Scholarly Research – World Dance Alliance Americas

Scholarly Research: From Traditional to contemporary expressions: negotiating identity through the creative process of exploration of memory in three inter-related human faculties: body, mind, and emotion with Sashar Zarif

Tuesday, April 27, 2021 @ 12:00 pm CST Sashar ZarifExternal Research AssociateYork Centre for Asian Studies Keywords: Contemporarization, unlearning, traditional, dance laboratory, memory studies, empowerment,…

Scott Martin April 19, 2021

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Scholarly Research: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Dissecting cultural appropriation and representation in ballet by Lisa Fusillo

Wednesday, April 28, 2021 @ 12:00 pm CST Lisa FusilloProfessorUniversity of Georgia Keywords: Appropriation, acculturation, cultural identity Cultural appropriation and representation are complex issues at…

Scott Martin April 14, 2021

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Scholarly Research: Enhancing activism and connectivity through environmental, political, social, and cross-cultural infused creative research by Bala Sarasvati (AKA Shelley Shepherd)

Monday, April 26, 2021 @ 12:00 pm CST Bala Sarasvati (AKA Shelley Shepherd)Jane Willson Professor in the Arts Keywords: interdisciplinary, multimedia production, experiential creative research,…

Scott Martin April 14, 2021

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Scholarly Research: Embodying Earth: Dance, Ecology, and Entanglement of the Senses by Pegge Vissicaro

Tuesday, April 27, 2021 @ 12:00 pm CST Pegge VissicaroPart-Time Faculty and Candidate for Master of Arts in AnthropologyNorthern Arizona University Keywords: Dance, Ecology, Ecochoreology,…

Scott Martin April 14, 2021

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Scholarly Research: Lathi Khela : Tracing the past, present and future ecologies of the female body in a martial art tradition of Bangaldesh by Sumedha Bhattacharyya

Tuesday, April 27, 2021 @ 12:00 pm CST Sumedha BhattacharyyaO.P Jindal University Keywords: gender, gender capital, female, continuity, tradition, ecology, care, resistance This paper weaves…

Scott Martin April 14, 2021

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Scholarly Research: Duet with Camera: from passion to pedagogical practice, towards an ecology of care by Sumedha Bhattacharyya

Friday, April 23, 2021 @ 12:00 CST Sumedha BhattacharyyaAcademic Tutor and TRIP(Teaching and Research Assistantship for Intellectual Pursuit) FellowO.P JIndal University Keywords: care, camera, ecology,…

Scott Martin April 14, 2021

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Scholarly Research: Transforming Unconscious Negativity to Consciousness through Somatic Practices by Siva Pooja Ramachandran

Monday, April 26, 2021 @ 12:00 pm CST Siva Pooja RamachandranGraduate StudentArizona State University Keywords: unconscious negativity, cycles, transformative spiral, embodied experience, response-ability, somatic-psychological, self-reflection…

Scott Martin April 14, 2021

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Scholarly Research: Imposter Syndrome in the Profession: Doing Better For Ourselves So We Can Do Better For Our Students by Azaria Rianne Hogans

Friday, April 23 @ 12:00 CST Azaria Rianne HogansAssistant ProfessorMissouri State University Keywords: Imposter Syndrome, collaboration, community, counterspace Imposter syndrome is a buzz word that…

Scott Martin April 13, 2021

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Scholarly Research: Ecologies, histories, and legacies: the academic discipline of Dance in the U.S. by Melonie B. Murray

Wednesday, April 28, 2021 @ 12:00pm CST Dr. Melonie B. MurrayUniversity of Utah, USA Keywords: Dance, Higher Education, NASD, Academic, Discipline For many US dance…

Scott Martin April 2, 2021

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WDAA News

Dr. Linda Caldwell Scholarship Endowment

Join us in donating to the Dr. Linda Caldwell Scholarship Endowment! Linda Caldwell was an integral member of WDA – Americas and brought many of us together through her leadership, dance advocacy, and her infectious laughter. It was her wish that her estate establish a Texas Woman’s University scholarship for dance students with an award of $2,000 yearly ...

Welcome to our first virtual Assembly!

Dear WDA-Americas Virtual Presenters and Participants, We are so excited to welcome you to our very first virtual Conference & Festival Assembly ‘Ecologies Of and Through the Body’ on April 22-29, 2021. This year we have experienced the world in the midst of a global pandemic as well as widespread civil unrest due to social and ...

WDAA stands with the AAPI community

WDA-America Board Members strongly condemn the violence and ongoing harassment directed at Asians, Asian Americans, and Pacific Islanders. As dance and movement practitioners with a long-standing relationship to our Asian Pacific partner organization WDA-AP, we express our solidarity with the communities affected. We thank our colleagues from the Association of Asian Studies for compiling a list of ...