Year
Recipient
Award Level
Project
2017
Kareem Khubchandani
Prize
Project or Publication:
“Snakes on the Dance Floor: Bollywood, Gesture, and Gender,” The Velvet Light Trap 77 (2016): 69-85)
Awards
/ Annual Book and Publication Awards
Gertrude Lippincott Award
Nominations Due
March 15, 2018
Awarded annually to the best English-language article published in dance studies.
Kareem Khubchandani accepting the 2017 Gertrude Lippincott Award
The Gertrude Lippincott Award is awarded annually to the best English-language article published in dance studies. Named in honor of its donor, a devoted teacher of modern dance in the Midwest and mentor to many students, it was established to recognize excellence in the field of dance scholarship. The award carries a cash purse of $500.
Authors, editors, publishers, or members of DSA may submit articles and chapters in anthologies published during the prior calendar year. Only one entry per author or advocate will be accepted.
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Nomination Instructions
Send a digital (PDF) copy of the published article and an e-mail cover letter with the publication information and author’s full contact information to: awards@dancestudiesassociation.org with Gertrude Lippincott Award in the subject line
Past Recipients
Year
Recipient
Award Level
Project
2016
Brandon Shaw
Prize
Project or Publication:
“Phantom Limbs and the Weight of Grief in Sasha Waltz’s noBody” Theatre Journal 67 (2015), pp. 21-42.
2016
Andrea Harris
Honorable Mention
Project or Publication:
“Sur la Pointe on the Prairie: Giuseppina Morlacchi and the Urban Problem in the Frontier Melodrama,” in The Journal of American Drama and Theatre 27:1 (Winter 2015).
2015
Sherril Dodds
Prize
Project or Publication:
“The Choreographic Interface: Dancing Facial Expression in Hip-Hop and Neo-Burlesque Striptease” in Dance Research Journal 46:Special Issue 02 (2014), pp. 39–56.
2014
Alexandra Kolb
Prize
Project or Publication:
“The Migration and Globalization of Schuhplattler Dance: A Sociological Analysis” in Cultural Sociology 7:1, pp. 39–55
2013
Anurima Banerji
Prize
Project or Publication:
“Dance and the Distributed Body: Odissi, Ritual Practice, and Mahari Performance” in About Performance 11: 7–39
2013
J. Lorenzo Perillo
Prize
Project or Publication:
“‘If I was not in prison, I would not be famous’: Discipline, Choreography, and Mimicry in the Philippines” in Theatre Journal 63: 607–621.
2011
Selby Wynn Schwartz
Prize
Project or Publication:
“Martha@Martha: A Séance with Richard Move” in Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory 20.1 (2010): 61–87.
2011
Öykü Potuoglu-Cook
Honorable Mention
Project or Publication:
“The Uneasy Vernacular: Choreographing Multiculturalism and Dancing Difference Away in Globalised Turkey” in Anthropological Notebooks 16.3 (2010): 93–105.
2010
Kate Elswit
Prize
Project or Publication:
“Berlin… Your Dance Partner is Death” in TDR: The Drama Review, 53.1 (2009), pp. 73–92.
2009
Cindy Garcia
Prize
Project or Publication:
“Don’t leave me Celia: Salsera homosociality and pan-Latina corporealities” in Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, 18:3, pp. 199–213.
2009
Victoria Phillips Geduld
Honorable Mention
Project or Publication:
“Performing Communism in the American Dance: Culture, Politics, and the New Dance Group” in American Communist History 7:1, 2008, pp. 39–65.
2009
Melissa Blanco Borelli
Honorable Mention
Project or Publication:
“Yahora que vas a hacer, mulata? Hip choreographies in the Mexican cabaretera film ‘Mulata’ in Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, 18:3, pp. 215–233.
2008
Priya Srinivasan
Prize
Project or Publication:
“The Bodies Beneath the Smoke or What’s Behind the Cigarette Poster: Unearthing Kinesthetic Connections in American Dance History” in Discourse in Dance, Ramsey Burt and Susan Leigh Foster, editors, Volume 4 Issue 1 2007, pp. 7–48.
2008
Rebekah Kowal
Prize
Project or Publication:
“Dance Travels: ‘Walking With Pearl’” Performance Research, 12(2), pp. 85–94, 2007.
2007
Anthea Kraut
Prize
Project or Publication:
“Recovering Hurston, Reconsidering the Choreographer” which appeared in Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, 16/1 (March 2006).
2007
April K. Henderson
Honorable Mention
Project or Publication:
“Dancing Between Islands: Hip Hop and the Samoan Diaspora” which appeared inThe Vinyl Ain’t Final: Hip Hop and the Globalization of Black Popular Culture, Dipannita Basuand and Sidney J. Lemelle, eds., London: Pluto Press, 2006.