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Invited Speaker/Participant

  • San Francisco Ballet, Pointes of View Lecture Series: The Promised Land with Dwight Rhoden and Ariel Osterweis, Ph.D., Apr 2022.
  • San Francisco Ballet, “Exploring Nutcracker,” Panelist, Nov 2019.
  • Hammer Museum, “Conversation with Tacita Dean and Wayne McGregor,” Moderator, July 2019.
  • Stanford University, “Prophylactic Aesthetics,” Invited Lecture, and Performance Writing Workshop Facilitation, May 2019.
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Symposium, Isaac Julien: Playtime, Invited Lecture, Ten Thousand Waves, May 2019.
  • Temple University, Institute of Dance Scholarship, Dance Studies Colloquium, “Prophylactic Aesthetics,” Invited Lecture, Nov 2018.
  • San Francisco Ballet, BOUNDLESS: A Symposium on Ballet’s Future, Scholar/Panelist, Apr 2018.
  • Performa 17, New York, NY, “Narcissister: The Body is a House,” respondent in discussion with Narcissister, Participant Inc., Nov 2017.
  • Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA), TBA Festival, Resident Scholar (presented scholarship, conducted workshop, conducted interviews, wrote reviews), Sept 2016.
  • Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA), TBA Festival, Resident Scholar (presented scholarship, conducted interviews, wrote reviews), Sept 2013.
  • Princeton University, Lewis Center for the Arts, Dance Program, “The Muse of Virtuosity: Desmond Richardson, Race, and Choreographic Falsetto,” Invited Lecture, Apr 2013.
  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Department of English, Petra Kuppers Seminar, Invited Lecture on Dance, Race, and Virtuosity, Oct 2012.
  • Break/ing Ground: Critical Dialogues in Sound and Motion, University of California, Berkeley, invited as respondent/speaker for talks/performances by Fred Moten (NYU) and Thomas DeFrantz (Duke), Mar 2012.
  • Disability/Culture: 2012 UMInDS Spring Conference and Practice-Based Research Symposium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, invited by Petra Kuppers as participant/speaker/organizer, Jan 2011.
  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Department of Dance, Invited Lecture, “Desmond Richardson and Complexions Contemporary Ballet: Race, Gender, and Virtuosity,” Oct 2011.
  • Society of Dance History Scholars (SDHS), University of Surrey, UK, Plenary Speaker, July, 2010.
  • Teen Reviewers and Critics Program, High 5 Tickets to the Arts, Arts Connection, lecture/workshop on Desmond Richardson and dance writing, New York City, May, Dec 2010.
  • MAPP International Productions, Presentation for Screening of Bittersweet by David Rousseve; New York University, Department of Performance Studies, Oct 2009.

Conference Presentations (Invited and/or Internationally Refereed)

  • Pop Conference, Let’s Get It Together: Gatherings, Club Cultures, Parties, and Beyond, Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, “Skipping the Line: A Korean American Club Kid in Paris” (paper) in “Making Space: Pop Music, Affect, and Reimagining the Club” with Marco F. Guarino and Dan DiPiero, Apr 2023.
  • Night Fever: A Reading Series, Navel, Los Angeles, “Skipping the Line” (paper), curated by madison moore, Mar 2023.
  • American Studies Association (ASA), New Orleans, “Skipping the Line” (paper) in “Party Favors: Speed. Intensity, and Queer Clubbing Sensations” (panel) with madison moore, Tavia Nyong’o, Eddie Francisco Alvarez Jr., and Brett LaBauve, Nov 2022.
  • American Studies Association (ASA), Atlanta, “Prophylactic Aesthetics” (paper) in “Virtuosity” (panel) with Jayna Brown, Aimee Cox, Malik Gaines, and Scott Heath, Nov 2018.
  • American Society of Theater Research (ASTR), Atlanta, Working Session Co-Chair, “Boring the Body/Boring Bodies: Perforating Hierarchies of Embodied Power in Dance,” Nov 2017.
  • Dance Studies Association (DSA), Ohio State University, Panelist, “Approaches to Teaching Dance Studies in MFA Programs,” Oct 2017.
  • Society of Dance History Scholars (SDHS), Special Topics Conference, “Contemporary Ballet: Exchanges, Connections, and Directions,” Center for Ballet and the Arts, New York University, and the Department of Dance, Barnard College, Columbia University, Local Arrangements Chair, May 2016.
  • Society of Dance History Scholars/Congress on Research in Dance, University of Iowa, “Ethnographic Grumblings and Twerking’s Traces in John Jasperse’s Within between, Nov 2014.
  • Sex, Media, Reception: New Approaches, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, “Mask, Merkin, and Penetration in Narcissister is You: Performance, Screen, Pornography,” Feb 2014.
  • Dancing the African Diaspora: Theories of Black Performance, Duke University, “The Black Sexual Politics of Disavowing Virtuosity,” Feb 2014.
  • American Studies Association (ASA), Washington D.C., “Performing the Feminist Mask: Dissemination as Dissent in Narcissister is You” (paper) in “Queer Attachments: New Relational Economies in Experimental Art Practice” (panel) with Damon Young, Katie Brewer Ball, and Anna Fisher, Nov 2013.
  • Society of Dance History Scholars/Congress on Research in Dance, UC Riverside, “Performing the Feminist Mask: Dissemination as Dissent in Narcissister is You,” Nov 2013.
  • Performance Studies international (PSi), Stanford University, “The Trans- Temporality of Fouettés in Blood” (praxis session), Chair, with Jeanne Vaccaro, Ian Carter, Julie Tolentino, and Yve Laris Cohen, June 2013.
  • Congress on Research in Dance/Dance Under Construction, Special Topics: Tactical Bodies, “Narcissister, Self-Gratifier, and Penetration as the Displacement of Virtuosity,” UCLA, Apr 2013.
  • American Society of Theater Research (ASTR), Nashville, Working Session Participant, “Sense, Affect, and Being Singular Plural,” Conveners Tavia Nyong’O, Karen Shimakawa, and José Muñoz (Paper: Feeling Fuzzy: Narcissister(s) and the Materiality of the Merkin), Nov 2012.
  • Performance Studies international (PSi), Leeds, England, Panel Co-Chair (with Anna Fisher), “Self-Gratifiers: Feminist Appropriations in the Contemporary Performances of Narcissister and Ann Liv Young,” with Narcissister and Young, June 2012.
  • Society of Dance History Scholars (SDHS), Philadelphia, “Destabilizing the Allure of Detroit’s ‘Ruin Porn’: Choreo-Ethnographic Alternatives” (panel), Chair/Moderator, June 2012.
  • Congress on Research in Dance (CORD) Special Topics (Meanings and Makings of Queer Dance), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, “Dragging the Museum: Pussy-Cunt Realness and Voguing in the White Box,” Feb 2012.
  • American Society of Theater Research (ASTR), Montreal, Canada, Working Session Co-Convener (with Jim Dennen, Brown U.), “Virtuosity,” Nov 2011.
  • UCLA Queer Studies Conference 2011, Los Angeles, CA, “Dragging the Museum: Pussy-Cunt Realness and Voguing in the White Box,” Oct 2011.
  • Society of Dance History Scholars, University of Toronto, Panel Chair, “Recovering Race in Choreographic Histories of Melodrama, Myth, and Plot,” Paper, “Otherwise in Blackface: Desmond Richardson in American Ballet Theatre and San Francisco Ballet’s Othello,” June 2011.
  • American Society of Theater Research (ASTR)/Congress on Research in Dance (CORD), Seattle, WA, Working Session Participant, “Racial Impersonation?: Blackface Minstrelsy, Many Times, Many Places,” Convener Tracy Davis (Paper: “Otherwise in Blackface: Desmond Richardson in American Ballet Theater and San Francisco Ballet’s Othello”), Nov 2010.
  • American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, “Choreographing Exile: Festival of Lies and the Democratic Republic of Congo,” Nov 2010.
  • Society of Dance History Scholars (SDHS), University of Surrey, UK, Panel Chair, “Racialized Spectacles: Afro-Asian Synergies in Contemporary American Dance” (Paper, “Visualizing the Afro-Asian Pas De Deux in Dance Posters of Desmond Richardson”), July 2010.
  • Performance Studies international (PSi) 2010, York University, Toronto, Panel Organizer, “Wasting Performance, Performing Waste: Economies of Excess, from Ephemera to Empathy” (Paper, “The Choreographic Body Amidst Urban Detritus”), June 2010.
  • Society of Dance History Scholars (SDHS), Stanford University, CA, “Tube-Socking a Virtuoso: Legacies of Race in Desmond Richardson’s Collaboration with William Forsythe,” June 2009.
  • Congress on Research in Dance (CORD), Hollins University, VA, “Spatiality, Motility, Community: Choreographing Feminist Tactics in Urban Africa,” Nov 2008.
  • Conference on African and Afro-Caribbean Performance, University of California, Berkeley, “To Choreograph Fagaala: International Representation of Intra-African Genocide,” Sept 2008.
  • Performance Studies International (Psi), University of Copenhagen, “Saying soul as the body does…(a study of dancers’ rhetoric in phenomenology’s shadow),” Aug 2008.
  • Society of Dance History Scholars (SDHS), Skidmore College, NY, “Whack That Leg: Aesthetics of Hyper-Virtuosity in the Choreographies of Dwight Rhoden and Mia Michaels,” June, 2008.
  • Dance Under Construction (DUC), University of California, Berkeley, “Re-Membering Homer Avila: Amputation, Visibility, Choreography,” Apr 2008.
  • Performance Studies international (PSi), New York University, Panel Chair, “Processing Event: Stretching Interruption’s Limits Through Ethnographies of Art, Dance, and Theater” (Paper on choreographer Ralph Lemon), Nov 2007.
  • Congress on Research in Dance (CORD), Barnard College, Columbia University, Panel Chair, “Intercultural Sans Institution: The Role of Independent Touring, Immigration, and Ethnography in Refiguring Dance Traditions” (Paper, “Migrating to Métisse: An Ethnography of a Transnational Senegalese Dance Form”), Nov 2007.
  • American Theater in Higher Education (ATHE), New Orleans, Panel Chair, “Performance and Amputation” (Paper, “This is Not a Disability Study: Homer Avila Turns the Tables on Dance”), July 2007.
  • Midwest Interdisciplinary Conference, Performing (In)Visibility, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, “This is Not a Disability Study: Homer Avila Turns the Tables on Dance,” Feb 2007.
  • Dance Under Construction, University of California, Riverside, “Staging Street: Traversing Choreographies in Contexts,” Apr 2006.