Recent Public Presentations

  • October 20, 2023, “Integrating Body and Spirit as Portal to Connectivity and Belonging,” presentation for Interdisciplinary Conference, Belonging and Mobily, at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities & Social Sciences.
  • October 12, 2023, "Performing Witchcraft: Feminist Art Practice and Embodied Research Processes," presentation for Dance Studies Colloquium: CPCA AIR, streamed globally from Philadelphia, PA.
  • March 11, 2023, Laura Katz Rizzo in conversation with Department Head for Performing Arts at Drexel University Dr. Miriam Giguere and Philadelphia Ballet’s Krouse Family Principal Dancer Yuka Iseda after the March 11 matinee performance of The Sleeping Beauty. The discussion will focus on the history of The Sleeping Beauty and take place in the Academy of Music Ballroom.
  • February 25, 2020, Invited Lecturer for Pennsylvania Ballet Panel Event about history of La Bayadere, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
  • November 20, 2019. Invited Lecturer for Pennsylvania Ballet Panel Event: History of The Nutcracker, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
  • Dance Studies Association Conference, Valetta, Malta, July 2018
  • Popular Culture Association, St. Louis MO, October 2017
  • May 2017, Talking Bodies, Biennial International Conference of Gender Studies and Embodiment, University of Chester, Chester, UK
  • May 2017 Donya Feuer: Experimental Dance Works, Program 1 (1969–76), Lightbox Film Center, Philadelphia, PA
  • Festival of Original Theatre (FOOT): Queer(ing) Performance, The University of Toronto’s Centre for Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies
  • June 2015 CORPS de Ballet, International, Towson University, Maryland
  • National Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, New Orleans
  • Digital Exhibition and Lecture Presentation Curator, “The Architecture of Space as Embodied in Neo-classical Dance Choreography, ”Interdisciplinary Exhibition with Paul Kolnik and Kyra Nichols as lecturers discussing the work of Kolnik celebrating the 110th birthday of George Balanchine
  • Annual Conference on Serial and Book Acquisition
  • Congress Internationale de Danse, UNESCO 38th World Congress on Dance Research, Tokyo, Japan
  • Dramatic Architectures, Places of Drama, Drama of Place, Escola Superior Artística do Porto, Portugal
  • Philadelphia Film Festival, Panelist for Post-Screening Discussion 
  • Council of Organized Researchers of Pedagogy in Ballet
  • Congress on Research in Dance
  • Northeastern Modern Language Association
  • Society of Dance History Scholars Conference
  • Annual Women’s History Conference, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
  • National Dance Education Organization, Dance 2050
  • National Museum of Women in the Arts, Panelist for museum sponsored film screening and panel discussion of “Who Does She Think She Is?” 
  • WRTI Public Radio, Radio