Olive Demar

Writing

“Location, Contradiction, Ambivalence: Feminist Methodologies Within and Beyond the University” in Intersectional Feminist Research Methodologies, edited by Jennifer Cooke and Line Nyhagen (London: Routledge, 2024).

“Shit, Cum, and Milk: On Relating to Institutions of Higher Education,” Blind Field: A Journal of Cultural Inquiry, March 2024.

“Notes from an Inquiry into Contingent Work,” SubStance 53, no. 1 (2024).

“More than Meets the Eye: Towards Critical Institutional Research in Dance Studies,” Dance Chronicle 45, no. 1 (2022).

“Florence Treadwell Boynton in Progressive Era Berkeley: Early Modern Dance and California’s Political Unconscious,” Dance Chronicle 43, no. 3 (2020).

“Learning from Experience: Disciplinary Hybridity between Group Psychoanalysis and Performance,” Performance Research 25, no. 4 (2020).

“Rethinking Halprin’s Parades and Changes: Postmodern Dance, Racialized Urban Restructuring, and Mid-1960s San Francisco,” TDR: the Drama Review 64, no. 2 (2020).

“Dance, Real Estate, and Institutional Critique: Reconsidering Glorya Kaufman’s Dance Philanthropy in Los Angeles,” Lateral 7, no. 2 (2018).

“The Wallflower Order and Social Reproduction: Gender, Work, and Feminist Dance,” TDR: the Drama Review 62, no. 1 (2018).

Collaborative Writing

“Marxist Keywords for Performance,” Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 36, no. 1 (2021), co-authored with Jaswinder Blackwell-Pal, Shane Boyle, Ash Dilks, Caoimhe Mader McGuinness, Lisa Moravec, Alessandro Simari, Clio Unger, and Martin Young.

“Pseudo-, anti-, and total dance: A self-interview on curation,” co-authored with the SALTA Collective, Curating Live Arts: Global Perspectives, Envisioning Theory and Practice in Performance, edited by Davida, Pronovost, Hudon, and Gabriels (New York: Berghahn Books, 2018).

Book Reviews

Review of Manuel R. Cuellar's Choreographing Mexico: Festive Performances and Dancing Histories of a Nation, Pacific Historical Review 93, no. 1 (2024).

Review of Malcolm Harris's Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World and Jenny Odell's Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock, Emancipations: A Journal of Critical Social Analysis 2, no. 3 (2023).

Review of Annelies Van Assche's Labor and Aesthetics in European Contemporary Dance, Dance Research Journal 53, no. 3 (2021).

“The Searing and Fleeting Improvisational World of Grand Union,” a review of Wendy Perron’s The Grand Union: Accidental Anarchists of Downtown Dance, 1970–1976, Dance Chronicle 42, no. 2 (2021).

“Opening all of the Windows: a review of The Routledge Companion to Art and Politics,” Socialism and Democracy Journal 20, no. 1 (2016).

About

Olive Demar is a researcher and editor. Previously, she was the editor in chief of a peer-reviewed journal for dance research. Her interests: California, history from below, social movements, the manifest & the latent, sleuthing, place, buildings, the unconscious, groups, the here & now, noir. She is currently working on an edited volume, Alma Mater, that collects critical essays written by alumni looking back at the institutions where they studied.

PhD, University of California, Los Angeles

Contact: demar.olive@gmail.com