Crystal Song

B.A. in History, Ethnicity & Race Studies, Columbia University

Crystal is a dancer and PhD candidate in Performance Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation examines Asian American ballroom dance cultures, with a focus on how model minority personhood is negotiated and reorganized through embodied practice. Her work has been published in TDR, Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies, The Black Scholar, and The International Journal of Screendance. She serves as a co-coordinator of Five Borough Ballroom, an organization dedicated to community-powered ballroom dance in the Greater New York area.