(Forthcoming) “Hope Floats: Sinking Dance Saviorisms with an Economic Truth Dart.” Conference Plenary. 

American Society for Theatre Research, Providence RI, November 9, 2023.

Public Panel, Equitable Arts Research Group, Performance and Public Practice Fridays @2pm. April 14, 2023. University of Texas, Austin. 

Invited Lecture, Emory Friends of Dance Lecture: “Should I Dance for Free?” Emory University, Atlanta, GA, March 21, 2023.

Lead Convener/Moderator: How Artists Work, Now. A two-day series of public conversations included: November 8, 2022 conversation featured Colonel Rick Maher, Dr. Susan Steinberg Oren, and Christine Suarez discussing art, health and the military. November 9, 2022 featured MacArthur Fellows Dr. Anne Basting and Liz Lerman discussion collaborations in art and healthcare. Co-sponsors: Duke Arts, Dance, Theater Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies, Kenan Institute for Ethics, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, and Duke Forum for Scholars and Publics.

Invited Panelist, PBS North Carolina’s Indie Lens Pop-up Screening of Kelsey Petersen’s documentary Move Me, and Virtual Discussion, November 3, 2022.

Working Group Presenter. “Passionate Professionals: A Manifesto to End MFA Debt” co-authored with Patricia Ybarra. American Society of Theater Research, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 2-6, 2022.

Paper Presenter. “Accounting for Justice: Collegial Organizing and US Academic Dance” in pre-constituted panel Tackling Whiteness in our Practices/Institutions: Transnational Perspectives, Dance Studies Association Annual Conference, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, October 11-16, 2022.

Working Group Co-Convener/Presenter. “Infrastructural Sites and Cites: Interrogating Unattended Methods and Policies in Performance Research.” “Teaching Tools: Mobilizing US Dance Labor Policies, Practices, and Politics.” American Society for Theatre Research, San Diego, October 28-30, 2021. 

Invited Participant. “Funder Motivated Movement: Supremacist Patterns and Their Practical Undoing at the National Endowment for the Arts.” HUB Topic: Decolonizing Technologies and Techniques of Supremacy. Dance Studies Association Annual Conference, Rutgers, New Jersey, October 15-17, 2021.

Paper Presenter. “Bureaucratic Angling, Institutional Activism: The NEA Dance Program’s Covert “Culture Wars.” American Studies Association annual conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico. October 7-10, 2021. 

Paper Presenter. “Funding Bodies: the NEA’s role disciplining the comportment of members of the US dance field (1965-2016).” Cultural Studies Association annual conference, June 10-12, 2021. 

Working Group Co-Convener. “Infrastructural Sites and Cites: Interrogating Unattended Methods and Policies in Performance Research,” Association of Stage and Theater Research/ASTR annual conference, November 6, 2020, 11am-2pm. Co-conveners: Drs. Jasmine Jamillah Mahmoud and Patrick McKelvey.

Paper Presenter. “Bureaucratic Angling, Institutional Activism: The NEA Dance Program’s Covert “Culture Wars.” Arts Patronage in Modern America Conference, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, June 26, 2019.

Paper Presenter. “Funding Bodies: Working Identities in the Dance Program at the National Endowment for the Arts.” Cultural Studies Association annual conference, Tulane University. June 1, 2019.

Working Group Participant. “Funding Bodies: Managing Dance at the National Endowment for the Arts.” American Society for Theatre Research, San Diego, November 17, 2018. 

Paper Presenter. “How to Dance in a Crisis: Emergency Maneuvers at the US Department of Veterans Affairs” American Studies Association annual conference, Atlanta GA, November 10, 2018. 

Paper Presenter. “NEA Policy and (as) Possibility: Organizing African Disapora Dance. Collegium of African Diaspora Dance biennial conference. Duke University, February 18, 2018.

Working Group Co-convener. “Boring the Body/Boring Bodies: Perforating Hierarchies of Agentic Embodiment in Dance.” American Society for Theatre Research, Atlanta, Georgia. November 17, 2017. 

Paper Presenter. “Dance in/as Fake News: Notes from the Policy Front.” Dance Studies Association, The Ohio State University. Columbus Ohio. October 13, 2017. 

Moderator. “Transmitting Dance Studies: Latin American Concert Dance Research in Hemispheric Perspective.” Dance Studies Association, The Ohio State University. Columbus Ohio. October 14, 2017. 

Paper Presenter. “The National Dance Project: Transmitting Dance Touring, Squatting, and Staying Put.” Congress On Research in Dance/Society of Dance History Scholars Joint Conference, Pomona College, October 4, 2016. 

Paper Presenter, “Leveraging Acts and Labor Supports: Liz Lerman’s The Healing Wars. Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference, Chicago Palmer House Hilton, August 13, 2016. 

Paper Presenter. “Word Weapons and Commitment Muscles: Justifications for Federal Arts Subsidy and the US National Endowment for the Arts”. Congress on Research in Dance/Society for Dance History Scholars Joint Conference, University of Iowa, Iowa City, November 14, 2014. 

Moderator. “Embodied Agency and Danced Signifiers”. Congress on Research in Dance/Society for Dance History Scholars Joint Conference, University of Iowa, Iowa City, November 15, 2014. 

Paper Presenter. “Dance for Veterans: Social Soma and Subjective Emergence”, Northwestern University Graduate Student Conference, Department of Performance Studies, October 11, 2013. 

Moderator. “Choreographies of Curating.” Dance Under Construction/Congress on Research in Dance Special Topics Conference, UCLA, April 20, 2013. 

Moderator, Roundtable Organizer. “Unmasking Dance Making: Choreographies of Production” artist round table with: Simone Forti, Dan Froot, Rennie Harris, Lionel Popkin, David Rousséve, and Cheng-Chieh Yu. Congress on Research in Dance Special Topics Conference, Tactical Bodies, UCLA, April 20, 2013. 

Paper Presenter. “Critical Pedagogy and Arts Education.” Educating for Social Justice: Collaborative Critical Praxis. Graduate School of Education and Information Studies Teacher Education Program Conference, UCLA. May 2, 2012. 

Paper Presenter. “Governing Bodies: Dance Production in Policy and Practice”, paper presentation. Re- Imagining Archives in Motion, Dance Under Construction Graduate Dance Studies Conference at UC- Riverside, April 13-14, 2012. 

Co-Presenter. “Food For Thought: Methods for Generating Meaningful Feedback on Works-in-Progress.” Co-presenters: Heather Coker, Sarah Leddy, and Herbbie Moore. Chew On This series, UCLA. March 1, 2010. 

Paper Presenter. “Against Unison: Choreography as Representation and Being-in-the-World”, Congress On Research in Dance/Association of Stage and Theater Research Joint Conference, Renaissance Seattle Hotel, November 20, 2010.

Guest lecture. “Funding Bodies” University of Texas – Austin Performance as Public Practice (PPP) Program, Department of Theatre and Dance, “Cultural Policy Seminar.” October 4, 2022

Invited Panelist/Respondent “Re-Structuring? Policy and Performance Today” Brandon Woolf, Institutional Theatrics panel. NYU Skirball. Brandon Woolf, Organizer, May 7-8, 2022.

Lead Presenter. Dance Studies Association Grad Zoom Workshop Series. Topic: Publishing. April 23, 2022.

DanceNYC 2022 Symposium Keynote Discussion. “Artmaking and Humanity: Interrogating Attitudes on Culture, Race, and Politics across Decades” Moderated discussion featuring Karen Finley, Benedict Nguyen, and Carl Paris. New York New York, March 18, 2022.

Guest lecture, “Funding Bodies” University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.  American Studies Program, Dr. Clare Croft, host. “Dance in American Culture” course. March 15, 2022.

Book Talk, “Funding Bodies” CalArts Department of Dance, Valencia, CA. Dr. Ariel Osterweis, host. March 1, 2022.

Working Group Co-Convener. “Infrastructural Sites and Cites: Interrogating UnattendedMethods and Policies in Performance Research” American Society for Theatre Research, San Diego, October 28-30, 2021.

Paper Presenter. “Bureaucratic Angling, Institutional Activism: The NEA Dance Program’sCovert “Culture Wars.” American Studies Association annual conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico. October 7-10, 2021.

Ecosistemas en la Danza: Prácitcas y Contextos/Ecosystems in Dance: Practices and Contexts. “Money Motivates Movement: How Federal Funding Policies Shape “Norms” of Dance Production and Organization in the United States. November 19, 2021. Presented by the National Institute of Fine Arts (INBAL) within the 2021 ENDMéxico 2021/National Dance Meeting. Mexico City. Alma Qunitana, co-convener. 

Guest lecture. “Funding Bodies” University of Texas – Austin Performance as Public Practice (PPP) Program, Department of Theatre and Dance, “Cultural Policy Seminar.” November 11, 2021

Panelist. “Touring is…”New England Foundation for the Arts Regional Dance Development Initiative (RDDI), New England Now – Intersections Summit. October 1, 2021.

Paper Presenter. “Funding Bodies: the NEA’s role disciplining the comportment of members of the US dance field (1965-2016).” Cultural Studies Association annual conference, June 10-12, 2021 (virtual).

Keynote Presentation. Music Theatres Futures. University of Melbourne, Melbourne Australia, December 7, 2020. Paper Title: “Gestural Economies and Production Pedagogies in Deaf West’s Broadway Revival of Spring Awakening.” Hosted by VCA Music Theatre (Faculty of Fine Arts & Music, University of Melbourne) on a biannual basis.

Invited Lecture. “Bureaucratic Angling, Institutional Activism: Dance’s ‘Covert’ Culture Wars’ (1981-1996).” Columbia University Seminar “Studies in Dance,” New York, NY. February 3, 2020.

Keynote Plenary Presentation. Dance Studies Association Annual Conference, Northwestern University, Evanston IL, August 9, 2019. Plenary Title: “Dance Works for the Commons: Actions, Interventions, Innovations.” Paper Title: “Funding Bodies: Working Identities in Dance at the National Endowment in the Arts.”

Paper Presenter: "Bureaucratic Angling, Institutional Activism: The NEA Dance Program's Covert "Culture Wars" in the Panel entitled "Gamers, Gatekeepers and Guidelines: Steering Policy Toward Divergent Ends". Arts Patronage in Modern America Symposium, Rothemere American Institute, University of Oxford, U.K. June 26, 2019.

Paper Presenter: "Funding Bodies: Working Identities and the National Endowment for the Arts." Cultural Studies Association Annual Conference, "Performance, Politics, Power," Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, May 30-June 1, 2019.

Working Group Member, "Performing Jobs." Paper Title, "Funding Bodies: Choreographing Management and the National Endowment for the Arts." Association of Stage and Theatre Research Annual Conference. San Diego, CA, November 15-18, 2018.

Paper Presenter: "How to Dance in a Crisis: Emergency Maneuvers within the US Department of Veterans Affairs" American Studies Association Annual Conference, November 8-11, 2018, Atlanta, GA.

Co-organizer, Conference for Research on Choreographic Interfaces (CRCI). Brown University, March 9-10 2018.

Paper Presenter: "NEA Policy and (as) Possibility: Organizing African Diasporic Dance." Collegium of African Diaspora Dance biennial conference. Duke University, February 18, 2018.

Organizer, Moderator. The Activist Body Symposium. Brown University. September 29, 2017. www.theactivistbody.com

Working Session co-convener/contributor: "Boring the Body/Boring Bodies: Perforating embodied hierarchies in dance studies." Paper title: "For Administrative Activism: A Manifesto for Mundane to the Point of Boring Bodies." Association of Stage and Theater Research. Atlanta, GA. November 18, 2017.

Paper Presenter: "Dance in/as 'Fake News: Notes from the Policy Front." Dance Studies Association. Columbus, OH, October 14, 2017.

Paper Presenter: “Touring Transitions, Funding Transmissions at the US National Endowment for the Arts.” Congress on Research in Dance/Society for Dance History Scholars Joint Conference. Pomona, CA, November 3-6 2016.

Paper Presenter: "Leveraging Acts and Labor Supports: Liz Lerman’s The Healing Wars." Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Conference. Chicago, IL. August 8-11, 2016.

Paper Presenter: "Word Weapons and Commitment Muscles: Narrative Justifications for US Federal Arts Subsidy" Congress on Research in Dance/Society of Dance History Scholars Joint Conference, Iowa University, Iowa City, November 13-16, 2014.

Panel Moderator: "Embodied Agency and Danced Signifiers", Breakout Session, Congress on Research in Dance/Society of Dance History Scholars Joint Conference, Iowa University, Iowa City, November 13-16, 2014.

Paper Presenter: “Dance for Veterans: Political Affect and Alternative Exits”. Northwestern University Graduate Student Conference, Department of Performance Studies. October 11-13, 2013.

Panel Moderator: “Choreographies of Curating". Tactical Bodies:  Dance Under Construction/Congress on Research in Dance Special Topics Conference, UCLA April 20, 2013.

Round table Organizer, Moderator: “Unmasking Dance Making: Choreographies of Production”. Tactical Bodies: Dance Under Construction/Congress on Research in Dance Special Topics Conference, at UCLA. Organized and moderated artist panel featuring lifelong U.S. dance artists: Simone Forti, Dan Froot, Rennie Harris, Lionel Popkin, David Rousséve, and Cheng-Chieh Yu. April 20, 2013.

Paper Presenter: “Critical Pedagogy and Arts Education”, conference workshop presentation. Educating for Social Justice: Collaborative Critical Praxis, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies Teacher Education Program Conference at UCLA. May 2, 2012.

Paper Presenter: “Governing Bodies: Dance Production in Policy and Practice”, paper presentation. Re-Imagining Archives in Motion, Dance Under Construction Graduate Dance Studies Conference at UC-Riverside, April 13-14, 2012.

Panel Co-Presenter: “Food For Thought: Methods for Generating Meaningful Feedback on Works-in-Progress”, UCLA Chew On This series, UCLA Dept. of World Arts and Cultures, March 1, 2010. Co-presenters: Heather Coker, Sarah Leddy, and Herbbie Moore.

Roundtable Presenter: “Against Unison: Choreography as Representation and Being-in-the-World”, Congress On Research in Dance/Association of Stage and Theater Research Joint Conference, Renaissance Seattle Hotel, November 20, 2010.

Danced Lecture:  “Community: and other Heroic Failures”. UCLA Chew On This series, UCLA Dept. of World Arts and Cultures, February 1, 2010.

Danced Lecture: “Why Dance, Why Not? Serving UP Dance within Under-Served Markets.” Conference presentation, Midwest Arts Conference, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Milwaukee, WI, September 23, 2003.

Danced Lecture: “Brain Activation through Movement”. Performance lecture, United Performing Arts Fund employee giving campaign, various workplace contexts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, (twelve performances, 2006-2007).

Danced Lecture: “Jazz Hands”, Performance lecture, United Performing Arts Fund employee giving campaign, various workplace contexts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (over 60 performances between 2004-2007).

Danced Lecture:“The Greatest Game in Town”. Performance lecture, United Performing Arts Fund employee giving campaign, various workplace contexts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, (25 performances, 2004).

Danced Lecture: How I Got My Dad To Watch Modern Dance”. Performance lecture, United Performing Arts Fund employee giving campaign, various workplace contexts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Co-presented with Mike Wilbur (Sarah’s dad) in over 30 locations throughout southeastern Wisconsin between 2000-2005.