2012 International Symposium of the Korean Society of Dance

Dance, Technology, and Identity

Saturday, November 3, 2012

International Hall # 90110, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea

www.ksdance.org

09:00-09:40  Registration

09:40-09:55  Opening Ceremony

Welcoming Address – Kyunghee Kim, President of KSD (Sungkyunkwan University)

Session I     Moderator: Hyun-Joo Min (Gangneung-Wonju National University)

10:00-10:50  Johannes Birringer (Brunel University, U.K.)

Choreographic and Performance Systems

10:55-11:35  Yatin Lin (Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan)

Choreographing Multiple Corporealities in the Sinophone World: A Comparative Study of Works by Cloud Gate Dance Theatre (Taiwan), City Contemporary Dance Company (Hong Kong) and Shen Wei Dance Arts (USA/China)

11:40-12:20  Tadashi Uchino (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

What about Machines? Technology and Politics in Japan's Contemporary Performance Culture

12:25-13:25  Lunch

13:30-14:10  Hyunjung Kim (Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea)

Constructing National Images in the Global Gaze: Dances in Korean Tourism TV

Commercials

14:15-14:55  Lester Tomé (Smith College, U.S.A.)

Envisioning Ballet in Cuba in the 1920s: Modernist Aesthetics and Afro-Cuban Themes

Session II    Moderator: In-Sook Kang (Gyeongsang National University)

15:05-16:20  Q/A & Discussion

Discussant 1 :  Ki-Sook Cho (Ewha Womans University)

Discussant 2 :  Moon-Ja Oh (Wonkwang University)

Discussant 3 :  Yi-Kyung Kim (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology)

Discussant 4 :  Sun-Wook Park (Kwangju Women’s University)

Discussant 5 :  Yong -Moon (Kook-Min University)

16:25-17:25  General Discussion

17:25        Closing

* This symposium will be provided with simultaneous interpretation of English/Korean languages.

* For more information, call at 02-760-0605 (The Korean Society of Dance)

* Notes on Guest Speakers

Johannes Birringer is artistic director of AlienNation Co (www.aliennationcompany.com), and professor of performance technologies at Brunel University (London). He has directed numerous multimedia theatre, dance, and digital performances in Europe, the Americas, China and Australia; collaborated on site-specific installations, and exhibited work at film and video festivals, including DanceScreen. His interactive dance installation Suna no Onna was exhibited at the Laban Centre in 2007, and his mixed reality installation UKIYO premiered in 2009 before touring in 2010. He founded a laboratory (http://interaktionslabor.de<http://interaktionslabor.de/>) providing artist residencies for collaborative interactive and screen-based performance projects, most recently the live game performance See you in Walhalla. He is also founder of DAP-Lab (http://www.brunel.ac.uk/dap), conducting research into sensor choreography, wearable computing and soft technologies. He is author of numerous books, including Theatre, Theory, Postmodernism (1991), Media and Performance (1998), Performance on the Edge (2000), Performance, Technology and Science (2009). In 2011 he edited a book on dance and madness (Dance and Choreomania).

Dr. Yatin Lin is a Full-time Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Dance at Taipei National University of the Arts in Taiwan. She received her Ph.D. in Dance History and Theory (2004) from the University of California, Riverside, specializing in the history of Western concert dance, and in contemporary dance from Taiwan and other Sinophone communities. Her MFA degree in Dance was obtained from York University in Toronto, Canada. She was previously an editor and writer of Performing Arts Review (PAR) monthly, and edited theTaiwan Dance Research Journal (4) and Pina Bausch: Dance for the World (in Chinese). Her articles were published in Identity and Diversity: Celebrating Dance in Taiwan (Routledge Press, 2012), Routledge Dance Studies Reader (2^nd edition), Danses et identites de Bombay à Tokyo, Art Review and Dialogues in Dance Discourse, while her dance reviews can be seen in Chinatimes (Taiwan) and a.m: post (Hong Kong). She regularly presents papers at international conferences such as SDHS, CORD, IFTR, WDA and PSi, among others. Lin currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Society of Dance History Scholars and the Dance Research Society of Taiwan. She also serves on the committee and jury panels for various dance grants and awards such as the 10th (2011) Taishin Arts Awards, among others. She is co-chair with Dr. Priya Srinivasan of the upcoming Joint CORD-SDHS Conference at Riverside, CA, USA in November 2013.

UCHINO Tadashi is Professor of Performance Studies at the Department of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo. He received his MA in American Literature (1984) and his Ph.D in Performance Studies (2001), both from the University of Tokyo. He is a leading performance studies scholar, whose border-crossing between Japan and the US, Japan and Europe, and Japan and other parts of Asia, including India, has been critically acclaimed in various interdisciplinary quarters of academics, artists and activists. His publication includes The Melodramatic Revenge: Theatre of the Private in the 1980s (in Japanese, Tokyo: Keiso Publishing,1996), From Melodrama to Performance: The Twentieth Century American Theatre (in Japanese, Tokyo: U. of Tokyo P, 2001), Crucible Bodies: Postwar Japanese Performance from Brecht to the New Millennium (2009, London: Seagull Books) and Perspectives from the Stage: Tokyo-New York 1995-2005 (two volumes, in Japanese, Renga-shobo Shin-sha, forthcoming 2013). He has also been writing performance reviews for both academic and popular media in Japan and currently is a contributing editor for TDR (The MIT Press) and an editor for The Journal of the American Literature Studies in Japan.

Hyunjung Kim is a lecturer in the department of dance at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, South Korea. She holds a Ph.D. in Dance History and Theory from the University of California, Riverside and a B.A. and M.A. in Dance from Ewha Womans University. Kim received a Phi Beta Kappa international scholarship, a UCR Humanities Graduate Student Research Grant, Gluck fellowships, grants from the National Research Foundation of Korea, and the 2011 Outstanding Research Award of the Korean Society of Dance. She has presented her research at various conferences, including those sponsored by the Congress on Research in Dance, the Centre National de la Danse, and Women’s Worlds: International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women. Her fields of specialization include contemporary Korean dance, colonial and postcolonial discourses, modernity, nationalism, gender, and globalization. Kim has published articles in Dance Chronicle and Discourses in Dance, and in journals of The Korean Society of Dance and The Korean Society for Dance Studies, and also in Danses et identities de Bombay à Tokyo by Centre National de la Danse. She co-translated Sally Banes’ Dancing Women: Female Bodies on Stage (1998) into Korean language (2012).

Lester Tomé, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Dance Department and the Latin American and Latino Studies Program at Smith College, in Massachusetts. He majored in journalism at the University of Havana and, in 2010, completed a doctorate in dance studies at Temple University, in Philadelphia. Currently, he is writing a book about the development of ballet in Cuba as an expression of cosmopolitan, nationalist and postcolonial forces that have shaped artistic production in that country. He has published chapters in A. Alonso’s Diálogos con la Danza (2004) and M. Kant’s The Cambridge Companion to Ballet (2007), and contributed articles and reviews to Dance Magazine and the journals Encuentro de la Cultura Cubana, Dance Chronicle and New West Indian Guide. For over a decade, he worked as a dance critic in Cuba, Chile and the United States. Among the historical figures and internationally renowned artists that he has interviewed are the choreographers Paul Taylor, Glen Tetley, Moses Pendleton and Elizabeth Streb, and the dancers Alicia Alonso, Svetlana Zakharova, Angel Corella and Julie Kent. He has been a fellow of the National Endowments for the Arts and the New York Times Foundation at the American Dance Festival’s Institute for Dance Criticism. At this time, he coordinates the working group on Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Dance Studies for the Society of Dance History Scholars.