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The de la Torre Bueno Prize® is 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. Named after José Rollin de la Torre Bueno, the first university press editor to develop a list of titles in dance studies, the de la Torre Bueno Prize has recognized scholarly excellence in the field since 1973. It carries a cash purse of $1000.
All members of DSA are eligible for this prize. Books translated into the English language are acceptable, so long as they have been published during the Prize year. Edited volumes consisting mainly of newly published essays are eligible. Books consisting in their entirety of previously published essays, reviews, or articles are not eligible. The award is for works published in the previous calendar year (2023).
NOTE: Titles may only be submitted for either the Brockett or the Bueno awards, not both.
NOTE: DSA membership is a pre-requisite of eligibility for consideration.
Photo by Joey Malbon; VP Awards Angela Ahlgren with 2022 de la Torre Bueno Prize® winner SanSan Kwan (Vancouver BC)
To nominate a publication: send an email with author address, email address, telephone, the title(s) nominated, and specific award in consideration to DSA at [email protected]. Use de la Torre Bueno as subject line. Do not send books directly to DSA office.
Send one copy of each nominated title to each committee member. Include print out of letter with each mailing if possible (if not, the email will suffice). Physical books are preferred by this review committee, but e-books are accepted if necessary. To submit an e-book you may include the file or link in your email to [email protected] and it will be distributed to the reviewers.
We welcome nominations or submissions from or on behalf of casualized and independent scholars, researchers, and/or artists.
In recognition of the precarity of our current economic situation and growing inequalities in income and wealth, any financial award can be donated to the support fund for casualized professionals and/or for students. We realize that awardees may face intense forms of precarity themselves and, as such, we leave this decision to the discretion of individual awardees.
- 2024: Imani Kai Johnson, Dark Matter in Breaking Cyphers: The Life of Africanist Aesthetics in Global Hip Hop
- 2024 (special citation): Julie Malnig, Dancing Black, Dancing White: Rock 'n' Roll, Race, and Youth Culture of the 1950s and Early 1960s
- 2023: Kemi Adeyemi, Feels Right: Black Queer Women and the Politics of Partying in Chicago
- 2022: SanSan Kwan, Love Dances: Loss and Mourning in Intercultural Collaboration
- 2021: Kareem Khubchandani, Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Night Life
- 2021 (special citation): Catherine Cole, Performance and the Afterlives of Injustice
- 2020: Anurima Banerji, Dancing Odissi: Paratopic Performances of Gender and State
- 2019: Emily Wilcox, Revolutionary Bodies: Chinese Dance and the Socialist Legacy
- 2018: Kiri Miller, Playable Bodies: Dance Games and Intimate Media
- 2016: Melissa Blanco Borelli, She is Cuba
- 2014: Prarthana Purkayastha, Indian Modern Dance, Feminism and Transnationalism
- 2014 (special citation): Rebecca Rossen, Dancing Jewish: Jewish Identity in American Modern and Postmodern Dance
- 2013: Felicia McCarren, French Moves: The Cultural Politics of le hip hop
- 2013 (special citation): Hélène Neveu Kringelbach, Dance Circles: Movement, Morality and Self-fashioning in Urban Senegal
- 2013 (special citation): Paul A. Scolieri, Dancing the New World: Aztecs, Spaniards, and the Choreography of Conquest
- 2012: Ramón H. Rivera-Servera, Performing Queer Latinidad: Dance, Sexuality, Politics
- 2012 (special citation): Tilden Russell, The Compleat Dancing Master: A Translation of Gottfried Taubert’s Rechtschaffener Tantzmeister (1717)
- 2011: Carrie J. Preston, Modernism’s Mythic Pose: Gender, Genre, Solo Performance
- 2010: Constance Valis Hill, Tap Dancing America: A Cultural History
- 2010 (special citation): Susan A. Reed, Dance and the Nation: Performance, Ritual, and Politics in Sri Lanka
- 2010 (special citation): Jerri Daboo, Ritual, Rapture and Remorse: A Study of Tarantism and Pizzica in Salento
- 2009: Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Being Watched: Yvonne Rainer and the 1960s
- 2009 (special citation): Anthea Kraut, Choreographing the Folk: the Dance Stagings of Zora Neale Hurston
- 2008: Jacqueline Shea Murphy, The People Have Never Stopped Dancing: Native American Modern Dance Histories
- 2008: Janice Ross, Anna Halprin: Experience as Dance
- 2008 (special citation): Sydney Hutchinson, From Quebradita to Duranguense: Dance in Mexican Youth Culture
- 2007: Gay Morris, A Game for Dancers: Performing Modernism in the Postwar Years, 1945–1960
- 2007 (special citation): Lucia Ruprecht, Dances of the Self in Heinrich von Kleist, E.T.A. Hoffmann and Heinrich Heine
- 2006: Yvonne Daniel, Dancing Wisdom: Embodied Knowledge in Haitian Vodou, Cuban Yoruba, and Bahian Candomblé
- 2005: Thomas DeFrantz, Dancing Revelations: Alvin Ailey’s Embodiment of African American Culture
- 2005 (special citation): David Gere, How to Make Dances in an Epidemic: Tracking Choreography in the Age of AIDS
- 2005 (special citation): Deborah Jowitt, Jerome Robbins: His Life, His Theater, His Dance
- 2004: Brenda Dixon Gottschild, The Black Dancing Body: A Geography from Coon to Cool
- 2004(specical citation): Jennifer Fisher, Nutcracker Nation: How an Old World Ballet Became a Christmas Tradition in the New World
- 2003: Susanna Sloat, Caribbean Dance from Abakuá to Zouk: How Movement Shapes Identity
- 2003 (special citation): Donald McKayle, Transcending Boundaries: My Dancing Life
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