UC Riverside Dance Department

Highlights from this Monday's 4QS - Resonate Currents, 4th quarter dancing showings, featuring research in progress from second-year UCR Dance MFA students in Experimental Choreography.

📸 Dennis Cha

Join us for 4QS - Resonate Currents, 4th quarter dancing showings, taking place on Monday, October 28th ! This will be a shared evening of research in progress from our second-year MFA students in Experimental Choreography. Please see the invitation below for program details.

Register here: https://events.ucr.edu/event/4qs-resonate-currents

We hope to see you there!

UCR is Dancing is the annual showcase of original dance and choreography by capstone majors of the Department of Dance. This year UCR is Dancing will be presented in the University Theatre during week 8 of winter quarter, 2025. Auditioners who get cast will begin rehearsing with the student-choreographers as early as week 5 of this quarter.

Auditions are open to all UCR students regardless of major who are interested and able to commit to the two-quarter creative process and performances. All dancers must enroll in DNCE 167 (2 units) in the winter, unless specifically demonstrated as not possible due to unit caps.

For more information, please reach out to taisha paggett at [email protected].

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UCR Department of Dance is searching for a new Technical Director to support BA and MFA productions and Events. If you know of anyone looking for a position, please share.

University of California, Riverside - Jobs UCR is hiring for this great opportunity!

TODAY
Wednesday, June 12 at 5:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Dance, World Making, and Embodied Q***r Memories, Capstone Project by Cristian Torres

Join Zoom Meeting
https://bit.ly/4ecyJ7M

Meeting ID: 993 9047 2477
Passcode: 13

Ladies Styling Collective
GUEST ARTISTS at the Latin Dance Social Event & Workshop Series
Performances and Social dancing with DJ inVINCEable
8:30 - 1:00 a.m at University Theatre
FREE & open to the public
https://events.ucr.edu/event/latin-dance-social-event-workshop-series

Club Destructores
GUEST ARTISTS at the Latin Dance Social Event & Workshop Series
Performances and Social dancing with DJ inVINCEable
8:30 - 1:00 a.m at University Theatre
FREE & open to the public
https://events.ucr.edu/event/latin-dance-social-event-workshop-series

Bonito y Sabroso
GUEST ARTISTS at the Latin Dance Social Event & Workshop Series
Performances and Social dancing with DJ inVINCEable
8:30 - 1:00 a.m at University Theatre
FREE & open to the public
https://events.ucr.edu/event/latin-dance-social-event-workshop-series

Salsa on 1: The Art of Leading and Following with Eder Avila, Founder and Director of On2ourage in Los Angeles
Friday, June 7 (University Theatre)
7:00 - 8:30 p.m.
Open level class

Part of the The Latin Dance Social Event & Workshop Series
FREE & open to the public
https://events.ucr.edu/event/salsa-on-1-dance-workshop

Progressive Bachata Dance Workshops with Javier "Javi" Mata from Yemaya Salsa Dance Company and dance partner josé rivers alfaro
Wednesday, June 5: ATHD 102
10:00 - 11:20 a.m.
11:30 - 12:50 p.m.

Part of the The Latin Dance Social Event & Workshop Series
Free & open to the public
https://events.ucr.edu/event/progressive-bachata-dance-workshops

Quebradita Dance Workshops with Dr. Irvin Manuel Gonzalez, Co-founder of Primera Generación Dance Collective and Show Box L.A.
Monday, June 3: ATHD 102
10:00 - 11:20 a.m. Basics
11:30 - 12:50 p.m. 1990s Footwork
Part of the The Latin Dance Social Event & Workshop Series
Free & open to the public
https://events.ucr.edu/event/quebradita-dance-workshops

Afro-Brazilian Dance Workshops with Rachel Hernandez from Extra Ancestral and Bloco Obini
Wednesday, May 29: ATHD 102
10:00 - 11:20 a.m.
11:30 - 12:50 p.m.

Part of the The Latin Dance Social Event & Workshop Series
FREE & open to the public
https://events.ucr.edu/event/afro-brazilian-dance-workshops

Graduate Student Dance Concert: To the Left of Center
Friday, May 24 at 7:00-8:30pm in ARTS 100
FREE and open to the public
Curated by Hannah McClean and Kevin Wong

Works by:
Rodrigo Arenas
Mariia Bakalo
Negar Kamali
Hannah McClean in collaboration with Emily Berdeja and Zoe Foy
Kevin Wong & Rory Fewer
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Register HERE: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe1rk0wz5BbZBa69nUDk6O-XmoH1cbfIToLf2Q5BGCJooWVWQ/viewform

Content warning: This showing contains nudity and sexually charged materials. Audience will be moving around/rearranging seating.

Lindy Hop Dance Workshops with Lupita Limón-Burbaj, founder of The Limónadas Dance Company
Monday, May 20: ATHD 102
10:00 - 11:20 a.m.
11:30 - 12:50 p.m.

Part of the The Latin Dance Social Event & Workshop Series
FREE & open to the public
https://events.ucr.edu/event/lindy-hop-dance-workshops

Caste and Space
May 17 at 10-11:30am PDT on Zoom
https://events.ucr.edu/event/caste-and-space

Description:
The panel is part of the Caste and Corporeality conference.

Co-sponsored by UCHRI, CIS, Department of Dance, and Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Speakers:
Dhiren Borisa is a Dalit q***r activist, poet, and urban sexual geographer, and is currently employed as Assistant Professor at Jindal Global Law School, India. His research primarily focuses in studying caste and class dynamics in sexual mappings and makings of cities from an intersectional and decolonial lens both among q***r spaces in India and in diasporic q***r worldings.

Pranathi Diwakar is a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. (Chicago, IL). She is a scholar and ethnographer of music, anti-caste social movements, and urban inequality.

Jusmeet S. Sihra is a British Academy International Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. As an urban and political sociologist, he has a deep interest in understanding caste-based inequalities rooted in space. His doctoral research explored the mechanisms of caste-based segregation in urban India and offered the first micro street view of segregation from below using disaggregated caste categories. His current research aims to generate a view of segregationfrom above by showing how the colonial and the postcolonial state institutions have promoted caste-based segregation.

May 20 - June 7
The Latin Dance Social Event & Workshop Series highlights the Latin-Afro Diaspora and histories with movement workshops in Afro-Brazilian, Salsa, Mambo, Bachata, Quebradita, and Lindy Hop dance, culminating in a Social Dance Event with special performances and communal social dancing.
FREE & open to the public
All classes are OPEN LEVEL
https://events.ucr.edu/event/latin-dance-social-event-workshop-series

Caste and Touch
May 10 at 10-11:30am PDT on Zoom
https://events.ucr.edu/event/caste-and-touch

The panel is part of the Caste and Corporeality conference.

Co-sponsored by UCHRI, CIS, Department of Dance, and Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Speakers:

Described by the Independent as a ‘one-woman, agit-prop literary-political movement’, Meena Kandasamy is a poet, writer, translator, anti-caste activist and academic based in India.

Akhil Kang is a PhD Candidate, Anthropology, Cornell University (New York/India)
Akhil studies anthropology of the elite. They study upper caste victimhood and woundedness in North India.

Royona Mitra is Professor of Dance and Performance Cultures at Brunel University London. Her research examines systems of oppression in dance and performance cultures at the intersections of bodies, social power regimes, and choreography as resistance.

Caste and Food
April 26 at 10-11:30am PDT on Zoom
https://events.ucr.edu/event/caste-and-food

Speakers:
Rajyashri Goody’s art practice is informed by her academic background in Sociology and Visual Anthropology and her Ambedkarite Dalit roots. She is interested in creating space and time for thinking through everyday instances of caste-based violence and Dalit resistance, and how elements like food, nature, language and literacy are actively used as tools to enforce caste rules for generations

Sucharita Kanjilal is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Bard College (New York, US). Sucharita’s research examines the place of gender, caste and religious nationalism in the growth of digital capitalism, combining anthropological and feminist perspectives on economic theory, media, and food.

Sri Vamsi Matta, or simply Vamsi, is a Bangalore-based Theatre and Visual artist. His practice is influenced by his Dalit identity, experience, and location. The identity, and histories of his community and family, inform the questions, topics, and mediums that Vamsi engages with through his work.

Description:
The panel is part of the Caste and Corporeality conference.

Co-sponsored by UCHRI, CIS, Department of Dance, and Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Caste and Religion
https://events.ucr.edu/event/caste-and-religion
April 19 at 10-11:30am PST on Zoom

Speakers:
Sunder John Boopalan is Associate Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies at Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) in Winnipeg, Canada. His book, ‘Memory, Grief, and Agency,’ compares Indian and North American contexts of casteism and racism.

Pinky Hota is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies, Smith College (Northampton, MA). Her book The Violence of Recognition: Adivasi Indigeneity and Anti-Dalitness in India (2023, University of Pennsylvania Press) shows how adivasi indigeneity operates as a fulcrum of caste capitalism that facilitates the legal, political and ultimately, economic exclusion, of Dalits in India.

Shaista Aziz Patel works as an Assistant Professor of Critical Muslim Studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies at UCSD. Her scholarly and all other political investments are in several questions that draw upon theories in Indigenous (to North America and South Asia), Black, Dalit, anti-caste, Muslim, and transnational feminist studies.

Maze without a Minotaur*
https://events.ucr.edu/event/maze-without-a-minotaur
April 17 & 18, 2024
6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
The Performance Lab (ARTS 166)
Admission: FREE
Advance registration required

Maze without a Minotaur* is a journey fragmented by reflections, stories, and testimonies of russian crimes against humanity. Family photos, a safety thread, a care-full net, and a fundamental question are laid bare. The Greek myth of the Minotaur is utilized as a symbol of the ongoing national violence perpetrated against Ukraine. As long as the Minotaur keeps committing violence in my home, Mariia will lead you through his labyrinth here in Riverside.

Caste 101: Introduction to Caste, Intersectionality, and Allyship
April 12 from 10am-1pm PST in HMNSS 1500 (UCR) and Zoom
This Caste 101 workshop provides an introduction to the caste system and its manifestations in today’s global context, while detailing its operations within institutions. The workshop also opens the space for interdisciplinary conversations between caste, race, and gender studies. It closes with a call for impactful, sustainable, and Dalit Bahujan Adivasi (DBA)-centric allyship that collaborates and conspires with caste-marginalized communities in their fight against caste
hegemonies.
https://events.ucr.edu/event/caste-101-introduction-to-caste-intersectionality-and-allyship

Assistant Curator, Jerome Robbins Dance Division Job Opening: Assistant Curator, Jerome Robbins Dance Division at The New York Public Library in Library for the Performing Arts.