Congress on Research in Dance

Congress on Research in Dance was a professional organization for dance historians in the United States and worldwide that merged in 2017 with the Society of Dance History Scholars to form the Dance Studies Association (DSA).

An international non-profit learned society for dance researchers, artists, performers and choreographers, CORD published the Dance Research Journal and sponsored annual conferences and awards for scholarship and contributions to the field.^[1] The journal and awards have been absorbed into the DSA.

The society was founded in 1964 as the Committee on Research in Dance,^[2] and based at New York University. It was formally incorporated as a 501 (c)(3) not-for-profit organization in 1969. The organization changed its name to Congress on Research in Dance in 1977. In 1991, it moved to the State University of New York College at Brockport. In 2007, the CORD National Office moved to the care of Prime Management Services based in Birmingham, Alabama. Membership generally includes performers, choreographers, artists and dance academics from colleges and universities.

Publications

The Dance Research Journal is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal publishing scholarly articles, book reviews, and other reports of interest to the field of dance research, with its primary orientation being towards the historical and critical theory of dance. The journal was published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Congress on Research in Dance until the merger in 2017. Now it is on behalf of the Dance Studies Association. The journal was established in 1968.

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Academic ASAP, Academic Search Elite, Academic Search Premier, Expanded Academic, Humanities Index, Index to Dance Periodicals, International Index to Performing Arts, and ProQuest.

Awards issued

Outstanding Contribution to Dance Research

1996, Joann Kealiinohomoku
1997, Ann Hutchinson Guest
1998, Kapila Vatsyayan
2000, Ivor Guest
2001, Deborah Jowitt
2003, Sally Banes
2005, Marcia Siegel
2007, Robert Farris Thompson
2008, Joan Acocella
2009, none awarded
2010, Stephanie Jordan
2011, Mark Franko
2012, Sue Stinson
2013, Susan Manning
2014, Deidre Sklar
2015, Janice Ross
2016, Randy Martin, in memoriam
2017, Thomas F. DeFrantz

Outstanding Leadership in Dance Research

1995, Carl Wolz
1996, Gigi Oswald
1997, Selma Jeanne Cohen
1998, Vicki Risner
1999, Ernestine Stodelle
2000, David Vaughan
2001, Beate Gordon
2003, Jane Bonbright
2005, Katherine Dunham and Anna Halprin
2006, Elsie Ivancich Dunin and Allegra Fuller Snyder
2007, Susan Leigh Foster
2008, Brenda Dixon Gottschild
2009, none awarded

(now the Dixie Durr Award for Outstanding Service to Dance Research)

2010, Ann Dils
2011, Barbara Sellers-Young
2012, Cara Gargano
2013, Sally Ness
2014, Libby Smigel
2015 Elizabeth Aldrich
2016 Jacqueline Shea Murphy
2017, Ann Cooper Albright

References

^ CORD award recipients. http://congressonresearchindance.camp7.org/pastwinners Archived 2018-08-21 at the Wayback Machine
^ Kolcio, Katja (Spring 2007). "A pillar supporting research in dance for 40 years" (Word doc). CORD Newsletter. Congress on Research in Dance. XXVII (1). Retrieved 2008-06-08.

External links

[1] CORD award recipients. http://congressonresearchindance.camp7.org/pastwinners Archived 2018-08-21 at the Wayback Machine

[2] Kolcio, Katja (Spring 2007). "A pillar supporting research in dance for 40 years" (Word doc). CORD Newsletter. Congress on Research in Dance. XXVII (1). Retrieved 2008-06-08.

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