Dancing East Asia: Critical Choreographies and their Corporeal Politics
Conference Program
Friday April 7th
Location: Hatcher Library Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Central Campus
8:15-8:30 Coffee/Tea and Snacks
8:30-9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
Emily Wilcox & Katherine Mezur
9:00-11:30 PANEL I—Estranged: Shifting Contemporary Geographies
Chair: Tarryn Chun, University of Michigan
9:00-9:30
“Modern Dance, Peking Opera, Global Modernity: Mei Lanfang’s New Dance-Driven Operas of the 1910-1920s”
Catherine Yeh, Boston University
9:30-10:00
“Nationalist in Form, Socialist in Content: Choe Seung-hui, the Oriental Ballet, and Folk Dance in North Korea”
Suzy Kim, Rutgers University
10:00-10:30
“Diasporic Modernities: Locating East Asia in Global Modern Dance History”
Emily Wilcox, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
10:30-11:00
“The Dilemma of Chinese Classical Dance: Traditional or Contemporary?”
Dong Jiang, Chinese National Academy of Arts, Beijing
11:00-11:30
Q&A
11:30-12:30 Lunch (Invited Speakers only)
12:30-3:00 PANEL II—Suspended: Between States Retraced
Chair: Clare Croft, University of Michigan
12:30-1:00
“Choreographing the Colonial Mass Pageant: Itō Michio in the Pacific War”
Tara Rodman, Northwestern University
1:00-1:30
“Balance of Modernity: The Transnational Adaptation of Si fan in Japan’s and China’s New Dance Movements in the Early Twentieth Century”
Nan Ma, Dickinson College
1:30-2:00
“Scalar Shifts: From Kunqu Bodies to Hong Kong’s “One Country, Two Systems”
Ellen Gerdes, University of California, Los Angeles
2:00-2:30
“Choreographing Race: Dancing Bodies on Musical Stages in Korea and Beyond”
Ji Hyon (Kayla) Yuh, CUNY Graduate Center
2:30-3:00
Q&A
3:00-3:30 Break
3:30-6:00 PANEL III— Enlisted: Women Bodies Politic
Chair: Hitomi Tonomura, University of Michigan
3:30-4:00
“Dance in Imperial China: The Mobile Entertainer”
Beverly Bossler, University of California, Davis
4:00-4:30
“Performing Nation: Geisha Dance Performance under Japanese Militarism in the 1930’s”
Mariko Okada, Oberlin University, Tokyo
4:30-5:00
“Negotiating Chinese Identity through a Double-Minority Voice and Women’s Dancing Body on the Global Stage: Yang Liping’s Spirit of the Peacock and Beyond”
Ting-Ting Chang, National Taiwan University of Arts and University of Taipei
5:00-5:30
“Fans, Sashes, and Jesus: Evangelical Activism and Worship Dance in South Korea”
Soo Ryon Yoon, Yale University
5:30-6:00
Q&A
6:30pm – 8:30pm Dinner (Invited Speakers only)
Saturday April 8th
Location: Hatcher Library Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Central Campus
Coffee/Tea and Snacks 10:15-10:30
10:30-1:30 PANEL IV—Twisted: Corporeality Interrogated
Chair: Se-Mi Oh, University of Michigan
10:30-11:00
“Disruptive Gestures: Radical Choreographic and Political Practice in 1960s Japan”
Sara Jansen, Universities of Brussels and Antwerp
11:00-11:30
“Korean Dance beyond Koreanness: Park Yeong-in in the German Modern Dance Scene”
Okju Son, Chung-Ang University, Seoul
11:30-12:00
“Cracking History's Codes in Crocodile Time: The Sweat, Powder, and Glitter of Women Butoh Artists, Ashikawa Yoko and Furukawa Anzu”
Katherine Mezur, University of California, Berkeley
12:00-12:30
“Digital Performance in Twenty-first Century Taiwan: Huang Yi & KUKA, a new form of Sino-corporeality”
Yatin Lin, Taipei National University of the Arts
12:30--1:00
“Exorcism and Reclamation: Jiao and the Corporeal History of the Taiwanese”
Ya-Ping Chen, Taipei National University of the Arts
1:00-1:30
Q&A
End of Public Programs
LUNCH 1:30-2:15 (Invited Speakers only)
2:15-5:45 Book Workshop (Invited Speakers only)
Location: Hatcher Library Fourth Floor—Asia Library Conference Room
Dinner 6:00-8:00 (Invited Speakers only)
