Rosemary Candelario

Asian and Asian American dance, butoh, ecology and performance politics and performance of reproductive health

Research Methods and Resources, Performance as Research

• Monograph:
  • 2016 - Flowers Cracking Concrete: Eiko & Koma’s Asian/American Choreographies. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press.
• Co-Edited Volumes:
  • 2023 - Dance Research Methodologies: Ethics, Orientations, Practices. Co-edited with Matthew Henley. London: Routledge.
  • 2018 - The Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance. Co-edited with Bruce Baird. London: Routledge.
• Selected Journal Articles and Book Chapters:
  • 2023 - “Violences, Aftermaths, And Family, Or: How To Make Dances In This Body?” Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies 42 (“Dancing in the Aftermath of Anti-Asian Violence” special issue). doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/conversations.3647.
  • 2021 - 舞踏百景--グローバルでローカルなダンス (“Butoh Landscapes: A Global And Local Dance”). In Robert Ono and Tomoe Aihara (Eds.), Butoh Nyumon: Nikutai wo Honyaku Suru (“Introduction to Butoh: Translating the Body”). Tokyo: Bungaku Tsushin.
  • 2019 - “Dancing the Space: Butoh and Body Weather as Training for Ecological Consciousness.” In The Routledge Companion to Dance Studies, edited by Stacey Prickett and Helen Thomas, 11-21. London: Routledge.
  • 2018 - “Choreographing American Dance Archives: Artist-driven Archival Projects by Eiko & Koma, Bebe Miller, and Jennifer Monson.” Dance Research Journal 50, no. 1: 80-102.
  • 2018 - “Dancing with hyperobjects: ecological Body Weather choreographies from Height of Sky to Into the Quarry.” Choreographic Practices 9, no. 1: 45-58.
  • 2016 - “An Asian American Land: Eiko & Koma Choreograph Cultural Politics.” Contemporary Directions in Asian American Dance, edited by Yutian Wong, 174-190. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
  • 2015 - “We Take Blood, Not Life: Urban Bush Women's Bones and Ash: A Gilda Story.” In Race and the Vampire Narrative, edited by U. Melissa Anyiwo, 153-166. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
  • 2014 - “Shine Your Light on the World: The Utopian Bodies of Dave Chappelle’s Block Party.” In The Oxford Handbook of Dance and the Popular Screen, edited by Melissa Blanco Borelli, 365-377. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • 2014 - “Bodies, Camera, Screen: Eiko & Koma’s Immersive Media Dances.” International Journal of Screendance 4: 80-92.
  • 2013 - “Transvaginal Sound: Politics and Performance.” In Special Issue on Feminism, Race, and Biopolitics, ed. Rachel Lee. The Scholar & Feminist Online 11, no. 3 (Summer)
  • 2010 - “A Manifesto for Moving: Eiko & Koma’s Delicious Movement Workshops.” Journal of Theatre, Dance and Performance Training 1, no. 1 (March): 88-100.

• 2022 - “aqueous: Rio Bosque Wetlands,” site-specific performance in El Paso, Texas, as part of University of Texas, El Paso’s World Water Week
• 2021 - “aqueous: Film.” https://vimeo.com/733758121
• 2021 - “aqueous: North Lakes Park,” site-specific performance in Denton, Texas
• 2021 - “aqueous: North Beach,” site specific performance in Port Townsend, Oregon, as part of the Olympic Peninsula Butoh Festival
• 2019 - “aqueous,” premiere at the Kyoto Butoh Festival, Kyoto, Japan. Also performed at the Houston Fringe Festival
• 2019 - “Confluence,” choreographed with Heyward Bracey and Nguyễn Nguyên, premiere at Beach Dances, Santa Monica, California. Also performed at Gold Series 2, Pasadena, California.
• 2018 - “Landlocked Merpeople,” collaboration with Tanya Calamoneri (choreography), West Oxking and Seth Warren Crow (music), premiere at the Texas Dance Improvisation Festival. Also performed at Butoh Next, New York City, 2019
• 2018 - “100 Ways to Kiss the Trees” presented at Clear Creek Natural Heritage Center, Denton, Texas in cooperation with Sustainable Denton
• 2017 - “Into the Quarry: Equinox,” presented at Clear Creek Natural Heritage Center, Denton, Texas in cooperation with Sustainable Denton
• 2016 - "Surface," collaboration with sculptor Colby Parsons, premiere at Texas Woman’s University
• 2015 - "Into the Quarry," site-specific work at the Clear Creek Natural Heritage Center, presented in cooperation with the City of Denton Sustainability Program