Scholarship
My book project in progress, “Choreographing Postsocialist China: New Experiments in Screendance since the Early 1990s,” explores screendance in mainland China within a global context. This research investigates the aesthetics and cultural-political implications of new experiments in dance-moving image practices carried out by four generations of dance and film artists in mainland China. Through film and choreographic analysis, oral histories, ethnography and archival research, this study sheds light on the specific role of dance-moving image in engaging with and intervening in global China’s socio-cultural transitions through both filmic representation and corporeal embodiment. This project also highlights the significant contribution of female artists in shaping the field of screendance and explores gender politics at play in the production and reception of some films.
Publications
Forthcoming (May 2025) “Remembering Margaret Williams: Experimentation and Legacy – A Conversation between Victoria Marks and Jingqiu Guan.” In Dance Chronicle issue 48.2.
Forthcoming “A Corporeal Invitation to Remembering: Wen Hui and Her Dance Documentary Dance with Third Grandma.” In Women’s Innovations in Theatre, Dance, and Performance series, Volume 1: Performers. Eds. Colleen Kim Daniher and Marlis E. Schweitzer. A Bloomsbury Series.
2024 “Choreographing Social Memories: Healing and Collective Imagining in Eiko Otake and Wen Hui Artistic Collaboration.” In Arts 13: 28. https:// doi.org/10.3390/arts13010028.
2019 “Navigating State Ideologies Through Aesthetic Experimentations: Dance on Television at the Turn of the Century in China.” In Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies Volume XXXIX: 42-45.
2019 “Review: The 2018 Jumping Frames International Video Dance Festival in Hong Kong.” In The Journal of Media Practice and Education 20 (1): 126-128.
2018 “Choreographing ‘ChinAfrica’ through Transnational Encounter.” In The International Journal of Screendance Studies 9: 118-132.
2016 “An Inescapable Dilemma or A Utopia: Examining Social Relations in Mitchell Rose’s Dancefilm ‘Globe Trot.’” In Dialogs com a arte: revisit de arte, cultura e educação 6: 157-169.
2012 “The Determinants of Migration in Small Islands.” In Shima: The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures 7(1): 80-95, first author.
2011 “The Relationship between Working Conditions and Women’s Socioeconomic Status.” In The Journal of Research in Peace, Gender, and Development 1(10): 271-285, first author.
Conferences
2024 “Incorporation of Documentary Aesthetics in Diasporic Storytelling through Dance and Moving Image,” Hub: Dancing through Diaspora: Migratory Explorations in Contemporary Times, presented via Zoom at Dance Studies Associations’ Annual Conference “Cartographies of Movement,” Buenos Aires, Argentina
2022 “Camera as a Listening Body: An Exploration of Filming Techniques in Wen Hui’s Dance with Third Grandmother.” Presented at the Beijing Dance Academy Symposium, online.
2021 “A Corporeal Invitation to Remembering: Wen Hui and Her Film Dance with Third Grandma.” Presented at the annual conference of the Dance Studies Association, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
2020 Co-Chair, “Screendance Created During the Pandemic.” China's First Dance Graduate Forum, Beijing Dance Academy Dance Forum (2020), Online.
2019 “Tales of Chinese Dancers from Beijing Dance Academy: Authenticity and Performativity in Wang Mei’s Dance Film.” Presented at the annual conference of the Dance Studies Association, Chicago, IL.
2017 “Gazing Chinafrica through the Dance Film ‘An African Walk in the Land of China.'” Presented at the annual conference of the Dance Studies Association, Columbus, Ohio.
2016 “An Inescapable Dilemma or A Utopia: Examining Social Relations in Mitchell Rose’s Dancefilm ‘Globe Trot.’” Presented at the annual Arts in Society Conference, Los Angeles.
2013 “The Protesting Arabesque.” Presented at The Nordic Forum for Dance Research and The Society of Dance History Scholars International Joint Conference in Dance Research, Trondheim, Norway. Received the Selma Jeanne Cohen Award for the best graduate student paper at the conference.
2012 “Improving Teacher Quality through Incentives: Redesigning Carrera Magisterial Program in Mexico.” Presented at the annual conference of the Comparative International Education Society, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2011 “The Relationship Between Working Conditions and Women’s Socioeconomic Status.” Presented at Gender Matters Conference, Chicago.