Audio Podcasts
As part of CORD's vision to make dance research accessible, following each conference, CORD is providing an audio podcast available to the general public for download as a sample of the research presented at the CORD conferences. The audio podcast below is from the November 2010 conference,
Embodying Power: Work Over Time.
Melissa Blanco Borelli, University of Surrey
“Power and Hi(p)-stories: Dancing in Cuba’s Academias de Baile (1920’s-1950’s)”
Melissa Blanco Borelli joined the Dance, Film and Theatre department of the University of Surrey in the fall of 2008. She has also taught at UCLA, UC Riverside and Citrus College. She holds a PhD in Dance History and Theory (now Critical Dance Studies) from the University of California, Riverside, an MA in Communications Management from the University of Southern California, and a BA in Music and International Relations from Brown University. Her monograph in progress examines the mulata body through comparative social dance and everyday embodied histories in Havana (and New Orleans) from the nineteenth to mid-twentieth century. An edited volume on dance, identity and corporeality on popular screens is in progress as well. She has taught and performed Afro-Cuban sacred dance in Los Angeles, New York, and Havana, Cuba, and she dances/performs other Latino/Latin American social dance forms: salsa, son, danzon, rumba, tango, cumbia as well as other Colombian folkloric forms. In April 2008, she performed her one-woman show "Mulata Madness" (based on her dissertation research) at MIT and is developing it further for future incarnations. She is also writing a performance and film project on sixteenth century Spanish mulata hermaphrodite Elena/o de Cespedes. Dr. Blanco Borelli currently serves on the CORD Board of Directors.
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s a member benefit, additional podcasts from the 2010 conference are available for download for current CORD members only. Click here to visit the member's only section to access the additional podcasts.
Additional podcasts available in the members-only section of the site:
Plenary 3: Local Plenary: Points of Intersection: Theatre and Dance in Seattle Performing Arts
- Dayna Hansen, Dance/Theater/Film Artist
- Waxie Moon aka Marc Kenison
- Linda Hartzell, Artistic Director of Seattle Children’s Theatre
Plenary 4: Corporeal Power and Nation-States
- Lisa Doolittle, University of Lethbridge, Anne Flynn, University of Calgary, and Troy Emery Twigg,“Performing Negotiations: Blackfoot Dance/Spectacle, the Colony, and Multicultural Canada 1870-2010” University of Lethbridge,
- Néstor Bravo Goldsmith, Arizona State University, “Engendering the Nation: The Chilean Military Parade as Work over Time”
- Christina S. McMahon, University of California, Santa Barbara, “Inspired Collisions, Formidable Complicity: Mozambique’s National Song and Dance Company in the Post-Civil War Era”
Plenary 7: Subversions of Power
- Sabia McCoy-Torres, Cornell University, “Who Has ‘It’? The Performance of Blackness and Inversions of History and Power in Costa Rican Dancehall Style Dance”
- Gerard M. Samuel, University of Cape Town, “Shampoo Dancing and Scarsundefined(Dis)Embodiment in Afro-Contemporary Choreography in South Africa”
- Carl Paris, Long Island University, C.W. Post, “Power (Empowerment) Through Self, the Body, and Black Male Identity in Contemporary Modern Dance”
- Subversions of Power Q&A Session
Plenary 8: Labor/Commodity/Object
- Judith Hamera, Texas A&M University, “The Labors of Michael Jackson: Virtuosity, Deindustrialization, and Performing ‘Work’”
- Barbara Browning, New York University, “Dame Quickly and the Dancing Table: Performance and the Commodity Fetish”
