Calendar
Forthcoming in 2019:
2018
July Conference Presentation: Improvisation as a Tool for Cross-Cultural Dialogue:
Engaging Precarity and Refugee Experiences through Dance. Dance Days Chania 8
Festival: Conference on “Borders, boundaries and margins in contemporary dance”.
Center of Mediterranean Architecture, Crete, Greece.
Invited Talk: Χορογραφώντας την Ελληνική Ταυτότητα στον
20o αιώνα: Οριενταλισμός και Ρωμιοσύνη στην Εξέλιξη του Παραδοσιακού και
Σύγχρονου Χορού στην Ελλάδα (Choreographing Greek Identity in the 20th
Century: Orientalism and Romiosyni in the Development of Folk and
Contemporary Dance in Greece). Center for Asia Minor Studies, Athens, Greece.
March Conference Presentation / Performance: Made in (Dis)Place(ment): Arts and
Sciences of Migration. International Conference for Europeanists – Council for
European Studies. Chicago IL, USA
January Guest Lecture / Workshop: Greek Dance and /in the National Project. Lawrence
University, Appleton Wisconsin.
2017
November Conference Presentation: The Greek Body in Crisis: Negotiating National Identity
and History through Contemporary Dance. MGSA (Modern Greek Studies
Association) Symposium. 2-5 November, Atlantic City.
October Conference Presentation: Local Confines and Digital Freedom: The International
Circulations of Refugee Bodies. CORD/SDHS Conference. 19-22 October, Ohio State University.
June Publication: Fragments of the European Refugee Crisis: Performing Displacement and the Re-Shaping of Greek Identity. TDR (The Drama Review, 2017) Issue 234
Workshop Participation: The Mellon School of Theatre and Performance Research
2017 session: "Research, Pedagogy, Activism" at Harvard University, sponsored by the
Andrew F. Mellon Foundation. (June 5-16, 2017)
May Publication: “Moving in Solidarity: Thinking Through the Physicality of Recent
Protests.” The Dancer-Citizen – Issue 4, Spring 2017. Co-authored with Meghan
Quinlan
March Invited Talk / Performance: What's Left: Stories of Movement and
Migration Performance and Discussion in collaboration with Priya Srinivasan and
Hannah Schwadron. Stanford Colloquium on Dance Studies.
February Publication: Rethinking Fragile Landscapes: Precarious Aesthetics and
Methodologies in Athenian Dance Performances”, RiDE (Research in Drama
Education) Special Issue 22:1 Precariousness and the Performances of Welfare
Service:Lead Proceedings Editor for the CORD/SDHS 2016 Joint
Conference Proceedings
January Teaching: Political and Cultural Approaches to Dance (Dance 268). Online class. Dance Department, University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA.
2016
December Award: EI (Education Innovation) Small Grant for implementing online courses:
University of Wisconsin Madison, USA
November Questioning the Colonialist Power Dynamics of Immigrant
Performances in Greece. Conference Paper Presentation. CORD/SDHS 2016
Conference in Pomona College, CA, USA
September Teaching: Political and Cultural Approaches to Dance (Dance 268). Online class - Pilot Launch. Dance Department, University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA.
June Futures of Dance Studies - Mellon Summer Seminar on Publication,
Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
April Service: Lead Proceedings Editor for the CORD/SDHS 2015 Joint Conference
Proceedings (August 2015-April 2016)
March What's Left. Performance. Moving Matters Traveling Workshop (MMTW). Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside CA, USA
Art Making between Indigeneity and Migration. Paper Presentation. Moving
Matters Traveling Workshop (MMTW). Center for Ideas and Society - University of California, Riverside, USA
January Teaching: World Dance Cultures (Dance 165). Dance Department, University of
Wisconsin - Madison, USA.
2015
December Dramaturgy Consultant at Syndram Dance Company for the production “This life is based on true events”. Athens, Greece
September From Public Protests to Staging the Public. Conference Paper
Presentation. ASAP/7 Arts and the Public. Clemson University Greenville S.C., USA
Bodies of Silence and Resilience: Writing Marginality. Congress on Research in Dance Conference Proceedings, 2015, pp 174-181
July Histories and Memories of Fear Multimedia Installation Project in collaboration with Priya Srinivasan. Moving Matters Traveling Workshop (MMTW). Tipographia Gallery Bucharest, Romania
June Opening keynote plenary panel The State of Dance Studies in Greece: Practice as Theory and Precarity as Methodology: Performing the Greek Body in Crisis SDHS/CORD Conference Athens, Greece.
Completion of Doctoral Degree in Critical Dance Studies. University of California,
Riverside USA.
May Outstanding Teaching Award for the academic year 2014-15. Department of
Critical Dance Studies and Graduate Division of the University of California,
Riverside.
April Conference Presentation: Tra/Re-versing Borders: Immigrant Performances as a Site of Advocacy. Dance Under Construction (DUC) Graduate Student Conference University of California, Riverside, USA
2014
November Invited Talk: Balancing “On the Seesaw”: Performing Greekness during the crisis. Department of Dance Colloquium – New Research in Dance Studies. University of California, Riverside, USA
Conference Presentation: Bodies of Silence and Resilience: Writing Marginality. Writing Dancing / Dancing Writing CORD/SDHS annual conference. University of Iowa, USA
July Dissertation Year Fellowship: Graduate Division – University of California, Riverside, USA (Summer 2014, Fall 2014)
June Conference Presentation: The Greek Body in Crisis: From the Protests to the Contemporary Dance Stages. ATINER (Athens Institute of Education and Research) Conference on Visual and Performing Arts. Athens, Greece
Mellon Dance Studies Summer Seminar Fellow: Dance Studies in/and the Humanities, Stanford University, USA
Performance: Gestural Landscapes Moving Matters Traveling Workshop (MMTW). Objects in/of Migration. Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands
May Publication: “Appropriations of Hellenism: A Reconsideration of Early Twentieth- Century American Physical Culture Practices”, CHOROS International Dance Journal, 3 (Spring 2014), pp. 50–68.
2013
November Service: Conference Proceedings co-editor: CORD/SDHS November 2013
annual Conference Mission Inn, Riverside CA, USA.
Service: Graduate student organizing committee member: CORD/SDHS 2013 joint
conference, Mission Inn, Riverside CA, USA. (On-site volunteer, graduate
coffee social coordinator)
October Showing of works in progress: Gestural Landscapes Moving Matters Workshop.
University of California, Riverside, USA
September Gluck Fellowship of the Arts: Gluck Fellows Program – University of California,
Riverside, USA
June-July Research Assistant Department of Dance – University of
California, Riverside, USA. Online course development strategies, training new TAs
in the UC Online course platform.
May Performance: Gestural Landscapes Moving Matters Workshop. Culver Center of
the Arts , Riverside, USA
- Publication: “Bodies of the Present / Theories of the Future: Contemporary Dance and Dance Studies in Greece during the crisis.”, commissioned by Susan Manning, Janice Ross and Rebecca Schneider for inclusion in the anthology The Future of Dance Studies.
- Publication: "Emerging Frameworks for Engaging Precarity and ‘Otherness’ in Greek Contemporary Dance Performances". Dance Research Journal (DRJ) Special Issue on Precarity and Dance.
- Dancing Gender: Embodiment, Politics & Feminist Theory (Dance 168). Online class Dance Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison,USA
- Political and Cultural Perspectives in Dance Studies (Dance 268). Online class Dance Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison,USA
2018
July Conference Presentation: Improvisation as a Tool for Cross-Cultural Dialogue:
Engaging Precarity and Refugee Experiences through Dance. Dance Days Chania 8
Festival: Conference on “Borders, boundaries and margins in contemporary dance”.
Center of Mediterranean Architecture, Crete, Greece.
Invited Talk: Χορογραφώντας την Ελληνική Ταυτότητα στον
20o αιώνα: Οριενταλισμός και Ρωμιοσύνη στην Εξέλιξη του Παραδοσιακού και
Σύγχρονου Χορού στην Ελλάδα (Choreographing Greek Identity in the 20th
Century: Orientalism and Romiosyni in the Development of Folk and
Contemporary Dance in Greece). Center for Asia Minor Studies, Athens, Greece.
March Conference Presentation / Performance: Made in (Dis)Place(ment): Arts and
Sciences of Migration. International Conference for Europeanists – Council for
European Studies. Chicago IL, USA
January Guest Lecture / Workshop: Greek Dance and /in the National Project. Lawrence
University, Appleton Wisconsin.
2017
November Conference Presentation: The Greek Body in Crisis: Negotiating National Identity
and History through Contemporary Dance. MGSA (Modern Greek Studies
Association) Symposium. 2-5 November, Atlantic City.
October Conference Presentation: Local Confines and Digital Freedom: The International
Circulations of Refugee Bodies. CORD/SDHS Conference. 19-22 October, Ohio State University.
June Publication: Fragments of the European Refugee Crisis: Performing Displacement and the Re-Shaping of Greek Identity. TDR (The Drama Review, 2017) Issue 234
Workshop Participation: The Mellon School of Theatre and Performance Research
2017 session: "Research, Pedagogy, Activism" at Harvard University, sponsored by the
Andrew F. Mellon Foundation. (June 5-16, 2017)
May Publication: “Moving in Solidarity: Thinking Through the Physicality of Recent
Protests.” The Dancer-Citizen – Issue 4, Spring 2017. Co-authored with Meghan
Quinlan
March Invited Talk / Performance: What's Left: Stories of Movement and
Migration Performance and Discussion in collaboration with Priya Srinivasan and
Hannah Schwadron. Stanford Colloquium on Dance Studies.
February Publication: Rethinking Fragile Landscapes: Precarious Aesthetics and
Methodologies in Athenian Dance Performances”, RiDE (Research in Drama
Education) Special Issue 22:1 Precariousness and the Performances of Welfare
Service:Lead Proceedings Editor for the CORD/SDHS 2016 Joint
Conference Proceedings
January Teaching: Political and Cultural Approaches to Dance (Dance 268). Online class. Dance Department, University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA.
2016
December Award: EI (Education Innovation) Small Grant for implementing online courses:
University of Wisconsin Madison, USA
November Questioning the Colonialist Power Dynamics of Immigrant
Performances in Greece. Conference Paper Presentation. CORD/SDHS 2016
Conference in Pomona College, CA, USA
September Teaching: Political and Cultural Approaches to Dance (Dance 268). Online class - Pilot Launch. Dance Department, University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA.
June Futures of Dance Studies - Mellon Summer Seminar on Publication,
Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
April Service: Lead Proceedings Editor for the CORD/SDHS 2015 Joint Conference
Proceedings (August 2015-April 2016)
March What's Left. Performance. Moving Matters Traveling Workshop (MMTW). Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside CA, USA
Art Making between Indigeneity and Migration. Paper Presentation. Moving
Matters Traveling Workshop (MMTW). Center for Ideas and Society - University of California, Riverside, USA
January Teaching: World Dance Cultures (Dance 165). Dance Department, University of
Wisconsin - Madison, USA.
2015
December Dramaturgy Consultant at Syndram Dance Company for the production “This life is based on true events”. Athens, Greece
September From Public Protests to Staging the Public. Conference Paper
Presentation. ASAP/7 Arts and the Public. Clemson University Greenville S.C., USA
Bodies of Silence and Resilience: Writing Marginality. Congress on Research in Dance Conference Proceedings, 2015, pp 174-181
July Histories and Memories of Fear Multimedia Installation Project in collaboration with Priya Srinivasan. Moving Matters Traveling Workshop (MMTW). Tipographia Gallery Bucharest, Romania
June Opening keynote plenary panel The State of Dance Studies in Greece: Practice as Theory and Precarity as Methodology: Performing the Greek Body in Crisis SDHS/CORD Conference Athens, Greece.
Completion of Doctoral Degree in Critical Dance Studies. University of California,
Riverside USA.
May Outstanding Teaching Award for the academic year 2014-15. Department of
Critical Dance Studies and Graduate Division of the University of California,
Riverside.
April Conference Presentation: Tra/Re-versing Borders: Immigrant Performances as a Site of Advocacy. Dance Under Construction (DUC) Graduate Student Conference University of California, Riverside, USA
2014
November Invited Talk: Balancing “On the Seesaw”: Performing Greekness during the crisis. Department of Dance Colloquium – New Research in Dance Studies. University of California, Riverside, USA
Conference Presentation: Bodies of Silence and Resilience: Writing Marginality. Writing Dancing / Dancing Writing CORD/SDHS annual conference. University of Iowa, USA
July Dissertation Year Fellowship: Graduate Division – University of California, Riverside, USA (Summer 2014, Fall 2014)
June Conference Presentation: The Greek Body in Crisis: From the Protests to the Contemporary Dance Stages. ATINER (Athens Institute of Education and Research) Conference on Visual and Performing Arts. Athens, Greece
Mellon Dance Studies Summer Seminar Fellow: Dance Studies in/and the Humanities, Stanford University, USA
Performance: Gestural Landscapes Moving Matters Traveling Workshop (MMTW). Objects in/of Migration. Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands
May Publication: “Appropriations of Hellenism: A Reconsideration of Early Twentieth- Century American Physical Culture Practices”, CHOROS International Dance Journal, 3 (Spring 2014), pp. 50–68.
2013
November Service: Conference Proceedings co-editor: CORD/SDHS November 2013
annual Conference Mission Inn, Riverside CA, USA.
Service: Graduate student organizing committee member: CORD/SDHS 2013 joint
conference, Mission Inn, Riverside CA, USA. (On-site volunteer, graduate
coffee social coordinator)
October Showing of works in progress: Gestural Landscapes Moving Matters Workshop.
University of California, Riverside, USA
September Gluck Fellowship of the Arts: Gluck Fellows Program – University of California,
Riverside, USA
June-July Research Assistant Department of Dance – University of
California, Riverside, USA. Online course development strategies, training new TAs
in the UC Online course platform.
May Performance: Gestural Landscapes Moving Matters Workshop. Culver Center of
the Arts , Riverside, USA