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INTERNATIONAL
American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR). Puerto Rico. November 2009.
Part of Carnivals and Fiestas working group. Attended virtually.
Hemispheric Institute Encuentro. Bogota, Colombia. August 2009.
Presented a paper "The Ultimate Effigy: Staging a Counter-Empire Performance at the Burning Man Festival," for the Festive Devils working group.
Hemispheric Institute Encuentro. Buenos Aires, Argentina. June 2007.
Presented a paper for the Body as Ritual Space working group titled “Reinventing Ritual, Carnival, and Political Performance in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada."
How to Act: Conference on Theatre Pedagogy. Central School of Speech and Drama, London. February 2007. Presented a paper titled “Pedagogies of Practice: A Post-Modern Approach to the Transmission of Performance Knowledge”. Lead two workshops – one on Rasaboxes and another on Lecoq Physical Theatre pedagogy
Performance Studies International #10.Singapore. June 2004
Presented Rasaboxes Training Technique with Paula Murray Cole with Lecture/ Demo
NATIONAL
American Society For Theatre Research (ASTR): Embodying Power/Work Over Time. Seattle, November 2010.
“Mourning En Masse: Tucson’s All Souls Day Procession,” for the Popular Fiesta and Carnival of the Americas: Movement, Politics and the Body en Masse Working Session. Co-convener with Angela Marino Segura and Milla Riggio.
“Embodying Landscape: From Veneration to Disruption,” co-convener (unofficial) with Heather Ramey, Rachel Gostenhofer, and Stuart Parker.
ATHE (Association of Theatre in Higher Education). Los Angeles 2010.
“Will We Just Survive or Will We Thrive? The Challenge of Implementing Entrepreneurship in Theatre,” invited round-table chaired by Carolyn Roark with Linda Essig and Lynn Book.
“Darkness Behind the Light: Media Design for Deborah Stein’s Bone Portraits,” media presentation and chaired panel titled Innovative Modes of Directing in the Digital Age. Directing Focus Group.
“Devising the Ophelia Project: A Poetic Portrait,” media presentation for Devising Ensemble in a Digital World. Directing Focus Group.
“Rasaboxes and the Tragic Chorus,” movement workshop and chaired session, Movement for the Tragic Chorus 1. Association for Theatre Movement Educators Focus Group.
Chaired Movement for the Tragic Chorus II. Association for Theatre Movement Educators Focus Group.
ATHE (Association of Theatre in Higher Education). New York City, August 2009.
“On the Edge: Media Design in Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal and Naomi Iizuka’s Anon(ymous),” paper presentation and chaired panel titled Avatars and Actors: Innovative Modes of Directing in the Digital Age. Directing Focus Group.
Chaired workshop/lecture/demo titled “Rasaboxes: Training the Athlete of the Emotions.”
“Rasaboxes and Shakespeare,” in the Heightened Text and Movement workshop, for the Association of Theatre Movement Educators focus group.
“Rasaboxes and Directing: Machinal and Mapping an Emotional Score,” for Bridging the Theory/Practice Divide in the Study of the Body Performance Studies focus group round-table to discuss how I integrate theory and praxis using the rasaboxes training technique in my directing work at Arizona State University.
ATHE (Association of Theatre in Higher Education). Denver. July 2008.
Presented a paper “Actor As Athlete: Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal” for the ATME “Dreaming and Imagining” Pre-conference.
ASTR (American Society For Theatre Research). Phoenix, Arizona. November 2007.
Presented a paper for the Escaping America Seminar, “Rehearsing Utopia: Staging a Counter-Empire Performance at Burning Man”
Performance Studies International #13. New York University, New York City. November 2007.
Presented a paper titled “Pedagogies of Practice: A Post-modern Approach to the Transmission of Performance Knowledge” (Revised).
Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Conference. Philadelphia, PA. November 2007.
Presented a paper titled “Rehearsing Utopia in Black Rock City: From the Everyday to Spectacle”
ATHE (Association of Theatre in Higher Education). New Orleans. July 2007.
Presented a paper for the Religion and Theatre focus group titled “Temple of Tears: Revitalizing and Inventing Ritual in the Burning Man Community in Black Rock Desert, Nevada”
10TH Annual Conference on Holidays, Ritual, Festival, Celebration, and Public Display. Willamette University, Salem, Oregon. June 2 - 4, 2006.
Presented: “Temple of Tears: Revitalizing and Inventing Ritual in the Burning Man Community in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada."
Performance Studies International #11. Brown University, Rhode Island. April 2005.
Led Poetic Body Lecoq workshop and performed Transfix with Vessel.
Hemispheric Institute Encuentro. New York University, New York City. July 2003.
Performed in Richard Schechner’s Yokastas at Kimmel Center.
LOCAL
Spirit of the Senses. Phoenix, Arizona. December 2008.
Invitation to present my research, “Dancing with Fire: Performance and Ritual at Burning Man.”
P.A.V.E. Inaugural Symposium on Entrepreneurship and the Arts. Arizona State University, November 2008.
Panel moderator for Arts Entrepreneurship Education with Gary Beckman, Mark Sheridan-Rabideau, Lynn Book, and Francesca Talenti.
Engaging Difficult Dialogues: Women, the Death Penalty, and Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal Symposium.
With Rachel Bowditch, Jerry Dickey, Georganne Scheiner Gillis, and Lisa Anderson. Lyceum Theatre, Arizona State University. October 2007.
Humanities Council Round-Table (Part 2): Redefining Performance in the 21st Century
Round-Table Coordinator with RoseLee Goldberg (Fall 2005 - Spring 2006)
With invited curators; Lia Gangitano (Curator of Participant) and Anthony Huberman (Curator of Sculpture Center).
Humanities Council Round-Table (Part 1): Redefining Performance in the 21st Century
Round-Table Coordinator with RoseLee Goldberg (Fall 2004 - Spring 2005)
With Invited artists: choreographers Ralph Lemon and Sarah Mitchelson, performance artist Coco Fusco, Julian Laverderie (9/11 Memorial:Tribute in Light), Tim Etchells (Forced Entertainment), Liz LeCompte (Wooster Group), and Christian Marclay.
Invited Guest Speak, Off-Off On-Line Staff Seminar. New York City. April 20th, 2004.
Tuesday Night Series: Moderated Panel with director Richard Foreman. New York University, New York City. April 2004.
Humanities Council Seminar: Intertexuality and Theatrical Adaptations. New York University, New York City. September 2003 - May 2004.
Invited by Carol Martin.
