Asia Pacific Dance Festival: Full Schedule

Cultural Consumption and Identity Construction: Dance, Dining, and Negotiating the Chinese Nation in Yunnan's Ethnic-Themed Restaurants
- Amy Liu, University of Michigan
Professional Standards and Qualifications System as a Framework for the Career Development of Khon Performers
- Pawinee Boonserm, Thammasat University

Moderator: Judy Van Zile, Co-Founder of Asia Pacific Dance Festival

Saturday May 31, 2025 9:20am - 10:20am HST
Burns Hall 2125

Conference

10:30am HST

Panel Discussion: "Identities and Passages"

Saturday May 31, 2025 10:30am - 11:30am HST

Burns Hall 2063

“Identities and Passages” | University of Wisconsin-Madison, Li Chiao-Ping Dance

Li Chiao-Ping, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Li Chiao-Ping Dance
Jacob Li Rosenberg, University of California, Berkeley
Elisabeth Roskopf, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Christal Wagner, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Saturday May 31, 2025 10:30am - 11:30am HST
Burns Hall 2063

Conference

11:40am HST

Paper Session 2 - Performing In-Between: Negotiating Identity, Memory, and Change

Saturday May 31, 2025 11:40am - 12:40pm HST

Burns Hall 2125

INterSPACE: Navigating Tradition and Cultural Evolution
- Caren Carino, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Singapore
Multifaceted Appropriations of Choi Seung-hee’s Dance through Inter-Korean Cultural Interactions: A Case Study of the Arirang Ensemble’s Mul-dongi Chum (Water Jug Dance) in Kazakhstan
- Mina Yang, Chung-Ang University

Moderator: Markus Wessendorf, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Saturday May 31, 2025 11:40am - 12:40pm HST
Burns Hall 2125

Conference

12:40pm HST

Conference: Lunch

Saturday May 31, 2025 12:40pm - 1:30pm HST

Burns Hall

2nd Floor Lobby

Saturday May 31, 2025 12:40pm - 1:30pm HST
Burns Hall Burns Hall, 1601 East-West Rd, Honolulu, HI 96848, USA

Conference

1:30pm HST

Paper Session 3 - From Silence to Resonance: Sounding and Dancing Ancestral Memory

Saturday May 31, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm HST

Burns Hall 2063

Haka Manu Negotiating Archipelagic Identity Through the Bird Dance in the Marquesas Islands
- Celine Coderey, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Ecospirituality and the Music-Dance Expressivity of the Talaandig (Bukidnon, Philippines)
- Marie Jocelyn Marfil, University of the Philippines
urban dancing indigeneity: Reclaiming Turangawaewae through Embodiments of Wā-Vā as Mana Moana Dance Practitioners
- Chas Mamea, University of Auckland

Moderator: TBD

Saturday May 31, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm HST
Burns Hall 2063

Conference

1:30pm HST

Workshop Performances

Saturday May 31, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm HST

Earle Ernst Lab Theatre

Light of Life
- Nareerat Phinitthanasarn, Thammasat University
Chakra Flow
- Apichot Ketkaew, RBAC Rattana Bundit University
PALIMPSEST
- Alisha Jihn, Ohio State University

Moderator: Sai Bhatawadekar, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Saturday May 31, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm HST
Earle Ernst Lab Theatre 1770 East-West Rd, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA

Conference

3:15pm HST

Paper Session 4 - Embodied Revolutions: Dance, Decolonization, and Societal Shifts

Saturday May 31, 2025 3:15pm - 4:45pm HST

Burns Hall 2125

The reawakening of Tauatāne identity
- Iatua Felagai Taito, University of Auckland
More Authentic Than Plastique: Mainstream Drag, Múa Bóng Rỗi, And The On-Screen Representation of Ambiguity
- Tien Nguyen, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Transcending Generations and Cultures: The Rite of Spring as a Catalyst for Change
- Lisa Fusillo, University of Georgia

Moderator: TBD

Saturday May 31, 2025 3:15pm - 4:45pm HST
Burns Hall 2125

Conference