DANCE ARTS EDUCATION PERFORMANCE THEORY WRITING
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Areas of Specialization
Dance & Performance Studies ◆ Artistic Literary & Community Engagement◆ Gender, Race, & Religion ◆ English, Writing & Composition ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Education University of California, Riverside (2009-2014) ● Ph.D. Critical Dance Studies (Advisor: Jacqueline Shea Murphy) ● Awards: American Association for University Women Dissertation Fellowship, UCR Graduate Division Dissertation Fellowship, California Creative Capacity Fund Professional Development Grant, Mellon Dance Studies Summer Seminar – Brown University, UCR Dissertation Research Grant, UCR Graduate Dean Supplemental Fee Fellowship, Body, Performance & Dance Research Grant, Sacred Dance Guild Scholarship Recipient, Maxwell H. Gluck Foundation Fellowship, UCR Humanities Research Grant, Northwestern University’s Summer Institute in Performance Studies, UCR Graduate Division Fellowship New York University (2008 - 2009) ● M.A. Performance Studies (Advisor: Ann Pellegrini) ● Awards: Tisch School of the Arts Departmental Fellowship, Kappa Alpha Theta Foundation Scholarship Texas Christian University (2002 - 2006) ● Bachelor of Fine Arts, Ballet & Bachelor of Arts, English (Magna Cum Laude) ● Awards: Nancy Evans Memorial Award for Texas Writing, Elise Carlton Scholarship – Texas Panhandle Heritage Foundation, TCU Provost Scholarship ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Experience The Movement Hub/Flyover Dance Collective Bentonville, AR (2022 – Present) Collaboration with Karen Castleman to create a dance advocacy organization that contributes to and promotes the region’s vibrant arts scene through three core areas of focus: 1) The presentation, production, and cultivation of quality dance programming that is diverse and inclusive. 2) Arts education and outreach that promotes whole person well-being with a focus on dance as lifelong learning. 3) Community engagement with dance that encourages the exchange of ideas through strategic partnerships with local and regional organizations. Thaden School, Faculty Bentonville, AR (July 2020 – Present) ● Courses taught: English IV: Comedy, English IV: Tragedy University of California at Berkeley, Academic Year Lecturer San Francisco Bay Area (August 2015 – June 2020) ● Courses taught in the Department of Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies: Writing About Performance; Dance in American Cultures; Dance in Religious Cultures; and Dance, Gender, & Sexuality; Popular & Social Dance in the U.S. ● Grants: UC Berkeley Professional Development Fund Grant; Andrew Mellon Foundation Course Development Grant, Cal Performances; & Shelly Osborne Grant for Visiting Artists Graduate Theological Union, Performance Studies Scholar in Residence San Francisco Bay Area (2015-2020) ● Courses taught through the Center for Art & Religion: Dance & Religion; Exploring Spiritualities through Movement ● Grants: Course Enrichment Grant, Center for the Arts & Religion Grant ● Curatorial Experience: “Meaning-Making in Dance: Methods for Interpreting Akram Khan’s XENOS," (Organizer/Moderator); “Exploration of Spirituality and Storytelling in Dance” (Organizer/Workshop); “Oscillating Time: Environment and Temporality in Sankai Juku's Butoh”(Organizer/Moderator) Cal Performances, Artistic Literacy Facilitator San Francisco Bay Area (2019-Present) ● Artist Literacy Institute, Summer 2019 – Group Facilitator ● Trainings: Artistic Literacy Group Facilitation and Catharsis Café Other Adjunct Dance Department Faculty San Francisco Bay Area (2015-2017) ● Santa Clara University: Dance History ● Bentley School: Introduction to Dance & Intermediate Dance University of California at Riverside, Research/Teaching Assistant Los Angeles Area (2010-2013) ● Courses taught: Dance Cultures and Contexts, Introduction to Dance, English Writing, Beginning and Intermediate Composition Women & Performance Journal, Editorial Intern New York, NY (2008-2009) ● Reading, Compiling and Approving Journal Submissions ● Event planning, database compilation, running meetings John F. Kennedy Center, Press Intern Washington D.C. (Summer 2007) ● Distribution of tickets as acting junior press representative ● Correspondence with print, radio, and television writers, commentators, and photographers concerning Kennedy Center performances, programs and events ● Independent creation of a press plan Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Grants Coordinator Fort Worth, TX (2006-2007) ● Fundraising work with corporations, foundations, individuals, and government organizations ● Design and writing for department website and company annual report ● Assistance with planning and implementation of various special events ● Extensive financial work with budgets and statements; Planned giving officer ● Proficiency in Adobe CreativeSuite2 and Tessitura Texas Christian University, Adjunct Faculty Fort Worth, TX (2006-2007) ● Department of Dance, Ballet Baskerville Publishers, Opera Book Editor Fort Worth, TX (2004-2006) ● Editor: Franco Corelli: A Man, A Voice and George London: Of Gods and Demons ● Experience in marketing including press kit distribution and reviewer spreadsheets ● Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (including Access) and PageMaker ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Publications “Othering the Religious Right: Ameritude, Whiteness, & the USA Freedom Kids” The Body, the Dance and the Text: Essays on Performance and the Margins of History, ed. Brynn Shiovitz (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co, Inc. Publishers), 2019: 104-116. “Pole Dancing for Jesus: Healthy Bodies, Healthy Souls” Perspectives on American Dance: The New Millennium, eds. Jennifer Atkins, Sally Sommer, & Tricia Young (Gainesville: University Press of Florida), 2018: 137-162. “Beyond the On-Campus Humanities Learning Experience: A Case Study in Utilizing Assessment Tools in an Online Dance Studies Course” With Kimberly Downing Robinson and Rebecca J. Timmons, Interdisciplinary Humanities 31.1 (2014): 72-80. “Sam Gill’s Dancing Culture Religion” Book Review, Dance Research Journal, Vol. 46, No. 2 (August 2014): 118-120. “Forbidden Altars: U.S. Liturgical Dance after the Second Vatican Council” Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies, Vol. XXXIII (Spring 2014). “Katja Kolcio’s Movable Pillars: Organizing Dance, 1956-1978” Book Review, Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory 21:1 (2011): 140-142. 
_________________________________________________________________________________________________ Dance Teaching 2021 Center for Art and Religion, Berkley, CA Guest Workshop, Dance 2018 San Francisco Girls Chorus, CA Guest Workshop, Dance 2016-2020 Bdazzled Dance Studio, San Leandro, CA, Ballet 2015, 2016 The Bentley School, Lafayette, CA Guest Faculty, Musical Theater 2014 – 2016 Berkeley Ballet Theater, Berkeley, CA Faculty, Modern 2014, 2015 Jingle Jam Workshop, Alhambra, CA Guest Faculty, Ballet 2013 – 2014 The Dance Stop, Marietta, GA Faculty, Ballet/Modern 2011 – 2013 Jayvee Dance Center, Alhambra, CA Faculty, Ballet 2012 The Pasadena Dance Festival, CA Guest Faculty, Ballet 2009 – 2011 Camelot Academy, Orange, CA Faculty, Ballet/Jazz 2007 – 2009 Progressive Dance Studio, Englewood, NJ Faculty, Ballet/Jazz 2007 The American College Dance Festival, TX Guest Faculty, Ballet _________________________________________________________________________________________________ Dance Training Ballet Training 2013 Ballet Magnificat! Teacher Training Certificate in Vaganova Technique 2009-11 Montage Arts, Orange, CA: Jeng Halili 2006 Contemporary Ballet Dallas, Dallas, TX: Valerie Shelton-Tabor, Kelley Calhoon 2002-06 Texas Christian University, Fernando Bujones, Li-Chou Cheng, Elizabeth Gillaspy 2001 Ballet Austin, Austin, TX (Summer Intensive) 1999 American Ballet Theater, Tuscaloosa, AL (Summer Intensive) 1998 International Dance School (IBC), Jackson, MS (Summer Intensive) 1990-02 Western Arkansas Ballet, Ft Smith, AR: Melissa Schoenfeld, Frances Duran Modern Dance Training 2015-16 Shawl Anderson Dance Center, Berkeley, CA 2009-13 University of California, Riverside: Kelli King, Susan Rose, Wendy Rogers 2007-09 Peridance Center. New York, NY 2002-06 Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX: Susan Douglas Roberts, Ellen Shelton, Andrea Harris, Kerry Krieman, Christian Von Howard ________________________________________________________________________________________________ |
___________________________________________________________________________ Invited Talks/Lectures Critical Exchange Facilitator, DanceChance NWA Nadine Baum Studios, Fayetteville, AR 2022 Get Dancin’: Selections from the Collection Guest Lecture, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, 2019 Designing a Performing Arts-Integrated Curriculum Invited Panelist, UC Berkeley Academic Innovation Studio, 2019 Dance Education Invited Panelist, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX, 2018 Integrating the Arts in the Classroom and Beyond Guest Speaker, Showcase of Teaching Innovation and Reinvention, UC Berkeley, 2017 Divinity & Presence Guest Lecturer, Dance 152: Introduction to Improvisation in Dance, Stanford University, 2016 Undergraduate Study at Top U.S. Universities Guest Speaker, Camelot Academy of Arts, Science & Technology, Guangzhou & Beijing, China, 2016 The Constantly Confessing Ethnographer Guest Speaker, Center for the Arts, Religion, & Education, Berkeley, CA, 2015 Pursuing a Ph.D. in Dance Guest Lecturer, Senior Seminar for Dance Majors, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2010-13 Academics and the Arts Guest Speaker, Scholarship Workshop for Montage Arts, Orange, CA, 2009 Emerging Leaders in Arts Administration Invited Panelist, Rose Marine Theater, Fort Worth, TX, 2007 ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Conference Presentations “Teaching Dance Studies” Organized Panel, Looking Forward, Looking Back, UC Riverside, 2019 “Performing Trump’s “Ameritude:” The USA Freedom Kids and the Tactical Transmission of Family Values” Dance Studies Association, Ohio State University, 2017. “Pioneering Liturgical Dance in New York City after Vatican II” The Cushwa Center’s Lived History of Vatican II Conference, Notre Dame, 2014 "Un/Catholic Confessions: On Passing for Christian” Society of Dance History Scholars and Congress on Research in Dance, University of Iowa (Organized Panel), 2014 “Suspended Syncretism: Western Liturgical Dance in the Post Vatican II Age of Ecumenism” Society of Dance History Scholars & Congress on Research, UC Riverside, 2013 “The Birth of the 20th Century American Liturgical Dancer: Modernity, Multiculturalism, & Reform” American Academy of Religion, Baltimore, MD, 2013 “Pole Dancing for Jesus: The Healthy, the Holy, and the Sexy” Congress on Research in Dance - University of New Mexico, 2012 “Stephen Colbert: Liturgical Dancer, or How to Make a Ridiculous Liturgical Dance” Dance Under Construction – UC Riverside, 2012 “Between Theology and Embodiment: The Practice of Liturgical Dance in the Sanctuary Space” Cambridge Talks V, Harvard University, 2011 “The Electronic Counterpart: The Body and Spectacle in David Dorfman’s underground” Society of Dance History Scholars, University of Surrey, London, 2010 “The Tension in Solidarity: Gender, Race, and National Identity in Katherine Dunham’s Southland” Thinking Gender Conference, UCLA 2009 _________________________________________________________________________________________________ Service Outreach & Advocacy Volunteer, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (2018 - ) Dance and Performance Studies Curriculum Committee, UC Berkeley (2015-20) Gala Coordinator, Linda Beach Cooperative Preschool (2019-20) Board Member, Sacred Dance Guild (2015-16) Bay Area Dance Exchange Guest Faculty, Mills College, CA (2016) Event Organizer, “Sacred Dance: Hula & Okinawan,” GTU, CA (2016) Co-Editor, Congress on Research in Dance Conference Proceedings (2014) UCR Alumni & Friends Reception Coordinator, CORD Conference (2012) VOLTA Performance Event Co-Curator, Culver Center, Riverside, CA (2011) Website Construction, Dance Under Construction Graduate Conference (2011) Women and Performance Collective Member. New York, NY (2008-09) Committee Member, Mimir Music Festival, Fort Worth, TX (2007) Board Member, Ballet Concerto, Fort Worth, TX (2006-07) ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Choreography 2020 Freaky Friday, Bentley High School Walnut Creek, CA 2016 Missed Connections, Berkeley Ballet Theater Berkeley, CA 2016 Guys and Dolls, Bentley High School Lafayette, CA 2015 Do You Know, Maya Angelou? Berkeley Ballet Theater Berkeley, CA 2014 We Stand on the Shoulders of Giants, Dance Stop Company Marietta, GA 2013 Wandering through the Labyrinth, Dance on the Edge Festival San Diego, CA 2013 Wandering through the Labyrinth, Dance Xchange Temecula, CA 2012 The Nutcracker, The Dream to Dance Foundation Glendale, CA 2011 Flash Mob Line Dance, Culver Center for the Arts Riverside, CA 2010 Fiddler on the Roof, Montage Arts Orange, CA 2008 Inscribed, Dance New Amsterdam New York, NY 2007 Carousel, Stars Theatre Co. Southlake, TX 2007 Just 22, Barefoot Brigade Festival Fort Worth, TX 2006 Die Hard Fan, Texas Christian University Fort Worth, TX 2001 Alégria, Regional Dance America, Emerging Choreographer Houston, TX ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Dance Performance 2022 Home is Where, Flyover Dance Collective Dance Film Choreographer Kevin Shannon 2022 Joyus, Justus, Contra Tiempo Community Cast, Fayetteville, AR Choreographer Ana Maria Alvarez 2013 The Doors, Trinity Movement Choir and Sacred Dance Guild, New York, NY Choreographer: Marilyn Green 2013 Holy Thursday Service & Livermore Protest, Berkeley, CA Choreographer: Carla De Sola 2012 The New Zealand Lord’s Prayer, Sacred Dance Guild Festival, Holland, MI Choreographer: Carla De Sola 2011 Untitled, BachSpot, Los Angeles, CA Choreographer: Elizabeth Terschuur 2011 Borderline Bodies, Rhymes with Threshold Riverside, CA Choreographer: Minerva Tapia 2009-10 The Nutcracker, Montage Arts Orange, CA Choreographer: Jeng Halili 2010 Vertigo, Dance Moves Temecula, CA Choreographers: Erica Washington and Victoria Smith 2008 Tranquil Disruption, Dance Reach Project Darien, CT Choreographer: Theresa Broussard 2007 Suite Goodbye, Genesis Dance Collective New York, NY Choreographer: Theresa Broussard 2006 Ballet Rock!, Contemporary Ballet Dallas Dallas, TX Choreographers: Kelley Calhoon & Valerie Shelton-Tabor 2006 Oklahoma!, Casa Mañana Equity Theater Fort Worth, TX Choreographer: Paula Sloan 2005 Vigil, ACDFA Gala Performance Wichita, KS Choreographer: Elizabeth Gillaspy 2004 Pasion y Fuego, Texas Christian University Fort Worth, TX Choreographer: Fernando Bujones 2004 Beauty & the Beast, Casa Mañana Equity Theater Fort Worth, TX Choreographer: Julie Letsche 2004 Mary Kay Industrial Show, Dallas Convention Center Dallas, TX 2004 Velvet, Texas Christian University Fort Worth, TX Choreographer: Li-Chou Cheng 2003 Texas Legacies, Pioneer Amphitheater Canyon, TX Choreographer: Jose Ochoa and Vicki McLean |
