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CFP for the Music and Dance Study Group Panel, Novemeber 2021

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Chicago has an extensive dance past as both a key circuit of national and international networks and as the place of an intensely local and diverse dance scene – intertwined with a no less exciting music scene. Despite the abundance of activity, there is a lack of awareness of the city's dance/music roots, and furthermore, no existing means for widely disseminating this information. We are honored that Jenai Cutcher, Executive and Artistic director of the Chicago Dance History Project (CDHP), an independent research organization, will begin our panel of papers with a keynote presentation of her diverse initiatives to keep Chicago's dance history alive (for a first overview see https://www.chicagodancehistory.org/).  Her talk will describe the CDHP's efforts, which address diversity by investigating, preserving, and presenting oral and corporeal histories of dance in Chicago.

 

For the second half of our panel, we invite three presentations or papers of 15 minutes in length on facets of Chicago music and dance scenes. Paper topics are open, but should address the connections between music and dance in Chicago.

 

2020 Annual Meeting Events

Saturday, November 7, 5:00-6:30 p.m. CST Business Meeting, Networking and Social Gathering 5:00-5:30 Business meeting of the Music and Dance Study Group

5:30-6:30 All with interests in music and dance are invited to drop in any time during this session to meet others and share ideas, questions, resources, or new publications. We especially welcome graduate students - we would love to hear about your dance-related dissertations! [This gathering replaces the originally scheduled Scandinavian Dance Workshop, which we are unable to present in virtual format.]

Sunday, November 8, 6:00-7:30 p.m. CST - Panel: Stretches, Leaps, Turns: Experiments in Music-Dance Relationships

What makes a given encounter between sound and movement an “experiment”? What assumptions are challenged, what is put at risk, and what is “discovered” about the nature of music, of dance, and of their relationship? This session brings scholarly perspectives on the relationships between music and dance into dialogue with contemporary artistic practice, pedagogy, and historical experiments in combining music and movement.

The 15-minute, individual papers may be viewed ahead of time. In order to focus our discussion, we will divide the session time as follows:

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6:00-6:30 - Q&A/Discussion with Panel #1

 

Caitlin Schmid, St. Olaf College - Listening to Dance Music: Pedagogical Experiments in Choreomusicology

 

Navid Bargrizan, Texas A&M University-Commerce - Corporeal Witchery and Criticism of the Contemporary Culture in Harry Partch’s Postdramatic Dance-Satire The Bewitched

 

Kate Galloway, Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute - Sound Doesn’t Always Have to Be Heard: Productive Reuse and the Aurality of Movement in Nick Cave’s Soundsuits

 

6:30-7:00 p.m. - Q&A/Discussion with Panel #2

 

Jay Arms, University of Pittsburgh - “Sound as a Physical Reality”: Object and Gesture in Malcolm Goldstein’s Improvisations

 

Keir GoGwilt, U.C. San Diego - Rhythm, Balance, and Affect: Working with Choreographer Bobbi Jene Smith

 

7:00-7:30 p.m. - Q&A/Discussion with Panel #3

 

Farrah O’Shea, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - “Material Realities: Dancing Decreation in La Passion de Simone”

 

Wayne Heisler, The College of New Jersey - “Show me slowly what I only know the limits of”: Music-Dance Relationships in Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal’s Dance Me

 

Sophie Benn, Case Western Reserve University - “…humble marionettes / The wires of which are pulled by fate…”: Dance and Comedy in Le Piano irresistible

Sunday, November 15, 3:00-4:50 p.m. - Coffee Break

If you missed us on the first weekend or want to continue the conversation, please join us as the conference is wrapping up!

Friday, November 6, 2020, 8-11 p.m. CST

Minneapolis, MN

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Call for Proposals

 

"Stretches, Leaps, Turns: Experiments in Music-Dance Relationships"

 

What makes a given encounter between sound and movement an “experiment”? What assumptions are challenged, what is put at risk, and what is “discovered” about the nature of music, of dance, and of their relationship? This session seeks to bring scholarly perspectives on the relationships between music and dance into dialogue with contemporary artistic practice, as well as with historical experiments in combining music and movement.

 

How are music and movement related in artistic processes, including rehearsal processes? What models have been developed for collaboration between musicians and dancers? How do composers and choreographers articulate their shared aesthetic goals? How do these goals and processes extend beyond the boundaries of the stage and traditional music-dance genres? What are the consequences for listening to and watching movements, as well as for their description and analysis? To what extent do contemporary models remain in dialogue with those established by avant-garde artists of the twentieth century? Beyond aesthetic concerns, what else may be at stake in these experiments (politics, identities, etc.)? What experimental approaches might scholars bring to our study of music and dance?

 

We invite proposals for short (15-minute) papers exploring a range of methods for combining sound and movement, and/or for analyzing these combinations. We welcome discussion of music-dance relationships across a wide variety of areas, genres and styles, including productions that dissolve the boundaries of the stage, such as installations or video productions; in classical, vernacular, and popular idioms from around the globe. These brief presentations will provide the starting point for broader discussion among session attendees. In particular, we seek to promote dialogue between critical, historical, theoretical, and practical perspectives. While we hope to be able to gather in person, we are prepared for the possibility that some or all presentations may have to be delivered remotely.

 

This will be a satellite session of the international symposium Music as an Experimental Field for Movement, scheduled for September 2020 in Austria, organized by Stephanie Schroedter and supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Society for Academic Research). Panelists of the MDSG may have their contributions considered for inclusion in the peer-reviewed volume that will emerge from this symposium.

 

Please submit proposals of not more than 250 words to Julia Randel (jrandel1@udayton.edu) by Sunday, June 28, 2020. For more information about the Music and Dance Study Group, please visit https://ams-mdsg.wixsite.com/ams-mdsg.

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Julia Randel and Stephanie Schroedter, MDSG co-chairs.

 

2019 Report

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AMS 2019 Events:

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“Hearing, Moving, Seeing: Interactions in Music, Dance, and Design”

 

Featuring Kenneth Archer and Millicent Hodson

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Friday, Nov. 1, 2019, 8:00 PM

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Part 1: Keynote address by Millicent Hodson and Kenneth Archer, Independent Scholars

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Sacrificial Situations: Ritual and Ordeal in the Music, Dance, and Design of Three Stravinsky Productions

 

Based on their three decades of work reconstructing lost ballets, including many from Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, Hodson and Archer will present their reconstructions of the choreography and design for various stagings of three Stravinsky ballets: “Le Sacre du Printemps” (1913 with Roerich and Nijinsky), “Le Chant du Rossignol” (1925, with Matisse and Balanchine), and "Persephone” (1934 with Kurt Joos). Using slides, video, commentary, and movement, they will illuminate the reconstructive process for these collaborative works with reference to the original choreographers’ confrontation with the Stravinsky scores.

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Part 2: James Steichen, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Moderator

 

Julie Hedges Brown, Northern Arizona University

"Visually Rehearing Schumann: Multivalent Identity in the Adagio of Van Manen’s 1975 Ballet Four Schumann Pieces"

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Devin Burke, University of Louisville

"Reinventing Savagery: Jean-Philippe Rameau’s “Les Sauvages” on Stage, in Concert, and on Recording"

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Rebecca Schwartz, Independent Scholar

"Of Sylphs, Roses, and Sacrificial Virgins: Bodily Nostalgia and The Motion of Memory"

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Maeve Sterbenz, Wellesley College

"Hearing Song through Dance: Twyla Tharp and Mikhail Baryshnikov’s Recomposition of Vladimir Vysotsky’s “Koni Priveredlivye”

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Saturday, Nov. 2, 2019, 12:30 to 2:00 PM

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Music and Dance Study Group Workshop

Millicent Hodson and Kenneth Archer, Guest presenters

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“Nijinsky’s ‘Le Sacre du printemps’ and Balanchine’s ‘Le Chant du rossignol’: Rhythmic Complexities and Choreographic Counterpoint.”

 

No previous dance experience needed.

 

Music and Dance Study Group Business Meeting

Saturday, Nov. 2, 2:15 PM

2018 Report

Chair: Matilda Ann Butkas Ertz, University of Louisville and Youth Performing Arts School, maertz02@louisville.edu

Co-Chair: Chantal Frankenbach, California State University, Sacramento, cfranken@csus.edu

Secretary-Treasurer: Megan Varvir Coe, University of Texas at Arlington, meganvarvircoe@gmail.com Program Committee: Daniel Callahan, Boston College, daniel.m.callahan@bc.edu and Samuel Dorf, University of Dayton, sdorf1@udayton.edu

Webmaster: Matilda Ertz, maertz02@louisville.edu

 

Number of members: 128, up from 120 last year  (59 at founding in 2013)

 

Requests: We are working with Bob Judd on a payment button on our AMS-hosted web page to enable donations. We would like to inquire more generally about ways the AMS might defray conference costs for chairs of groups and committees whose institutions will not support conference attendance, if possible.

 

Activities for previous calendar year (2017): The AMS Music and Dance Study Group (MDSG) had a full-evening collaborative session, historical dance workshop, and business meeting at the Annual Meeting in Rochester. At our business meeting we held elections for a new co-chair (our co-founder and chair, Sarah Gutsche-Miller stepped down and Chantal Frankenbach was elected as new co-chair). We discussed plans for San Antonio and our new efforts at collecting donations through our AMS web-page for paying guests and musicians for future sessions and workshops. MDSG collaborated with the LGBTQ Study Group at the Annual Meeting this year for "Queering Dance Musics," an evening session with three different parts: a Panel (papers by Kyle Kaplan, Lisa Barg, Lauron Keher, panel chairs: Samuel Dorf and Daniel Callahan), a Keynote by Clare Croft "Learning Queerness or 'I'd Rather be Sitting in the Dark'," and a Roundtable moderated by Stephan Pennington with Louis Niebur, Sarah Hankins, Tiffany Naiman, and Gavin Lee. In addition, we arranged a historical dance workshop presented by Carol Marsh with live music from Baroque violinist Lydia Becker. All events were well attended. Members of the MDSG donated money in order to pay an honorarium of $500 to Clare Croft and $150 for Baroque violinist Lydia Becker. Carol Marsh generously gave her workshop pro bono.

 

Activities for next year: We are planning an evening session on Dance, Music, and Digital Humanities and we are hoping for a workshop on Mexican traditional or folklórico dance. We plan to collaborate with the SMT Music and Dance Interest Group as in the past. We continue to promote the exchange of ideas and information across disciplines by having members represent the MDSG at meetings of related societies, and we continue to expand our internet presence through our website, Facebook page, Google group listserv and database of dance and music materials maintained by research librarian David Day (http://atom.lib.byu.edu/dancemus/). --Matilda Ann Butkas Ertz

 

2017 Report

Chair: Sarah Gutsche-Miller, University of Toronto, sarah.gutsche.miller@utoronto.ca

Co-Chair: Matilda Butkas Ertz, University of Louisville, maertz02@louisville.edu

Secretary-Treasurer: Megan Varvir Coe, University of Texas at Arlington, meganvarvircoe@gmail.com Program Committee: Christopher Wells, Arizona State University, Chris.J.Wells@asu.edu

Webmaster: Matilda Butkas Ertz, University of Louisville, maertz02@louisville.edu

 

Number of members: 120, up from 118 last year  (59 at founding in 2013)

 

Activities for previous calendar year: The AMS Music and Dance Study Group (MDSG) had a full program at the Annual Meeting this year in Vancouver. At our business meeting we held elections for a new secretary (our co-founder Sam Dorf stepped down and Megan Varvir Coe joined us), discussed panel topics for Rochester and beyond, and brought members up to date on various activities including projected collaborations with the LGBTQ Study Group. We also hosted three events. Two were collaborations with our colleagues from the SMT Dance and Movement Interest Group. Rebecca Simpson-Litke led a Salsa class for our combined membership, and Matilda Butkas-Ertz convened members of both societies to exchange ideas for building a range of music/dance class syllabi. Our evening panel, chaired by Christopher Wells and supported by an AMS grant, presented Thomas DeFrantz, Professor and Chair of African American Studies and Women’s Studies at Duke University. DeFrantz’s presentation was titled “Asked and Answered: Black Social Dance and its Musics.” Activities for next year: We are currently formulating plans for our 2017 MDSG meeting in Rochester. We are collaborating with the AMS LGBTQ Study Group to hold an evening panel and discussion forum to explore intersections of dance studies and queer studies in music.  We are also planning a noontime workshop on eighteenth-century social dance led by Carol Marsh. Music for the event will be performed by students from Eastman. We continue to promote the exchange of ideas and information across disciplines by having members represent the MDSG at meetings of related societies, and we continue to expand our internet presence through our website, facebook page, and listserv. David Day, a research librarian who works on music and dance, continues to build and maintain our searchable database of articles, books, and other bibliographic sources relating to dance and dance music (http://atom.lib.byu.edu/dancemus/). -- Sarah Gutsche-Miller

 

 

 

2016 Report

 

Music and Dance Study Group Chair: Sarah Gutsche-Miller, University of Toronto

Co-Chair: Matilda Butkas Ertz, University of Louisville 

Secretary-Treasurer: Samuel Dorf, University of Dayton

Program Committee: Christopher Wells, Arizona State University

Webmaster: Matilda Butkas Ertz, University of Louisville

 

Number of members: 118, up from 106 last year (59 at founding in 2013)

 

Activities for previous calendar year: This year’s activities included hosting a period dance class, an evening panel, and a general meeting for our members at the AMS Annual Meeting in Louisville.  At the general meeting, we held elections for co-chairs, our members chose a new program chair and discussed panel topics, we brought members up to date on various activities including projected collaborations with the SMT Dance and Movement Study Group, and we renewed our call for more liaisons to other societies. Christopher Wells (Arizona State) led an inspiring and highly entertaining noontime dance class on the Charleston and Lindy Hop, and new and emerging scholars Dana Terres, Alexandre Abdoulaev, Anne Searcy, and Elia Andrea Corazza presented their research at our evening session, “New Musicological Scholarship on Dance,” organized by Chantal Frankenbach (UCDavis) and moderated by Maribeth Clark (New College Florida). Activities for next year: We are currently making plans for our 2016 MDSG meeting in Vancouver. Our evening panel, chaired by Chris Wells, will present the noted scholar of African American dance Thomas DeFrantz, Professor and Chair of African American Studies and Professor of Women’s Studies at Duke University. Thomas DeFrantz’s presentation has the working title “Figuring the Rhythm: Black Social Dance and its Musics.” The AMS has already offered us a grant of $1,500 to invite Professor DeFrantz as a special guest speaker for this session.   

 

In addition to our evening panel, we also plan to collaborate with the SMT Dance and Movement Interest Group to sponsor a roundtable on pedagogy and course design for music or general education dance/music courses, and we are planning another dance event, also with our SMT colleagues: a salsa or tango dance class that would allow our members to get to know each other.

 

We continue to promote the exchange of ideas and information across disciplines by having members represent the MDSG at meetings of related societies, and we continue to expand our internet presence through our website and listserv. David Day, a research librarian who works on music and dance, continues to build and maintain our searchable database of articles, books, and other bibliographic sources relating to dance and dance music (http://atom.lib.byu.edu/dancemus/).  

 

--Sarah Gutsche-Miller

 

2016 Events and CFPs

 

CFP Dance Chronicle Special Issue Call for Papers "Kinetic, Mobile, and Modern: Dance and the Visual Arts" Deadline: 31 December 2016

 

Ever since Degas’s dancers twisted and reached their bodies through codified regimens of movement practice and everyday studio rituals, the intimate relation between dance and the visual arts has entered into discussions of modernism. The mysteries of motion in dance have challenged visual artists to create new forms: Toulouse-Lautrec’s Moulin Rouge performers seem to bend space with their very movements; and Matisse’s cut-outs of dancers and other subjects seem to transcend their materiality by literally detaching themselves from the page. Dancers, in turn, have pushed the boundaries of their art form to respond to theories and currents in the visual arts. Yvonne Rainer’s post-modernist manifesto, “The Mind Is a Muscle,” propounds that dancers ought to apply the minimalist tendencies of contemporary sculpture to dance to chart new territory, and she did just that in her choreography The Mind Is a Muscle, Trio A.
 

With this in mind, we invite research manuscript submissions for a special issue of Dance Chronicle on the theme of “Kinetic, Mobile, and Modern: Dance and the Visual Arts,” to be edited by Joellen A. Meglin and Lynn Matluck Brooks. We want to explore the ways in which dance and the visual arts have intersected, converged, dialogued, and propelled one another forward, whether through felicitous collaboration or the unique visuo-spatial talent of an individual. Below we list just some of the examples of topics that spring to mind.
How have various art movements, such as Cubism, Expressionism, Vorticism, Biomorphism,etc., influenced or been influenced by dance?
How has the changing sense of what exactly constitutes the stage or performance space contributed to the changing architecture of movement?
How have dancers partaken of objects, materials, or environments, and/or objects, materials, or environments partaken of dancers in evolving designs that emerge as the performance progresses or time lapses (e.g., Kei Takei, Shen Wei, Eiko & Koma)?
In what ways have certain 20th-century forms, such as mobile, kinetic sculpture, and audio-kinetic art, been driven by or related to dance (e.g., George Rhoads’s Forty-Second-Street Ballroom)?
How have African-American and Latino forms of social dancing and street dancing inspired visual artists and vice versa?
How have collaborations across media inspired artists/performers to reinvent the art/performance forms they practice?
How have certain artists (e.g., Oskar Schlemmer) fused dance and design to challenge our notions of what constitutes the body?

 

Submission Instructions
All manuscripts will receive double-blind peer review. Submissions will be accepted at any time before December 31, 2016. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically athttp://www.editorialmanager.com/dc.
All inquiries can be sent to Joellen Meglin at jmeglin@temple.edu.
Editorial information
Editor: Joellen A. Meglin, Temple University
Editor: Lynn Matluck Brooks, Franklin & Marshall College
 

CFP Gesellschaft für Tanzforschung · GTF Annual Conference 2016 · Call for papers

Sound – Traces – Moves. Soundtraces in Motion November 18–20, 2016 · Orff-Institute of the University Mozarteum/Salzburg 

The term TRACES has been positioned very intentionally between the two central artistic means of expression SOUNDS and MOVES, as interface so to speak, since sounds as well as bodily movements can both be regarded as traces due to their volatility in

space and time. They can enter into a dialog with other artistic traces (of movement), such as the grand brushstroke of a painter, the fine drawings of a graphic artist or the light projections of a digital installation, in order to access further dimensions of space and time for the hearing and seeing of movement dynamics. Against this backdrop, an (in the best sense) endlessly creative process gathers momentum, in which audible and/or visible movement traces are permanently recreated, without ever getting clearly defined contours nor even taking a definite shape. What kinds of artistic options are possible due to such interactions between sound- and movement traces, either in the form of a performance or an event? And what kinds of challenges result from this for the spectators/listeners – particularly if these interactions primarily unfold within the area of the non-verbal, beyond the obvious allocations of meaning or outstanding narrative threads? This conference will discuss perspectives based on (rehearsal) processes and production aesthetics as well as questions relating to the perception of the interplay of analogue/digital, instrumental/ vocal and musical or noise-like sounds with virtual or real body movements in choreographies, improvisations and dance performances: The objective is to ‘trace’ audio-visual movement traces and the resulting network of sensory impressions.

 

Deadline for proposals for lectures, workshops, poster presentations, lecture demonstrations, performances and labs (please give the preferred format) is May 1. Please send the respective proposal with a maximum of 250 words and a short biography of 100 words at most to Stephanie Schroedter: st.schroedter@t-online.de You will be informed about the programme selection by June 1, 2016 at the latest. For regularly updated information cf: http://www.gtf-tanzforschung.de/html/engl/11.htm

 

The 2016 CORD+SDHS Conference, themed "Authenticity and Appropriation" will be held at Pomona, College in Claremont, California Thursday, November 3 through Sunday, November 6, 2016.

 

CFP: The SMT Dance and Movement Interest Group invites proposals for papers to be presented at our inaugural meeting in St. Louis. Papers can be on any topic related to dance, movement, and music. We welcome proposals for papers of 20 or 10 minutes in length and of various formats including research papers, lecture demonstrations, and presentations that offer information or opinions about working in dance and music. Please email submissions to kara.leaman [at] yale.edu by July 1, 2015. In your submission, please indicate whether you are proposing a 20-minute or 10-minute paper, include a 350-word abstract, and inform us of any audiovisual or other requirements. Submissions will be reviewed by a committee, and results will be announced in late July.

 

CFP: Confluences, Connections, and Correspondences: Music and Visual Culture Conference (University of Toronto, October 13–14, 2016)

 

Conference Dates: October 13–14, 2016 in Toronto, ON, Canada

Abstract Submission Deadline: July 17, 2016

Keynote Speakers

Tim Shephard (The University of Sheffield)
Joseph L. Clarke (University of Toronto)
Simon Shaw-Miller (University of Bristol)
Roundtable Chair

Anne Leonard (University of Chicago)

 

https://musicandvisual.wordpress.com/

 

"Dance in Italy, Italian Dance in Europe, 1400 - 1900" 

May 25-29, 2016, Burg Rothenfels, Germany. 

 

This wonderful conference combines scholarly research with workshops, dance classes, and performances, and culminates with a ball held in the 16th-century Rittersaal.  Participants who present papers or lead a workshop receive an honorarium that nearly covers the cost of the conference.  Deadline for contributions was June 1, 2015. Visit the website for more information: http://www.historical-dance-symposium.org/en/

 

From Network of Pointes to further discourses on contemporary ballet
May 20-21, 2016 
An SDHS Special Topics Conference at the Center for Ballet and the Arts, New York University, and at Barnard College, Columbia University.

 

https://contemporaryballet2016.wordpress.com/

 

2015

 

“New Scholarship in Music and Dance”

Evening Session of the AMS Music and Dance Study Group at the 2015 Meeting of the AMS in Louisville, KY, November 13, 8:00 PM.

 

The AMS Music and Dance Study Group is sponsoring an evening panel titled “New Scholarship in Music and Dance,” to be held at the AMS meeting in Louisville on Friday, November 13, 2015 from 8:00 to 9:30 PM. The panel will showcase new scholarly work at the intersection of music and dance, aiming to support this under-explored area of musical research and to give emerging scholars an opportunity to advance their research. Panelists will speak for ten minutes, followed by a moderated discussion with questions from the audience. We welcome submissions on a variety of topics and time periods that demonstrate the rich possibilities for interdisciplinary study in music and dance.

Program Committee Chair, Chantal Frankenbach, at cfranken (at) csus.edu. Deadline for submissions was February 16, 2015. 

 

Mellon Post Doctoral Fellowship 2015-16

 

The Mellon-funded initiative Dance Studies in/and the Humanities invites applications for a one-year postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University starting 1 September 2015. As a member of the Department of Theater and Performance Studies, the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Dance Studies will teach two courses, one an introductory course in dance studies and the other an upper-division special-topics course. In addition, the postdoctoral fellow will organize programs open to the community and designed to advocate for dance studies within the arts and humanities.

 

Applicants must  have completed all requirements for the Ph.D. no later than July 15, 2015 and no earlier than July 15, 2012. AA/EOE. Women andminorities are encouraged to apply.

Deadline for applications was 15 May 2015. Applicants should be available to attend the Mellon Summer Seminar in Dance Studies June 21-27, 2015 at Northwestern University.

 

See more information in the AMS-MDSG Google group.

 

Athens is Dancing:

 

http://www.athensisdancing2015.com/

Joint SDHS/CORD (Society of Dance History Scholars / Congress of Research in Dance) conference in collaboration with the Hellenic Centre of the International Theatre Institute, and the Association of Greek Choreographers. June 4–7, 2015 in Athens, Greece

Deadline for submissions was October 31st, 2014

https://sdhs.org/proposal-submission-form-2015-athens

 

 

The annual Oxford Dance Symposium

 

Organised by Michael Burden and Jennifer Thorp

17th Annual Oxford Dance Symposium will take place at New College, Oxford on 21 & 22 April 2015 ‘Dancing for Anniversaries and Occasions: Chamber, Court, Theatre & Assembly’

Deadline for abstracts of 150 to 200 words: 1 November 2014.

http://www.new.ox.ac.uk/annual-oxford-dance-symposium

 

 

Spaniards, Indians, Africans and Gypsies: 

The Global Reach of the Fandango in Music, Song, and Dance

 

http://brookcenter.gc.cuny.edu/the-global-reach-of-the-fandango/#sthash.w4MXsGio.dpuf

The Foundation for Iberian Music at The Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation at the CUNY Graduate Center will host a conference on the global reach of the fandango at CUNY’s Segal Theater, April 17-18, 2015.

 

Rudolf Laban and Warren Lamb: Shaping Dynamics for Theatre and Dance - A Symposium on Movement and Physical Behaviours

 

Organised by Guildford School of Acting and National Resource Centre for Dance, University of Surrey

Saturday 18th April 2015 (10.00 am – 5.45 pm)

Guildford School of Acting, University of Surrey

 

This symposium is an exploration and celebration of the work of Rudolf Laban and Warren Lamb. The day will include lectures and practical workshops which explore current approaches to using theories and concepts developed by Laban and Lamb in research, teaching and professional practice, with a particular emphasis on theatre, dance and performance contexts.

 

SDHS Special Topics Conference Dance as Experience: Progressive Era Origins and Legacies

Jointly sponsored by Peabody Dance and SDHS

Baltimore, Maryland March 26–28, 2015

 

Link to more information: https://sdhs.org/conference2015-peabody-welcome

 

 

Russian Movement Culture of the 1920s and 1930s: An International Symposium

 

The Harriman Institute, Columbia University in the City of New York

Thursday, February 12, to Saturday, February 14, 2015

Organized by Lynn Garafola and Catharine Nepomnyashchy

http://harriman.columbia.edu/event/russian-movement-culture-1920s-and-1930s-international-symposium

 

2014

 

“Dancing Undisciplined”
Evening Session of the AMS Music and Dance Study Group at the
2014 Joint Meeting of the AMS/SMT in Milwaukee
7 November, 8:00 PM.

CFP:

The AMS Music and Dance Study Group invites submissions for our evening panel titled “Dancing Undisciplined,” to be held at the joint AMS/SMT meeting in Milwaukee on Friday, Nov. 7, 2014 from 8:00 to 10:00 PM. The panel will explore methods for incorporating dance into the music history and theory classroom. Panelists will speak for 10–15 minutes. The panel will be chaired by Chantal Frankenbach (California State University, Sacramento), who will moderate a discussion following the panelists’ papers. We welcome submissions on a variety of pedagogical approaches that acknowledge crucial, yet long-neglected, connections between music and dance. Topics might include:
   •    innovative cross-disciplinary teaching in music and dance
   •    successful collaborations between music and dance departments
   •    dance in the pedagogy of rhythm and/or musical form
   •    introducing terms such as Mouvement and Bewegung to the music student
   •    dance in the history of jazz
   •    considerations of dance in Baroque performance
   •    historical composer/choreographer collaborations
   •    dance in musical theater and opera
   •    crossing boundaries between social dance and concert music
 

Please submit abstracts of 250 words to the MDSG Program Committee Chair, Daniel Callahan, at dmcallahan@uchicago.edu. Deadline for submissions is 11 July 2014.

 

2014/15 Dance Studies Colloquium at Boyer College of Music and Dance, Temple University, in Philadelphia.

 

Sessions will be streamed live (www.temple.edu/boyer/dance/RR) and are archived.

 

The series kicked off on Tuesday, September 16th at 5:30pm with Marion Kant (University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK). Her talk is entitled "Toy Ballerina."

 

RITORNO A SALVATORE VIGANÒ
Returning to Salvatore Viganò

Conferenza sotto il patrocinio del Teatro La Fenice/ Conference under the auspices of Teatro La Fenice
Venezia, Salle Apollinee, 26-28 giugno 2014 /Venice, Salle Apollinee, June 26-28, 2014

 

Link to the program on Aracne editrice

Link to the program on aCD

 

MELLON DANCE STUDIES SEMINAR 2014

Applications from advanced graduate students, recent Ph.D.s, and junior faculty are invited for an intensive summer seminar on interdisciplinary research and teaching in dance studies. Funded by the Mellon Foundation, the seminar will be held June 22-28, 2014 at Stanford University. Participants will engage with each other’s work as well as with the work of invited senior scholars. Accepted applicants will have their costs covered for tuition, room and board and, in addition, receive up to $500 to cover travel expenses.  International applicants are welcome, as are applicants from all fields in the humanities and humanistic social sciences that border dance studies.

Please send a cover letter stating your research and teaching interests, curriculum vitae, writing sample, and two letters of recommendation to Dance Studies Seminar Committee, Northwestern University, University Hall 215, 1897 Sheridan Road, Evanston IL 60208-2240. Electronic applications (in Word or pdf) may be emailed to project assistant Jennifer Britton (j-britton@northwestern.edu) with the subject line “Dance Studies Seminar.” Deadline for applications is January 15, 2014.The 2014 summer seminar is part of a multi-year initiative titled Dance Studies in/and the Humanities. A Mellon-funded partnership between three universities—Brown, Northwestern and Stanford—Dance Studies in/and the Humanities invests in emerging scholars in a growing field. Subsequent summer seminars will be held at Northwestern (2015).

 

 

SDHS Conference 2014

Tentative conference title: Writing Dancing/Dancing Writing. The conference will take place at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, a city designated as a UNESCO City of Literature.

Further conference details will be posted as plans take shape.

University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. November 13–16, 2014. (Please note date change.)

Link to Conference Website

 

 

Past Events

2013

 

Gender and Creation in the History of Performing Artz

Genre et création dans l'histoire: arts vivants, art de vivre

December 12-14, 2013

École des hautes étude en sciences sociales, Paris, France

Elizabeth CLAIRE (CRH-EHESS-CNRS),

Catherine DEUTSCH (Univ. Paris-Sorbonne),

Raphaëlle DOYON (LABEX CAP, CRAL-HICSA)

Link to more information and CFP

 

American Musicological Society, Annual Meeting

Pittsburgh 2013

7-10 November 2013

Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown

Link to AMS Conference Website

 

SDHS and CORD

Decentering Dance Studies: Moving In New Global Orders.

Special Joint conference with Congress on Research in Dance (CORD)

November 14–17, 2013.

Mission Inn Hotel & Spa, Riverside, California 

Link to SDHS Conference Website

Link to CORD Conference Website

 

 

 

​​The Rite of Spring and its Legacies: Global and Regional Perspectives

A Symposium and Recital

Sears Recital Hall, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH

Sunday, 22 September 2013, 2:00pm-5:30pm

 

This interdisciplinary symposium will bring together leading scholars in the field: Dr. Lynn Garafola, professor of dance at Barnard College, author of the award-winning Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and editor of The Ballets Russes and Its World; Dr. Mary E. Davis, Dean of Studies of the Fashion Institute of Technology and author of Ballets Russes Style: Diaghilev’s Dancers and Paris Fashion and Classic Chic: Music, Fashion and Modernism; and art historian and Russian literature scholar, Dr. Nina Gourianova, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature at Northwestern University and author of The Aesthetics of Anarchy: Art and Ideology in the Early Russian Avant-Garde. Joining them will be musicologist and dance historian, Dr. Samuel Dorf, Assistant Professor at the University of Dayton and organizer of the symposium who will share his research on the Ballets Russes performances in Dayton and Cincinnati during their 1916 and 1917 American tours. These engaging presentations will include a dynamic solo piano performance of Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring by acclaimed pianist Dr. Ingrid Keller, Assistant Professor of Music at Northern Kentucky University. This event will be documented by our media partner, Classical WDPR 88.1, and is made possible in part by the Ohio Humanities Council, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Admission is free, but tickets are required and can be reserved through the UD Box Office beginning September 1. This event is part of the University of Dayton’s "Rites. Rights. Writes." experience in human rights and the arts.

Link to more information.

 

SDHS Special Topics, Sacre Celebration: Revisiting, Reflecting, Revisioning. York University, Toronto, April 18–20, 2013: https://sdhs.org/sacre-conference-welcome OR http://sacre.info.yorku.ca

 

How Historians Use the Press: The Fourth Annual Selma Odom Event

April 18, 2013 — 1:30 – 3:30 pm

 

This year’s Selma Odom Event will take the form of a working group whose focus will be to investigate questions and problems that arise in crafting histories from newspapers, periodicals, and other press documents. Scholarly writing on the reception of works provides telling examples of powerful theoretical and disciplinary alliances. How do our constructions of the past relate to our selection and interpretation of press documents?

Participants in this session are invited to submit an item—one document or small collection of clippings—in advance. These documents will be shared with the group during the session. Each contributor will briefly present his or her submission (max. 5 minutes), after which all participants will be invited to explore how the documents have been interpreted in the past and contemplate alternate interpretations. This session will also serve as a forum for a broader discussion of the problems that arise when using the press for dance research.
Documents from all historical periods are eligible; submissions need not relate to the conference focus of The Rite of Spring. Submission of an item is not a pre-requisite for participation in the Selma Odom pre-conference workshop. Anyone can attend the session.

NOTE: This session is open to all those attending the Sacre Celebration conference, but participation in the Selma Odom event also is open to people who are not conference registrants.
Session Moderators: Sarah Gutsche-Miller and Hanna Järvinen

Submission Details: Submit the item with a brief description of how you might interpret the content, or how the content has been interpreted in the past, along with any issues or ideas you would like to discuss with the group.

Length: maximum one page (can be in point form).

 

Symposium "The Agon of Opera & Dance," Princeton University, Department of Music (May 3-4, 2013): an interdisciplinary forum to investigate the historical and contemporary antagonism of the two art forms.

 

The primary speakers are Mary Ann Smart (musicology, Berkeley), Barbara White (composition, Princeton) and Rebecca  Schneider (performance studies, Brown). The symposium includes a performance premiere on the night of May 3 of a dance-opera with Rebecca Lazier (dance, Princeton) and Caroline Shaw (ABD, composition, Princeton), commissioned by Opera Cabal and moderated by Cathy Edwards (Director, Arts & Ideas Festival, Yale). The Opera Quarterly is organizing its annual board meeting around the event and will be in attendance as participants/respondents. Selected talks from the symposium will be collected in a forthcoming issue of OQ, edited by the symposium organizers: Majel Connery & James Steichen. For more details please contact Majel Connery (mconnery@uchicago.edu) & James Steichen (steichen@princeton.edu).

 

SDHS Conference 2013: Dance ACTions—Traditions and Transformations, June 8–11, 2013 (with the Nordic Forum for Dance Research), Trondheim, Norway: https://sdhs.org/conference2013-welcome

 

 

[CFP] Summer Seminar, Dance Studies in/and the Humanities, June 17-21, 2013 at Brown University.

Three universities, Brown, Northwestern, and Stanford, have partnered to create Dance Studies in/and the Humanities, a program funded by the Mellon Foundation and focused on increasing the professional opportunities for scholars in the emerging field. 

 

Applications from advanced graduate students, recent Ph.D.s, and junior faculty are invited for an intensive summer seminar on interdisciplinary research and teaching in dance studies. Funded by the Mellon Foundation, the seminar will be held June 17-21, 2013 at Brown University. Accepted applicants will have their costs covered for tuition, room and board and, in addition, receive up to $500 to cover travel expenses.  International applicants are welcome, as are applicants from all fields in the humanities and humanistic social sciences that border dance studies.

Please send a cover letter stating your research and teaching interests, curriculum vitae, writing sample, and two letters of recommendation to Dance Studies Seminar Committee, Northwestern University, University Hall 215, 1897 Sheridan Road, Evanston IL 60208-2240. Electronic applications (in Word or pdf) may be emailed to project assistant Jennifer Britton (j-britton@northwestern.edu) with the subject line “Dance Studies Seminar.” Deadline for applications is January 15, 2013

 

Joint Conference SDHS / CORD

 

Decentering Dance Studies: Moving In New Global Orders
A Joint Conference of the Congress on Research in Dance & the Society of Dance History Scholars
Mission Inn & the Culver Center of the Arts
Riverside, California
November 14 - 17, 2013

Call for Papers Deadline:  April 12, 2013

 

 

In the second decade of the 21st century, historic events are shaping and shifting global orders, posing new challenges to Empire. Emergent economies, mediatized popular revolutions, the U.S. abetted and sponsored “War On Terror,” and unequal distribution of wealth are salient features, resulting from increased transnational connections and desires for mobility brought about by globalization. This conference invites a reflection on the impact that these developments are having on dancers and dances, and the ways in which practitioners and scholars understand dance practices in political, cultural, and historical terms.

Pursuing these reflections, the Society of Dance History Scholars (SDHS) and Congress on Research in Dance (CORD) will hold a historic joint conference that also commemorates the 20th anniversary of the Ph.D. in Critical Dance Studies at the University of California, Riverside. Questions that will be explored include:
What can dance offer in developing new approaches to the body and globalization? How does a global perspective help us re-think dances past and present? How do traditional dance research methods and/or study of historic dance forms contribute to critical dance studies at a time of shifting global orders?

How are the borders of dance itself as a discipline and a practice changing with these global shifts?

By embracing the diverse definitions of dance, paying attention to its multiple genealogies, to the efficacy and the shifts it makes through movement, how can we intervene in critical discourses of power? Why is the intersection of dance and power a crucial juncture to explore?

Papers, panels, roundtables, and non-conventional forms of presentations (including performative papers, performances, and workshops) might examine how dance and choreographic attention to movement, flows, stops, pauses, turns, improvisation, and the like inform us about:

    - circulation, global flows and the collision of national, multinational, and transnational financescapes, mediascapes, ethnoscapes, technoscapes, and ideoscapes
  - material culture, intangible heritages, refugee migration, and labor
  - circulations of dances past and interventions in nation, knowledge, and power
  - mobilization, incarceration, policing of borders, social movements and protest
  - the intersection of indigenous, national, colonial, regional, and postcolonial performance practices
  - development discourses and the concurrency of traditional, modern, and postmodern dance practices
  - the politics, poetics, and aesthetics of dance theories and practices as counter-centric discourses
  - the institutionalization and/or diffusion of dance studies at the local and global levels

    - and other related issues

The conference invites reflections on processes of decentering, in order to examine where and with whom dance takes place, which practices or movement materials are understood as dance, and to consider dance’s capacity to rethink power from an embodied perspective.

Organized panels and roundtables are especially encouraged.

Abstracts due April 12, 2013

Submit your abstract now.

Program Chairs: Priya Srinivasan (University of California, Riverside) and Yatin Lin (Taipei National University of the Arts)

 

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