Rubin Center – World Dance Alliance Americas

Papers: Rainy Demerson, Bonnie Cox & Melissa Melpignano | Moderator: Ilana Morgan
9:00 am - 10:15 am

Panel: Multidisciplinary Performance as Change-Agent: A Framework for Replication | Genevieve Durham DeCesaro & Rachel Hirshorn | Moderator: Cristina Goletti
10:00 am - 11:15 am

Pecha Kucha
10:00 am - 11:15 am

Papers: Cylene Walker-Willis, Nina Martin & Ilana Morgan | Moderator: Adriana Dominguez
11:30 am - 12:45 pm

Papers: Emily Morgan, Kaus Sarkar & Danielle Georgiou | Moderator: Jilissa Cotten
11:30 am - 12:45 pm

Digital Dance with Q&A to follow
12:45 pm - 2:00 pm

Digital Dance on Loop
12:45 pm - 2:15 pm

Papers: Lisa Fusillo & Tanya Evidente | Moderator: Lisa Smith
2:15 pm - 3:30 pm

Blurring the lines: An exploration of inter and trans disciplinary art production with Ana Baer Carrillo & Cheri Prough DeVol
2:15 pm - 3:30 pm

Digital Dance on Loop
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Panel: Pilates vs. Strength Training for Injury Prevention in University Dance Students | Ali Duffy & Tanya Calamoneri | Moderator: Leanne Rinelli
3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

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 ...