1994 Society of Dance History Scholars Conference
Seventeenth Annual Conference
Brigham Young University
Provo, Utah
10–13 February 1994

CONTENTS OF PROCEEDINGS (compiled by Linda J. Tomko)

1. Iro Tembeck. History as Creative (Re)Construction
2. Janet Adshead-Lansdale. Border Tensions in the Discipline of Dance History
3. Lynn Garafola. Circles of Meaning: The Cultural Contexts of Ida Rubenstein’s Le Martyre de Saint-Sébastien
4. Linda H. James. Reuniting the Archivist and the Historian: Preparing Graduate Dance History Students for the Preservation of the Historical Legacy of Dance
5. Thomas K. Hagood. Defining an Organizational Ecology for Dance
6. James P. Cassaro. Researching Dance in the Music Library
7. Rebecca Harris-Warrick. Choreographies in Context
8. Marian Smith. Musical Scores as Dance Sources
9. John O. Perpener. African-American Dance: Research and Course Development
10. Valda Craig. The Relevance of Dance to Personal and Social Development: A Case Study of Mature-Age Australian Aboriginal Students
11. Sandra Kurtz. The State of the Art: Current Practices in Teaching Dance History
12. Deborah Jowitt. Nineteenth-Century Gymnastics: Beyond Strength and Health
13. Judith Gelernter. Mannerist Aesthetics in the Court Dance of Fabritio Caroso
14. Joan L. Erdman. Dance Discourses: Rethinking the History of the "Oriental Dance"

Working between Dance and Theater: Pedagogy and Research

15. Bud Coleman. Dancing between Disciplines
16. Joanna Harris. Multiculturalism, Performance, and Media
17. Susan Manning. Isadora Duncan and Henrik Ibsen
18. Amy Koritz. Performance Studies / Cultural Studies
19. Susan Manning. Audience Discussion Summary

Theorizing a Dance for Walt Whitman

20. Ellen Graff. Envisioning America: A Dance for Walt Whitman
21. Carol-Lynne Moore. Laban Movement Analysis as a Tool for Theorizing Dance for Walt Whitman
22. Tenney Nathanson. Where’s the Body?
23. Phyllis G. Richmond. The Rudiments of Genteel Behaviour [Nivelon, 1787]: The Alexander Technique and Teaching Contemporary Dancers to Perform Eighteenth-Century Dance Style
24. Siân Ferguson. Living Dance History: Teaching Dance History in a Studio, Not at a Desk
25. Joseph Roach. Essential Gestures: Performance and Cultural Memory
26. Sally Banes. Response [to Joseph Roach]
27. Gay Morris. Subversive Strategies in The Hard Nut
28. Stacey Prickett. Structuring a Dance Realism: Form versus Content in the American Revolutionary Dance
29. Norma Sue Fisher-Stitt. What Can the Computer Do for Me? Philosophical Issues and Practical Considerations for the Dance Historian
30. Mary Jane Warner. Gweneth Lloyd’s Shadow on the Prairie: The Computer-Assisted Dance History Lesson
31. Lynne Conner and Susan Gillis. The Muscle Is a Mind: Teaching Dance History through Multi-sensory Pedagogy
32. Sherrie Barr and Jenifer P. Craig. Pedagogy and Dance History: Developing the Dance Scholar in the Studio
33. Stephanie Jordan. Musical-Choreographic Discourse: Method, Music Theory, and Meaning
34. Lisa C. Arkin. Dancing Data: The Implications of Hypermedia in Dance Ethnology
35. A. William Smith. Using Computer Technology for Dance in the Ancient Roman Period
36. Christina Ashby-Martin. Politics, Policy, and Players: The Arts on the Historical Stage
37. Carol Martin. Private Fantasy and Public Ambivalence
38. Susan Manning. Borrowing from Feminist Theory
39. Lesley Farlow. Oral History Methods for the Dance Historian
40. Jennifer Fisher. Choreographing and Improvising the Interview
41. Selma Odom. Designing Theme Courses
42. Program

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