- Selma Jeanne Cohen Award
The Selma Jeanne Cohen Award is a writing award offered by the
Society of Dance History Scholars for the best graduate student paper submission to the annual conference. The award was established in 1995 to honorSelma Jeanne Cohen 's contributions to the field of dance history, and to encourage and recognize exemplary scholarship among students researching dance. The award includes a travel grant and registration fee waiver for the annual conference. [ [http://www.sdhs.org/awards.html Society of Dance History Scholars: Awards] ]Award Winners
* 2008 - Elizabeth Arden Thomas, "Moving Forward by Being Still:
Anna Halprin 's "Still Dance with Nature"* 2008 - Victoria Phillips Geduld, "Cultural Diplomacy and the Construction of Empire:
Martha Graham 's "Appalachian Spring" and the State Department Tour of 1955-1956"* 2008 - Victoria Fortuna, "Decelerating Movement: The Identity Politics of Time and Space in Rudy Perez's "Countdown"
* 2007 - Clare Croft, "Photographs and Dancing Bodies:
Alvin Ailey 's 1967 US State Department Sponsored Tour of Africa"* 2007 - Samuel Dorf, "'Greek' Desires in Paris:
Isadora Duncan Dances Antiquity in the Lesbian Salon"* 2007 - Sydney Hutchinson, "When Women Lead: Changing Gender Roles in the New York Salsa Scene"
* 2006 - No prize awarded.
* 2005 - Juliet Bellow, "Picasso's Puppets:
Petrouchka ,Pierrot and Parade"* 2005 - Öykü Potuoglu-Cook, "From Backstage to Back Streets: An Urban Ethnography of the Post-1980s Turkish "Belly Dance"
* 2004 - Danielle Robinson, "Invisible Men: The Professionalization of Black Dance Teaching in Jazz Age Manhattan"
* 2004 - Emily Winerock, "Dance References in the
Records of Early English Drama : Alternative Sources for Non-Courtly Dancing, 1500-1650"* 2003 - Yvonne Hardt, "Relational Movement Patterns: Movement Choirs and their Social Potential in the "Weimar Republic"
* 2002 - Victoria Watts, "How Do Dances Make Us Laugh?: A Comparative Analysis of the Joking Structure at Play in Tere O'Connor's "Hi Everybody!" (1999) and
Twyla Tharp 's "Push Comes to Shove" (1976)"* 2001 - Jonathan David Jackson, "Gender Representation in the Latest Form of the Black/Latino(a) Sexual Minority Dance Called 'Voguing'"
* 2000 - Martin Hargreaves, "Haunted by Failure, Doomed by Success: Melancholic Masculinity in AMP’s "Swan Lake"
* 1999 - Virginia Taylor, "Respect, Antipathy, and Tenderness: Why Do Girls 'Go to
Ballet '?"* 1999 - Anthea Kraut, "The Vernacular Transformations of Black Female Choreographers:
Josephine Baker ,Zora Neale Hurston , andKatherine Dunham "* 1998 - Janet O'Shea, "Unbalancing the Authentic/Partnering Tradition: Shobana Jeyasingh’s "Romance... with Footnotes"
* 1997 - Michelle Heffner, "Blood Wedding: Tradition and Innovation in Contemporary
Flamenco "* 1997 - Karen A. Mozingo, "Fractured
Pina Bausch 's "Tanztheater"* 1996 - Ananya Chatterjea, "The Choreography of "
Chandralekha "* 1996 - Julia L. Foulkes, "Feminists, in a Way: How Women Shaped
Modern Dance "* 1996 - Barbejoy A. Ponzio, "Mythic Images of the West and the Renewed Popularity of
Country Dance "* 1995 - Constance Valis Hill, "From
Bharata Natyam toJive : Jack Cole's 'Modern' Jazz Dance" [SeeJack Cole (choreographer) .]* 1995 - Maribeth Clark, "The
Contredanse , That Musical Plague"Notes and references
Resources
* [http://www.sdhs.org/awards.html SDHS Awards]
* [http://www.sdhs.org/ Society of Dance History Scholars]
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