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• Ph.D. (2001) Dance History and Theory, University of California, Riverside
  • Dissertation: Virtual Power and Kinetic Bodies: Re-Thinking Twentieth-Century Dance Aesthetics 
• B.A. (1993) Double Major: Dance, English Literature, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
  • Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Honors in English

• Dance in Advertising, Media, and Film
• Aesthetics/Philosophy of Dance
• Dance and Critical Theory 
• Phenomenology
• Emergence

Books

• Consuming Dance: Choreography and Advertising. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018
• Encountering Modern Dance: an Introduction to Technique, Composition, and History. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt Publishing, 2018

Book Chapters

• “Modelling Improvisation as Emergence: A Critical Investigation of the Practice of Cognition” in The Oxford Handbook of Improvisation in Dance. Co-authored w/Roxane Fenton and Evan Dorn.ed. By Vida L. Midgelow. New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2019
• “The Beatles, the Moving Image, and Dancing Bodies” in Movies, Moves and Music: the Sonic World of Dance Films. Genre, Music and Sound Series, Volume 6. Co-authored w/Roxane Fenton. ed. By Dr. Mark Evans and Dr. May Fogarty. London: Equinox Press, 2016
• “Dance and Theater: Looking at Television’s Deployment of Theatricality through Dance” in The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater. Ed. By Nadine Georges-Graves. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015
• “Dirty Dancing: Dance, Class, and Race in the Pursuit of Womanhood” in The Oxford Handbook of Dance and the Popular Screen. Co-authored with Roxane Fenton.ed. By Melissa Blanco-Borelli. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. 

Journal Articles and Conference Proceedings

• “Critical Dance Pedagogy: Bodies as Sites of Social Change.” Co-authored with Tanya Calamoneri and Nyama McCarthy-Brown. Journal of Dance Education. (Currently under Review)
• “Consuming Dance: a Brief History of the Dance-commercial.” Conference Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Society of Dance History Scholars, Skidmore Colletge, Saratoga Springs, N.Y., 2008
• “Performing the Commodity-Sign: Dancing in The Gap.” Dance Research Journal 39.2 (Winter  2007)
• “The Changing Face of Dance: Televisual Excursions into the World of the Aesthetic.”  TheInternational Journal of the Arts in Society1 (Fall 2006)
• “Dance, Knowledge, and Power.” (Invited) Topoi: an International Review of Philosophy for special issue on Dance and Philosophy  24 n. 1 (2005)
• “Introduction” (Invited) co-author with Susan Foster and Philipa Rothfield for Topoi: an International Review of Philosophyfor special issue on Dance and Philosophy 24 n.1  (2005)
• “Dance in Art,” PArt and Culture Magazine, Turkish ed.32 (Winter 2004)

Screen

•  (2011) Choreographer, Co-Director, Editor, Set Designer and Co-Producer with Gregory R.R. Crosby (Camera Operator, Co-Director and Co-Producer).
  • Piece is set to Claude Debussy’s L’Apres Midi as performed by the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music Orchestra.
  • Performers include: Kayla Bixby, Liz Curtis, Nicole Gendel, and Brittni Johnson.
•  (2010) Co-Director, Co-Producer, Assistant Editor.  Produced in collaboration with Gregory R.R. Crosby.
  • Choreography and performance by Kristin Rapinchuck. Original music by Rychard Cooper.
• (2009) Choreographer, Co-Director, Assistant Editor, Co-Producer, and Voiceover. 
  • Produced in collaboration with Gregory R.R. Crosby.  
  • Original music by Rychard Cooper. 
  • Screened at the Local Makers portion of Dance Camera West’s Dance Media Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA (June 2010).

Live

• Constructions and Assemblages, or How to Do Things with Motifs (2015)
  • A group work for 8 dancers set to “DeConstructions & Motifs” by Time Shift (aka Rychard Cooper and Matt Pogue). Motifs by Colleen Dunagan. Video projection by Gregory R.R. Crosby.
• Fractured Singularities (2012)
  • A group work for 9 dancers set to an original score by Rychard Cooper. ��ɫ���� Dancers in Concert at Martha B. Knoebel Dance Theater, Long Beach, CA, April 25-28, 2012.
• Night Flowers (2010)
  • A group work of 18 women set Claude Debussy’s Image for Orchestra. Accompanied by a live performance of the Bob Cole Conservatory Orchestra. 
  • Fusion: A Performance of Dance and Live Orchestra (��ɫ���� Dancers in Concert) at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center, Long Beach, CA, November 19-20, 2010
• Quarter Roll (2008)
  • Set to Ike and Tina Turner’s “Proud Mary.” ThreeWay—A Tri-Coastal Dance Project, produced with former ��ɫ���� MFAs Sue Hogan and Erin Mitchell at Martha Knoebel Dance Theater, Long Beach, CA, June 7-8, 2008.
• Digressions of the Flesh (Three Attempts at Reading) (2005)
  • Choreographer and Performer.  Doug Rice read selections from his text, A Good Cuntboy is Hard to Find,as an accompaniment to this trio of women. Premiered in Seattle, WA at the Chamber Theater as part of ThreeWay—a Tri-Coastal Dance Project, March 24-25, 2005. 
• (Dis)Enchanted (2003)
  • Co-Choreographer and performer. Music: Irving Berlin and Ira Gershwin.  Works-In-Progress Performanceat Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA, June 2003.