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Dance Research Journal
Congress on Research in Dance was a professional organization for dance historians in the United States and worldwide that was founded in 1964 and then merged in 2017 with the Society of Dance History Scholars to form the Dance Studies Association (DSA). An international non-profit learned society for dance researchers, artists, performers and choreographers, CORD published the ''Dance Research Journal'' and sponsored annual conferences and awards for scholarship and contributions to the field. The journal and awards have been absorbed into the DSA. History The society was founded in 1964 as the Committee on Research in Dance, and based at New York University. It was formally incorporated as a 501 (c)(3) not-for-profit organization in 1969. The organization changed its name to Congress on Research in Dance in 1977. In 1991, it moved to the State University of New York College at Brockport. In 2007, the CORD National Office moved to the care of Prime Management Services based in Bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Society Of Dance History Scholars
The Society of Dance History Scholars (SDHS) was a professional organization for dance historians in the United States and internationally. Founded in 1978, it became a non-profit in 1983. SDHS became a member of the American Council of Learned Societies in 1996, hosted an annual conference, published conference proceedings and a book series, and presented awards to new and established scholars. In 2017 it merged with the Congress on Research in Dance to form the Dance Studies Association (DSA). The Society included scholars in musicology, anthropology, history, literature, theatre, performance studies, and other fields. Many members combined research and performance, and SDHS welcomed graduate students, as well as more seasoned scholars, among its members. The society also contained several working groups, which met at the annual conference. SDHS had close ties with its peer organizations such as the Congress on Research in Dance (CORD). Since 1988 the Society published a period ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arizona Daily Sun
The ''Arizona Daily Sun'' is a six-day newspaper in Flagstaff, Arizona, United States. It publishes an entertainment supplement on Thursdays called "Flagstaff Live!". It also publishes a monthly magazine, Northern Arizona's Mountain Living Magazine. It was formerly owned by Scripps League Newspapers, which was acquired by Pulitzer in 1996; Lee Enterprises acquired Pulitzer in 2005. History Artemis E. Fay published the first issue of the weekly Peach Springs , native_name_lang = hu , settlement_type = Census-designated place , image_skyline = Peach Springs-John Osterman Shell Gas Station-1929.jpg , imagesize = , image_caption = John Osterman Shell ..., ''Arizona Champion'' on September 15, 1883. On February 2, 1884, he relocated the paper to Flagstaff. In May 1891, the paper was renamed to ''The Coconino Sun''. On August 5, 1946, the paper was again renamed to the current ''Arizona Daily Sun''. References External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elsie Ivancich Dunin
Elsie Ivancich Dunin (born July 19, 1935) is a dance ethnologist (ethnochoreologist), choreographer, professor and author specializing in folk dance from Croatia, Macedonia, and Romani (Gypsies) in Macedonia. Her studies focus on Croatian diaspora communities and associated sword dances in both Old and New World contexts. She is Professor Emerita of dance ethnology from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and is currently a dance research advisor with the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research in Zagreb, Croatia. Her two daughters are Teresa (T.J.) and Elonka Dunin. Cross-Cultural Dance Resources Collection Dunin is also a leading member of Cross-Cultural Dance Resources, (CCDR) a non-profit organization dedicated to the study of dance ethnology. Founded in 1981, the CCDR has amassed a collection of over 15,000 books, manuscripts, personal papers, costumes, films and instruments. In April 2008, Dunin, who serves on the organization's board, made a gift to He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Halprin
Anna Halprin (born Hannah Dorothy Schuman; July 13, 1920 – May 24, 2021) was an American choreographer and dancer. She helped redefine dance in postwar America and pioneer the experimental art form known as postmodern dance and referred to herself as a breaker of the rules of modern dance. In the 1950s, she established the San Francisco Dancers' Workshop to give artists like her a place to practice their art. Exploring the capabilities of her own body, she created a systematic way of moving using kinesthetic awareness. With her husband, landscape architect Lawrence Halprin, she developed the RSVP cycles, a creative methodology that includes the idea of scores and can be applied broadly across all disciplines. Many of her creations have been scores, including ''Myths'' in the 1960s which gave a score to the audience, making them performers as well, and a highly participatory ''Planetary Dance (''1987). Influenced by her own battle with cancer and her healing journey, Halprin bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katherine Dunham
Katherine Mary Dunham (June 22, 1909 – May 21, 2006) was an American dancer, choreographer, anthropologist, and social activist. Dunham had one of the most successful dance careers of the 20th century, and directed her own dance company for many years. She has been called the "matriarch and queen mother of black dance."Joyce Aschenbenner, ''Katherine Dunham: Dancing a Life'' (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002). While a student at the University of Chicago, Dunham also performed as a dancer, ran a dance school, and earned an early bachelor's degree in anthropology. Receiving a post graduate academic fellowship, she went to the Caribbean to study the African diaspora, ethnography and local dance. She returned to graduate school and submitted a master's thesis to the anthropology faculty. She did not complete the other requirements for that degree, however, as she realized that her professional calling was performance and choreography. At the height of her career in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beate Gordon
Beate Sirota Gordon (; October 25, 1923 – December 30, 2012) was an Austrian-born United States, American performing arts presenter and women's rights advocate. She was the former Performing Arts Director of the Japan Society (New York), Japan Society and the Asia Society and was one of the last surviving members of the team that worked under Douglas MacArthur to write the Constitution of Japan after World War II. Early life and education Born in Vienna on October 25, 1923 and educated in Tokyo, Beate Sirota was the only child of noted pianist Leo Sirota and Augustine (Horenstein) Sirota. Leo, a Ukrainian Jew, had fled war-torn Russia and settled in Austria. Her uncle was conductor Jascha Horenstein. Sirota's family emigrated to Japan in 1929, when Leo Sirota accepted an invitation to become a professor at the Imperial Academy of Music – now Tokyo University of the Arts – in Tokyo.Dower, pp. 365-367 She attended the German School in Tokyo for six years, until th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Vaughan (dance Author)
David Vaughan (May 17, 1924 – October 27, 2017Roberts, Sam (November 1, 2017''The New York Times'') was a dance archivist, historian and critic. He was the archivist of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company from 1976 until the company was disbanded in 2012. In his long career, Vaughan was a dancer, choreographer, actor and singer whose work had been seen in London, Paris, and in New York, both on- and off-Broadway,David Vaughan at the as well as in regional th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selma Jeanne Cohen
Selma Jeanne Cohen (September 18, 1920December 23, 2005) was a historian, teacher, author, and editor who devoted her career to advocating dance as an art worthy of the same scholarly respect traditionally awarded to painting, music, and literature. She was the founding editor of the six-volume ''International Encyclopedia of Dance'', completed in 1998. Early life and education Born in Chicago, Illinois, Selma Jeanne Cohen was the only child of Frank and Minna (Skud) Cohen. She attended elementary and high school at the University of Chicago Laboratory School and then went on to matriculate at the university itself. As a student of English literature, she earned a bachelor's degree in 1941, a master's degree in 1942, and a doctorate in 1946. Her doctoral dissertation was on the poetry and religious thought of Gerard Manley Hopkins, who remained a favorite poet for the rest of her life. During her school years, when a childhood friend began attending the ballet classes of Edna McR ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duke Today
Duke is a male title either of a monarch ruling over a duchy, or of a member of Royal family, royalty, or nobility. As rulers, dukes are ranked below emperors, kings, grand princes, grand dukes, and sovereign princes. As royalty or nobility, they are ranked below princess nobility and grand dukes. The title comes from French ''duc'', itself from the Latin language, Latin ''dux'', 'leader', a term used in Roman Republic, republican Rome to refer to a military commander without an official rank (particularly one of Germanic peoples, Germanic or Celts, Celtic origin), and later coming to mean the leading military commander of a province. In most countries, the word ''duchess'' is the female equivalent. Following the reforms of the emperor Diocletian (which separated the civilian and military administrations of the Roman provinces), a ''dux'' became the military commander in each province. The title ''dux'', Hellenised to ''doux'', survived in the Eastern Roman Empire where it cont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Acocella
Joan Acocella (née Ross, born 1945) is an American journalist who is a staff writer for ''The New Yorker''. She has written books on dance, literature, and psychology. Education and career Acocella received her B.A. in English in 1966 from the University of California, Berkeley. She earned a Ph.D. in comparative literature at Rutgers University in 1984 with a thesis on the Ballets Russes. Acocella has written for ''The Village Voice'', has served as a senior critic and the reviews editor for ''Dance Magazine,'' and was the New York dance critic for the ''Financial Times''. Her writing also appears regularly in the ''New York Review of Books''. She began writing for ''The New Yorker'' in 1992 and served as its dance critic from 1998 to 2019. Her books include ''Creating Hysteria: Women and Multiple Personality Disorder'' (1999); ''Mark Morris'' (1993), a biography of modern dancer and choreographer Mark Morris; and ''Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints'' (2007), which explores ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Farris Thompson
Robert Farris Thompson (December 30, 1932 – November 29, 2021) was an American art historian and writer who specialized in Africa and the Afro-Atlantic world. He was a member of the faculty at Yale University from 1965 to his retirement more than fifty years later and served as the Colonel John Trumbull Professor of the History of Art. Thompson coined the term "black Atlantic" in his 1983 book ''Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy'' – the expanded subject of Paul Gilroy's book ''The Black Atlantic''. He lived in the Yoruba region of southwest Nigeria while he conducted his research of Yoruba arts history. He was affiliated with the University of Ibadan and frequented Yoruba village communities. Thompson studied the African arts of the diaspora in the United States, Mexico, Argentina, Cuba, Haiti, Puerto Rico, and several Caribbean islands. Career at Yale In 1955, Thompson received his B.A. from Yale University. After receiving his bachelor's d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sally Banes
Sally Rachel Banes (October 9, 1950 – June 14, 2020) was a notable dance historian, writer, and critic. Life, education, and performance career Born and raised in Silver Spring, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C., Banes studied dance, and particularly ballet, throughout her childhood. She attended the University of Chicago and graduated in 1972 with an interdisciplinary degree in criticism, art, and theater. While at college, she worked as a lighting assistant and wardrobe mistress. She also belonged to a group known as The Collective. Joining in 1970, Banes became one of several actors who met several times a week to collaborate on work. These collectively written theater pieces were performed in workshops as well as public performances. After graduating college, Banes continued to live and work in Chicago. In 1974, she founded the Community Discount Players which was a loosely organized company of actors, dancers, filmmakers,and visual artists. Like The Collective, the C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
