Aqueous Performance

Dr. Rosemary Candelario

Dr. Rosemary Candelario is an artist-scholar with research interests in Asian American and Asian diasporic dance, butoh, ecology, site-related performance, and representations of sex and reproduction in performance and popular culture. She was awarded the 2018 Oscar G. Brockett Book Prize for Dance Research for Flowers Cracking Concrete: Eiko & Koma's Asian/American Choreographies (Wesleyan University Press 2016) and the 2024 Ruth Lovell Murray Book Award for Dance Research Methodologies: Ethics, Orientations, and Practices (Routledge 2023, co-edited with Matthew Henley). She received the 2022 Mid-Career Award from the Dance Studies Association. Her practice research project, Butoh Ecologies, has been shared through workshops, performances, and keynote lectures across the United States and in Mexico and Japan. Rosemary is Associate Professor of Theatre and Dance at the University of Texas at Austin. She serves as the President of the Dance Studies Association and holds a PhD in Culture and Performance from UCLA. 

www.rosemarycandelario.net