Past Events
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
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.
SAVE THE DATE
October 7, Wednesday
4:30 - 6:00 pm
Performance Lab, ARTS 166
Reception to follow
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."
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.
Free and open to UCR Students, Faculty and Staff
Parking: permits available at the Information Kiosks
Information: (951) 827-3245, performingarts@ucr.edu, www.performingarts.ucr.edu
UCR is Dancing 2009
This annual production is a showcase for new ideas and experiments in original choreography by UCR students.
March 5 - 7, Thursday - Saturday, 8:00 P.M.
University Theatre
Admission: $10 General, $8 Students, seniors and children
Parking: $5 in Lot 6 (No fee with UC permit)
MFA Dance Concerts
M.F.A. Dance Concerts are platforms for M.F.A. students to integrate concepts from across the required core courses (Representation, Collaboration, Improvisation, and Experimentation) and develop over several quarters a clear choreographic inquiry. Experimental in nature, M.F.A. Dance Concerts may take different forms to demonstrate the M.F.A. student's thorough investigation and committed execution of a defined aesthetic concern. The concerts are as much an investigation into process as performance, and M.F.A. students are challenged to produce complex, engaging, and exciting new work through the application of experimental choreographic methods introduced in their individual project proposals.
M.F.A. Dance Concerts are in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Fine Arts degree in Dance.
Dates, times, and venues T.B.A.
Admission: $6 General
Parking: $5 permits available at the University Information Kiosk
Spring Forward: New Dances by UCR Student Choreographers
Featuring the work of the dance composition class 114 B
June 2009 dates and times TBA
Dance Studio Theatre, PE 102
Admission: Free and open to the public
Parking: $5 permits available at the University Information Kiosk
End of the Quarter Dance Showings
December 1 - 5, March 9 - 13, June 1 - 5, Monday - Friday, times and venues vary
Students in composition and movement classes showcase what they have learned in class. These informal showings exhibit a student‚s ability to enact and remember patterns of rhythm, effort, and movement organization and visual design.
Admission: Free and open to UCR Students, Faculty and Staff
Parking: Permits available at the University Information Kiosk
Information:
(951) 827-3245
kathleen.deatley@ucr.edu