ResDance S1: Episode 8 Dancing across Screen and in Popular Performance with Sherril Dodds

ResDance Episode 8: Dancing across Screen and in Popular Performance Professor Sherril Dodds shares insight into the methodologies and methods she uses in her research and draws upon themes from screen dance, popular dance, ethnography and textual/ screen dance analysis. In this thought-provoking episode, Sherril discusses her first-hand insight into being an active b-girl in the Philadelphia breaking scene and how these rich experiences continue to inform her wider practice and places her identity as a person, along that of a researcher, at the fore. Lastly, we discuss research for her latest book, Facial Choreographies: Performing the Face in Popular Dance (under contract with Oxford University Press). Sherril is a Professor of Dance and Graduate Programs Coordinator at Temple University. Her books include Dance on Screen (2001), Dancing on the Canon (2011), Bodies of Sound (co-edited with Susan C. Cook, 2014), The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition (2019) and The Bloomsbury Companion to Dance Studies (2019). Her latest book, Facial Choreographies: Performing the Face in Popular Dance is under contract with Oxford University Press. She has been a visiting scholar at Trondheim University in Norway, Griffith University in Australia, Stanford University in the USA, and Blaise-Pascal University in France. She was awarded the 2015 Gertrude Lippincott prize for her article, “The Choreographic Interface: Dancing Facial Expression in Hip Hop and Neo-burlesque Striptease.” She is an active b-girl in the Philadelphia breaking scene. Please share this episode with students, educators, practitioners, performers, and interdisciplinary researchers curious to learn more about dance research in action. Contact: sherril.dodds@temple.edu Staff Profile: https://boyer.temple.edu/about/faculty-staff/sherril-dodds-tue43481 Instagram: @sherrildodds Facebook: @sherrildodds