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Participants:

Arnold Berleant,  Long Island University, received his advanced musical education at the Eastman School of Music and his doctorate in philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is Professor of Philosophy (Emeritus) at Long Island University, former Secretary-General and Past President of the International Association of Aesthetics, and former Secretary-Treasurer of the American Society for Aesthetics. His books and articles in philosophy focus on aesthetics, environmental aesthetics, and ethics. Arnold Berleant is the founding editor of Contemporary Aesthetics, an international on-line journal of contemporary aesthetic theory, research, and application.

Julie Van Camp: PhD Philosophy, Georgetown University, She received a B.A. cum laude from Mount Holyoke Collegein Massachusetts, majoring in philosophy, a Ph.D. in philosophy from Temple University, Philadelphia, specializing in philosophy of art, and a J.D. cum laude from Georgetown University, where she specialized in art law. Her primary research interests are philosophical problems presented by art law, especially freedom of expression for artists and intellectual property. She also works on philosophical problems of dance. She has received grants to support her work from the American Bar Association, Commission on College and University Legal Studies; the National Endowment for the Humanities; and the Non-Profit Sector Research Fund of the Aspen Institute.

Robert Crease, Stony Brook University, Professor in, and former chairman of, the Department of Philosophy at Stony Brook University. He has written, edited, or translated over a dozen books in the history and philosophy of science; his latest (co-written with Alfred Goldhaber) is The Quantum Moment: How Planck, Bohr, Einstein and Heisenberg Taught Us to Love Uncertainty. He has written several philosophical and historical articles about jazz dance, and was co-founder of the New York Swing Dance Society. He wrote the "Jazz and Dance" entry for both The Cambridge Companion to Jazz and The Oxford Companion to Jazz. He has also written about jazz dance and dancers for American National Biographyand the forthcoming Encyclopaedia of Modernism (Routledge). He is the author of "Critical Point," a monthly column for Physics World, and is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Physics in Perspective. His articles and reviews have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Nature and elsewhere.

Judith Lynne Hanna, University of Maryland: Hanna earned a Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University, an M.A. in political science from Michigan State University and a B.A. in political science from UCLA. She is an Affiliate Research Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maryland, an educator, writer and dance critic.She has explored the relationship between dance and society in African villages and cities and American theaters, school playgrounds and classrooms as well as adult entertainment clubs and their communities. In addition, she has conducted other research in Africa, urban areas, and American schools with at-risk youth.To her credit are landmark books: To Dance Is Human: A Theory of Nonverbal Communication (University of Chicago Press), Dance, Sex and Gender: Signs of Identity, Dominance and Desire  (University of Chicago Press),The Performer-Audience Connection: Emotion to Metaphor in Dance and Society (University of Texas Press), Partnering Dance and Education  (Human Kinetics), Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress  (AltaMira Press), Urban Dynamics in Black Africa, co-author (Aldine).

Stephanie Jordan, (University of Roehamption, United Kingdom) Formerly Head of the Department of Dance (1992-2000) and Director of the Centre for Dance Research, Stephanie Jordan is currently Research Professor in Dance.. rofessor Stephanie Jordan from the University of Roehampton has just completed a seven year project studying Morris’ use of music in his work. Her book, entitled Mark Morris, Musician-Choreographer was launched at in New York City at the Center for Ballet and Arts on Tuesday.

Louis Kouvais, University of Nevada, Louis Kavouras joined UNLV’s dance faculty in 1992 and was elected chair in 1994. He has taught workshops residencies and training programs at Case Western Reserve University, Texas State University, Allegheny College, Lake Erie College, Cal State Fullerton, Liverpool Institute of the Performing Arts, Weston College, University of Idaho, and the University of Washington, Seattle, as well as numerous international dance institutions. Louis Kavouras has been a principal dancer with the Erick Hawkins Dance Company and master teacher of the Erick Hawkins Dance Technique since 1995. He has been instrumental in furthering the Hawkins technique by organizing and offering workshops and residencies throughout the nation, and in establishing the Hawkins West Institute, for the archiving and preservation of the aesthetic sculptures, costumes and properties of Erick Hawkins and Lucia Dlugoszewski.

Barbara Montero, City University of New York, PhD University of Chicago Philosophy, Associate professor of philosophy at the City University of New York (CUNY), where I have been a member of the doctoral faculty of the philosophy program of the Graduate Center since 2004 and a member of the philosophy faculty at the college of Staten Island since 2003. Most of my research focuses on two very different notions of body: body as the physical or material basis of the mind, and body as the moving, breathing, flesh and blood instrument we use when we run, walk, or dance.

Richard Shusterman, Florida Atlantic University,.Richard Shusterman received a B.A. in Philosophy and English and an M.A. in Philosophy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. After three years as an officer in the Israeli army, he continued his academic studies in England, receiving his doctorate in Philosophy from St. John's College, Oxford University. From 1998-2004, he served as chair of the Philosophy Department at Temple University, and in 2004 was appointed the Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar Chair in the Humanities at Florida Atlantic University.For ten years, he has been a recurrent visiting professor at the interdisciplinary Department of Liberal Studies at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in New York. In Paris, he was an associate of the École des Hautes Études in Sciences Sociales; in Berlin, he was a Fulbright Professor in both philosophy and American studies; and in Hiroshima he was appointed as Visiting Research Professor in Aesthetics, Somatic Philosophy, and Education