Year
Recipient
Project
2021
Anna Paula Höfling
Project or Publication:
Staging Brazil: Choreographies of Capoeira
Awards
/ Annual Book and Publication Awards
Oscar G. Brockett Book Prize for Dance Research
Nominations Due
April 20, 2021
Awarded each year to the best book in dance published during the previous three calendar years.
Douglas Rosenberg and Rosemary Candelario accepting the 2018 Oscar G. Brockett Book Prize for Dance Research
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. The award is for works published in the previous three calendar years (2018-2020).
NOTE: Titles that have already won a DSA award are not eligible for another award for the same publication.
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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.
Email letter describing original contribution of the book to awards@dancestudiesassociation.org with Brockett Book Prize in the subject line.
Send one copy of each nominated title to each committee member. Include print out of letter with each mailing.
Ann Cooper Albright
180 Morgan St.
Oberlin, Ohio 44074
Jane Desmond
1902 Byrnebruk Drive
Champaign, Illinois 61822.
Hannah Kosstrin, Department of Dance
316 Sullivant Hall
1813 N. High Street
Columbus, OH 43210
Jens Giersdorf
e-book preference: jgiersdorf@mmm.edu
34 Herkimer Street
Brooklyn, NY 11216
We welcome nominations or submissions from or on behalf of casualized and independent scholars, researchers, and/or artists.
In recognition of the precarity of our current economic situation and growing inequalities in income and wealth, any financial award can be donated to the support fund for casualized professionals and/or for students. We realize that awardees may face intense forms of precarity themselves and, as such, we leave this decision to the discretion of individual awardees.
Past Recipients
Year
Recipient
Project
2020
Clare Croft
Project or Publication:
Queer Dance: Meanings and Makings
2020
Judith Hamera
Project or Publication:
Unfinished Business: Michael Jackson, Detroit and the Figural Economy of Deindustrialization
2019
Colleen Dunagan
Project or Publication:
Consuming Dance: Choreography and Advertising
2018
Douglas Rosenberg
Project or Publication:
The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies
2018
Rosemary Candelario
Project or Publication:
Flowers Cracking Concrete: Eiko and Koma’s Asian/American Choreographies
2017
Kate Elswit
Project or Publication:
Watching Weimar Dance
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