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[Lisa Doolittle]

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Foothills and Footsteps:  New Writing in Dance Studies
Research Network and Conference
University of Calgary
January 4-7, 1999

> Foothills and Footsteps highlights the work of innovative dance
> scholars in Canada and the United States, and explores some of the
> most significant directions in the emerging field of Dance Studies.
> Incorporating critical methodologies, insights, and perspectives from
> cultural theory, gender theory, and political theory, conference
> presentations examine dance as a cultural practice, influenced by and
> influencing key values in a given historical moment.  We invite you to
> participate in these
> In conjunction with Calgary's international festival of performance
> theatre, the 13th annual HIGH PERFORMANCE RODEO, produced by One
> Yellow Rabbit, the conference also celebrates the diversity,
> inventiveness and spiritedness of live performance.  FOOTHILLS AND
> FOOTSTEPS seeks to make scholars accessible to the community and to
> make artists feel welcome in the academy. Together we will explore the
> intersecting terrain where dance and culture, theory and practice,
> scholars and artists, academy and
>
> Presentations:
> Sarah Cordova: Marquette University
> Autobiographing a 19th Century French Dancer.
>
> Thomas DeFrantz, massachusetts Institute of Technology
> 'Black Dance' and the Essentializing Impulse
>
> Lisa Doolittle University of Lethbridge and Anne Flynn University of
> Calgary
> Regional Resonances:  Popular and Artistic Dancing in Calgary in the
> 1960s
>
> Kristin Harris, Memorial University
> Bournonville and His Female Protagonist
>
> Michelle Hefner, Colorado Dance festival
> Blood Wedding:  Tradition and Innovation in Contemporary Flamenco
>
> Naomi jackson, Arizona State University
> Intertextuality, Dance and Social Formation
>
> Jacqueline Murphy. University of California, Riverside
> Figuring the Indian in American Modern Dance
>
> Betty Poulsen, University of Lethbridge
> Gotong Royng:  Working Together - An Intercultural Performance
>
> Kate Ramsay, Columbia University
> Without a Note of Ritual
>
> BJ Wray, University of Calgary
> Choreographing the Nation:  Canadian Queer Dance
>
>
>
> Registration Deadline:  December 18, 1998
> fee: $125 Canadian
> Student/Artist rate $40
>
> For registration forms and information contact:
> Gerry Dyer
> Calgary Institute for the Humanities
> Earth Sciences #640
> University of calgary
> 2500 University Drive NW
> Calgary AB Canada  T2N 1N4
>
> Phone 403-220-7238
> Fax:  403-282-7822
> e-mail:  CIH at ucalgary.ca
> www://ucalgary.ca/UofC/Others/CIH
>
> The University of Calgary is home to Canada's newest dance degree,
> which is a collaborative liberal arts program offered by the Faculties
> of Fine Arts and Kinesiology.
>
> A special addition to the conference and the High Performance Rodeo
> will be The Moving Pictures Festival of Dance on Film and Video
> Touring Exhibit which will showcase the newest in Canadian and
> international dance films and videos.
>
> Organized by:
> Anne Flynn
> B.A. Dance Program,
> The University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta Canada
>
> Susan Bennett
> English Department
> University of Calgary
>
> Lisa Doolittle
> Division of Theatre Arts
> University of Lethbridge
>
> Sponsored by:
> The Calgary Institute for the Humanities
> The University of Calgary
> The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada
>
>


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