Year
Recipient
Project
2019
Colleen Dunagan
Project or Publication:
Consuming Dance: Choreography and Advertising
Awards
/ Annual Book and Publication Awards
Oscar G. Brockett Book Prize for Dance Research
Nominations Due
April 20, 2020
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 calendar year (2019).
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 listed below. Include print out of letter with each mailing.
Janice Ross
148 Greenoaks Drive
Atherton, CA 94027
Kiri Miller
Department of American Studies
Brown University
Box 1892, 71 George St
Providence RI 02912
Rebecca Schneider
Theatre Arts and Performance Studies
Box 1897
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Rachel Fensham, Professor
School of Culture and Communication
University of Melbourne
Parkville 3010
Australia
Past Recipients
Year
Recipient
Project
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