Book and Publication Awards 

Click each award listing for information on eligibility, nominations and past awardees. Individuals may only submit for one award per publication.


The de la Torre Bueno® First Book Award

Awarded annually to the best first book in dance studies published in the English language in the previous calendar year.

2024 Awardee: Rumya Putcha, The Dancer's Voice: Performance and Womanhood in Transnational India 


The de la Torre Bueno® Prize

Awarded annually to a book published in the English language that advances the field of dance studies. Qualified submissions are not restricted to any particular methodology or approach, but should introduce quality dance studies scholarship to a wider audience.

2024 Awardee: Imani Kai Johnson, Dark Matter in Breaking Cyphers: The Life of Africanist Aesthetics in Global Hip Hop 
2024 Honorable Mention: Julie Malnig, Dancing Black, Dancing White: Rock 'n' Roll, Race, and Youth Culture of the 1950s and Early 1960s

Gertrude Lippincott Award

Awarded annually to the best English-language article published in dance studies.

2024 Awardee: Cara Hagan, Dancing for laughs: signifyin(g) bodies and the Black American sitcom"
2024 Honorable Mention: Sariel Golomb, Channels Through the Humane: The Exiled Body in Crystal Pite’s Flight Pattern"


Oscar G. Brockett Book Prize for Dance Research

Awarded each year to the best book in dance whose primary method of approach includes historical inquiry published during the previous three calendar years.

2024 Awardee: José Luis Reynoso, Dancing Mestizo Modernisms: Choreographing Postcolonial and Postrevolutionary Mexico