The Jazz Dance Researcher

What I'm researching:
(~coming soon~)


Some of the places I presented my research:
- 2013 March - Invited speaker at "Anthropologie Urbaine" UdeM course, "La pratique anthropologique III - Un terrain dans le milieu de la danse swing à Montréal"
- 2013 November - NWSA 34th annual conference in Cincinnati, OH, USA - Negotiating Points of Encounter.
Presenting my paper "In the Footsteps of the Jazz Patriarchs. An Intersectional Analysis of the Lindy hop and Jazz Dance Revival as Interpreted by Women"
- 2013 June - SDHS/NOFOD conference in Trondheim NTNU, Norway: Dance ACTions 2013 - Traditions and Transformations.
Presenting my paper "The Worlds of Lindy hop: Cultural Appropriations and the Politics of Joy"
- 2012 Feb-April - Lecturer at UPOP Montréal (a series of 5 lectures) - "Les Mondes du Lindy hop - Mise en Perspective d'une Danse Sociale"
- 2011 April - Paris Diderot/CUNY conference at CUNY, New York, USA - International Conference on Body Image and Identity in Contemporary Society.
Presenting my paper "T'ain't What You Do It's the Way That You Do It - Body Representations and Transculturality in Lindy hop Dance"