The de la Torre Bueno Prize is an annual award offered by the
Dance Studies Association
Dance is a performing art art form, form consisting of sequences of movement, either improvised or purposefully selected. This movement has aesthetic and often symbolism (arts), symbolic value. Dance can be categorized and described by its chor ...
for the best book published in English in the field of dance studies. The award honors
José Rollin de la Torre Bueno, the first university press editor to develop a dance studies titles list. The award of $1000 recognizes exemplary scholarship and important contributions to the field.
From its creation in 1973 to 2001, the prize was awarded by the Dance Perspectives Foundation, an organization founded in 1966 to support dance scholarship. However, the de la Torre Bueno family severed the relationship with the Foundation in 2001, and from 2002 until 2016, the prize was awarded by the
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 So ...
. When the Society of Dance History Scholars merged with the
Congress on Research in Dance
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 Associati ...
in 2017 to become the Dance Studies Association, the de la Torre Bueno Prize transferred, as well.
[The de la Torre Bueno Prize, Dance Studies Association. https://dancestudiesassociation.org/awards/the-de-la-torre-bueno-prize]
Award winners
Awarded by SDHS
* 2016 - Prize to Melissa Blanco Borelli for ''She is Cuba''. Oxford University Press, 2015.
* 2014 - Prize to Prarthana Purkayastha for ''Indian Modern Dance, Feminism and Transnationalism'' in New World Choreographies series, eds. Rachel Fensham & Peter M. Boenisch. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
* 2014 - Special citation to Rebecca Rossen for ''Dancing Jewish: Jewish Identity in American Modern and Postmodern Dance''. Oxford University Press, 2014.
* 2013 - Prize to Felicia McCarren for ''French Moves: The Cultural Politics of le hip hop''. Oxford University Press, 2012.
* 2013 - Special citation to Hélène Neveu Kringelbach for ''Dance Circles: Movement, Morality and Self-fashioning in Urban Senegal''. Berghahn Books, 2013. Special citation to Paul A. Scolieri for ''Dancing the New World: Aztecs, Spaniards, and the Choreography of Conquest''. University of Texas Press, 2013.
* 2012 - Special citation to Ramón H. Rivera-Servera for ''Performing Queer Latinidad: Dance, Sexuality, Politics''. University of Michigan Press, 2012. Special citation to Tilden Russell for ''The Compleat Dancing Master: A Translation of Gottfried Taubert’s Rechtschaffener Tantzmeister (1717)''. Peter Lang, 2012.
* 2011 - Prize to Carrie J. Preston for ''Modernism’s Mythic Pose: Gender, Genre, Solo Performance''. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
* 2010 - Prize to Constance Valis Hill for ''Tap Dancing America: A Cultural History''. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
* 2010 - Special citation to Susan A. Reed for ''Dance and the Nation: Performance, Ritual, and Politics in Sri Lanka''. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009. Special citation to Jerri Daboo for''Ritual, Rapture and Remorse: A Study of Tarantism and Pizzica in Salento''. New York: Peter Lang, 2010.
* 2009 - Prize to Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Culture at Harvard University, for ''Being Watched: Yvonne Rainer and the 1960s''. Boston: MIT Press, 2008.
* 2009 - Special citation to Anthea Kraut, Associate Professor of Dance at the University of California-Riverside, for ''Choreographing the Folk: the Dance Stagings of Zora Neale Hurston''. Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 2008.
* 2008 - Prize to Jacqueline Shea Murphy, Associate Professor of Dance at University of California-Riverside, for ''The People Have Never Stopped Dancing: Native American Modern Dance Histories''. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
* 2008 - Special citation to Janice Ross, Associate Professor (Teaching) of Drama at Stanford University, for ''Anna Halprin: Experience as Dance''. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.
* 2008 - Special citation to Sydney Hutchinson, research associate at the University of Arizona's Southwest Center and doctoral candidate at New York University, for ''From Quebradita to Duranguense: Dance in Mexican Youth Culture''. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2007.
* 2007 - Prize to Gay Morris, independent scholar and critic in New York City, for ''A Game for Dancers: Performing Modernism in the Postwar Years, 1945-1960''. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2006.
* 2007 - Special citation to Lucia Ruprecht, a University Lecturer in German and Fellow of Emmanuel College at the University of Cambridge, for ''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 - prize to Yvonne Daniel, Professor Emerita of Dance and Afro-American Studies at Smith College and 2005-2006 Rockefeller Foundation Fellow, for ''Dancing Wisdom: Embodied Knowledge in Haitian Vodou, Cuban Yoruba, and Bahian Candomblé''. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005.
* 2005 - prize to Thomas DeFrantz, Associate Professor of Music and Theatre Arts at MIT, for his book ''Dancing Revelations: Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture''. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
* 2005 - special citation to
David Gere
David Gere (born February 15, 1975) is an American film producer, actor, artist, and business entrepreneur.
Biography
David James Gere was born and raised in the small town of Cromwell, Connecticut. His mother and sister were killed in an a ...
, Associate Professor of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA, for ''How to Make Dances in an Epidemic: Tracking Choreography in the Age of AIDS''. Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004.
* 2005 - special citation to
Deborah Jowitt
Deborah Jowitt is an American dance critic, author, and choreographer. Her career in dance began as a performer and choreographer. Jowitt has received several awards for her work, including a ''Bessie'' (New York Dance and Performance Award) for h ...
, dance critic for the Village Voice and Adjunct Professor at NYU, for ''Jerome Robbins: His Life, His Theater, His Dance''. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004.
* 2004 - prize to
Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Professor Emerita of Dance at Temple University, for ''The Black Dancing Body: A Geography from Coon to Cool''. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
* 2004 - special citation to
Jennifer Fisher, Assistant Professor of Dance at the University of California-Irvine, for ''Nutcracker Nation: How an Old World Ballet Became a Christmas Tradition in the New World''. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.
* 2003 - prize to Susanna Sloat, critic and independent scholar in New York City, for her edited anthology ''Caribbean Dance from Abakuá to Zouk: How Movement Shapes Identity''. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002.
* 2003 - special citation to
Donald McKayle
Donald McKayle (July 6, 1930 – April 6, 2018) was an American modern dancer, choreographer, teacher, director and writer best known for creating socially conscious concert works during the 1950s and '60s that focus on expressing the human con ...
, renowned choreographer and Professor of Dance at University of California-Irvine, for his memoir ''Transcending Boundaries: My Dancing Life''. London and New York: Routledge Harwood, 2002.
* 2002 - No prize awarded by SDHS.
Awarded by Dance Perspectives Foundation
* 2001 prize to Marian Smith, ''Ballet and Opera in the Age of Giselle''
* 2001 special citation to Stephanie Jordan, ''Moving Music: Dialogues with Music in Twentieth-Century Ballet''
* 2000 prize to Suki Schorer, Suki Schorer on ''Balanchine Technique''
* 2000 special citation to John Forrest, ''The History of Morris Dancing 1438-1750''
* 1999 prize to
Debra H. Sowell, ''The Christensen Brothers: An American Dance Epic''
* 1999 special citation to
Valerie Preston-Dunlop, ''Rudolph Laban: An Extraordinary Life''
* 1998 prize to Roland J. Wiley, ''The Life and Ballets of Lev Ivanov''
* 1998 special citation to Ellen Graff, ''Stepping Left: Dance and Politics in New York City, 1928-1942''
* 1998 special citation to Karl Toepfer, ''Empire of Ecstasy: Nudity and Movement in German Body Culture''
* 1997 prize to Judith Kavanagh, ''Secret Muses: The Life of Frederick Ashton''
* 1997 special citation to Susan L. Foster, ''Choreography & Narrative: Ballet’s Staging of Story and Desire''
* 1997 special citation to James Neufeld, ''Power to Rise: The Story of the National Ballet of Canada''
* 1997 special citation to Kariamu Welsh-Asante, ed., ''African Dance: An Artistic, Historical, and Philosophical Inquiry ''
* 1997 special citation to Jacqui Malone, ''Steppin’ on the Blues: The Visible Rhythms of African American Dance''
* 1996 prize to
Barbara Browning, ''Samba: Resistance in Motion''
* 1996 special citation to Francis Spearshott, ''A Measured Pace''
* 1996 special citation to Amy Koritz, ''Gendering Bodies/Performing Art: Dance and Literature in Early Twentieth-Century British Culture''
* 1996 special citation to Mark Franko, ''Dancing Modernism/Performing Politics''
* 1995 prize to
Judith Chazin-Bennahum, ''The Ballets of Antony Tudor: Studies in Psyche and Satire''
* 1995 special citation to Rebecca Harris-Warrick and Carol Marsh, ''Musical Theater at the Court of Louis XIV: Le Mariage de la Gross Cathos''
* 1995 special citation to Carol Martin,'' Dance Marathons: Performing American Culture in the 1920s and 1930s''
* 1994 prize to Maurice Esses, ''Dance and Instrumental Diferencias in 17th and Early 18th Century Spain''
* 1994 prize to
Susan Manning
Susan Manning is a dance historian and Professor of English and Theatre at Northwestern University where she holds joint appointments in the English Department and Performance Studies. She is currently chair of English at Northwestern. , ''Ecstasy and the Demon: Feminism and Nationalism in the Dances of Mary igman''
* 1994 special citation to
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 ...
, ''Greenwich Village 1963''
* 1993 prize to Sally Ann Ness, ''Body, Movement, and Culture''
* 1993 special citation to Janet Soares, ''Louis Horst: Musician in a Dancer’s World''
* 1991/2 prize to
Agnes de Mille
Agnes George de Mille (September 18, 1905 – October 7, 1993) was an American dancer and choreographer.
Early years
Agnes de Mille was born in New York City into a well-connected family of theater professionals. Her father William C. deMill ...
, ''Martha Graham''
* 1991/2 special citation to Larry Warren, ''Anna Sokolow''
* 1990 prize to Elizabeth Sourtiz, ''Soviet Choreographers in the 1920s''
* 1990 special citation to Katrina Hazzard-Gordon, ''Jookin’''
* 1990 special citation to Cynthia Novack, ''Sharing the Dance''
* 1990 special citation to Irwin Spector, ''Rhythm and Life ''
* 1989 prize to Lynn Garafola, ''Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes''
* 1989 special citation to Pauline Koner, ''Solitary Song''
* 1988 prize to
Deborah Jowitt
Deborah Jowitt is an American dance critic, author, and choreographer. Her career in dance began as a performer and choreographer. Jowitt has received several awards for her work, including a ''Bessie'' (New York Dance and Performance Award) for h ...
, ''Time and the Dancing Image''
* 1987 no winner
* 1986 prize to
Alexandra Danilova
Aleksandra Dionisyevna Danilova (''Russian'': Александра Дионисьевна Данилова; November 20, 1903 – July 13, 1997) was a Russian-born prima ballerina, who became an American citizen. In 1989, she was recognized fo ...
, ''Choura''
* 1986 special citation to Susan L. Foster, ''Reading Dancing''
* 1985 prize to Jennifer Dunning, ''But First a School''
* 1985 special citation to
Deborah Jowitt
Deborah Jowitt is an American dance critic, author, and choreographer. Her career in dance began as a performer and choreographer. Jowitt has received several awards for her work, including a ''Bessie'' (New York Dance and Performance Award) for h ...
, ''The Dance in Mind''
* 1984 no winner
* 1983 prize to John Mueller, ''Astaire Dancing''
* 1982 no winner
* 1982 special citation to
Roger Copeland
Roger Copeland is emeritus professor of theater and dance at Oberlin College where he taught History of Western Theatre among other classes. He enjoyed lecturing on the Choric Dithyramb.
Publications
His essays about theater, film, and dance have ...
and Marshall Cohen, ''What is Dance?''
* 1981 prize to Suzanne Shelton, ''Divine Dancer''
* 1980 prize to Jack Anderson, ''The One and Only: The Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo''
* 1980 special citation to Olive Holmes, ''Motion Arrested''
* 1979 prize to Richard Ralph, ''The Life and Works of John Weaver''
* 1978 no winner
* 1977 prize to Nancy Reynolds, ''Repertory in Review''
* 1976 prize to
David Vaughan, ''Frederick Ashton and His Ballets''
* 1975 prize to
Jane Sherman, ''Soaring''
* 1974 no winner
* 1973 prize to Mary Grace Swift, ''A Loftier Flight''
References
External links
The de la Torre Bueno Prize- submission information and past recipients
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Dance awards
Awards established in 1973
1973 establishments in the United States
American non-fiction literary awards