NATIONAL CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
October 2018
Cultivating Champions: develop leadership skills with technology
NDEO Conference: Connections, Knowledge, and Leadership: A new Era in Dance Education. San Diego, Ca
Advancing Student Growth and Expanding Knowledge Through a Technological Partnership
Session lead Cathie Kasch with Dr. Mila Parrish & Daniel Gwirtzman
NDEO Conference: Connections, Knowledge, and Leadership: A new Era in Dance Education. San Diego, Ca
Engaging undergraduates in research through DELRdi.
Session lead Anne Dunkin, Mila Parrish, Susan Gingrasso, Teresa Heiland, Alison Leonard and Lynnette Overby
NDEO Conference: Connections, Knowledge, and Leadership: A new Era in Dance Education. San Diego, Ca
Creating Student Leaders: Personalization of Assessment and Reflection in Dance Pedagogy
Session lead Dr. Mila Parrish with Amy Lang, Katrina Brown and Kelly Abramovich
NDEO Conference: Connections, Knowledge, and Leadership: A new Era in Dance Education. San Diego, Ca
February, 2018
Creating Citizen Movers – An inclusive approach to dance pedagogy
Dr. Mila Parrish, Lisa Wilder, Janai Fennell, Isabelle Colazlo
NCDEO Conference. Cultivating Community: Transforming North Carolina Through Dance in Charlotte, NC
Celebrating community: Cultivating collaboration, culture, and identity amongst students
Dr. Mila Parrish, Emily Morgan, Kelly Ozust, Ashley Cartledge, Gabby Peterson.
NCDEO Conference. Cultivating Community: Transforming North Carolina Through Dance in Charlotte, NC
November, 2017
Limitless, Accessible, and Inclusive: A Laban-based, Universal Design Approach for Dance Education
Presenters: Session lead Dr. Mila Parrish with Dr. Marissa Nesbit
NDEO Conference. Cultivating Equity and Access Dance Education for All. in San Antonio Texas
So…When are we going to start dancing? An inclusive approach to dance pedagogy
Presenters: Session lead Dr. Mila Parrish with MA DE Graduate students Amy Crow, Jennifer Florey, Katrina Brown, Lisa Wilder and Caroline Keys at the NDEO Conference. Cultivating Equity and Access Dance Education for All Connecting. San Antonio, Texas.
September, 2017
Dance Movement Literacy
ArtsR4Life conference: Rekindle, Reflect, Reconnect, and Renew in Raleigh, NC by the Public schools of North Carolina
January, 2017
Illuminating Laban’s Elements of Dance Workshop Session
Presenter: Dr. Mila Parrish at the North Carolina Dance Education Organization Dance Across the State: Engage, Educate and Empower, Greensboro, NC.
NCDEO Advocacy in Dance Education
North Carolina Dance Education Organization Dance Across the State: Engage, Educate and Empower. Greensboro, NC.
Presenters: Dr. Mila Parrish, Dr. Marissa Nesbit and Beth Fath
October, 2016
Advocating with our thumbs: BYOD to the dance class
National Dance Education Conference. Focus on Dance Education: Speaking with Our Feet: Advocating, Analyzing, and Advancing
Dance Education. in Arlington, VA.
Presenters: Dr. Mila Parrish with co-presenter Amy Lang Crow
Community practice and assessment
National Dance Education Conference. Focus on Dance Education: Speaking with Our Feet: Advocating, Analyzing, and Advancing
Dance Education. in Arlington, VA.
Presenters: Dr. Mila Parrish and Ashley Cartlidge
Music and Dance Curricula
National Dance Education Conference. Focus on Dance Education: Speaking with Our Feet: Advocating, Analyzing, and Advancing
Dance Education. Arlington, VA.
Presenters: Dr. Mila Parrish and Amelia Brame
February, 2016
Moving Forward: North Carolina Dance Education Organization
NCDEO Connecting Across Carolina: Energizing Dance Education. in Greensboro, NC.
Presenters: Dr. Marissa Nesbit, Dr. Mila Parrish and Beth Fath
October, 2015
Before Creating: Tilling the Creative Field with Research.
Presenters: Laura Pettibone with Cathie Kasch, Mila Parrish and Catherine Tharin
NDEO Conference. Focus on Dance Education: Engaging in the Artistic Processes: Creating, Performing, Responding, Connecting, Phoenix, Arizona
Interdisciplinary Community Engagement through Dancers Connect Summer Camp
Co presenters: with Danielle Kinne and Joyce Raleigh
National Dance Education Conference. Focus on Dance Education: Engaging in the Artistic Processes: Creating, Performing, Responding, Connecting, Phoenix AZ
Smartphones in the studio: Flipped assessment in the choreographic process
Session lead Dr. Mila Parrish with Co-Presenters Emily Enloe, Cathie Kasch, Erica Locke Seninsky.
National Dance Education Conference. Focus on Dance Education: Engaging in the Artistic Processes: Creating, Performing, Responding, Connecting. Phoenix AZ
Processes: Creating, Performing, Responding, Connecting.
With Cathie Kasch, Dance Educator Amy Lang and UNCG Graduate Student Jennifer Cheek
National Dance Education Conference. Focus on Dance Education: Engaging in the Artistic Processes: Creating, Performing, Responding, Connecting. Phoenix AZ
Reaching Synthesis: Artistry and Assessment with Technology Apps
Session lead Dr. Mila Parrish with Co- Presenters Emily Enloe and Erica Locke Seninsky
National Dance Education Conference. Focus on Dance Education: Engaging in the Artistic Processes: Creating, Performing, Responding, Connecting. Phoenix AZ
Processes: Creating, Performing, Responding, Connecting.
Presenters: Emily Enloe and Erica Locke. Conference. Focus on Dance Education: NDEO Conference. Focus on Dance Education: Engaging in the Artistic Processes: Creating, Performing, Responding, Connecting, Phoenix, Arizona
November, 2015
Before Creating: Tilling the Creative Field with Research at the National Dance Education
Presenters Hawkins dance company member Laura Pettibone, and Dance Educator Cathie Kasch.
NDEO Conference. Focus on Dance Education: Engaging in the Artistic Processes: Creating, Performing, Responding, Connecting, Phoenix, Arizona
October, 2014
Interviewing techniques
Invited Panel Presentation for NDEO Student Chapters
National Dance Education Conference. Focus on Dance Education: Collaborations: A Mosaic of Possibilities, Chicago, Illinois
Collect, Collide, Collaborate, Create! Building responsive cultures in the dance class
National Dance Education Conference. Focus on Dance Education: Collaborations: A Mosaic of Possibilities, Chicago, Illinois (10/2014). With UNCG student Anthony-Taylor Davis UNCG Graduate Students Stacey Enart, Leslie Parrin, and Jessica Cadby.
October, 2013
Celebrating Critical Thinking- Ending the “Shut Up and Dance” cycle
National Dance Education Conference. Focus on Dance Education: The Art and Craft of Teaching
Miami, Florida Professional workshop (10/2013)
Community engagement redefined with Dancers Connect National Dance Education
Conference. Focus on Dance Education: The Art and Craft of Teaching Miami, Florida. Poster session (with UNCG students Anthony Taylor Davis, Stephanie Davis, Trevor Helms and Shelbi Guions)
October, 2012
Teacher Preparation and Professional Planning: Invited Panel Presentation for NDEO Student Chapters
National Dance Education Conference in Los Angeles, Ca. (with Charles McNeal Director of Education San Francisco Ballet Center for Dance Education)
Process, Process, process
with Alyson Amato, Laura Smith, Amanda Nelson, Lisette Benefield
National Dance Education Conference in Los Angeles, Ca.
October, 2011
Collaborative Activist Problem Solving in the Arts
Session with J. Coffey, A. Nelson, J. Hardy at the National Dance Education Conference. In Minneapolis, Minnesota
November, 2011
LMA Interdisciplinary Investigations
Dance and the Child International: USC Chapter- Crossing Curricular Boundaries Through Dance. University of North Texas at Denton. Denton, Texas (7/2011). (with Lynnette Overby)
April, 2010
iDance SC: Linking communities and creating dance through videoconferencing.
South Carolina Campus Compact. Columbia, South Carolina
October, 2010
Museum Innovations: Dynamic interactive performance environments
National Dance Education Conference. Tempe, Arizona
Dancing Stories: Literature and Activism in the Dance Class
National Dance Education Conference. Tempe, Arizona
January, 2010
iDance: Linking communities and creating dances with videoconferencing
National Dance Association-Pedagogy Conference: The Learning Circle: How Dance Pedagogy Leads our Practice.
Las Cruces, New Mexico
Fish Fish Got My Wish & Other Dance Making Games.
National Dance Association-Pedagogy Conference: The Learning Circle: How Dance Pedagogy Leads our Practice.
Las Cruces, New Mexico.
June, 2009
Laban at play in the curriculum: Best practice in action.
National Dance Education Conference– Take A Bite of the Apple- Exploring Resources to Promote Best Practices. New York, New York.
Teaching dance with technology: a hands-on workshop
with Cathie Kasch
National Dance Education Conference– Take A Bite of the Apple- Exploring Resources to Promote Best Practices. New York, New York.
October, 2009
FISH FISH GOT MY WISH: Laban at play in the curriculum.
South Carolina Dance Festival. Spartanburg, South Carolina
1-2-3 Techno-Dance: You Can Do It!
South Carolina Dance Festival Spartanburg, South Carolina
June, 2007
Earth First: Dancing Relationships with Our World.
National Dance Education Organization Conference: Focus on Dance Education: Community Building. Mobile, Alabama
November, 2006
Crossing Borders in Dance Education Research. Panel Presentation.
Congress on Research in Dance- Continuing Dance Culture Dialogues: Southwest Borders and Beyond. Tempe, Arizona
Creating Video Dance.
Congress on Research in Dance-Continuing Dance Culture Dialogues: Southwest Borders and Beyond. Tempe, Arizona
October, 2006
GAME ON: Minds at Play in the Dance Class.
National Dance Education Organization Conference. Long Beach, CA
Connecting Moves: Teledance in K-8 Dance Education.
National Dance Education Organization Conference. Long Beach, CA. New York.
October, 2005
Evaluating dance in the digital classroom.
National Dance Education Organization Conference. Buffalo, New York
How NDEO is working for you.
Selected Panel
National Dance Education Organization Conference. Buffalo, New York
High School Dance Education in Arizona - Panel Moderator.
National Dance Education Organization Conference. Buffalo, New York
Curriculum for change: Children as Activists in K-12 dance education with Lindsey Bauer
National Dance Education Organization Conference. Buffalo, New York
Techno, Trance and Jungle: Rave Culture for Dance Educators.
with Saza Dimmick and Melanie Mitchell
National Dance Education Organization Conference. Buffalo, New York
March, 2005
Applied Instruction: ArtsBridge and teacher preparation.
ARTSBRIDGE National Conference. Long Beach, California.
October, 2005
Constructivism in Action: Motif Writing for dance.
with Sara Anderson, Amanda Kinnaird, and Amy Lang
National Dance Education Organization Conference. Lansing, MI
October, 2004
Street Moves: Hip Hop curriculum.
with Saza Dimmick and Kelly Martell.
National Dance Education Organization Conference. Lansing, MI
with Denise Rapp and Marlene Strang
National Dance Education Organization Annual Conference. Lansing, MI
July, 2004
Constructivism in Action: Motif Writing and K-12 teacher preparation.
Motif Symposium II. Champaign Ill
June, 2004
Constructivism in Action: Motif Writing and K-12 teacher preparation.
Laban Institute of Movement Studies LIMS Biennial Conference. Irvine, California
March, 2004
Get the party started: Technology curriculum for community K-6 arts programs.
Microcomputers in Education (MCE) conference. Tempe, Arizona
Interactive Gateway: Happenings in the Digital Classroom.
Southwest American College Dance Festival. Scottsdale, Arizona
Effort, Chance, and Performance.
With Natalie King Southwest American College Dance Festival. Scottsdale, Arizona.
January, 2004
Let’s Get the Party Started: Technology in Dance Education.
with Sara Anderson and Maegan Enders
National Dance Association Conference. Dallas, Texas.
October, 2003
Living History Yvonne Rainer and the 1960’s.
with Jennifer Walker, Nancy Happel and Apryl Seech
National Dance Education Organization Annual Conference. Albuquerque, New Mexico.
New methods in technology pedagogy.
With Jennifer Walker, Carrie LeBarron, Sara Anderson, and Maegan Ender
National Dance Education Organization Annual Conference. Albuquerque, New Mexico.
April, 2003
Interactive Gateway: Happenings in the Digital Classroom.
Session presented with Kathy Lindholm Lane
Winter Conference on Arts in Education. Tucson, Arizona
Visual Anchoring in the dance
with Jennifer Walker. Winter Conference on Arts in Education. Tucson, Arizona
October, 2002
Motif Writing and curriculum integration.
Arizona Dance Arts Alliance Tempe, Arizona
March, 2002
Dance technology and digital video editing.
Southwest American College Dance Festival. Tempe, Arizona.
Moving Out of Domains and Into Big Ideas.
National Dance Education Organization. Providence, RI.
November, 2001
The Process of the Process: Digital Dance Documentation.
Multidisciplinary Technology Arts Conference. Irvine, California.
October, 2001
Issues in dance education and technology.
Congress on Research in Dance (CORD) in New York City, New York.
April, 2001
Process-Based Dance Documentation: Bebe Miller CD-ROM & Labanotation score.
National Dance Education Organization. Minneapolis, MN
March, 2001
Moving Megabytes: The integration of technology in the dance curriculum.
Microcomputers in Education (MCE) Tempe Arizona.
October, 2001
Discover Dance A 2-hour hands workshop
Dancing with the Mouse Texas-Style National Dance Association conference Dallas, Texas.
May, 2000
Dancing Through Kindergarten.
Co presenter Donna Swaneck
Ohio Association for the Education of the Young Child. Columbus, Ohio.
July, 2000
Management and planning: The development of instructional technology in dance education.
4-hour hands-on workshop Dancing in the Millennium Conference, Washington D.C.
October, 2000
Dance technology for elementary teachers and students
National Dance Association’s Dancing with the Mouse Conference. Rock Hill, SC.
May, 1999
Dancing Science: Integrated technology and movement education.
National Dance Education Organization conference. Cincinnati, OH.
June, 1998
Motif Writing, Laban Movement Analysis and Dance Technology
The Ohio State University Motif Writing Intensive Course Columbus, Ohio.
April, 1998
Computer Assisted Dance Education.
Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. Reno, Nevada.
April, 1997
Computers in Dance. Software Development Exposition
Columbia University. New York City, New York
June, 1997
Uniting Dance and Curricula: Literacy Comes Alive.
National Dance Association Conference. St. Louis, MO.
March, 1997
Integrating Movement and Classroom.
American College Dance Festival of the Arts. University Park, PA.
November, 1996
Dance and Curricula: Motif Writing for Physical Educators
NYSAHPERD conference. New York, NY
October, 1996
Dance and Curricula: Motif Writing in the classroom.
National Dance Association: Focus on Dance. Minneapolis, MN.
March, 1996
Journey through the Heart.
Eastern District AHPERD conference Stamford, Conn.
November, 1995
Sharing the Common Language of Movement
NYSAHPERD conference Syracuse, New York
