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June 21, 2011

Canadian Dance Studies Conference 2010

I go to Society for Canadian Dance Studies conferences because I want to know that I am not alone. Research and writing about Canadian dance can feel very specialized, it is nice to know we have colleagues across the country who are doing amazing work. This year’s thematic conference, Renegade Bodies: Dance in Canada in the 1970s, took place in Ottawa coinciding with the Canada Dance Festival. It was a stimulating gathering of many generations of dance creators and researchers (a testament to the Society’s reputation).

Conference Co-chairs, Allana Lindgren and Kaija Pepper, did a fabulous job in picking a topic rife with untouched research material. This proceedings includes papers from the Policy and Preservation session, the Larger Social Sphere session, the Dance Education session, the Case Studies session, the Performing Race, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism session, and summaries of the Interdisciplinary Research roundtable and the Influence of Feminism roundtable. (You’ll find some of the papers are only in abstract form because of an upcoming book publication.)

It is an absolute pleasure to devote time to reading these articles, even if you did attend the conference. Dance in Canada in the 1970s was indeed booming in many communities across the country. All the papers include ground-breaking work, but I want to draw your attention to Amy Bowring’s compelling article about the perilous state of Canadian dance archives from the 1970s. It is a call to action that we should all heed.

The Society for Canadian Dance Studies is ten years old this year! On behalf of the Advisory Board and the membership, I want to thank our director Amy Bowring for her commitment and dedication to the Society and Canadian dance.

See you at the next conference in 2012,

Kate Cornell, PhD

Canadian Dance Studies Conference 2010 Proceeding Contents
The Canary in the Mine Has Keeled Over: The 1970s Dance Boom in Canada and the Implications of its Preservation By Amy Bowring	Montréal 1977: in between two revolutions By Dena Davida, PhD.
Emergence of New Dance in Ottawa A City Awakening 1970-80 By Judith Davies	Presenting Dance Research to Non-Dance Societies: Processes, Challenges, Successes (Roundtable)Participants: Kristin Harris Walsh (organizer and chair), Sherry Johnson, Allana Lindgren, Candice Pike, Mary Jane Warner, Colleen Quigley
The Shape and Shaping of the Dance Scene in Sudbury, Ontario By Julye Huggins	On the Road: Spunky Spider Captivates Ontario Children in a 1971 Tour By Mary-Elizabeth Manley
Toronto Dance in International Women’s Year Summary of Roundtable Discussion By Selma Odom	No Fear of Falling: Le Groupe de la Place Royale’s Experiments in Dance By Sara Porter
Dance in Education Pioneers of the 1970s By Marc Richard	Staging Variety Italian Dance: Reviving Streghe, Revisiting Authentic Multicultural Dance By Clara Sacchetti

Amy Bowring		Dena Davida		Judith Davies		Kristin Harris Walsh		Julye Huggins

Mary-Elizabeth Manley		Selma Odom		Sara Porter		Marc Richard		Clara Sacchetti

	June 21, 2008

Canadian Dance Studies Conference 2008

These electronic proceedings are merely a portion of the papers presented at the Society for Canadian Dance Studies conference held at Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland from June 17-21, 2008. It was a privilege to read and compile these papers, as I was unable to attend the entire conference (with my 6-month-old daughter). These papers represent the impressive array of dance research going on in Canada today. Contributors to this proceedings examine dance in many different ways - through the lens of ethnography, philosophy, psychology, history, phenomenology, anthropology and poetry, to name a few. Questions of national identity and cultural representations run through these papers. Notably, the majority of the contributors write about dance from a place of passionate experience, either as participant, observer or insider. I would argue that Canadian dance scholars recognize the dubious nature of objectivity and as such dive into their research whole-heartedly.

The conference occurred at one of the most beautiful places in Canada. During our time in Newfoundland, we enjoyed great food and site-seeing excursions. (How many other dance conferences include iceberg sightings?) Please take note of the two papers on dance in Newfoundland by Kristin Harris Walsh and Colleen Quigley. Dance research in Newfoundland has methodologies that are unique and certainly applicable to other regions in Canada.

Happy reading,
Kate Cornell
Ryerson University
Theatre School

Canadian Dance Studies Conference 2008 Proceeding Contents
Director's Opening Remarks By Amy Bowring
Woman at the Centre: New Company Models Fujiwara Dance Inventions/Lola Dance/MOOnhoRsE Dance Theatre By Carol Anderson	Lived Reflection, Embodied Memory: The Echo of Narcissus By Megan Andrews
Celia Franca: Ballet Mistress to Artistic Director in One Leap By Carol Bishop-Gwyn	Terpsichorean Adventurer: Alison Sutcliffe and the 1930s Performing Arts Scene in Toronto By Amy Bowring
The State of Canadian Dance and Dancing With the State: The Community and Dance in Canada (DICA) Divided By Katherine Cornell	Shedding new light on the Luna choreographic project within a global field of "art dance ethnographies" By Dena Davida
De NoBody danse à la Collection numérique de signatures motrices danseurs : une instrumentalisation du mouvement By Martine Époque et Denis Pouli	The Spanish Dancer Who Was Not Spanish:Tórtola Valencia in New York, 1917 By Iris Garland
Cartographies of the living body: A study of the [Bjm_Danse] production of Paderneiras' "MAPA" By Bruce Gilbert	How Irish is Irish? Identity in Irish-Newfoundland Step Dancing By Kristin Harris Walsh
Dancing the Spider: Tarantism and Transnationalism By Jodi Lundgren	Heart, Soul and Spirit: An Ethnography of the Kokoro Dance Body By Samantha Mehra
Archiving Dance: Choreographing a Public Movement in Newfoundland and Labrador By Colleen Quigley	Watching "Authentic" Italian Dance: Authenticity, Identity, YouTube By Clara Sacchetti-Dufresne Researched by Clara Sacchetti-Dufresne and Jane Nicholas

	Opening Remarks		Carol Anderson		Megan Andrews		Carol Bishop-Gwyn		Amy Bowring

Katherine Cornell	Dena Davida	Martine Époque et Denis Poulin	Iris Garland	Bruce Gilbert


				Clara Sacchetti- Dufresne

Kristin Harris Walsh	Jodi Lundgren	Samantha Mehra	Colleen Quigley

	February 1, 2008

	World Dance Alliance Global Assembly 2006 Proceedings

	Compiled by Karen Rose Cann

	November 1, 2006

	Cheryl Belkin-Epstein		Carol Anderson		Andrea Roberts

	April 15, 2006

	Jennifer Bolt		Kristin Harris

	January 1, 2006

	Carol Anderson		Ann Kipling Brown

	September 1, 2005

	Intro Sylvie Fortin		Fernande Girard		Myriam Saad		Martyne Tremblay		Mario Veillette

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