My current book project, Watching Weimar Dance, forthcoming from
Oxford University Press, concerns
physicality and meaning making at the intersections of dance and Weimar
culture, focusing on Valeska Gert, Oskar Schlemmer, Kurt Jooss,
Anita Berber, Mary Wigman, and the Tiller Girls. I am
also interested in contemporary European performance, issues of engaged spectatorship, bodies and technology, problems of historical
retrieval, recreations and reinventions, and exile. I am committed
to multiple possibilities, both implicit
and explicit, for working between dance practice and dance research.
Articles and Essays:
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New German Dance Studies, eds. Susan Manning and Lucia Ruprecht
Forthcoming 2012, University of Illinois Press
“Back Again? Valeska Gert's Exiles”
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TDR/The Drama Review, forthcoming in 56:1
“So You Think You Can Dance Does Dance Studies”
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Art Journal, 68.2 (2009), 50-61
“Archiving Unison in the Age of its Mechanical
Reproducibility”
(The Tiller Girls)
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TDR/The Drama Review, 53.1 (2009), 73-92
“‘Berlin
. . . Your Dance
Partner is Death’”
(Valeska Gert, Anita Berber, Kurt Jooss)
*Winner of the Gertrude Lippincott Award from the Society of
Dance History Scholars for best English-language article published
in dance
studies in 2009
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Modern Drama, 51.3 (2008), Theatre and Medicine, 389-410
“The Some of the Parts: Prosthesis and
Function in
Bertolt Brecht, Oskar Schlemmer, and Kurt Jooss”
*Winnner of the Biennial Sally Banes Publication Prize from the
American
Society for Theatre Research for best book or article to explore the
intersections of dance/movement and theatre between 2007-2008
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Performance Research, 13.1 (2008), On
Choreography, 61-69
“Petrified? Some Thoughts on Practical Research and Dance
Historiography”
(Oskar Schlemmer, Valeska Gert)
Book Reviews: