The body of knowledge about flamenco is growing quickly in the hands of scholars who study the influences, history, and evolution of the art form, all over the world. Research into the art form supports performance and education practices of investigators and those who learn from their work. Berdolé director Julie Galle has been participating in academic conferences about flamenco for over a decade, with a focus on arts education practices in schools, presenting to American audiences, mathematics, and African influences of flamenco.

2024 Biennial New Perspectives in Flamenco History and Research Symposium
National Institute of Flamenco and University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 2024
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Primer Congreso Internacional y Festival Claroscuros del Arte Pop Contemporáneo Español
University of Málaga and Peña Juan Breva, Málaga, Spain, 2023

The Body Questions Conference
City University of New York, 2019

Highlights: Talks and Papers

“Dancing Identity Through Math” 2024
Georgia Department of Education STEM STEAM Forum 2024, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Paper presentation and educator workshop exploring ways to use dance at the point of data generation in STEM and problem-based learning exercises in the K-12 classroom. Talk presented by the Georgia Department of Education.

“Community Healing: Flamenco Dance and Mask Theatre” 2024
9th Biennial New Perspectives in Flamenco History and Research Symposium, presented by The National Institute of Flamenco in conjunction with the University of New Mexico College of Fine Arts.
Paper presentation of professional work showing methods used to incorporate flamenco in Mask Theatre
production focused on a theme of community healing, presented in collaboration with Sandra Hughes.

“Trabajamos en la interacción del flamenco” 2023
Primer Congreso Internacional y Festival Claroscuros del Arte Pop Contemporáneo Español presented by the University of Málaga and Peña Juan Breva, Málaga, Spain
Paper presentation and masterclass explaining my pedagogical approach to teaching flamenco dance from a base of music theory and improvisational rules used by professional and amateur artists.

“The New Flamenco School Show: Breaking Stereotypes and Planting Seeds of Discourse on Race” in 2022 The Body Questions: Celebrating Flamenco’s Tangled Roots, edited by K. Meira Goldberg and Antoni Pizà, Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022

“Remounting historic works: communicating the past of art, politics, and social issues to contemporary flamenco audiences” 2019
The 7th Biennial New Perspectives in Flamenco History and Research Symposium presented by The National Institute of Flamenco in conjunction with the University of New Mexico College of Fine Arts.
Paper presentation: The live reproduction of historical flamenco dance before contemporary audiences can create a window through which to perceive history, presenting producers and performers with the question of a need to also explain provenance, given the lack of formal canon in flamenco arts

“Rhythm that divides: Classism in the imbalance of music” 2019
International bilingual conference Spaniards, Natives, Africans, and Gypsies, at Universidad Veracruzana, Puerto de Veracruz, Mexico
Paper presentation: Analysis of a selection imbalanced rhythms that originated in the Americas and southern Spain, as an expression of the marginalized, and were later appropriated by the upper class

“Embodying Counterpoints: The work of Vicente Escudero and Israel Galvan in the theory 2019
of Severo Sarduy’s Ellipse” Spaniards, Natives, Africans, and Roma: Transatlantic Malagueñas and Zapateados in Music, Song, and Dance.” Eds K. Meira Goldberg, Walter Clark, and Antoni Pizà, Castle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019.

Thesis written for partial fulfillment of requirements to earn an M.A. in Spanish, “Elliptical Bodies: Avant-garde and the physical shape of flamenco rhythms” Georgia State University, 2017

“100 Years of Flamenco in New York” 2014
New York Public Library and Carlota Santana Vivo Flamenco
Contributor to multimodal exhibit at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and
accompanying scholarly catalog