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New Director Selected to Lead Society for Canadian Dance Studies/La Société des études canadiennes en danse (CSDS/SCED)

Toronto writer and teacher Kate Cornell is the incoming director of the Society for Canadian Dance Studies/La Société des études canadiennes en danse (CSDS/SCED). The Society's membership at large met in Toronto on June 23rd to talk about the organization's future following founder/director Amy Bowring's announcement that she would step down after a decade of leadership. Bowring founded the organization in 2000 with a mandate to support and publish Canadian dance research, to disseminate dance studies in schools, and provide and promote discussion of issues surrounding Canadian dance. The organization, via its website, has provided resources and facilitated the publishing of scholarly articles about dance in Canada. The organization has also held conferences across the country as well as collaborative dance literacy projects with The Dance Current and the Canada Dance Festival.
 

Dr. Kate Cornell is a writer, lecturer and consultant and a founding member of the Society. Cornell comes to the position with a background in both theory and practice, working with organizations such as the CanDance Network, Learning Through the Arts, and The National Ballet of Canada. Cornell looks forward to working with transition steering committee, the new slate of board members to be elected in September, and on expanding the Society's membership. Members made the decision at their meeting to hold a conference in Montreal in 2012 timed to coincide with the Festival TransAmériques.

New PhD Program in Dance Studies at York University

York University in Toronto announces the launch of the PhD in Dance Studies, which will focus on two fields: Dance Ethnography & Cultural Research and Dance History & Heritage Studies. The program's purpose is to prepare graduates for careers in academia or the cultural sector. Applications for 2008-09 will be accepted until June 6, with preference given to Canadians and landed immigrants.

York also offers the new MFA in Choreography and Dance Dramaturgy (spaces for 2008-09 are already filled). Both degree programs build on the strengths of York's MA in Dance, Canada's first, which in thirty years has produced over 170 graduates. Many now hold doctorates, and 32% teach or have taught in universities and colleges in Canada, England, the United States, Trinidad and Taiwan.

Further information on the PhD in Dance Studies:

Further Information on the MFA in Dance:

To apply:
http://www.yorku.ca/web/futurestudents/graduate/programs/Dance_Studies/

http://www.yorku.ca/web/futurestudents/graduate/programs/Dance/

New Book on David Earle Published

Authored by Michele Green, this book brings to life a collection of words and images celebrating David Earle's gifts to the art of dance in Canada and encompasses a catalogue of 130 choreographic works dating from 1963 to 2005 along with interviews, reviews, musings from Earle's personal journals and a gritty essay by arts writer Graham Jackson. Both an illustrated catalogue of Earle's work, and an account of his life in dance, this book offers the reader an evocative look into an artist's creative discoveries, so often informed by emotional conflicts . a rich exploration of the artistic soul.

Co-founder of Toronto Dance Theatre in 1968 and later artistic director of Dancetheatre David Earle, his contribution as a mentor, teacher and creator has impacted upon tens of thousands of modern dancers and audience members worldwide. Among numerous tributes and honours, Earle has received the Clifford E. Lee and Dora Mavor Moore Awards (1987), the Jean A. Chalmers Award for Distinction in Choreography (1994), the Order of Canada (1996), and in 2005 was awarded a Doctor of Laws by Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.

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