Schedule (updated: 1/25/09)

Conference Schedule
January 31, 2009

8:30-9:30
Registration

Tisch School of the Arts/NYU Dance Department
111 Second Ave, 2nd Floor
Son of Normandy Studio
New York, NY 10003

9:30-10:15
Keynote Address: Deborah Jowitt
Tisch School of the Arts/NYU Department of Dance
Fractured Atlas: Adam Natale

10:30-11:45
Panel 1: Responsive Environments: Improvisation, Encounters, Movement, and Change

• “Response and Responsibility: Intersubjectivity, Embodied Presence, and Spontaneity in Post Modern Choreography”
Annie Kloppenberg, The Ohio State University
• “This is the Change I’ve Been Waiting for—History, Movement, Identity, and Time”
Yauri Sabrinthia Kelly-Dalencour, Temple University
• “Move: A Dance for Camera”
I-Fen Lin, University of Utah
• “Specular Encounters and The Sublime in Us”
Biba Bell, TSOA/NYU Department of Performance Studies

12:00-1:00
Panel 2: Dance Techniques/Cultural Impulses

• “Gaga: a folk dance originating in the sovereign space of nonsense”
Kathryn Schetlick, TSOA/NYU Department of Performance Studies
• “Corporeal Mime: The Impulse in Performance”
Selma Trevino, TSOA/NYU Department of Performance Studies
• “A Choreographic Exploration of PAST/PRESENT”
Lona Kisha Lee, Smith College

1:00-2:00
LUNCH


2:00-3:15
Education Panel
Phyllis Lamhut, Instructor
Tisch School of the Arts/NYU Department of Dance
Barbara Browning, Professor
Tisch School of the Arts/NYU Department of Performance Studies
Randy Martin, Chair
Tisch School of the Arts/NYU Department of Art & Public Policy
Julie Malnig, Professor
NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study
Deborah Damast, Professor
NYU Steinhardt School of Education
Danielle Goldman, Professor
The New School (moderator)

3:30-4:45
Panel 3: Body Transformations: Perceptions, Contractions, Becomings

• “Semiotech: Wearable Performance Technologies”
Amy Koshbin and Michael Clemow, NYU/Tisch ITP
• “The Möbius Strip as Topology of the Body”
Marina Libel, NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study
• “Contraction: Moving On”
Stefania Mylona, University of Surrey, UK
• “To do or Not to do…”
Moriah Evans, UC San Diego, Department of Visual Arts

5:00-6:00
Panel 4: Beginning Again: Repetition, Memory, and Death

• “Cultural Choreography: The Dance of Death and the Impulse of Memory”
Ellen Rooney, Bowling Green State University Department of Theater and Film
• “Beginning Again: The Performance of Repetition in Giselle”
Kathleen Edens, NYU/Tisch Performance Studies
• “Almost, Not Quite”
Kathryn Enright, The Ohio State University