Year
Recipient
Project
2020
Anurima Banerji
Project or Publication:
Dancing Odissi: Paratopic Performances of Gender and State
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).
Dancing Odissi: Paratopic Performances of Gender and State
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Send one copy of each nominated title to each committee member. Include print out of letter with each mailing.
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Tallahassee, Fl, 32301
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5011 Catharine Street
Philadelphia, PA. 19143-1627
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.
Revolutionary Bodies: Chinese Dance and the Socialist Legacy
Playable Bodies: Dance Games and Intimate Media
Prize
She is Cuba (Oxford University Press)
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Indian Modern Dance, Feminism and Transnationalism in New World Choreographies series, eds. Rachel Fensham & Peter M. Boenisch (Palgrave Macmillan)
Special Citation
Dancing Jewish: Jewish Identity in American Modern and Postmodern Dance (Oxford University Press)
Prize
French Moves: The Cultural Politics of le hip hop (Oxford University Press)
Special Citation
Dance Circles: Movement, Morality and Self-fashioning in Urban Senegal (Berghahn Books)
Special Citation
Dancing the New World: Aztecs, Spaniards, and the Choreography of Conquest (University of Texas Press)
Special Citation
Performing Queer Latinidad: Dance, Sexuality, Politics (University of Michigan Press)
Special Citation
The Compleat Dancing Master: A Translation of Gottfried Taubert’s Rechtschaffener Tantzmeister (1717) (Peter Lang)
Prize
Modernism’s Mythic Pose: Gender, Genre, Solo Performance, New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Prize
Tap Dancing America: A Cultural History, New York: Oxford University Press, 2010
Special Citation
Dance and the Nation: Performance, Ritual, and Politics in Sri Lanka, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009
Special Citation
Ritual, Rapture and Remorse: A Study of Tarantism and Pizzica in Salento, New York: Peter Lang, 2010.
Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Culture at Harvard University
Prize
Being Watched: Yvonne Rainer and the 1960s. Boston: MIT Press, 2008.
Associate Professor of Dance at the University of California-Riverside
Special Citation
Choreographing the Folk: the Dance Stagings of Zora Neale Hurston. Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 2008
Associate Professor of Dance at University of California-Riverside
Prize
The People Have Never Stopped Dancing: Native American Modern Dance Histories. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007
Associate Professor (Teaching) of Drama at Stanford University
Special Citation
Anna Halprin: Experience as Dance. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007
Research associate at the University of Arizona’s Southwest Center and doctoral candidate at New York University
Special Citation
From Quebradita to Duranguense: Dance in Mexican Youth Culture Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2007
Independent scholar and critic in New York City
Prize
A Game for Dancers: Performing Modernism in the Postwar Years, 1945–1960. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2006
University Lecturer in German and Fellow of Emmanuel College at the University of Cambridge
Special Citation
Dances of the Self in Heinrich von Kleist, E.T.A. Hoffmann and Heinrich Heine. Hampshire, England and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2006
Professor Emerita of Dance and Afro-American Studies at Smith College and 2005–2006 Rockefeller Foundation Fellow
Prize
Dancing Wisdom: Embodied Knowledge in Haitian Vodou, Cuban Yoruba, and Bahian Candomblé. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005
Associate Professor of Music and Theatre Arts at MIT
Prize
Dancing Revelations: Alvin Ailey’s Embodiment of African American Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004
Associate Professor of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA
Special Citation
How to Make Dances in an Epidemic: Tracking Choreography in the Age of AIDS. Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004
Dance critic for the Village Voice and Adjunct Professor at NYU
Special Citation
Jerome Robbins: His Life, His Theater, His Dance. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004
Professor Emerita of Dance at Temple University
Prize
The Black Dancing Body: A Geography from Coon to Cool. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003
Assistant Professor of Dance at the University of California-Irvine
Special Citation
Nutcracker Nation: How an Old World Ballet Became a Christmas Tradition in the New World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003
Critic and independent scholar in New York City
Prize
Caribbean Dance from Abakuá to Zouk: How Movement Shapes Identity. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002
Renowned choreographer and Professor of Dance at University of California-Irvine
Special Citation
Transcending Boundaries: My Dancing Life. London and New York: Routledge Harwood, 2002