Rosemary Candelario

Rosemary Candelario is Assistant Professor of Dance at Texas Woman’s University. Her research on the globalization of the Japanese postwar avant-garde movement form butoh raises questions about dance in diaspora, cultural appropriation and innovation, intercultural work, and the meaning of locality. Other research interests include Asian American dance, site-specific performance, arts activism, space and place, and representations of sex and reproduction in performance and pop culture. Rosemary’s publications include an article in the Journal of Theatre, Dance and Performance Training and forthcoming pieces in Asian Theatre Journal and a number of edited collections. She is currently working on a monograph on the Japanese/American dancers Eiko & Koma. She was co-chair of Dance Under Construction (2009) and a key organizer of the first US-based international symposium on butoh, “Between Experiment, Form and Culturalism: Butoh in History and Contemporary Practice” (2011). Her choreography has been produced in New England and Los Angeles, and as a dancer she has performed across the United States, and in Canada and Germany. Rosemary holds a PhD in Culture and Performance from the University of California, Los Angeles.