Thursday, October 26, 2017
Faculty in the Department of Dance presented scholarship at the 2017 Joint Conference of the Congress on Research in Dance and the Society of Dance History Scholars (newly merged to form the Dance Studies Association). The conference was titled Transmissions and Traces: Rendering Dance and was hosted by The Ohio State University Department of Dance, Oct. 19-22.
Department of Dance Chair Ann Dils presented the paper “Neighborhoods and Networks: Ethnographic Maps as Dance History Resource” in the session Public Spaces and Choreographed Constraints.
For the session From the Page to the Stage: Literary Adaptations, Associate Professor Karen Hubbard presented “Early-mid 20th-Century Imagined and Staged Dance Interpretations of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”
Two areas of research by Associate Professor of Dance Kim Jones comprised the session Transmissions of Legacy: Tracing Modern Dance, the Research and Practice: a performance of her reconstruction of Paul Taylor’s Tracer (1962) by alumni and current students Hunter Foster, Tracy Heim, Tiffany Mako, and Lillian Willis and a lecture demonstration by Martha Graham Company principal dancer Blakeley White-McGuire about Jones’s reimagining of Graham’s Imperial Gesture (1935).
Visiting assistant professor Kaustavi Sarkar presented a paper, “Moving Together for Change: The Transformative World of Horidraa” in the session Choreographing Encounters: Experimental Communities and Spaces of Transformation in Contemporary Performance
. Her choreography was one of five pieces of choreography presented as part of The Gift Project performed by Ohio State University professor Susan Van Pelt Petry.