PAR in/and the Academy with Rosemary Candelario

Date & Time: Thursday, February 12, 2026 | 3:30-5pm

This event is hosted by the Practice-as-Research Working Group and is free to members.

Non-member price: $20

PAR in its many guises--practice (as/based/led) research, performance (as/based/led) research--was explicitly articulated by a group of artist scholars as a methodology in order to legitimize artistic work as research in the academy and make it legible to specific national and institutional evaluation rubrics. In some countries, this has led to the acceptance and legitimization of PAR/PaR, and a proliferation of research, degree programs, and publications. In other contexts where acceptance has been slower, like the United States, people doing PAR/PaR still face challenges. In this event, we'll review the development of PaR, discuss its practice in various contexts, and workshop how to grapple with its various challenges and affordances.

Speaker: Rosemary Candelario

About the Speaker:
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

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