Rosemary Candelario
· Associate ProfessorUniversity of Texas at Austin · School of Design and Creative Technologies
Active 1968–2025
About
Rosemary Candelario is an artist-scholar and Associate Professor of Performance as Public Practice at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests include Asian American and Asian diasporic dance, butoh, ecology, site-related performance, and representations of sex and reproduction in performance and popular culture. She has been recognized with the 2018 Oscar G. Brockett Book Prize for Dance Research for her monograph 'Flowers Cracking Concrete: Eiko & Koma's Asian/American Choreographies' and the 2024 Ruth Lovell Murray Book Award for her co-edited volume 'Dance Research Methodologies: Ethics, Orientations, and Practices.' In 2022, she received the Mid-Career Award from the Dance Studies Association. Candelario has published extensively in various academic journals and is the co-editor of 'The Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance.' She holds a PhD in Culture and Performance from UCLA and serves as the President of the Dance Studies Association. Her work explores performance politics, ecology, and the performance of reproductive health, contributing significantly to contemporary dance and performance studies.
Research topics
- Computer Science
- Art
- Mechanical engineering
- Environmental science
- Thermodynamics
- Engineering
- Physics
- Visual arts
- Mathematics
Selected publications
Journal of Dance Education · 2025-06-06
article1st authorCorrespondingResearch Ethics, Orientations, and Practices
2023-03-03
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingThis chapter develops the proposal that learning research methods is a process of deepening participation in sociocultural practice. Relating, attending, and acting (ethics, orientations, and practices, respectively), we argue, are interconnected parts of participation in communities of dance research. We seek to make explicit the implicit skills and experiences at work in the research processes by detailing the ethics, orientations, and practices that we find fundamental to being a researcher across the disciplines of dance. Together these modes of participation facilitate the development of ethical, critical, and responsive researchers who make significant contributions to their sub-discipline as well as the field of dance as a whole. In this chapter, we draw out in broad strokes what these modes of participation are, while in the workbook we offer specific activities for the classroom or individuals where these may be experienced and rehearsed.
A Creative Workbook for Rehearsing Ethics, Orientations, and Practices
2023-03-03
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingIn this workbook, we provide the reader with activities for deepening research ethics, orientations, and practices. For use by researchers as well as in the teaching of research methods, these activities encourage the development of processes that cultivate modes of participation conducive to research, and that guide decisions about methodological design and enactment. Activities include opportunities to move, write, draw, discuss, etc. that can be used by any dance researcher when designing a new project. The activities could be done individually, in a formal classroom setting, or among an informal group of people at the same stage of the research process. We encourage users to see activities in the workbook as porous, malleable, and interconnected.
Dance Research Journal · 2023-12-01
article1st authorCorrespondingJAY PATHER, PERFORMANCE, AND SPATIAL POLITICS IN SOUTH AFRICA by Ketu H. Katrak. 2021. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 436 pp., 30 illustrations. $35 paper, ISBN-10: 9780253053684, ISBN-13: 9780253053688. - Volume 55 Issue 3
DRJ volume 55 issue 1 Cover and Front matter
Dance Research Journal · 2023
- Computer Science
- Environmental science
- Computer Science
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Introduction to Dance Research beyond Disciplines
2023-03-03
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingThis introduction to Part 6, Dance Research Beyond Dance, distinguishes between inter/cross/multidisciplinary dance research, and dance research that contributes theoretically and methodologically to non-dancing subjects. It provides an overview of the two chapters in the Part by O’Shea and Akinleye, and contextualizes these texts in the literature.
Routledge eBooks · 2023 · 8 citations
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- Computer Science
- Art
Choreographic Analysis as Dance Studies Methodology
2023-03-03 · 1 citations
book-chapterThis chapter stages a conversation about the development of choreographic analysis as a methodology, since Susan Leigh Foster’s 1986 book, Reading Dancing. Through her analyses, Foster offers a way of examining not only how dances are made and what they mean, but also how dances make meaning. The four authors included in this conversation discuss their distinct uses of choreographic analysis, outline its affordances and limitations, and ponder the ways that decolonial approaches have pushed their teaching and application of the method.
2023-03-03
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingIn this chapter, the interdisciplinary movement artist Eiko Otake pushes back against the encroaching of an academic term on artistic structures and institutions (commissions and grants, for example) and resists a blanket application of “research” to her artistic process. She cautions against undefined vocabulary in talking about non-verbal art. In calling much of what she does work rather than research, and in drawing attention to the choreographic and performance methods she has developed over her 50-year career, she emphasizes practice, practicality, and artistic rigor. Eiko’s chapter cautions dance practitioners and researchers to pay attention to the costs of legibility that come with adopting common terms without definition.
Dance Research in/as Communities of Practice
2023-03-03
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingIn this chapter, the authors propose that all research begins with curiosity, which is then shaped by participation in academic disciplines. We situate this argument in our own academic biographies and the pragmatics of our shared teaching and advising at Texas Woman’s University. We offer a definition of research that is contextualized by the research cultures of different disciplines, which we refer to as communities of practice. We argue that, though dance scholars are often divided by their affinities with other disciplines, there is value in bringing together dance research from across and beyond the academy. Further, we argue that the teaching of research methods, or making the modes of knowledge production transparent to novice researchers, is an equity orientation. We conclude this chapter with an overview of the remainder of the book.
Frequent coauthors
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Serouj Aprahamian
University of Iowa
- 282 shared
Gerald Siegmund
- 282 shared
Helen Thomas
- 282 shared
Rosemarie Roberts
Northwestern University
- 282 shared
Elliot Mercer
University of Iowa
- 282 shared
Sariel Golomb
Cambridge University Press
- 282 shared
Victoria Fortuna
Portland Art Museum
- 282 shared
Tomé Lester
University at Albany, State University of New York
Awards & honors
- 2018 Oscar G. Brockett Book Prize for Dance Research for Flo…
- 2024 Ruth Lovell Murray Book Award for Dance Research Method…
- 2022 Mid-Career Award from the Dance Studies Association
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