Year
Recipient
Project
2020
Anurima Banerji
Project or Publication:
Dancing Odissi: Paratopic Performances of Gender and State
Awards
/ Annual Book and Publication Awards
The de la Torre Bueno Prize®
Nominations Due
April 20, 2021
Awarded annually to a book published in the English language that advances the field of dance studies.
Hannah Schwadron, Lucia Suarez, Kiri Miller, Joanna Dee Das, and Emily Wilcox accepting 2018 and 2019 de la Torre Bueno® and First Book awards with Mary Bueno
The de la Torre Bueno Prize® is awarded annually to a book published in the English language that advances the field of dance studies. Named after José Rollin de la Torre Bueno, the first university press editor to develop a list of titles in dance studies, the de la Torre Bueno Prize has recognized scholarly excellence in the field since 1973. It carries a cash purse of $1000.
All members of DSA are eligible for this prize, although membership is not a prerequisite. Books translated into the English language are acceptable, so long as they have been published during the Prize year. Books consisting in their entirety of previously published essays, reviews, or articles are not eligible. The award is for works published in the previous calendar year (2019).
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Nomination Instructions
To nominate a publication: send a letter with author address, email address, telephone, the title(s) nominated, and specific award in consideration to DSA at awards@dancestudiesassociation.org. Use de la Torre Bueno as subject line. Do not send books directly to DSA office.
Send one copy of each nominated title to each committee member (mailing addresses forthcoming). Include print out of letter with each mailing.
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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
2019
Emily Wilcox
Project or Publication:
Revolutionary Bodies: Chinese Dance and the Socialist Legacy
2018
Kiri Miller
Project or Publication:
Playable Bodies: Dance Games and Intimate Media
2016
Melissa Blanco Borelli
Prize
Project or Publication:
She is Cuba (Oxford University Press)
2014
Prarthana Purkayastha
Prize
Project or Publication:
Indian Modern Dance, Feminism and Transnationalism in New World Choreographies series, eds. Rachel Fensham & Peter M. Boenisch (Palgrave Macmillan)
2014
Rebecca Rossen
Special Citation
Project or Publication:
Dancing Jewish: Jewish Identity in American Modern and Postmodern Dance (Oxford University Press)
2013
Felicia McCarren
Prize
Project or Publication:
French Moves: The Cultural Politics of le hip hop (Oxford University Press)
2013
Hélène Neveu Kringelbach
Special Citation
Project or Publication:
Dance Circles: Movement, Morality and Self-fashioning in Urban Senegal (Berghahn Books)
2013
Paul A. Scolieri
Special Citation
Project or Publication:
Dancing the New World: Aztecs, Spaniards, and the Choreography of Conquest (University of Texas Press)
2012
Ramón H. Rivera-Servera
Special Citation
Project or Publication:
Performing Queer Latinidad: Dance, Sexuality, Politics (University of Michigan Press)
2012
Tilden Russell
Special Citation
Project or Publication:
The Compleat Dancing Master: A Translation of Gottfried Taubert’s Rechtschaffener Tantzmeister (1717) (Peter Lang)
2011
Carrie J. Preston
Prize
Project or Publication:
Modernism’s Mythic Pose: Gender, Genre, Solo Performance, New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
2010
Constance Valis Hill
Prize
Project or Publication:
Tap Dancing America: A Cultural History, New York: Oxford University Press, 2010
2010
Susan A. Reed
Special Citation
Project or Publication:
Dance and the Nation: Performance, Ritual, and Politics in Sri Lanka, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009
2010
Jerri Daboo
Special Citation
Project or Publication:
Ritual, Rapture and Remorse: A Study of Tarantism and Pizzica in Salento, New York: Peter Lang, 2010.
2009
Carrie Lambert-Beatty
Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Culture at Harvard University
Prize
Project or Publication:
Being Watched: Yvonne Rainer and the 1960s. Boston: MIT Press, 2008.
2009
Anthea Kraut
Associate Professor of Dance at the University of California-Riverside
Special Citation
Project or Publication:
Choreographing the Folk: the Dance Stagings of Zora Neale Hurston. Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 2008
2008
Jacqueline Shea Murphy
Associate Professor of Dance at University of California-Riverside
Prize
Project or Publication:
The People Have Never Stopped Dancing: Native American Modern Dance Histories. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007
2008
Janice Ross
Associate Professor (Teaching) of Drama at Stanford University
Special Citation
Project or Publication:
Anna Halprin: Experience as Dance. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007
2008
Sydney Hutchinson
Research associate at the University of Arizona’s Southwest Center and doctoral candidate at New York University
Special Citation
Project or Publication:
From Quebradita to Duranguense: Dance in Mexican Youth Culture Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2007
2007
Gay Morris
Independent scholar and critic in New York City
Prize
Project or Publication:
A Game for Dancers: Performing Modernism in the Postwar Years, 1945–1960. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2006
2007
Lucia Ruprecht
University Lecturer in German and Fellow of Emmanuel College at the University of Cambridge
Special Citation
Project or Publication:
Dances of the Self in Heinrich von Kleist, E.T.A. Hoffmann and Heinrich Heine. Hampshire, England and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2006
2006
Yvonne Daniel
Professor Emerita of Dance and Afro-American Studies at Smith College and 2005–2006 Rockefeller Foundation Fellow
Prize
Project or Publication:
Dancing Wisdom: Embodied Knowledge in Haitian Vodou, Cuban Yoruba, and Bahian Candomblé. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005
2005
Thomas DeFrantz
Associate Professor of Music and Theatre Arts at MIT
Prize
Project or Publication:
Dancing Revelations: Alvin Ailey’s Embodiment of African American Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004
2005
David Gere
Associate Professor of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA
Special Citation
Project or Publication:
How to Make Dances in an Epidemic: Tracking Choreography in the Age of AIDS. Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004
2005
Deborah Jowitt
Dance critic for the Village Voice and Adjunct Professor at NYU
Special Citation
Project or Publication:
Jerome Robbins: His Life, His Theater, His Dance. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004
2004
Brenda Dixon Gottschild
Professor Emerita of Dance at Temple University
Prize
Project or Publication:
The Black Dancing Body: A Geography from Coon to Cool. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003
2004
Jennifer Fisher
Assistant Professor of Dance at the University of California-Irvine
Special Citation
Project or Publication:
Nutcracker Nation: How an Old World Ballet Became a Christmas Tradition in the New World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003
2003
Susanna Sloat
Critic and independent scholar in New York City
Prize
Project or Publication:
Caribbean Dance from Abakuá to Zouk: How Movement Shapes Identity. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002
2003
Donald McKayle
Renowned choreographer and Professor of Dance at University of California-Irvine
Special Citation
Project or Publication:
Transcending Boundaries: My Dancing Life. London and New York: Routledge Harwood, 2002