Exotic Dance
               

Books:

1988         Dance, Sex, and Gender: Signs of Identity, Dominance, Defiance, and Desire. Chicago: University of Chicago Press

1999         Dança, Sexo e Gênero: Signos de Identidade, Dominação, Desafio e Desejo. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Editora Rocco Ltda.

1999         Partnering Dance and Education: Intelligent Moves for Changing Times. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics Press. Korean translation: Jungdam

2001         Reality and Myth: What Neighbors Say About Exotic Dance Clubs: A Case Study in Charlotte, North Carolina. Report for Tarheel Association.

2006         Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press.

---             Naked Truth: A Christian Right, Strip Clubs and Democracy,  in progress

Articles (* = scholarly peer-reviewed):

1988b       "Do We Teach Sex Roles Through Dance Education?" Dance Teacher Now 10(7):38-41

1992*        "Tradition, Challenge, and the Backlash: Gender Education Through Dance," in Laurence Senelick, ed., Gender and Performance. Hanover, NH: The University Press of New England, pp. 223-238

1992*        "Moving Messages:  Identity and Desire in Dance," in James Lull, ed., Popular Music and Communication, 2nd Edition. Newbury Park, CA: pp. 176-195

1992*        "Shock Troupes:  Helms, Kitty Kat, and So What?" Ballet Review 20(3):85-93

1993*        "Classical Indian Dance and Women's Status," in Helen Thomas, ed., Dance, Gender and Culture. London: Macmillan, pp. 119-127

1996         "In Defense of Exotic Dance," Exotic Dancer Bulletin 1(3):70, 72

1996         "Exotic Dance, the First Amendment, and Court," AnthroWatch 4(2):12

1997 *       "Creativity in Ubakala, Dallas Youth, and Exotic Dance," in R. Keith Sawyer, ed., Creativity in Performance, Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corporation, pp. 141-167

1997         "Witness to Injustice?" Exotic Dancer Bulletin 2(4):80

1998         "Building Your Library:  Sexuality in Dance and Society," Dance Teacher Now 20(6):16, 18

1998 *       "Undressing the First Amendment and Corsetting the Striptease Dancer," The Drama Review, T158, 42(2):38-69, Summer

1998         "Analysis: The First Amendment and Exotic Dance," National Campaign for Freedom of Expression Quarterly, Autumn, p. 8

1998         "Exotic Dance in Seattle: The First Amendment and Anthropology," AnthroWatch 6(1):4-6

1998         "In the Courtroom: The Right to Dance!" Exotic Dancer Bulletin 3(1):20

1998         "Defining Dance in the Courtroom," Exotic Dancer Bulletin 3(3):29

1998         Interview by Vladimir Anguelov: "Die Reinheit der Nachtclubtanzerin und die Erotik der Ballerina," Tanz Affiche 80:28-31

1999 *       "Toying with the Striptease Dancer and the First Amendment," in Stuart Reifel, ed., Play and Culture Studies, Vol. 2. Greenwich, CT., Ablex, pp. 37-55

1999         "The First Amendment and Defense of Exotic Dance," Anthropology Newsletter 40(4):50-51

1999         "Club News: Washington, D.C. Bureau," Exotic Dancer Bulletin 3(4):74-76

1999         "Here's the Naked Truth," Gazette Community Forum," p. A-17

1999         "Washington, D.C. Bureau," Exotic Dancer Bulletin 3(4):74-76

1999         "Club Owners--Are You Harassing or Discriminating Against Your Dancers?" Exotic Dancer Bulletin 4(1):61

1999         "Arrests In A Family Business," Exotic Dancer Bulletin 4(2):20-21

1999         "The Naked Truth," Exotic Dancer Bulletin 4(2):138-139

2000         “Helping Dancers, Helping Business?” Exotic Dancer Bulletin 5(1):52

2000         “Gentlemen’s Clubs, Councils and Courtrooms:  Dance Scholarship Moves into Public Policy,” DCA [Dance Critics Association] News, Spring, pp. 7, 16-18

2000          “Club Wins First Round of Nudity Battle,” Exotic Dancer Bulletin 5(3):12-13

2001         “What’s in a Name?  A ? of Life or Death & Acceptance or Stigma,” Adult Entertainment Advocate 5(1):2, January 1

2001*       “Ballet to Exotic Dance – Under the Censorship Watch,” in Janice LaPointe-Crump and Juliette Crone-Willis, compilers, Dancing in the Millennium:  An International Conference, 2000 Proceedings, pp. 230-234

2001        “Still Dancing Nude at Class Act,” (with Randall D.B. Tigue), Exotic Dancer Bulletin 6(1):8-9

2001         “Wrapping Nudity In a Cloak of Law,” New York Times, July 29, Arts & Leisure Section, pp. 14, 18

2001*        “Reality and Myth:  What Neighbors Say About Exotic Dance Clubs: A Case Study on Charlotte, North Carolina,” Charlotte, NC: Tarheel Entertainment Association, submitted to the City of Charlotte Zoning Board

2002         “Book Perpetuates Dangerous Myths,” ACE National Newsletter 2(2):1-2

2002         “The Stigma of Exotic Dance:  Sexy, Not Sex,” Exotic Dancer Bulletin 7(1):37

2002*        "Dance Under the Censorship Watch," Journal of Arts Management Law and Society 29(1):1-13

2002         “American Planning Association Volume Would ‘Plan’ Adult Businesses into Oblivion,” (Legal News, Book Review) Adult Video News (AVN) 18(4):218

2002         “If This Is Stripping, What Is Adult Entertainment?” Exotic Dancer Bulletin 7(3):62

2002         “Exotic Dance Industry Under Fire,” Free Speaker, January, pp. 8-9

2002         “Whose Aesthetics Determine Artistic Merit?” DCA (Dance Critics Association) News,  Summer/Autumn, pp. 7-15

2003         “History of Burlesque on Display at Exotic World Museum,” Exotic Dancer’s Club Bulletin, Feb/March, p. 65

2003*        “Review of Eric Damian Kelly and Connie Cooper, Everything you always wanted to know about regulating sex businesses,” Journal of Planning Literature 17(3):45-46

2003         “Arte posta a nu,” Gesto (Revista do Centro Coreográfico do Rio) (Brazil), June pp. 24-29

2003*        “Exotic Dance Adult Entertainment: Ethnography Challenges False Mythology,” City and Society 15(2):165-193

2003        “A Room With a View. Undercover Detectives Said the Dancing at Sugar Daddy’s Had ‘No          Artistic Merit.’ A Jury Disagrees,” Exotic Dancer’s Club Bulletin, June p. 30.

2003           “Who Speaks for Gays in Dance?” Dance Research Journal 34(3), Summer

2002        “Very Bare Bones (Review of Sisters of Salome),” Dance Magazine 77(11):80

2003        “The Supremes Call the Tune” (Supreme Court on Diversity and Privacy), Dance Magazine 77(12):23

2004        “Questions and Answers With. . .” (Ovetta Wiggins Interviewed Hanna), Washington Post, Metro, December 7, p. C4.

2004*       “The First Amendment, Artistic Merit and Nudity in Minnesota: Dance, Criminal Public  Indecency and Evidence,” Minnesota Law and Politics Web Magazine, April/May (noted in Minnesota Law and Politics 145:34), www.lawandpolitics.com (click on MN   & then web magazine)

               Abbreviated: "Artistic Merit in Exotic Dance: A Case Study in Exotic Dancer Jury Trials," Free Speaker, August, pp. 12-14

2004        Interview by Luke E. Saladin, "Suit: Is It Dirty Dancing or Art?" The Kentucky Post (Cincinnati Inquirer Post), p. 1, November 29

2005      "Dance Speaks Out on Social Issues," Anthropology News 46(4):11-12 

2005       “Adult Entertainment Exotic Dance: A Guide for Planners and Policy Makers,” Journal of Planning Literature, 20(2):116-134

2005     "'Provocative'" Dancers: Actors with Agency," Anthropology News (Association for Feminist Anthropology) 46(7):47

2005      "Music and the Art of Seduction: Dance and Seduction?" Dance Research Journal  37(1):157-162

2006      "Strip Club FYI," "Gentlemen's Clubs, Councils & Courtrooms," Adult Entertainment Today 2:2 9

2006       "Body to Body, Dimes to Dollars, Adult Entertainment Today, 3:13

2006          "Marian Chace Foundation Annual Lecture: October 2005. The Power of Dance Discourse: Explanation in Self-Defense," American Journal of Dance Therapy 28(1):3-20 

2007      "Where's the Body: Legislative & Judicial 'Common Sense' & Evidence," WAPA (Washington Association of Professional Anthropologists) Newsletter 30(1):6-7

2008       "Empowerment: The Art of Seduction in American Adult Entertainment Exotic Dance," in Frank
Kouwenhoven and James Kippen, eds. Music and the Art of Seduction, forthcoming

---          “Right to Dance: Exotic Dancing in the U.S.," in Naomi Jackson and Toni Shapiro-Phim, eds.,
Dignity in Motion: Dance, Human Rights and Social Justice, under publication review

---           "'Toxic' Strip Clubs: The Intersection of Religion and Law," under publication review

Presentations to Governmental Bodies:

1997        "Dancer-Patron Up Close or Distant: What Difference Does it Make? Why?” Shoreline City Council, Washington

1998a        “Nudity -- Not Nice?" Lansing City Council

1998b       “Exotic Dance and the Proposed County of Horry Ordinance #83-98,” County of Horry City Council, South Carolina

1999a        "Exotic Dance and the Proposed No-Contact 3-Foot Ordinance of the City of Tampa," City Council of Tampa, November 18

1999b       "First Amendment Protection of Exotic Dance and the Proposed No-Contact/Patron-Dancer Distance Ordinance of the City of Tampa," City Council of Tampa, December 2

2000        “First Amendment Protection of Exotic Dance (including the Expressive Contact Component) and the Proposed No-Contact /Patron-Dancer Distance Ordinance of the City of Tampa," City Council of Tampa, September 21

2003         “Testimony v. Prince George’s County, Maryland, Proposed Bill, CB 86-2003,” “Legal Predicate: High Number of Calls for Service,” November 25    

2004          "Testimony on City of Oakland Park Restrictions Legislation," July 21

2005a             "Testimony on Manatee County Adult Entertainment Proposed Ordinance No. 05-21," April 5

2005b            "Testimony on City of Pompano Beach Proposed Ordinance Amendment No. Sect. 115.26," May 10

 2005             "Testimony on Ohio HB 23, October 5

2006         "Testimony on Prince George's Adult Entertainment Ordinance, Proposed Bill, CB-61-2006, July 18

Expert Court Witness Cases, 1995 to Date

(over 80 cases involving reports, affidavits, depositions and court appearances)  

Superior Court of Washington, King County, Washington (twice)
Municipal Court of Seattle, Washington
U.S. District Court, Clark County, Nevada
U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida
Circuit Court of City of Roanoke, Virginia
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio (twice)
U.S. District Court, District of Arizona
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas, Dallas (twice)
Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino
State of New York, County Court, County of Tompkins
Government of the District of Columbia Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
U.S. District Court, Middle District of Tennessee
Cook County Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission
Circuit Court, St. Croix, Wisconsin
State Court of Florida, 18th Judicial District
State of Minnesota, 1st Judicial District Criminal Division (twice)
Circuit Court, Seminole County, Florida
U.S. District Court, Middle District of North Carolina (twice)
U.S. District Court, Eastern District, Pennsylvania
County Court, 13th Judicial Circuit, Hillsborough County, Florida
County Court, 6th Division of Local Ordinance Violation, Pinellas County, Florida (twice)
State of Minnesota, 7th Judicial District Criminal Division (twice)
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, Western Division
State of Illinois, Civil Trial Division
U.S. District Court, Southern District of Mississippi, Jackson Division
State of Illinois, Civil Trial Division, Lake County
Superior Court of New Jersey
Pasco County Court, 6th Judicial Circuit