosts: The Disappearing Acts of Pina Bausch and Hijikata TatsumiDUC/CORD 2013 SCHEDULE March 28, 2013 draft

Citizen Bodies[GKH room 230]Moderator: Sara WolfKelly Klein The Posthuman (and the) Steward: Pick Up America’s queer embodied performance and

choreographic destabilization of the liberal humanist subjectMichelle LaVigne Choreographing Potential between Rhetoric and DanceAlexx Shilling “Pivot Point”

Recordings of Movement [GHK room 240]Moderator: Raquel MonroeNaida Zukic Violence: Performing Convulsive Body PolitikBetsy Brandt Somatic Embodiment and Temporal Collapse: Re-defining “choreography” in film theoryMarc Miller, Kimberly Wilczak Scored Space: Synchroballistic Stereographic Imagery and Body Projections

Fat Black Monkey[GKH room 101, first floor]Moderator: Rita ValentePre-constituted PanelGrisha ColemanDeborah ForsterKatherine BeharStephanie Batiste

11:45-1:15Body and Beyond[GKH room 208]Moderator: Michael SakamotoKaren Schaffman/Anya Cloud* Anatomical Research and The Fantasy of Spectatorship: Rocking, Taxidermy and the Red HeelMargaret Jean Westby Dance of Entanglements: Human and Non-Human Phenomena in Computational PerformanceMichelle Summers Soulography: Modern Dance, Liturgical Dance

DUC/CORD 2013 SCHEDULE March 28, 2013 draft

Experience and Methodology[GKH room 230]Moderator: Pallavi SriramRosalynde Le Blanc* Choreographing Oral HistoriesRasmus Ölme From Model to Module - a move towards generative choreographyYuko Hatano New trends in the traditional culture education in Japanese school education: From the

perspective of traditional dance in Japan  

Choreographing the Nation[GKH room 240]Moderator: Yehuda SharimFan-Ting Cheng Choreographing a Tactical Taiwan: The Body and Politics in Wang Mo-Lin’s My Body, My

CountryMunjulikah Rahman Choreographing the Nation: Bangladesh at the Festival of Asian Arts in Hong KongAndrew Martinez The Essential Body of the Cuban Revolution

Architecture Environment Museum[GKH room 101, first floor]Moderator: Judith HameraAyano Oride Repurposing Museum Space with Pedestrian Bodies: A study of Steve Paxton’s performance

project in MoMAZachery Tate Porter Towards an Architectural ChoreographyKimberly Wilczak Pedestrian Choreography in Landscape Architecture

1:15-2pm BREAK

1:15-2pm/DUC NEXT YEAR PLANNING SESSION

2-3pm TIM MILLER SPOTLIGHT PERFORMANCE

3-4pm POST PERFORMANCE RECEPTION

DUC/CORD 2013 SCHEDULE March 28, 2013 draft