<div dir="ltr"><div style="margin:0px"><font face="-webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hello again, I am forwarding this week's Critical Dance Experiments graduate conference.  Please circulate to graduate students and faculty.  Thank you.</font></div><div style="margin:0px"><font face="-webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif">Best,</font></div><div style="margin:0px"><font face="-webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif">Perla</font></div><div style="margin:0px"><font face="-webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div style="margin:0px"><font face="-webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>******</b></font></div><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Greetings!</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Please join us this week for the <span style="color:rgb(12,16,20)"><b>Critical Dance Experiments </b>conference on <b>Thursday, March 5</b> & <b>Friday, March 6</b>! </span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(12,16,20)">Critical Dance Experiments is a conference organized by MFA and PhD students in UC Riverside’s Department of Dance in collaboration with the 2026 Current Topics in Dance Research Colloquium Series - it aims to rethink dance scholarship in its multiple forms, at the nexus of theory and praxis, and in response to the urgencies of our shared times and places. </span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br style="color:rgb(12,16,20)"><br style="color:rgb(12,16,20)"><span style="color:rgb(12,16,20)"><i>We are excited to introduce two of the scholars that will be joining us!</i></span><br style="color:rgb(12,16,20)"><br style="color:rgb(12,16,20)"><span style="color:rgb(12,16,20)"><b>Dr. Mlondi Zondi </b>(USC Dornsife) will join us as the conference’s keynote speaker, bringing his work into conversation with our graduate student community with the lecture “The Loss of Loss: Dance and the Psychopolitics of Re-Assembly”. Our keynote is part of a collaboration with the 2026 Current Topics in Dance Research Colloquium Series.</span><br style="color:rgb(12,16,20)"><br style="color:rgb(12,16,20)"><span style="color:rgb(12,16,20)"><b>Professor Moncell Durden </b>(USC Kaufman) will join us as the conference’s invited artist and scholar offering two intensive workshops entitled “In the Groove” & “Aesthetic Flow” connecting conceptual and movement aesthetics from Jazz to House and Hip Hop.</span><br style="color:rgb(12,16,20)"><br style="color:rgb(12,16,20)"><span style="color:rgb(12,16,20)">We look forward to moving together!</span></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(12,16,20)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(12,16,20)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(12,16,20)">For more information, visit </span><a href="https://cdeconference.ucr.edu/" target="_blank"><b>https://cdeconference.ucr.edu</b>/</a> and see the attached flyer!</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSecfm4mKzr5uH7BRaqJlGLZ_cFceDhvoOv2JT3dS_7iGNYGBQ/viewform" target="_blank"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4"><b>RSVP HERE</b></font></a></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><u><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Parking Information</b></font></u></div><div><div style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:1.75;letter-spacing:0.44px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">Step 1: </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><u style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><a href="https://www.offstreet.io/events/YXFU611V" target="_blank">Click Here</a></span></span></u></span></span></span></span></span></font></div><div style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:1.75;letter-spacing:0.44px"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Step 2: Enter your license plate in the “License Plate Number”</font></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="box-sizing:inherit;ma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