Jacqueline Shea Murphy
Fellow
Jacqueline Shea Murphy is a professor in the University of California, Riverside’s dance department. She has published on the topic of Native American and Indigenous dance history and contemporary choreography in journals including Biography, Theatre Research International, Interventions, and Discourses in Dance, and in "The People Have Never Stopped Dancing": Native American Modern Dance Histories (2007), awarded the 2008 de la Torre Bueno Prize® for outstanding book of the year in dance studies by the Society of Dance History Scholars (SDHS). Through this writing, in her lectures and teaching, and through producing numerous showcases, panels, and symposia on Indigenous choreography at conferences and through the "Indigenous Choreographers at Riverside" project, she has helped bring Indigenous choreography into visibility to dance studies scholars. She has a background in literary studies and creative writing, and is co-editor of Bodies of the Text: Dance as Theory: Dance as Theory, Literature as Dance (1995).
THIS AUTHOR WROTE
December 18, 2016
In this interview, IRC-Fellow Jacqueline Shea Murphy, professor in the University of California, Riverside’s dance department, gives a very personal insight into the ways in which her life as a researcher has developed, has changed herself and intensified virulent research questions. Unfolding the complexity and range of her focus on “indigeneity,” Murphy concretely talks about how the impulses of Indigenous knowledge contribute to contemporary choreographic processes, modern dance practices, and alternative understandings of the world.
October 24, 2016
Just before the summer, Berlin theater venue HAU hosted an installation, which had been created for the Latin American pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2015 before it toured South America, dealing with the endangered linguistic diversity on the Latin-American continent. In this interview IRC-Fellow Jacqueline Shea Murphy talks about her impressions, her critical observations and the complexity of the term “indigeneity” and its discussion.
