UWP Lecturers [Chass-faculty] UCR Dance Lecture - Brenda Dixon Gottschild: Researching Performance - the (Black) Dancing Body as a Measure of Culture

[John Ganim]

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>>Body, Performance & Dance Research Platform
>>presents a lecture/demonstration by
>>Brenda Dixon Gottschild
>>Award Recipient of the Christena Lindborg Schlundt Lecture Series 
>>in Dance Studies
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>>Researching Performance - the (Black) Dancing Body as a Measure of Culture
>>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.
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>>SAVE THE DATE
>>October 7, Wednesday
>>4:30 - 6:00 pm
>>Performance Lab, ARTS 166
>>Reception to follow
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>>Brenda Dixon Gottschild is the author of Digging the Africanist 
>>Presence in American Performance: Dance and Other Contexts 
>>(Greenwood Press 1996, paper 1998); Waltzing in the Dark: African 
>>American Vaudeville and Race Politics in the Swing Era 
>>(Palgrave/St. Martin's Press 2000, paper 2002-winner of the 2001 
>>Congress on Research in Dance Award for Outstanding Scholarly Dance 
>>Publication); and The Black Dancing Body - A Geography from Coon to 
>>Cool (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 Joan Myers Brown and 
>>The Improbable Hope of the Black Ballerina - an American Portrait. 
>>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."
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>>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 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.
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>>Free and open to UCR Students, Faculty and Staff
>>Parking: permits available at the Information Kiosks
>>Information: (951) 827-3245, 
>>performingarts at ucr.edu,  www.performingarts.ucr.edu
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>>Kathleen DeAtley
>>Program Promotion Manager
>>Departments of Dance, Music and Theatre
>>University of California, Riverside - ARTS 119
>>900 University Ave., Riverside, CA 92521-0325
>>(951) 827-3245
>>http://www.performingarts.ucr.edu
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