ELIZABETH JUNE BERGMAN
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Dance Studies: 

“How to ‘Do Your Own Research’: Teaching Dance Histories with Popular Media.” Dance Chronicle 48(3): 492–507, 2025.   

“Crossover and Commercial Dance: Race, Class and Capitalism on The Jacksons Variety Show.” Dance Research Journal 56(1): 56–75, 2025. 

"Dammn Baby! Janet Jackson Dances Pop Feminism," in Dance and US Popular Culture, edited by Jennifer Atkins, Routledge, 2023. 

Other Dance Writing: 
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"A Generic Dance Essay," MN Artists, commissioned by editor Emily Gastineau, 2022. 

Book Reviews: 

"Dramaturgies of the Moving Body: Musical Theatre Dancing," a review of Dance in Musical Theatre: A History of the Body in Movement, edited by Dustyn Martincich and Phoebe Rumsey. Methuen Drama (Bloomsbury), 2024. Published in Dance Chronicle 7(3): 549–553, 2025. 

"Around the Mirror Ball: The Globalization and Glocalization of Disco," a review of Global Dance Cultures in the 1970s and 1980s: Disco Heterotopias, edited by Flora Pitrolo and Mark Zuback. Palgrave MacMillan, 2022. Published in
Dance Chronicle 46(2): 146–149, 2023. 

Recent Conference Presentations: 

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“It Makes No Difference if You’re Black or White, If You’re a Boy or a Girl”: Madonna, Commercial Dance, and Multicultural Community," presented at Popular Culture Association, Atlanta, GA, April 2026. 

“Before MTV: Broadcast Television as Commercial Dance Pedagogy,” presented as part of the organized panel “Moving on the Small Screen: Dance on Television from 1950s-1990,” Indeterminate States, Dance Studies Association National Conference, Washington, D.C., June 2025. 

“Teaching and Researching Commercial Archives: Soul Train as Case Study,” Cartographies of Movement, Dance Studies Association International Conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 2024. 

“Representing Multicultural Community in Commercial Dance: Backup Dancing in Four Iconic 1980s Music Videos,” “You know how we do”: Popular Music and Communality, U.S. Chapter of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music Conference, Philadelphia, PA, April 2024.  

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  • Biography
  • Publications and Research
  • Screendance
  • Choreography
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