ADAGIO (FULL-LENGTH) PRESENTATIONS

• What the *%@# is community? Ballet binaries and the pseudo-liminoidal in a social media world – Julia Gleich (independent scholar) & Molly Faulkner (Palomar College, Professor)
• Erasing Excellence: Resituating Catherine Littlefield’s archival absence to reveal feminism in the formation of American Ballet Modernism – Catherine Greyjoy (University of California, Santa Barbara, PhD Student)
  
• Integrating Afrocentric Principles and Gaga Methodologies in Ballet Education – Rebekah Joann Guerra (Weber State University, Adjunct Professor)
  
• Dancing with the Archives: Embodied Explorations of Early 20th Century Mail Order Ballet – Chelsea Hilding (University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Lecturer)
  
• Breaking Pointe: 2020 Cultural Disorientation and the Relevé of the Ballet-Activist – Jodie Nunn (Royal Academy of Dance, Lecturer)
  
• Character Dance as a Bridge Between Ballet and a Global Dance Community – Justine Sheedy-Kramer (University of Utah, Adjunct Associate Professor)
  
• The Construction of Credibility and Expertise: Black Teachers of Classical Ballet – Monica Stephenson (University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Director of Preparatory Dance)
  
• Not Flyover Country: How Midwestern Ballet Companies are Shaping the Communities They Serve – Jennifer Weber (Utah Tech University, Associate Professor) & Kristin Marrs (University of Iowa)

ALLEGRO (10-MINUTE) PRESENTATIONS

• Subverting the Ballet Hierarchy Through Online Communities – Tanya Berg (York University)
  
• The Non-Major Matter: Building Adult Ballet Communities Beyond the Performance Track – Thea van Warmerdam Patterson (University of California, Berkeley, Lecturer)
  
• Traditional steps, places, and people – Ballet as Folk Dance – Deborah Ward (Royal Conservatory of Scotland, PhD Student)
  
• The Creative Mother Paradox: Exploring the intersections between Motherhood and Balletic Practices – Hilary Wolfley (Brigham Young University, Assistant Teaching Professor)

PANELS

• Ballet Across Communities: Socio-Cultural Comparisons and Institutional Practices in Higher Education – Colleen Barnes (University of Akron, Assistant Professor), Ilana Goldman (Florida State University, Associate Professor), Jamie Johnson (Utah Valley University, Associate Professor), & Christa St. John (Utah Valley University, Assistant Professor)
  
• Shear Wave Tensiometry in Ballet Dancers: Creating Care-Based Practices and Pedagogies Through Innovations and Collaborations in Ballet Education – Steven Allen (Brigham Young University, Assistant Research Professor), Shayla Bott (Brigham Young University, Professor), Christopher Dillon (Brigham Young University, Assistant Professor), Wayne Johnson (Brigham Young University, Professor)

WORKSHOPS

• Consent in Ballet: are educators prepared to hear “no”? – Beth Twigs (University of Wyoming, Lecturer)
  
• Dragons and Superheroes in Ballet: Visceral Imagery for 21st Century Dancers – Madeline Jazz Harvey (Colorado State University) & Julia Cooper (Colorado State University)
  
• Beyond Muscle Memory: Fascia, Embodied Knowledge, and Cultivating Care in Ballet Communities – Ashley Parov (Brigham Young University, Assistant Professor) & Brenda Critchfield (Brigham Young University, Director of Dance Medicine)

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

• Gyrokinesis® in Ballet: the Art of Breathing – Caroline Rocher Barnes (Towson University)
  
• How Does the Age Dancers Began Pointe Affect Bone Density? – Abigail Wardle (Brigham Young University, undergraduate student)
• Collaborate or Get Cut: How Sharing Resources Can Save a Dance Program – Colleen Barnes (University of Akron, Area Chair of Dance)
• Classical Ballet Forms: A Course Redesign with Active Learning Pedagogical Innovations – Lisa Fusillo (University of Georgia, Professor)
• Vantage Pointe: An Examination of Evolving Pointe Techniques and Technologies – Emma Capen (University of Utah, graduate student)

CHOREOGRAPHIC SHARINGS

• ¿eso querías? / is that what you wanted? – Rebekah JoAnn Guerra
• Daughter – Hilary Wolfley
• This is the Reactability of the Appetizer – Beth Twigs
• Rewritten Positions – Lani Johnson
• Comvergence – Caroline Rocher Barnes