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Mary Fogarty
Lifelong b-girl Mary Fogarty is now associate professor of dance at York University, Toronto. A long-time member of the KeepRockinYou arts collective that organizes the Toronto B-Girl Movement, Mary has performed in Canada, the United States, Germany, Scotland, England and Portugal. She has served as a judge at various international breaking competitions, including the first Olympic qualifier (held in South Korea in 2022) that will help determine who competes when breaking debuts at the Paris Summer Olympics (in 2024). Mary has published two collections of research on dance: The Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Dance Studies (Oxford University Press, 2022, co-edited with Imani Kai Johnson) and Movies, Moves, and Music: The Sonic World of Dance Films (The Sonic World of Dance Films, Equinox Publishing, 2016, co-edited with Mark Evans). Her other recent research appears in Contemporary Music Review (2021), We Still Here: Hip Hop North of the 49th Parallel (Marsh and Campbell [eds], McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020), Beyoncé: At Work, On Screen, and Online (Iddon and Marshall [eds], Indiana University Press, 2020) and The Oxford Handbook of Dance Competition (Dodds [ed.], Oxford University Press, 2019).
Contact: York University, 111 Central Square, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3, Canada.