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Body, Performance & Dance Research Platform <br>
presents a lecture/demonstration by <br>
<font size=4 color="#000080"><b>Brenda Dixon Gottschild<br>
</b></font>Award Recipient of the Christena Lindborg Schlundt Lecture
Series in Dance Studies<br><br>
<font size=4 color="#000080"><b>Researching Performance - the (Black)
Dancing Body as a Measure of Culture</b> <br>
</font>Guided by the premise that dance is a barometer of society, Prof.
Dixon Gottschild gauges the pulse of contemporary American performance.
Based on three of her published books and using visual images and her own
dancing body to demonstrate, she examines the pervasive Africanist
presence in American culture and the sociopolitical implications of its
invisibilization. With dance as the focus and race the parameter, she
reveals Africanisms in modern and postmodern dance and American
ballet.<br><br>
<font color="#008000"><b><i>SAVE THE DATE<br>
</i></font><font color="#000080">October 7, Wednesday<br>
4:30 - 6:00 pm<br>
Performance Lab, ARTS 166 <br>
</b>Reception to follow<br><br>
</font><b>Brenda Dixon Gottschild</b> is the author <i>of Digging the
Africanist Presence in American Performance: Dance and Other Contexts</i>
(Greenwood Press 1996, paper 1998);<i> Waltzing in the Dark: African
American Vaudeville and Race Politics in the Swing Era</i> (Palgrave/St.
Martin's Press 2000, paper 2002-winner of the 2001 Congress on Research
in Dance Award for Outstanding Scholarly Dance Publication); and<i> The
Black Dancing Body - A Geography from Coon to Cool
</i>(Palgrave/Macmillan 2003, paper 2005-winner of the 2004 de la Torre
Bueno prize for scholarly excellence in dance publication). In 2008
she was awarded the Congress on Research in Dance Award for
Outstanding Leadership in Dance Research; and a grant from The Pew Center
for Arts and Heritage through Dance Advance to begin work on a new
book, titled <i>Joan Myers Brown and The Improbable Hope of the Black
Ballerina - an American Portrait</i>. She is Professor Emerita of dance
studies at Temple University and a senior consultant and writer for Dance
Magazine. She performs with her husband, choreographer Hellmut
Gottschild, in an innovative form of somatic and research-based
collaboration for which they coined the term, “movement theater
discourse.”<br><br>
<i>This award and lecture, in honor of the founder of doctoral studies in
dance in the UC system, Professor Emerita Schlundt, is made possible by
the Christena Lindborg Schlundt Endowed Fund for the support of Periodic
Lectures on Research in Dance History and Theory. The Body, Performance
and<font color="#FF0000"> </font>Dance Research Platform constitutes a
nexus for interdisciplinary engagement of pressing issues within the
field of dance studies, specifically as they circulate around the nodes
of corporeality, performance, digital subjectivities and movement.<br>
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Free and open to UCR Students, Faculty and Staff <br>
Parking: permits available at the Information Kiosks <br>
Information: (951) 827-3245,
<font color="#0000FF"><u>performingarts@ucr.edu</font>,</u>
<a href="http://www.performingarts.ucr.edu/" eudora="autourl">
www.performingarts.ucr.edu</a><br><br>
<b>Kathleen DeAtley<br>
Program Promotion Manager<br>
Departments of Dance, Music and Theatre<br>
</b>University of California, Riverside - ARTS 119<br>
900 University Ave., Riverside, CA 92521-0325<br>
<b>(951) 827-3245 <br>
<a href="http://www.performingarts.ucr.edu/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.performingarts.ucr.edu</a></b> </blockquote><br><br>
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