Asia Pacific Dance Festival: Full Schedule

Paper Session 1 - Performing Precarity: Labor, Identity, and Structures in Asia

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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