Miriam Phillips

301-405-4691
1941 Clarice Performing Arts Center
mphill@umd.edu
www.AzafranFlamenco.com

Education/Training:

M.A. – Dance, specialization in Dance Ethnology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1991; C.M.A. (Certified Movement Analyst) – Laban/ Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies, 1990; B.A. – Dance, Mills College, 1981.

Areas of Specialization/Interest:

Dance Ethnology/Anthropology (with concentrations in India, Spain, Guinea – West Africa); Nationalism, Colonialism; Dance as Embodied Culture; Intercultural Performance and Pedagogy; Flamenco Dance; Laban Movement Studies.

Professional Affiliations:

American Anthropology Association (AAA); Congress on Research in Dance (CORD); Cross-Cultural Dance Resources (CCDR); International Council of Traditional Music; Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies (LIMS)

Representative Productions:

Artistic Director, Azafrán Flamenco, various locations San Francisco Bay Area.

Representative Publications/Research Activities:

“Circulating Moves: Guinea’s Baga D’mba Dance,” conference presentation American Anthropology Association (New Orleans), 2010.

“D’mba Lost and Found: The discovery, destruction, construction and recon-struction of Baga Masked Dance in Traditional Villages of Guinea, West Africa,” conference presentation International Council of Traditional Music: Ethnochoreology Study Group (Czech Republic), 2010.

“La fusión sin la confusion: A movement analysis ethnographic investigation into the changing nature of flamenco dance,” conference presentation European Association of Dance Historians (Seville, Spain), 2010.

“D’mba As Dance Event – an Ethnologist’s Perspective,” symposium: Woman, Fire, Ambition, and Desire: The Performance of the Great Baga, D’mba. Yale University (New Haven, CT); and Universite de Conakry (Guinea), 2008.

“Shared Rhythms, Sudden Stops: Revealing the Kathak-Flamenco Connection,” in Close to the Floor: symposium: Close to the Floor on percussive dance, New York University, 2005.

“Hidden Treasure: Dance and Music Through the Islamic World,” in 18th Annual San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival program book, 1996.

“Intermittent Pleasure: Hindu-Muslim Interchanges in the Kathak Dancing Body,” symposium: Intermittent Agony: Hindu-Muslim Relations in South Asia, Brown University, 1995.

“Both Sides of the Veil: A Comparative Analysis of Kathak and Flamenco Dance,” Los Angeles: University of California, 1991.

“The Trained and the Natural Gypsy Flamenco Dancer,” in 100 Years of Gypsy Studies, 1990.

“Where the Spirit Roams: Towards an Understanding of Duende in Two Flamenco Dance Contexts," in UCLA Journal of Dance Ethnology, 1987.

Honors and Awards:

Research and Scholarship Award (RASA), UMD-Graduate School, 2010; Faculty Seed Grant for Developing Qualitative Research from the Consortium on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity and Maryland Population Research Center, University of Maryland, 2009; National Endowment for the Humanities – (dance consultant on Interdisciplinary Collaboration grant, research in Guinea (Project Director: Fredrick Lamp, Yale University), 2007-08. Marin Arts Council, Career Development, 2006; Choreography, 1999. American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS), research in India, 2001-2002. Del Amo Fellowship, research in Spain, 1988. Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, research in Spain, India, the Middle East, 1981-83.