Gertrude Lippincott Award

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

The annual Gertrude Lippincott award of $500 recognizes the best English-language dance studies article published in the last year, recognizing its excellence in the field of dance scholarship. This award is a befitting tribute to Gertrude Lippincott of Minneapolis, one of the founders of the original Congress on Research in Dance, and nationally recognized for her choreography, performance, company directing, teaching and dance writing. Lippincott founded the Modern Dance Center of Minneapolis. From the 1940s-1960s she was also an editor for "Dance Observer and "Dance Magazine," which published her articles. The award is for works published in the previous calendar year (2019).

Nomination Instructions (2022 cycle has closed, please check back in January 2023)

Send a digital (PDF) copy of the published article and an e-mail with the publication information and author's full contact information to: [email protected] with Gertrude Lippincott Award in the subject line.

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.

The 2022 Review Committee: Munjulika Tarah (chair), Jade Power-Sotomayor, Alison D'Amato

Past Recipients

2021: Jade Power-Sotomayor, "Moving Borders and Dancing in Place: Son Jarocho's Speaking Bodies at the Fandango Fronterizo" (TDR, 2020)
2021 (honorable mention): Hannah Kosstrin, “Whose Jewishness? Inbal Dance Theater and Cold War American Spectatorship” (American Jewish History, 2020)
2020: Judith Hamera, “Rehearsal Problems: Gus Giordano’s ‘The Rehearsal’ and the Serious Business of Middlebrow Dance” in Theatre Journal (June 2019, Vol.71:2): 171-189.
2019: Rizvana Bradley, “Black Cinematic Gesture and the Aesthetics of Contagion” in TDR (Spring 2018): 14-30
2018: VK Preston, “Baroque Relations: Performing Silver and Gold in Daniel Rabel’s Ballet of the Americas” in Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment (2018)
2017: Kareem Khubchandani, “Snakes on the Dance Floor: Bollywood, Gesture, and Gender,” The Velvet Light Trap 77 (2016): 69-85)
2016: Brandon Shaw, “Phantom Limbs and the Weight of Grief in Sasha Waltz’s noBody” Theatre Journal 67 (2015), pp. 21-42.
2016 (honorable mention): Andrea Harris, “Sur la Pointe on the Prairie: Giuseppina Morlacchi and the Urban Problem in the Frontier Melodrama,” in The Journal of American Drama and Theatre 27:1 (Winter 2015).
2015: Sherril Dodds, “The Choreographic Interface: Dancing Facial Expression in Hip-Hop and Neo-Burlesque Striptease” in Dance Research Journal 46:Special Issue 02 (2014), pp. 39–56.
2014: Alexandra Kolb, “The Migration and Globalization of Schuhplattler Dance: A Sociological Analysis” in Cultural Sociology 7:1, pp. 39–55
2013: Anurima Banerji, “Dance and the Distributed Body: Odissi, Ritual Practice, and Mahari Performance” in About Performance 11: 7–39
2013: J. Lorenzo Perillo, “‘If I was not in prison, I would not be famous’: Discipline, Choreography, and Mimicry in the Philippines” in Theatre Journal 63: 607–621.
2011: Selby Wynn Schwartz, “[email protected]: A Séance with Richard Move” in Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory 20.1 (2010): 61–87.
2011 (honorable mention): Öykü Potuoglu-Cook, “The Uneasy Vernacular: Choreographing Multiculturalism and Dancing Difference Away in Globalised Turkey” in Anthropological Notebooks 16.3 (2010): 93–105.
2010: Kate Elswit, “Berlin… Your Dance Partner is Death” in TDR: The Drama Review, 53.1 (2009), pp. 73–92.
2009: Cindy Garcia, “Don’t leave me Celia: Salsera homosociality and pan-Latina corporealities” in Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, 18:3, pp. 199–213.
2009 (honorable mention): Victoria Phillips Geduld, “Performing Communism in the American Dance: Culture, Politics, and the New Dance Group” in American Communist History 7:1, 2008, pp. 39–65.
2009 (honorable mention): Melissa Blanco Borelli, “Yahora que vas a hacer, mulata? Hip choreographies in the Mexican cabaretera film ‘Mulata’ in Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, 18:3, pp. 215–233.
2008: Priya Srinivasan, “The Bodies Beneath the Smoke or What’s Behind the Cigarette Poster: Unearthing Kinesthetic Connections in American Dance History” in Discourse in Dance, Ramsey Burt and Susan Leigh Foster, editors, Volume 4 Issue 1 2007, pp. 7–48.
2008: Rebekah Kowal, “Dance Travels: ‘Walking With Pearl’” Performance Research, 12(2), pp. 85–94, 2007.
2007: Anthea Kraut, “Recovering Hurston, Reconsidering the Choreographer” which appeared in Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, 16/1 (March 2006).
2007 (honorable mention): April K. Henderson, “Dancing Between Islands: Hip Hop and the Samoan Diaspora” which appeared in The Vinyl Ain’t Final: Hip Hop and the Globalization of Black Popular Culture, Dipannita Basuand and Sidney J. Lemelle, eds., London: Pluto Press, 2006.
2006: Kimerer LeMothe, “‘A God Dances through Me’: Isadora Duncan on Friedrich Nietzsche’s Revaluation of Values,” Journal of Religion 85 (2), 2005, pp. 241–266.
2004: Danielle Goldman, “Ghostcatching: An Intersection of Technology, Labor, and Race,” Dance Research Journal v. 35/2 & 36/2 (Winter 2003 & Summer 2004 combined issue) pp. 68–87. 2004.
2002: Theresa Jill Buckland, “Th‘Owd Pagan Dance’: Ritual, Enchantment, and an Enduring Intellectual Paradigm”, in Journal for the Anthropological Study of Human Movement, vols 11, no. 4 and 12, no. 1, Fall 2001/Spring 2002.
2001: Petra Kuppers, “Deconstructing Images: Performing Disability,” Contemporary Theatre Review 11.3&4 (2001).
2000: Anne Flynn, “Dancing in the Canadian Wasteland: A Post-Colonial Reading of Regionalism in the 1960s and 1970s,” in Dancing Bodies, Living Histories: New Writing about Dance and Culture, edited by Anne Flynn and Lisa Doolittle (Banff Centre Press, 2000).
2000: Lisa Doolittle, “Dancing in the Canadian Wasteland: A Post-Colonial Reading of Regionalism in the 1960s and 1970s,” in Dancing Bodies, Living Histories: New Writing about Dance and Culture, edited by Anne Flynn and Lisa Doolittle (Banff Centre Press, 2000).
1999: Susan C. Cook: “Watching Our Step: Embodying Research, Telling Stories,” in Audible Traces: Gender, Identity, and Music, edited by Elaine Barkin and Lydia Hamessley (Zurich: Carciofoli Verlagshaus, 1999).
1998: Ananya Chatterjea, “Chandralekha: Negotiating the Female Body and Movement in Cultural/Political Signification,” Dance Research Journal 30.2 (Spring 1998).
1997: Jody Bruner, Redeeming Giselle: Making a Case for the Ballet We Love to Hate,” in Rethinking the Sylph: New Perspectives on the Romantic Ballet, edited by Lynn Garafola (Middletown, Conn.:Wesleyan University Press, 1997).

Gertrude Lippincott Award

Nomination Instructions (2022 cycle has closed, please check back in January 2023)

Past Recipients

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