Lucia Ruprecht and Lindsey Drury will present at two Roundtables on "Remapping Dance Modernisms"
Remapping Dance Modernisms
organised by Susan Manning and Lucia Ruprecht
The roundtable series "Remapping Dance Modernisms" will be presented at the 2024 annual conference of the Dance Studies Association in Buenos Aires on July 23 to 27.
Abstract
While many of us have been working on transnational approaches and multiple modernities, questions and issues remain. “Remapping Dance Modernisms I and II” gathers scholars from all career stages to establish a transatlantic research network on global histories of modernist dance. Questions include: How do we integrate the possibilities and pressures of the local and the national with the impacts of global flows? How do we highlight the exchange between the Global South and the Global North without reinforcing the narrative of the West and the Rest? How do we recover the subtle changes that ideas and methods undergo as they move from one local or national context to another? And how do we teach the histories of multiple modernities?
“Remapping Dance Modernisms I” will focus on pedagogical questions as well as on critiques of national(ist) histories of dance in the Global South. Case studies will examine the comparative survey course, modernist concert dance in the West Indies, Hijikata’s notations, exotic subject matter in Korean modern dance, and settler/ indigenous dance modernisms. Moderated by Susan Manning.
“Remapping Dance Modernisms II” will focus on (post)nationalist histories of dance modernism in Europe, post-decolonial perspectives on religiousness in both Jewish and Christian modern dance, transnational (mestizo) modernisms in Mexico and other Latin American countries, concepts of race, nation and “environmental dance” in Brazil. Moderated by Lucia Ruprecht.
Participants
Remapping Dance Modernisms I: Lindsey Drury, Susan Manning, Ameera Nimjee, Amanda Reid, Rosa van Hensbergen, Soo Ryon Yoon.
Remapping Dance Modernisms II: Ana Paula Höfling, Wojtek Klimczyk, José Luis, Reynoso, Lucia Ruprecht, Elizabeth Schwall, Alexander H. Schwan.