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Announcements Jewish Studies, University of Minnesota. The third issue of the CORD Newslet- Edited by Elizabeth Burtner Because of the unusual scope of the ter will be published April 1982. Please conference and the scholars working in send material by March 1 to Nancy M. Contributors include: Nancy M. Boden- Jewish dance living throughout the U.S., Bodenstein, Editor, 60 Blaney Street, stein, Margaret Thompson Drewal, Elsie outside funding is being sought. Registra- Swampscott, MA 01907. N.M.B. I. Dunin, Ninoska A. Gomez, Camille tion forms, stating the fee of $30 for the Hardy, Judith Brin Ingber, Valentino two-day conference, giving highlights of Dance Research Annual XIII, Inven- Litvinoff, SelmaL. Odom,Naima Prevots, the conference, and listing housing tory of Fifteenth Century Bassedanze, Patricia A. Rowe, Nancy L. Ruyter, accommodation near the J.C.C. have been Balli and Balletti in Italian Dance Manuals Gretchen Schneider, Trudy Scott, Susan sent out to all CORD members. was scheduled for publication by end of W. Stinson. Susan White. News releases: For further information, contact Alice 1981 for distribution to 1980-81 CORD OSU College of Arts, Department of members. The two-volume publication Dance; UI Center for the Arts News Ser- Bloch, Dance Director, Jewish Community Center of Greater Minneapolis, 4330 of selected papers from the Hawaii Con- vice; UM School of Music; US Depart- ference entitled Dance as Cultural Heri- ment of Education, NIE. Cedar Lake Road South, St. Louis Park, Minnesota 55416 (612) 377-8330. J.B.I. tage: Selected Papers from the ADG/ CORD Conference 1978 is progressing. CORD 1981-82 members are scheduled CORD News Publications to receive the first volume, DRA XIV, before end of 1982. (From CORD Edi- Conferences This volume of Dance Research Journal, torial Board Report, Summer 1981.) Among the plans for the Eighth Inter- 14/1&2 (Double Issue), marks the con- P.A.R. national CORD Conference is the re- clusion of the editorship of Dianne L. consideration of the once-postponed Woodruff. She has served in this capacity meeting, "Festivals: Celebration in beginning with the publication of 10/2, Dance," planned for Trinidad, summer of Spring-Summer 1978, succeeding Eliza- Members - Professional 1982. As this issue of the Journal goes beth Burtner, first editor of the Journal. Activities to press, the feasibility of Trinidad as Under Woodruff and a staff comprised of the place for the conference is being three section editors (Book Review, Odette Blum, OSU Department of Dance, investigated by a committee composed Research Materials and Announcements), has been granted a research leave for of Pearl Primus, Sondra H. Fraleigh, eleven Associate Editors with expertise in winter quarter 1982 to work on the Annette Macdonald, Nancy L. Ruyter, special areas, and four Research Materials Ghanaian dance materials gathered and Trudy Scott. A decision will have Contributors, the Journal has developed during a leave of absence grant on Ghana been made at the November 1981 meet- professionally in content and format. The in 1975. DNB Extension, OSU ings of the Board of Directors. backlog of articles has grown, its publica- tion date is regular, out-of-house display Further information about the 1982 Margaret Thompson Drewal was ads and open classified listings have invited by the Nigerian government to conference will be sent from New York increased significantly and have contri- office. E.B. participate in a seminar on Ere Ibeji: buted to its financial support. The edi- Twin Memorial Sculptures Among the torial home of the Journal has been A CORD Regional Dance Conference, Yoruba held at the National Museum, York Univeristy's Dance Department in Lagos, in April 1981. "Dancing into Marriage: Jewish Wedding the Faculty of Fine Arts where support Dances" will take place on June 27 and With Henry Drewal, Associate Pro- 28, 1982 in Minneapolis, Minnesota at services have included a graduate assistant- fessor of Art History, Cleveland State the Jewish Community Center. A unique ship and a stipend toward printing costs. University, and John Pemberton, Crosby feature of the conference is its nonuni- CORD is grateful to York for its interest Professor of Religion, Amherst College, versity community affiliation, a first in and support of the Journal. Massachusetts, she was recently awarded among CORD dance regionals. The search for an editor for Dance an NEH Basic Research Grant for an inter- Video and photography of Jewish Research Journal continues as this issue disciplinary study entitled "Human wedding dances, an art exhibit in the of the Journal goes to press. Two qualifi- Creativity and Cultural Dynamics in an Center's art gallery, and a display of wed- cations for the position are required. First, African Society: Art and Religion of the ding ritual objects will enhance the con- the candidate must have editorial exper- Yoruba." Fieldwork for this project will ference. tise; second, the ideal candidate should be carried out in 1981-82. Scholars from throughout U.S. and have the help of an office support system Her book on the Gelede dance mas- Israel have been approached for input and with access to volunteer assistance. All querade among the western Yoruba encouraged to respond. A bibliography CORD members have received a com- (with Henry Drewal) is being published on Jewish wedding dances and publica- munique concerning the position. For by Indiana University Press. M.T.D. tion of papers is projected. further information contact a member Those on the planning committee of the Ad Hoc Search Committee: Judith Elsie I. Dunin attended a dance work- include Judith Brin Ingber, Chair, CORD Brin Ingber, 2526 Kipling Avenue South, shop in Ohrid, Macedonia at which she board member and researcher on Jewish St. Louis Park, MN 55416; Patricia A. assisted as an interpreter for the Radost dance who is also Chair of the Dance Rowe, Chair, Dance and Education Ansemble from Seattle, Washington. Committee at the Minneapolis J.C.C.; Department, New York Univeristy, 35 They were on tour in the Balkan countries. Professor Riv Ellen Prell, anthropologist West 4th Street, Room 675, New York, After her stay in Ohrid, she spent the in Jewish studies, University of Minne- NY 10003; Jill Drayson Sweet, Depart- ment of Sociology, Anthropology, and remaining time of her annual two-months sota; Rabbi Moshe Silberschein; and stay in Yugoslavia in the Dubrovnik area Associate Professor Jonathan Paradise, Social Work, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York 12866. E.B. doing follow-up research. Her work is on Dance Research Journal 14/1 &2 (1981-82) 111 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.35.76, on 29 Sep 2021 at 17:46:56, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0149767700013188 the comparative study of dance changes During the summer of 1981, Nancy Francisco Ballet in the 1940s; and his among the South Slavs in California and Ruyter visited libraries and met with company in Salt Lake City, University the South Slavs on the South Adriatic dance scholars in Finland, Sweden, Den- Theatre Ballet, 1953-63, renamed Utah Coast. [See her article in this issue mark, Netherlands, Austria and Yugoslavia Civic Ballet in 1964, finally emerging as "Change in South Slav/American Dance."] collecting material for her work, Annual Ballet West in 1968. E.I.D. International Bibliography of Dance The management of Ballet West, History: The Western Tradition. [See presently under the artistic direction of The Washington Post published Judith Part 1 of the Bibliography in DRJ 12/2 Bruce Marks, is now in the process of Lynne Hanna's 19V2 inch article arguing Spring-Summer 1980, pp. 23-31.] depositing their records at the University for government funding of the arts In addition, she led a group of students of Utah. Although the specific content (October 10/20/81). She discussed the on a 3-week folklore study tour in and scope of their archival material is not importance of the arts in communicat- Yugoslavia where they attended an Inter- yet known, the collection will include ing ideas, feelings, values, and identity national Folk Festival in Zagreb and a films, photographs and press scrapbooks. as well as creating economic opportuni- course in Yugoslavian folk dance on Krk When complete, these collections and ties. Hanna pointed out the danger of Island off the Adriatic Coast. N.R. their registers will be a valuable source the marketplace concept in arts financ- of information concerning ballet's estab- ing and the relevance of marginal, avant- Gretchen Schneider presented a slide lishment in the western United States. garde, and folk arts to the elite arts. lecture-performance entitled, "Minuets, S.W. The White House telephoned Hanna; Martha Washington Tea Parties, and Frank Hodsoll, Reagan's choice for the Landings of the Forefathers: Colonial head of NEA, requested a copy of her Revival Style and Meanings in Social Symposium book, To Dance is Human. Rituals," for The Henry Francis du Pont Movement: Expression and Psychological Hanna is serving on the Montgomery Winterthur Museum's "Conference on the Well-Being was the title of a symposium County Council, Maryland, Task Force Colonial Revival in America," November offered during the XVIII Interamerican on the Performing Arts. E.B. 13-14, 1981. Participating with Ms. Congress of Psychology which took place Schneider for this two-day event were June 20—26 in Santo Domingo, Domini- Valentina Litvinoff, member of the Catherine Turocy and her partner Roger can Republic. The invited speakers were faculty of the Omega Institute held at Ben- Tolle of the New York Baroque Dance Dr. Judith Lynne Hanna, University of nington College summer 1981, taught Company, and James Richman, harpsi- Maryland, who spoke on "Identity, two courses: 1) "Dynamics of Move- chordist.