Research + Scholarship

Conference Presentations and Workshops

Swing, Jazz, and Musical Theatre Dance (Workshop); Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF) Region 8, Mesa Community College; Mesa, AZ (February 11 - 14, 2025)

Pivot Step: Strategies for Restarting Your Dance Education Career (Workshop); California Dance Education Association (CDEA) 2023 Annual Conference “Finding Common Ground: in Movement, Policy, and the Creative Process,” California State University - Fullerton, Fullerton, CA (January 14 - 15, 2023).

The Dancer’s Gaze: Turning Toward Each Other to Create Empathy in Technique Classes (Movement Session); National Dance Education Organization (NDEO), Virtual Conference (October 23-25, 2020).

Pedagogy to Andragogy: Dance Improvisation as a Tool for Moving Early College Students from Adult-Directed to Self-Directed Learning (Movement Session); California Dance Educators Association (CDEA) Annual Conference, California State University - East Bay, Hayward, CA (February 1-2, 2020).

Papers Presented

Seigle, J.,  Labor of Love: An Analysis of the Labor Movement and the Dance Field, Presented at the 2025 California Dance Education Association (CDEA) State Conference: “Radical Roots,” Long Beach, CA, March 2025. 

Online Courses Developed for National Platform

A Historiographical Approach to Teaching Musical Theatre Dance Forms, National Dance Education Organization (NDEO), Online Professional Development Institute (OPDI), Course Creator and Instructor, 2025, 2026.

Panels

Panelist, Beyond the Major: Opportunities for Dance in College; Arizona Dance Education Organization (AzDEO) Annual Educator Retreat, Mesa, AZ (August 19, 2023).

Academic Theses

Seigle, J. The Muffled Lullabye Of Old Broadway; Submitted to Professor Robert Lind in partial fulfillment of the requirements for completing Advanced Entertainment Law Seminar at Southwestern Law School, 2011

Seigle, J. Experiments in the Fluid Theatre: Producing the Dance of Angels Who Burn Their Own Wings; MFA Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Colorado, 2003

Seigle, J. Exodus Redundant: Movement Theatre in a Fusion World; Senior Honors Thesis in Theatre, California State University, Northridge, 2000

Publications (Non-Academic)

Seigle, Jennifer. “Dean Martin.” Sunspot Literary Journal, Volume. 6, Issue 1, April 2024,  p. 77-78. (Finalist, 2023 Sunspot Literary Journal Goldilocks Zone Contest.)

Seigle, Jennifer. “More than Meaning,” NDEO Behind the Curtain Blog, July 2022 (Available at: https://www.ndeo.org /Learn /Behind-the-Curtain-Blog/ ArticleID/192/More-Than-Meaning)