Year
Recipient
Project
2017
Kate Elswit
Project or Publication:
Watching Weimar Dance
Awards
/ Annual Book and Publication Awards
Oscar G. Brockett Book Prize for Dance Research
Nominations Due
March 15, 2019
Awarded each year to the best book in dance published during the previous three calendar years.
Kate Elswit accepting the 2017 Oscar G. Brockett Book Prize for Dance Research. Photo Jess Cavender.
The Oscar G. Brockett Book Prize for Dance Research will be awarded each year to the best book in dance published during the previous three calendar years. The award carries a cash value of $1000. DSA adjudicates the award, while the Oscar G. Brockett Center for Theatre History and Criticism at the University of Texas Austin provides the monetary prize. The Center initiated this DSA Award to honor Professor Brockett and to advance its mission of recognizing the finest scholarship in theatre, dance, and performance history. Scholarly books in any area of dance may be nominated. The author need not be a member of DSA or be primarily identified with the field of dance, so long as the publication itself relates to dance.
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Nomination Instructions
Authors/Publishers may nominate their own work(s) or DSA members may nominate the work of other authors. Nominations should include the nominator's relationship to the candidate, if any.
E-mail attached letter describing the original contributions of the book to awards@dancestudiesassociation.org with Brockett Book Prize in the subject line, AND send three copies of the book to:
Janet Wilhelms, DSA Association Manager
Dance Studies Association c/o AEG
7044 S. 13th Street
Oak Creek, WI 53154
USA
Past Recipients
Year
Recipient
Project
2016
Anthea Kraut
University of California, Riverside
Project or Publication:
Choreographing Copyright: Race, Gender and the Intellectual Property Rights in American Dance.
2015
Rebecca Rossen
Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin
Project or Publication:
Dancing Jewish: Jewish Identity in American Modern and Postmodern Dance
2014
Paul Scolieri
Barnard College, Columbia University
Project or Publication:
Dancing the New World: Aztecs, Spaniards, and the Choreography of Conquest (University of Texas Press, 2013)