CURRENT PROJECTS
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Dance and Healing
I am currently conducting research on organizations and dance teachers who use Dance Movement Therapy (DMT) or who use dance/movement for healing purposes. View a preview of this research HERE.
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A Dark Comedy Play
An all-female cast and crew gather together to begin workshopping a new, revelational, play about feminism and diversity. Just as rehearsals start, a burgeoning pandemic jeopardizes the entire production! As this deadly virus emerges, so too do tensions in the company. In this dark comedy about apocalyptic “Wokeness”, hidden prejudices amongst liberal women threaten to engender just as much suspicion and betrayal as a global pandemic.
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End of Life Care Ethnography
Along with four other ethnographers, I have been working for the Southwest Folklife Alliance documenting the experiences of end of life caregivers in Arizona. The project is currently featured at an exhibit at the Arizona State Museum, “Walking Each Other Home: Cultural Practices at End of Life” . An excerpt from my ethnography can be read HERE. Listen to recordings from interviews with caregiver Deborah Young HERE.
Photo courtesy of Kathleen Dreier Photography
One Day You will be like Her, Southwestfolklife.org
No Song for the Half-Breed, Terrain.org
Introduction to the Special Issue: Extinction, Sonora Review
Coerced Intimacy is not just “Bad Sex.” Tucson.com
White Beauty: At Home and Abroad, The Feminist Wire
Originally Amalia, The Feminist Wire
The Experience of a Woman in India Revisited: The Many Dimensions of Misogyny, CNNireport
Reviews & Interviews
Interview with Playwright, Screenwriter, and Novelist Colette Freedman, Lunch Ticket (forthcoming)
Music and Hate: A Conversational Interview, Notes on the Study of Hate (forthcoming)
Interview with Lynn Ferguson, Lit Cit Podcast
How Jessica Faleiro’s “The Delicate Balance of Little Lives” is an Ode to Women, Kitaab.org
Academic Publications
“The Me Too Movement in India and the US.” In W. Simmons (Ed.) Human Rights Conversations. New York, NY: Routledge. In preparation.
Music and War. SAGE Journal of Music and Culture, Vol. 19, 2019
Academic Webinars
Understanding & Mitigating Hate Against Women and Girls, UCLA Women & Philanthropy
Selected Media Interviews
On theatre, Arizona Public Media, NPR
On gender-based violence, Arizona Public Media, NPR
On catcalling as oral tradition, Borderlore
WRITING
Karenne Koo is the founder of DanceSequences, an inclusive dance company based in Tucson, Arizona. Here, she discusses working with various groups whose bodies are often considered damaged, weak, or easily exploitable, and the healing potential of even the smallest movement.
DANCE AND HEALING PROJECT PREVIEW