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PAPER PRESENTATIONS

all oral presentations of solo authored papers

“Pregnant Body as Choreographic Site/Sight” The International Parenting and Dance Network (IPDN), Researching Parenting and Dance: What physiological and psychological experiences are related to parenthood and dance?, Canterbury Christ Church University (April 12, 2024 Canterbury)

“Does the Postmodern Dance World ‘Make Room’ for Dancer-Parents” The International Parenting and Dance Network (IPDN), Researching Parenting and Dance: creative and practice-based methods and processes, Queen’s University (Sept 15, 2023 Belfast)

“Dancing Communities Responding to Maternal Health Disparities” Dance Studies Association (DSA), Galvanizing Dance/Studies: Building Antiracist Praxis, Transformative Connections, and Movement(s) of Radical Care, Rutgers University (Oct 14-17, 2021 New Brunswick)

“Advocacy, Artistry, and Support for the Pregnant Dancer” National Dance Education Organization
(NDEO), The Creative Process: Choreography, Choice-making, and Communication, Hyatt Regency Miami (Oct 23-26, 2019 Miami)

“Performative Pregnancies” Dance Studies Association (DSA), Dancing in Common, Northwestern
University (Aug 8-11, 2019 Evanston)

“Prenatal Dance for Wellness” Reproductive Health Interest Group (RHIG) Fielding School of Public Health, Student Research Panel of Gender and Reproductive Health, UCLA (May 17, 2018 Los Angeles)

“Prenatal Dance for Wellness: Moving Beyond Fitness into Pleasure” Center for the Study of Women (CSW) Thinking Gender Conference, Pre-Existing Conditions, UCLA (Mar 1-2, 2018 Los Angeles)

Link to video of talk

“Barefoot and Pregnant, Fit and Firm” Chew on This, humanities graduate student organized lecture series, UCLA (Oct 10, 2017)

“The Labor of the Dancing Body” Dance Studies Association (DSA), Transmissions and Traces: Rendering Dance, Ohio State University (Oct 19-22, 2017 Columbus)

“Understanding the Pregnant Body through the Language of Prenatal Dance Fitness” American Society of Theater Research (ASTR), Extra/Ordinary Bodies Conference (Nov 16-19, 2017 Atlanta)

“Better Soon. now.now.” New York University, Dance Across the Board Conference (Feb 12, 2011 New York City)

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