Research

PUBLICATIONS 
Chapters in Edited Collections

 “Mikhaïl Bakhtin, Modern Dance, and the Body’s Unmediated Presence in the World.” Co-authored with Robert Barsky. In Understanding Bakhtin, Understanding Modernism, edited by Phillipe Birgy. Bloomsbury. Published: 2023

Reviewed by Caryl Emerson: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/russ.12614 

 

Articles

“Embodying the Dance Rehearsal: The Time, Space and Situatedness of Dance Making” Journal of Dance Education. Published online: Nov 2021

https://doi.org/10.1080/15290824.2021.1970169

 

Edited Volume

Dance in the Americas, a special issue of the international open-access peer-reviewed journal AmeriQuests 7.2 (www.ameriquests.org) featuring an introduction (by Marsha Barsky) articles, reviews and performances. Publication date: fall 2010. Sponsored by Vanderbilt University, The Heard Library, the Government of Quebec Program Enhancement Grant, the Government of Canada Program Enhancement Grant. 

PRESENTATIONS

October 2023: "Promoting Leadership, Diversity, and Embodiment" National Dance Education Organization Conference, Denver, CO. 

April 2022: “Embodying Process: Research to Application in Dance” KSU Research with Relevance Series.

March 2022: “Embodying Process in Dance-Making” Clos des Bernardines Cultural Center, Saint-Aignan, France.

November 2017: “Major Developments: Accessing Tennessee’s First Dance Degree” National Dance Education Organization Conference, San Antonio, TX.

March 2017: “Directed Dancing” contemporary dance and the Alexander Technique. American College Dance Association, South Regional Conference, Auburn University, Auburn, AL.

June 2016: “Contemporary Dance Principles” Chengdu University, Chengdu, China.  

June 2016: “American Modern Dance History” Chengdu University, Chengdu, China.

February 2016: “The Value of the Performing Arts” MTSU Honors Lecture Series.

November 2014: “Inside/Outside: Bridging the Gap between Choreography and The Alexander Technique” National Dance Education Organization Conference, Chicago, IL.

February 2007: “The Body in Movement and in Social Interaction” French 267, Twentieth Century French Literature and Theory, Vanderbilt-in France, Aix-en-Provence.

 October 2007: “Conversation with José Limon Dance Company” panelist, Inside Out of the Lunch Box Lecture Series, Tennessee Performing Arts Center, Nashville, TN. 

March, 2007: “Arts in the Community” panelist, Nashville Arts Summit, Belmont Theatre, Nashville, TN. 

October 2006: “Choreographic Fusion” panelist, Inside Out of the Lunch Box Lecture Series, War Memorial Auditorium, Nashville, TN. 

March 2006: “Collaborative experience with SoPercussion” Inside Out of the Lunch

Box Lecture Series, Tennessee Performing Arts Center, Nashville, TN. 

 

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