The Fulbright Association has issued a call for applications to present the 2010 lecture under the Selma Jeanne Cohen Fund for International Scholarship on Dance. Applications must be received by Sept. 3, 2010.
The Selma Jeanne Cohen Fund enables a dance scholar to present a major paper on previously unpublished research at the Fulbright Association’s annual conference. The 2010 lecture will be delivered on Nov. 5 as part of the Fulbright Association 33rd Annual Conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The recipient of the Selma Jeanne Cohen Fund award will receive round-trip travel and associated expenses.
The 2010 lecturer will be chosen according to guidelines that were developed with the late Dr. Selma Jeanne Cohen, dance historian and founding editor of the International Encyclopedia of Dance. The competition is open to all dance scholars. Guidelines and application materials are available here.
Laurel Victoria Gray presented the 2009 Selma Jeanne Cohen Lecture in International Dance Scholarship entitled “A Living Legacy: Uzbek Dance”. The presentation touched on the 1989 Seattle Soviet Theatre Arts Exchange, in which Dr. Cohen participated, and included members of the Silk Road Dance Company who performed traditional Uzbek dances from the company’s Legacy Repertoire.
Previous lecturers are: Alison M Friedman, general manager of Parnassus Productions, Inc.; Ron Jenkins, professor of theater at Wesleyan University; Barbara Browning, associate professor of performance studies at New York University; Richard Semmens, associate professor of music at the University of Western Ontario, Canada; dance historian and choreographer Millicent Hodson of Ballets Old & New in London; Wayne B. Kraft, professor of German at Eastern Washington University and director of the Erdély Ensemble; Gretchen Ward Warren, professor in the School of Theater and Dance at the University of South Florida; Robin Marshall Grove, senior lecturer in the Department of English with Cultural Studies of the University of Melbourne, Australia; and Leslie Friedman, artistic director of The Lively Foundation in San Francisco. For more detailed information about the lecturers and their presentations, please click here.
