Rizvana Bradley accepting the 2019 Gertrude Lippincott Award
The annual Gertrude Lippincott award of $500 recognizes the best English-language dance studies article published in the last year, recognizing its excellence in the field of dance scholarship. This award is a befitting tribute to Gertrude Lippincott of Minneapolis, one of the founders of the original Congress on Research in Dance, and nationally recognized for her choreography, performance, company directing, teaching and dance writing. Lippincott founded the Modern Dance Center of Minneapolis. From the 1940s-1960s she was also an editor for "Dance Observer and "Dance Magazine," which published her articles. The award is for works published in the previous calendar year (2019).
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“Moving Borders and Dancing in Place: Son Jarocho’s Speaking Bodies at the Fandango Fronterizo” (TDR, 2020)
Honorable Mention
“Whose Jewishness? Inbal Dance Theater and Cold War American Spectatorship” (American Jewish History, 2020)
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Honorable Mention
“Whose Jewishness? Inbal Dance Theater and Cold War American Spectatorship” (American Jewish History, 2020)
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“Rehearsal Problems: Gus Giordano’s ‘The Rehearsal’ and the Serious Business of Middlebrow Dance” in Theatre Journal (June 2019, Vol.71:2): 171-189.
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“Black Cinematic Gesture and the Aesthetics of Contagion” in TDR (Spring 2018): 14-30
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“Baroque Relations: Performing Silver and Gold in Daniel Rabel’s Ballet of the Americas” in Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment (2018)
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“Snakes on the Dance Floor: Bollywood, Gesture, and Gender,” The Velvet Light Trap 77 (2016): 69-85)
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“Phantom Limbs and the Weight of Grief in Sasha Waltz’s noBody” Theatre Journal 67 (2015), pp. 21-42.
Honorable Mention
“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).
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“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.
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“The Migration and Globalization of Schuhplattler Dance: A Sociological Analysis” in Cultural Sociology 7:1, pp. 39–55
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“Dance and the Distributed Body: Odissi, Ritual Practice, and Mahari Performance” in About Performance 11: 7–39
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“‘If I was not in prison, I would not be famous’: Discipline, Choreography, and Mimicry in the Philippines” in Theatre Journal 63: 607–621.
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“Martha@Martha: A Séance with Richard Move” in Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory 20.1 (2010): 61–87.
Honorable Mention
“The Uneasy Vernacular: Choreographing Multiculturalism and Dancing Difference Away in Globalised Turkey” in Anthropological Notebooks 16.3 (2010): 93–105.
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“Berlin… Your Dance Partner is Death” in TDR: The Drama Review, 53.1 (2009), pp. 73–92.
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“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.
Honorable Mention
“Performing Communism in the American Dance: Culture, Politics, and the New Dance Group” in American Communist History 7:1, 2008, pp. 39–65.
Honorable Mention
“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.
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“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.
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“Dance Travels: ‘Walking With Pearl’” Performance Research, 12(2), pp. 85–94, 2007.
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“Recovering Hurston, Reconsidering the Choreographer” which appeared in Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, 16/1 (March 2006).
Honorable Mention
“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.
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“‘A God Dances through Me’: Isadora Duncan on Friedrich Nietzsche’s Revaluation of Values,” Journal of Religion 85 (2), 2005, pp. 241–266.
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“Ghostcatching: An Intersection of Technology, Labor, and Race,” Dance Research Journal v. 35/2 & 36/2 (Winter 2003 & Summer 2004 combined issue) pp. 68–87. 2004.
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“Th‘Owd Pagan Dance’: Ritual, Enchantment, and an Enduring Intellectual Paradigm”, in Journal for the Anthropological Study of Human Movement, vols 11, no. 4 and 12, no. 1, Fall 2001/Spring 2002.
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“Deconstructing Images: Performing Disability,” Contemporary Theatre Review 11.3&4 (2001).
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“Dancing in the Canadian Wasteland: A Post-Colonial Reading of Regionalism in the 1960s and 1970s,” in Dancing Bodies, Living Histories: New Writing about Dance and Culture, edited by Anne Flynn and Lisa Doolittle (Banff Centre Press, 2000).
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“Dancing in the Canadian Wasteland: A Post-Colonial Reading of Regionalism in the 1960s and 1970s,” in Dancing Bodies, Living Histories: New Writing about Dance and Culture, edited by Anne Flynn and Lisa Doolittle (Banff Centre Press, 2000).
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“Watching Our Step: Embodying Research, Telling Stories,” in Audible Traces: Gender, Identity, and Music, edited by Elaine Barkin and Lydia Hamessley (Zurich: Carciofoli Verlagshaus, 1999).
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“Chandralekha: Negotiating the Female Body and Movement in Cultural/Political Signification,” Dance Research Journal 30.2 (Spring 1998).
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“Redeeming Giselle: Making a Case for the Ballet We Love to Hate,” in Rethinking the Sylph: New Perspectives on the Romantic Ballet, edited by Lynn Garafola (Middletown, Conn.:Wesleyan University Press, 1997).