Conference Program

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Keynote Address • José Moya, Professor of History and Director of the Forum on Migration, Barnard College , Columbia University

Awards Luncheon • Honoring 2007 CORD Awardees Robert Farris Thompson ( Outstanding Contribution to Dance Research ), Susan Leigh Foster ( Outstanding Leadership in Dance Research ), George Dorris
( Outstanding Service to Dance Research ), and Outstanding Graduate Student Research Awardee

Performance • Choreographies of Migration Dance Con ce rt featuring the José Limón Dance Company; Dana Tai Soon Burgess & Co.'s Tracings , an homage to the first Korean Americans, commissioned by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program and the Kennedy Center; and a performance by New York-based choreographer and performance artist Sita Frederick.

Plenary • Dancing Diaspora in Brooklyn : Folk Feet Traditional Dancers discuss and demonstrate transnational dance forms, presented by Brooklyn Arts Council, Folk Arts

Film Screenings • Including Meredith Monk's Ellis Island

Over 100 Presentations • Papers, workshops, and lecture-demonstrations focused on the relationship between dance and im/migration.

Membership Meeting

Book & Media Exhibit