My current book project, Watching Weimar Dance, 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.
I thrive on good discussions. Between 2007-09, I was co-convener for the Intermedia Research Group, a graduate-faculty working group sponsored by the Cambridge Centre for the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH). Currently, I am involved with the Association of Theatre in Higher Education’s Performance Studies Focus Group, and I am on the editorial board for Dance Theatre Journal.
Publications:-
New German Dance Studies, eds. Susan Manning and Lucia Ruprecht
Forthcoming 2011, University of Illinois Press
“Valeska Gert, Ausdruckstänzerin? Exile, Remigration, and Otherness” -
Art Journal, 68.2 (2009), 50–61
“Archiving Unison in the Age of its Mechanical Reproducibility”
(The Tiller Girls) -
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 the best English-language article published in dance studies in 2009 -
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 -
Performance Research, 13.1 (2008), On
Choreography, 61–69
“Petrified? Some Thoughts on Practical Research and Dance Historiography”
(Oskar Schlemmer, Valeska Gert)