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Education
2011 PhD, Culture and Performance with a concentration in Dance, University of California, Los Angeles
Dissertation: “Eiko & Koma: Choreographing Spaces Apart in Asian America”
Advisor: Susan Leigh Foster
2007 MA, Culture and Performance, University of California, Los Angeles
1992 BA, Anthropology and German Language and Literature, Boston University
Certifications
2023 Nationally Certified Pilates Teacher
2020 RYT-200, Yoga Alliance
Academic Positions
2023-present Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Theatre and Dance
2018-2023 Associate Professor, Texas Woman's University, Department of Dance;
Affiliate Faculty, Department of Multicultural Women’s and Gender Studies
2012-2018 Assistant Professor, Texas Woman’s University, Department of Dance;
Affiliate Faculty, Department of Multicultural Women’s and Gender Studies
2011 Lecturer, University of California, Los Angeles, Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance
Publications
Books
Monograph
2016 Flowers Cracking Concrete: Eiko & Koma’s Asian/American Choreographies.
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press.
Edited Volumes
2023 Dance Research Methodologies: Ethics, Orientations, Practices. Co-edited with Matthew Henley. London: Routledge.
2018 The Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance. Co-edited with Bruce Baird. London: Routledge.
Journal Articles
2023 “Butoh Ecologies: Dance Practice as Training for a New Relationship with the Environment.” Arcade: The Humanities in the World
2023 “‘Cultural Problems Demand Cultural Solutions’: Performing Abortion Stories for Culture Change.” In “Abortion Now, Abortion Forever,” eds. Margaret Ronda, Jeannette Schollaert, and Jena DiMaggio, cluster, Post45: Contemporaries.
2023 “Violences, Aftermaths, And Family, Or: How To Make Dances In This Body?” Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies 42 (“Dancing in the Aftermath of Anti-Asian Violence” special issue).
2018 “Choreographing American Dance Archives: Artist-driven Archival Projects by Eiko & Koma, Bebe Miller, and Jennifer Monson.” Dance Research Journal 50, no. 1: 80-102.
2018 “Dancing with hyperobjects: ecological Body Weather choreographies from Height of Sky to Into the Quarry.” Choreographic Practices 9, no. 1: 45-58.
2014 “Bodies, Camera, Screen: Eiko & Koma’s Immersive Media Dances.” International Journal of Screendance 4: 80-92.
2013 “Transvaginal Sound: Politics and Performance.” In Special Issue on Feminism, Race, and Biopolitics, ed. Rachel Lee. The Scholar & Feminist Online 11, no. 3 (Summer).
2010 “A Manifesto for Moving: Eiko & Koma’s Delicious Movement Workshops.” Journal of Theatre, Dance and Performance Training 1, no. 1 (March): 88-100.
Book Chapters
2021 舞踏百景--グローバルでローカルなダンス (“Butoh Landscapes: A Global And Local Dance”). In Robert Ono and Tomoe Aihara (Eds.), Butoh Nyumon: Nikutai wo Honyaku Suru (“Introduction to Butoh: Translating the Body”). Tokyo: Bungaku Tsushin.
2019 “Dancing the Space: Butoh and Body Weather as Training for Ecological Consciousness.” In The Routledge Companion to Dance Studies, edited by Stacey Prickett and Helen Thomas, 11-21. London: Routledge.
2018 “Introduction: Dance Experience, Dance of Darkness, Global Butoh: The Evolution of a New Dance Form.” In The Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance, edited by Bruce Baird and Rosemary Candelario, 1-22. London: Routledge.
2018 “‘Now We Have a Passport’: Global and Local Butoh.” In The Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance, edited by Bruce Baird and Rosemary Candelario, 245-253. London: Routledge.
2016 “An Asian American Land: Eiko & Koma Choreograph Cultural Politics.” Contemporary Directions in Asian American Dance, edited by Yutian Wong, 174-190. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
2015 “We Take Blood, Not Life: Urban Bush Women's Bones and Ash: A Gilda Story.” In Race and the Vampire Narrative, edited by U. Melissa Anyiwo, 153-166. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
2014 “Shine Your Light on the World: The Utopian Bodies of Dave Chappelle’s Block Party.” In The Oxford Handbook of Dance and the Popular Screen, edited by Melissa Blanco Borelli, 365-377. New York: Oxford University Press
Encyclopedia Entries, Essays, Reviews, Proceedings
2023 Review: “(Re)Positioning site dance: local acts, global perspectives.” Text and Performance Quarterly 43, no. 2: 174-176.
2022 “Birthing A/New: Reflecting Mid-Process on a Performance Practice Through the
Lens of Sustainability.” Co-authored with Bronwyn Preece. Peripeti 19, no. 37: 146-157.
2020 アメリカ䛾学会（舞踊学）インタビュー (“Interview about American Dance Studies”). Japanese Society for Dance Research Newsletter, vol. 18 (November).
2019 “Butoh, Arousal, and Outdoor Dance Training: Ecological Dance as a Method of Decolonization.” Confluences 10 Proceedings. Centre for Theatre, Dance & Performance Studies, University of Cape Town.
2018 Commentary on Ainhoa Valle’s photography. Tokyo Poetry Journal 6: 99-100.
2018 “Butoh.” Digital Theatre+: Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance.
2017 “An Interview with Eiko Otake.” International Journal of Screendance 8: 134-141.
2016 “A Body on the Line.” In A Body in Places: Danspace Project PLATFORM 2016, edited by Lydia Bell, 39-51. New York: Danspace Project.
2016 “Butoh.” In Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism.
2016 “Hijikata Tatsumi.” In Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism.
2016 “Ohno Kazuo.” In Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism.
2016 Review: Butoh Dance Training. Secrets of Japanese Dance through the Alishina Method, by Juju Alishina, Dance Research 34, no. 2: 261-262.
2015 Review: Performativity and Event in 1960s Japan: City, Body, Memory, by Peter Eckersall, Japan Forum 27, no. 2: 280-283.
2014 Review: Hijikata: Revolt Of The Body, by Stephen Barber. Asian Theatre Journal 31, no. 2: 625-628.
2014 Review: Moni Mekhala and Ream Eyso, edited by Prumsodon Ok. Asian Theatre Journal, 31:1, 324-326.
2013 Review: Hijikata Tatsumi and Butoh: Dancing in a Pool of Gray Grits, by Bruce Baird. Asian Theatre Journal 30, no. 1: 263-266.
Choreography
2021 aqueous (screen dance version), premiere at Greater Denton Arts Council
2021 aqueous (site version), premiere at North Lakes Pond, Denton, TX. Also performed at the Rio Bosque Wetlands, El Paso, TX.
2019 aqueous (stage version), premiere at the Kyoto Butoh Festival, Kyoto, Japan. Also performed at the Houston Fringe Festival.
2019 Confluence, choreographed with Heyward Bracey and Nguyễn Nguyên, premiere at Beach Dances, Santa Monica, CA. Also performed at Gold Series 2, Pasadena, CA.
2018 Landlocked Merpeople, collaboration with Tanya Calamoneri (choreography), West Oxking and Seth Warren Crow (music).
Premiere at the Texas Dance Improvisation Festival. Also performed at Butoh Next, New York City
2018 100 Ways to Kiss the Trees, presented at Clear Creek Natural Heritage Center, Denton, TX in cooperation with Sustainable Denton
2017 Into the Quarry: Equinox, presented at Clear Creek Natural Heritage Center, Denton, TX in cooperation with Sustainable Denton
2017 Dubiety, collaboration with musician Terry Horn, premiere at the Texas Dance Improvisation Festival
2016 Surface, collaboration with sculptor Colby Parsons, premiere at Texas Woman’s University
2015 Beyond Words, collaboration with Momentary Gamelan Ensemble, premiere at Grackle Gallery, Fort Worth, TX
2015 Into the Quarry, site-specific work at the Clear Creek Natural Heritage Center
Presented in cooperation with the City of Denton Sustainability Program
2012 the temple snakes licked her ears clean so she could hear the future
Presented by Body Weather Laboratory/Flower of the Season, Los Angeles, CA
2009 excerpere, presented by Anatomy Riot, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Fullness Comes, presented by Body Weather Laboratory/Flower of the Season, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Descent, presented by The Theatre Expansion, Providence, RI
Awards and Honors
2022 Mid-Career Award, Dance Studies Association
2020 Faculty Development Leave, awarded for fall 2020
2018 Oscar G. Brockett Book Prize for Dance Research for Flowers Cracking Concrete:
Eiko & Koma’s Asian/American Choreographies
2016 Mary Mason Lyons Award for distinguished junior faculty, TWU
Grants and Fellowships
2023 Planet Texas 2050
2022 New York Public Library Dance Research Fellowship
2020 Short-term Research Travel to Japan Grant, Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies, $5,000 (unused due to the pandemic)
2020 School of the Arts Faculty Scholarship Enhancement Grant, TWU
2019 Creative Arts and Humanities Research Grant, TWU
2019 School of the Arts Faculty Scholarship Enhancement Grant, TWU
2018 Creative Arts and Humanities Research Grant, TWU
2016 New York Public Library Short Term Research Fellowship
2016 Creative Arts and Humanities Research Grant, TWU
2015 School of the Arts Interdisciplinary Collaboration Initiative Grant, TWU
2015 College of Arts and Sciences Comprehensive Research Funds Grant, TWU
2015 School of the Arts Faculty Scholarship Enhancement Grant, TWU
2015 Teaching and Research Grant for Equipment and Technology, TWU
2015 College of Arts and Sciences Arts & Humanities Research Development Grant, TWU
2014 School of the Arts Faculty Scholarship Enhancement Grant, TWU
2013 Texas Woman’s University Faculty Development Grant, TWU
2013 School of the Arts Faculty Scholarship Enhancement Grant, TWU
2012 Mellon Archive Fellow, Dance Heritage Coalition
2012 Mellon Dance Studies in/and the Humanities Summer Seminar
2011-12 Research Fellow, Center for the Study of Women, UCLA
2011-12 Tillie Olsen Research Scholar Grant, Center for the Study of Women, UCLA
Invited Lectures and Residencies
2023 “Butoh Ecologies Workshop/Lecture,” Embodied Ecologies Symposium, Stanford University.
2023 “How Does a Body Speak?” Eiko Otake: I Invited Myself II, Colorado College.
2023 “Tracing Anna Halprin’s Influences on American Butoh Ecologies,” Dance and Ecology, A Symposium for Climate Action, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Jerome Robbins Dance Division
2022 “Butoh Ecologies and the Radically Re-ordered Butoh Body,” Cuerpos en Revuelta online lecture series, “Pensar desde el cuerpo con(tra) el butoh” (Mexico)
2021 “Butoh Ecologies” keynote lecture and workshop, World Dance Alliance - Americas Annual Virtual Conference
2021 “Butoh Ecologies” two-day workshop and performances at the Salish Sea Butoh Workshop Residency, Port Townsend, WA
2021 “Butoh and Nature: Dance as Decolonial Ecological Methodology,” Kenyon College “Race in Motion” speaker series, Gambier, OH (Virtual)
2021 “Butoh and Nature: Dance as Ecological Methodology.” Friends of Dance Lecture, Emory University.
2019 “Butoh, Arousal, and Nature.” Keynote speech for Butoh Next Symposium, CUNY Graduate Center, New York.
2018 “Flowers Cracking Concrete: Eiko Otake in Performance and Conversation with author Rosemary Candelario.” Fridays at Noon series, 92nd Street Y, New York.
2018 “Doing Dance and Dances that Do: On Adagio Activism, Spontaneous Choreographies of Protest, and My Trajectory as an Artist Scholar.” Keynote speech at the Dance Under Construction annual conference, University of California, Riverside.
2018 “Dancing Ground Zeroes in Japan and the United States: Eiko & Koma’s Transnational Choreographies of the Nuclear.” Public lecture for the Thursday Lecture Series, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan.
2017 “Flowers Cracking Concrete: The Politics of Eiko & Koma's Choreography,” Alfred University
2017 “Eiko & Koma: Dance History, Site Dance, and Intercultural Alliance,” Rutgers University
2017 “Flowers Cracking Concrete: Rosemary Candelario on Eiko & Koma's Asian/American Choreographies,” New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
2015 “From ground zero to Ground Zero: Eiko & Koma Perform Transnational Reparation,” Reed College
2014 “Choreographing Archives: Contemporary Works by Eiko & Koma, Bebe Miller, and Jennifer Monson,” University of Texas, Austin.
2012 “Butoh: Modern and Postmodern Expressions of the Dance of Utter Darkness,” Five College Japan Lecture Series, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Conference Papers
2023 “Cultural Problems Demand Cultural Solutions”: Performing Abortion Stories for Culture Change.” National Women’s Studies Association, Baltimore, MD.
2023 “The Hope We Perform: Viva Ruiz’s “Thank God for Abortion” Pride Parade Float and Emergent Cultural Politics.” American Society for Theatre Research, Providence, RI.
2023 “Self-Managed Abortion and the Nonreproductive Ontology of Performance.” International Federation for Theatre Research, Accra, Ghana.
2022 “Jinen Butoh: Entering the Flow of the Universe.” International Federation for Theatre Research, Reykjavik, Iceland.
2021 “Dancing Ecological Precedence: Diego Piñón's Decolonial Body Movement Ritual,” Ecology and Performance Working Group, American Society for Theatre Research, San Diego, CA.
2021 “Reproductive Justice and the Performance of Radical (Self) Care,” Dance Studies Association, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
2021 “‘NatureMoves': Connecting Butoh and Anna Halprin,” International Federation for Theatre Research, Virtual
2019 “Butoh, Arousal, and Outdoor Dance Training: Ecological Dance as a Method of Decolonization.” Confluences 10, Cape Town, South Africa.
2019 “A Gathering of/for Butoh Commons” with Bruce Baird and Megan Nicely. Dance Studies Association, Evanston, IL
2019 “Butoh, Urbanism, and the Draw of the Rural.” International Federation for Theatre Research, Shanghai, China.
2018 “Serve the People: Social Movements, Cultural Production and the case of Asian American Dance Theater and the Asian New Dance Coalition,” International Federation for Theatre Research, Belgrade, Serbia
2018 “Audacious Arousal: Butoh, Ecology, Ethnography.” Annual Conference of the American Society for Theatre Research, San Diego, CA
2018 “Eiko Otake: A Body in Places” as part of the “Performing Protest, Choreographing Coalitions: Asian American Performance and the Politics of Solidarity” roundtable. Annual Conference of the Association of Asian American Studies, San Francisco, CA.
2017 “Spontaneous Choreographies of Protest: Shifting the Score of Texas Abortion Politics,” Annual Conference of the National Women’s Studies Association, Baltimore, MD.
2017 “Asian American (in the) Archives: Recovering the Asian New Dance Coalition in the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts,” Annual Conference of the Dance Studies Association, Columbus, OH.
2017 “Serve the People: Social Movements, Cultural Production, and the case of Asian American Dance Theatre.” Annual Conference of the Association of Asian American Studies, Portland, OR.
2016 “Identification in Process: Asian American Dance Theater in the 1970s.” Annual Conference of the Association of Asian American Studies, Miami, FL.
2015 “EcoButoh: Dance as Ecological Methodology.” Annual Conference of the American Society for Theatre Research, Portland, OR.
2015 “The Choreographers are Present: Archiving Dance in Museums.” Annual Meeting of the College Art Association, New York, NY.
2014 “Choreographing Archives: Contemporary Works by Eiko & Koma, Bebe Miller, and Jennifer Monson.” Joint Annual Conference of the Congress on Research in Dance and the Society of Dance History Scholars, Iowa City, IA.
2014 “Choreography and Stratification: Cycling Through Eiko & Koma’s Body of Work” International Federation for Theatre Research, Coventry, UK.
2014 “Eiko & Koma and Asian/American Dance.” Association for Asian American Studies, San Francisco, CA.
2013 “Butoh and Global Circulations of the Avant-Garde.” Joint Annual Conference of the Congress on Research in Dance and the Society of Dance History Scholars, Riverside, CA.
2013 “Nowhere/Now Here: Oguri’s Height of Sky.” International Federation for Theatre Research, Barcelona, Spain.
2013 “Mourning (and) the City: Eiko & Koma and New York.” Hemispheric Institute’s Encuentro, São Paulo, Brazil.
2012 “History, Culture, and Globalization: New Local Butohs.” Annual Conference of the Congress on Research in Dance, Albuquerque, NM.
2012 “Mourning (and) the City: Eiko & Koma’s New York Site Dances.” Annual Conference of the Society of Dance History Scholars, Philadelphia, PA.
2011 “From ground zero to Ground Zero: Performing transnational reparation in Eiko & Koma’s Offering.” Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, Baltimore.
2011 “Prolonging Mourning: Dance, Affect, and the Public Sphere.” International Federation for Theatre Research, Osaka, Japan.
Service to the Profession
2021-present Vice President for Publications and Research, Dance Studies Association
2021-present Co-Convenor, Choreography and Corporeality Working Group of the International Federation for Theatre Research
2019-2021 Editor, Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies
2019-present Dance Studies Association Standing Committee on Publications and Research
2020 The de la Torre Bueno First Book Prize® and The de la Torre Bueno Prize® Committee
2019 Co-Organizer, Butoh Next international symposium
2019 Co-Organizer, Workshops and Lectures with Nakajima Natsu, UCLA
2019 Facilitator, Japan Arts and Globalization Works in Progress Retreat
2015-2019 Associate Editor, Brazilian Journal of Presence Studies
2013-2017 Recording Secretary, Society of Dance History Scholars
2015 Congress on Research in Dance/Society of Dance History Scholars joint annual conference program committee
2014 Congress on Research in Dance Book Awards Reviewer
2012-14 Conference Committee, Congress on Research in Dance
2010-11 Planning Committee, “Between Experiment, Form, and Culturalism: Butoh History and Contemporary Practice,” international symposium
2008-09 Co-Chair, Dance Under Construction XI, A UC Graduate Student Conference
Pre-tenure, tenure, and promotion reviews: Colorado College, Reed College, University of California Riverside, University of Cape Town, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Book proposal reviews: Routledge
Book manuscript reviews: Intellect, Routledge, University of Michigan Press, University of Washington Press
Article reviews: Dance Chronicle, Theatre History Studies
PhD Dissertation External Examiner: Rhodes University (South Africa), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (South Africa)
University Service
2021 Chair, Department of Dance search committee
2019-2021 Chair, College of Arts & Sciences Public Affairs Forum Committee
2019 Special Member, Research Support Committee
2018-2019 Co-Chair, Faculty Senate Academic Freedom and Responsibility Committee
2017-2023 Coordinator, PhD Program in Dance
2017-2019 New Faculty Mentor, College of Arts & Sciences
2017-2019 Texas Woman’s University Faculty Senate
2017-2018 Chair, Department of Dance search committee
2016-2018 Mentor, Pioneer Teaching and Learning Academy
2015-2018 College of Arts & Sciences Public Affairs Forum Committee
2014-2017 Graduate Council
2014-2017 Graduate Council Research Committee
2012-2018 Coordinator, MA Program in Dance
2012-14 Department of Dance search committee
2013-14 Review Committee for the Award for Outstanding Service to TWU Libraries
Languages
French Certificat de langue française, nivel superieur, Sorbonne cours d’êté
German high intermediate level: speaking, writing, reading
Japanese advanced beginning level: speaking, writing, reading
Professional Memberships
American Society for Theatre Research
Association for Asian American Studies
Association for Asian Performance
Dance Studies Association
International Federation for Theatre Research (Choreography and Corporeality Working Group)
National Women’s Studies Association