Ninotchka Bennahum, Professor of Theater and Dance and Graduate Advisor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is a dance and performance studies scholar and museum curator. As a historian of dance, my work centers around a politics of inclusion with a focus on visuality and public culture. My current research, curation, and pedagogy focus on the political and philosophical natureof artistic radicalism, specifically how 20th century geopolitical conflict defined contemporaneity in contemporary and neoclassical dance. Books and co-edited collections include: Antonia Mercé, ‘La Argentina: Flamenco & the Spanish Avant-Garde and Carmen, a Gypsy Geography, a transhistorical study of the Gitana in Middle Eastern and Spanish cultural history, The Living Dance: A Global Anthology of Essays on Movement & Culture, coedited with Distinguished Professor Judith Chazin-Bennahum (mom), and Flamenco on the Global Stage: Theoretical, Historical and Critical Perspectives. Co-curated, bi-coastal exhibitions|books include: Transformation & Continuance: Jennifer Muller & the Re-Shaping of American Modern Dance, 1959 – Present; 100 Years of Flamenco on the New York Stage; Radical Bodies: Anna Halprin, Simone Forti and Yvonne Rainer in California and New York, 1955 – 1972; and Border Crossings: Exile and American Modern Dance, 1900 – 1955. In 2019, she curated a permanent exhibition for the Department of Dance at UW-Madison entitled Radical Pedagogy: Margaret H’Doubler, Anna Halprin, and American Dance, 1916 – Present. A final co-curated (with Jessica Friedman) exhibition, Dance to Belong: 150 Years of Dance History at 92NY, is on view at 92NY, March 12, 2024 through August 2025. See also “Carmelita Maracci’s Latine Classicism,” Dance Index Fall 2024. The resident dance scholar for American Ballet Theatre from 1996 to 2012, she is completing a history of the company: Exile and Modernity: American Ballet Theatre in the Shadow of War.