Dr. Jeanette Mollenhauer Honorary Fellow (Dance), Faculty of Fine Arts & Music,  The University of Melbourne, Australia. A Lament I am a white, middle-class, heterosexual female. I am mainstream—until I walk or Zoom into a gathering of Australian dance scholars, when my interests in culturally specific dance and the recreational folk-dance movement often result in […]

Jacqueline Graham & Kate-Elissah Tallamy First, there was a studio – then there wasn’t. It was during an interregnum in one of Melbourne’s 6 Covid lockdowns – those 262 days, one of the longest in the world – that we started talking about why it was that Dance Teachers, and their studios, weren’t really treated […]

Curated based on topics and research discussed during the 2023 Symposium The Role of Popular Dance in Higher Education in Australasia and the Asia Pacific Region, this Chat seeks to “think and move through the role that popular, social, and vernacular dance plays (or does not play or only marginally plays or should ideally play) […]

       Serenity Wise and Dr. Elena Benthaus Transcript of The Role of Popular and Social Dance with Serenity Wise and Dr. Elena Benthaus 00:00:03.000 –>  00:00:19.000 Elena: Hello everyone. This little conversation is titled, The Role of Popular and Social Dance and Higher Education in Australasia, post symposium editorial chat between me, Dr. Elena Benthaus and […]