Thursday, May 17, 2012

Biennial Sally Banes Publication Prize

 

Deadline: This award is given in even-numbered years. The next deadline will be March 15, 2012.

 

Purpose: This prize honors the publication (book or essay) that, in the opinion of the prize committee, best explores the intersections of theatre and dance/movement in the previous two calendar years.

 

Eligibility: Any independent, tenured, or untenured scholar is eligible. Eligible books and articles must have been published in 2010 or 2011. 

 

Nomination: Nominations can come from the author of a book or essay, any member of ASTR, or a book publisher or an editor of a journal or collection in which an essay has appeared. Authors can nominate only one essay. Editors can nominate one essay per volume. Book publishers and journal/collection editors are invited to send one copy of each book they wish to be considered to each member of the Biennial Sally Banes Publication Prize committee (i.e. three copies total). Essays may be sent either as hard copies or electronically, in either case to all three committee members.

 

Kate Elswit (chair)
Stanford University

450 Serra Mall, Building 260-205

Stanford, CA 94305-2030

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Lesley Ferris

Ohio State University

1109 Drake Center

1849 Cannon Dr.

Columbus OH 43201

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Judith Hamera

Department of Performance Studies

Texas A&M University

104 Academic Building

TAMU 4240

College Station, TX 77843-4240

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Evaluation: The winning book or essay will be judged based on (1) innovation in methodological approach; (2)critical and/or historical rigor; (3) potential for encouraging future scholarship that will strengthen exchanges between theatre and dance/movement.

 

Notification: Winner will be notified by July 15, 2012.

 

Past winners:

  • 2010: Clare Croft, "Ballet Nations: The New York City Ballet's 1962 US State Department-Sponsored Tour of the Soviet Union" in Theatre Journal 61:3 (2009): 421-442

 

  • 2009: Kate Elswit, "The Some of the Parts: Prosthesis and Function in Bertolt Brecht, Oskar Schlemmer,and Kurt Jooss" in Modern Drama 51.3 (2008): 389-410