Dance in the Public Sphere AwardThe Dance in the Public Sphere Award recognizes renewed & new forms of public access and activism widening the circulation of dance initiatives and resources. The Dance in the Public Sphere Award recognizes renewed and new forms of public access and activism widening the circulation of dance initiatives and resources. The purpose of the award is to recognize DSA members who embrace public-facing dance initiatives from social practice, to dance production, and the digital humanities. The prize embraces non-print media, curation, social and political activism, performance, video, social media, and digital works or documents. Projects should have had their initial exhibit/premiere/iteration within the past two calendar years (2020-2022). The jury will take into consideration non-traditional catalogues, websites, and innovative performative and archival undertakings that encourage pluralizing the public trace of dancing labor, arts, and the dissemination of dance knowledges. This award is for a single project, including but not limited to a website, archive, activist intervention, curated performance series or museum exhibition, or a published work with scholarly investments but aimed at a general public. NOTE: DSA membership is a pre-requisite of eligibility for consideration. Nomination Instructions - 2024 awards cycle will open February 1st (deadline April 20, 2024)DSA will accept self-nominations as well as nominations from our membership for this award. Modes of submission may include: Vimeo links, catalogues, visual documentation of exhibitions, narratives of activist interventions, etc. In line with the nature of the award, submissions may be non-traditional or even unconventional in nature. Please also include a letter of nomination, explaining the chosen materials. Submissions will be evaluated by a committee created for this purpose. We welcome nominations from or on behalf of casualized scholars, emerita/emeritus professors, and independent artists. Email to: [email protected] with Dance in the Public Sphere in the subject line. This prize does not carry a cash award and, as such, will include a gratis conference registration. Any financial award, including gratis registration, can be donated to the support fund for casualized professionals and/or for students. We realize that many leaders in our field are also major donors to our organization and that many senior scholars struggle with the same precarities as more junior researchers. As such, we leave this decision to the discretion of individual awardees. Past Recipients
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