Articles and Essays

“The Problem with Trump’s Takeover of the Kennedy Center Isn’t the Possibility of ‘Cats,’” The Conversation, April 4, 2025.

“What Live Theater Can Learn from Branson, Missouri,” The Conversation, Oct. 5, 2023.

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“Making Space, Keeping Time: Musical Theatre Dance and Temporality.” In Dance in Musical Theatre: A History of the Body in Movement, edited by Dustyn Martincich and Phoebe Rumsey. Bloomsbury/Methuen, 2023.

“The Real Deal: Impersonation and the American Dream in Branson and Vegas.” Co-authored with Maddie House-Tuck. In The Possibility Machine: Music and Myth in America’s City of Second Chances, edited by Jake Johnson. University of Illinois Press, 2023.

“The Branson Hillbilly: Commingling Power and Marginalization on the ‘Heartland’ Stage.” Co-authored with Jay Buchanan. Theatre History Studies 41 (2022).

“Dancers and Choreographers: The Laboring Bodies of Musical Theatre.” In The Routledge Companion to Musical Theatre, edited by Ryan Donovan and Laura MacDonald. Routledge, 2022.

“Dance and the African Diaspora.” In Milestones in Dance History, edited by Dana Tai Soon Burgess. Routledge, 2022.

“Dance in Musical Theater: Challenging the Distinction between Art and Entertainment.” In Milestones in Dance in the USA, edited by Elizabeth McPherson. Routledge, 2022.

“Dance That ‘Suggested Nothing But Itself’: Josephine Baker and Abstraction.” ARTS Journal, February 14, 2020, doi:10.3390/arts9010023, 1-12.

“Choreographic Ghosts: Dance and the Revival of Shuffle Along.” Dance Research Journal 51, no. 3 (2019): 84-96.

“Dance in Musical Theatre.” Co-edited with Ryan Donovan. Special Issue of Studies in Musical Theatre 13, no. 1 (2019).

“Dancing Dahomey at the World’s Fair: Revising the Archive of African Dance.” In The Futures of Dance Studies, edited by Susan Manning, Janice Ross, and Rebecca Schneider. University of Wisconsin Press, 2019.

“What Makes a Musical? Contact (2000) and Debates About Genre at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century.” In The Routledge Companion to the Contemporary Musical, edited by Elizabeth Wollman and Jessica Sternfeld. Routledge, 2019.

“Ways of Knowing: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Musical Theatre.” Co-authored with Elizabeth T. Craft. In A Critical Companion to the American Stage Musical, edited by Elizabeth Wollman. Bloomsbury, 2017.

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