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Edited by Elizabeth Burtner with the services we wish to provide CORD Conference to members. We are not only coping The Seventh International CORD Contributors include: Paz-Cielo A. with financial problems but, with wise planning, finding successful Conference, titled "A Bicentennial Belmonte, Nancy M. Bodenstein, Celebration: Dance as Social and Gloria A. Bonali, Joyce Caruso, Judith solutions. Funding is being sought from corporations and private donors Popular Entertainment," in collabora- A. Gray, Judith Lynne Hanna, Doris J. tion with the American Dance Guild Humphrey, Betty True Jones, Mary H. and continues from such sources as York University in Toronto and the (ADG) and the Dance History Schol- Kaprelian, Jack Kukuk, Annette ars, will be held June 22 through Macdonald, Joyce R. Malm, Irene New York State Council on the Arts. High quality for CORD publications — 28, 1981, in Los Angeles at UCLA Meltzer, Ray Miller, Miriam Morrison, and possibly other sites. This is the Nancy L. Ruyter, Christena L. Dance Research Journal, Dance Research Annual and Specials — is a year of the Los Angeles bicentennial Schlundt, Gretchen Schneider, Vera celebration. Schwartz, Mary Skeaping, Lucy mandate. The international confer- Venable, Mary Jane Warner, Lynne ences in recent years: San Francisco The Conference Committee includes Weber, Judy Van Zile, Press releases/ 1974, Philadelphia 1976, and Hono- the following sub-committees: Program brochures/reports: Dance Notation lulu 1978, have been exciting events and Promotion chaired by Nancy Lee Bureau for Education and Research, demonstrating the energy and growth Ruyter with representatives Candi de Department of Dance, The Ohio State of the organization. Our next confer- Alaiza, CORD; Naima Prevots, ADG; University; Five College Dance Depart- ence, June 1981, promises to be an appointee, Dance History Scholars; ment; Martha Faure Carson Dance lively and instructive. Regional con- and Mary Coros. Local Arrangements Library; National Endowment for the ferences occuring all over the United Committee is chaired by Elsie I. Dunin Arts. States at frequent intervals are provid- with members Linda Tomko and ing an exchange of ideas in highly Delores Crawford. Candi de Alaiza focused one-day meetings. heads the Budget Committee with CORD News For the future, continued coopera- members Elsie I. Dunin and an ap- tion with other dance-related organiza- pointee from ADG. The Professional A letter to the Membership of tions is an objective. Goals need to be Performances Committee is chaired by understood and defined so that existing Emma Lewis Thomas. Christena L. CORD organizations can be mutually sup- Schlundt serves as the liaison person Dear Colleagues, portive. Also, the umbrella concept of among the three organizations. Best wishes for the holiday season CORD is important. More specializa- Because of the tie-in with the Los and a productive and rewarding new tion is occuring within the field of Angeles bicentennial and the proposed year for you and for CORD! dance. A function of our conferences historical exhibit, there will be an The Congress on Research in Dance and publications has been the exchange emphasis on dance history. However, is in its thirteenth year. Currently of ideas and information among the conference will also include other some of the best minds in the field researchers in disparate specializa- aspects of dance scholarship such as of dance are involved with CORD in a tions as well as those in the same anthropology, therapy, education, leadership capacity. They have become areas of research. A possibility already aesthetics, philosophy, movement members of the Board of Directors visible is the formation of affiliated analysis, and related disciplines. Work- including CORD Executive Commit- groups under a CORD umbrella. The shops, lecture-demonstrations, film tee, the Editorial Board, and of Com- Committee on Asian Dance and and video showings, performances, mittees on Finance, Bylaws and Research (CADAR) is an example of academic papers and panels will consti- Guidelines, Nominating, Grants and one such group representing a special- tute the program. Funding, Membership and Promo- ized area. The deadline for the submission of tion, Regional Conference Advisory, Policies, plans and decisions reached finished work for presentation- and the 1981 National Conference. at Board meetings will be presented by consideration for the conference was These people are giving generously of me in this section of the Journal and, December 1, 1980. The committee their time and expertise. CORD is in some instances, by reports from expects to have made its final decisions prospering as an organization because other CORD officers, Chairmen of on selection by February 1, 1981. of the devoted efforts of these con- Committees and the Editorial Board. Registration forms will be sent to cerned volunteers and the interest and A newsletter is still in the proposal the members of the three organizations. support of each of you. stages. It would have the advantage of For further information, write to Thank you for honoring me with enabling officers to communicate Chairman Nancy Lee Ruyter, Physical the opportunity to serve CORD as with you on a more frequent basis, Education Department, California your Chairman for the next two years. keeping you informed of pertinent State University, Northridge, CA I wish to express my sincere apprecia- developments. Meanwhile, I welcome 91330. N.L.R. tion. As a previous member of the communications members may wish Executive Committee, I am aware to send in relation to the short or long- of the potentials of this position. It is term goals of our Congress. I look Publications my intention to work toward realizing forward to hearing from you. The two-volume publication of selected them with the best interests of CORD Yours truly, papers from the Hawaii Conference foremost in my mind. Like other will constitute Dance Research Annuals organizations, due to mounting infla- Joyce R. Malm XIII and XIV. The two volumes are tion, we are juggling increased costs CORD Chairman expected to comprise some forty papers, many of which are now in the

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A special area of interest Guidelines; Ph.D. Dance, Texas Heritage: Selected Papers from the is computer science. Woman's University; Professor and ADG/CORD Conference 1978 Nancy M. Bodenstein, Board of Coordinator of Dance Program, State University of New York, New Paltz. Adrienne Kaeppler has been added to Directors. For biographic information the roster of Associate Editors; an She has been an active contributor to seeDRJ 12/2, p. 51. the National Dance Association, form- Assistant Editor has not yet been Margaret Thompson Drewal, Board of appointed. Eleven scholars, most of erly the National Dance Division of Directors. For biographic information AAHPER. Numerous credits in chore- whom participated in the conference seeDRJ 12/1, p. 48. as chairmen of sessions, discussants, or ography include SUNY Research Angelika Gerbes, Board of Direct- Grant-in-Aid for Original Choreography panel chairmen, have been requested ors; Ph.D. Theatre/Dance, Ohio State to write introductions to individual 1966-68; consultant for NY State University (OSU) 1972; Associate Speech Association and Sacred Dance sections of the publication (which will Professor of Dance, OSU; Founder/ be arranged along thematic lines), Guild as well as other organizations Director OSU Historical Dance concerned with movement and oral incorporating ideas and conclusions Ensemble; Labanotation teaching cer- derived from discussion at the confer- communication. Special areas of inter- tification; area of specialization, Dance est: dance history and choreography. ence session if these are felt to be History. Current research: 1) develop- noteworthy. Six panel chairmen have Serves on CORD Board of Directors as ing a methodology for the study and Parliamentarian. been asked to submit brief statements analysis of historical dance style, on the results of panel discussions, Vera Schwartz, Chairman of the 2) early 18th century German dance reactivated Committee on Membership/ these statements to be incorporated in style, 3) Renaissance and early 18th a summary of aspects of the Conference Promotion; M.A. in Dance, T.C., century dance reconstructions. Publi- Columbia University; Ed.D. in Creative not otherwise treated in detail. The cations: "Professional Requirements publication will be dedicated to the Arts; dissertation: "The Relationship of an Eighteenth Century Dance of Dimensions of Jungian Psychological memory of Aunty Edith Kanaka'ole, Master," Search Research and Dis- the distinguished teacher and artist of Type to College Major, Either Physical covery in the Arts 1979; "Research Education or Dance, and Preferred traditional Hawaiian chant and hula Report," Dance Research Journal who presented her group to the Approach to Teaching Human Move- 1976; "The Minuet," translation from ment," Rutgers, The State University conference at the Bishop Museum. the German by A. Gerbes in S.J. Aunty Edith died in October 1979. of New Jersey, 1980. Publication: Cohen (ed.), Dance as a Theatre Art "The Computer, an Innovative The dedication was suggested by 197'4. Dissertation: "Gottfried Taubert Joann Keali'inohomoku. B.T.J. Resource for Dance," Arts Middlesex, on Social and Theatrical Dance of the 1978. Current position: Adaptive Early Eighteenth Century" (1972). Physical Education and Dance, Shield Elections: 1979-80 Awards: Dissertation Year Fellow- Institute for the Mentally Retarded A new treasurer replaces Mary H. ship, 1971,'72; research grants, 1975, and Developmentally Disabled. Current Kaprelian who has served in that capa- '79. Publication staff: Editorial activities: Director of the West Side city since 1974. The five new directors Board, OSU College of the Arts Maga- Dancers, East Brunswick, N.J., an serve three-year terms and may be zine \91A~11. improvisational dance company for re-elected. Special thanks to the out- Nancy Lee Ruyter, Board of Directors. mentally handicapped adults. going treasurer and board members for For biographic information, see DRJ Lawrence Sullivan, Bylaws and their valuable service. The following 12/2, pp. 51-52. Guidelines Committee; Ph.D. in Com- professional biographies will acquaint Jill Drayson Sweet, Board of Direc- parative Literature: 17th Century the membership with the newly elected tors; Ph.D. Candidate, University of English and French Literature, Univer- officer and board members. New Mexico ;M.F. A. Dance, UCI 1975; sity of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Associate Elsie I. Dunin, Treasurer; M.A. Weatherhead Fellow and Resident Professor, State University College, Dance, UCLA, 1966: Associate Profes- Scholar at the School of American New Paltz, NY; studied dance with sor, UCLA Dance Department; area of Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico; Madam Anderson-Ivantzova and specialization, dance ethnology. Cur- Visiting Lecturer, UCLA; Instructor, Nijinska. Special interest: 20th Century rent research: "Comparative Study of Golden West College; Instructor, Dance History and Criticism. G.A.B. Social Dance Change among South Choreographer, Performer, New Dane Harwood, DRJ staff — Associ- Slavs." On-going research: "Dance Mexico Ballet and Ballet Pacifica; area ate Editor, Psychology (1980-83), among Moslem Gypsies." Publications: of specialization, dance anthropology. received his Ph.D. in auditory percep- "Gypsy Wedding: Dance and Customs," Current research: "The Effects of tion and psycholinguistics, with an Makedonski FolklorW\ 7-8, 1971; Tourism on Tewa Pueblo Indian emphasis in music perception and Makedonski Narodni Plesovi (Mace- Dance." Publications: "Play, Role ethnomusicology, from the University donian Folk Dances in Croatian and Reversal and Humor: Symbolic Ele- of California at Los Angeles. He has English, Labanotation scores), co- ments of a Tewa Pueblo Navaho done psychoacoustic work at the authored with Dimoski and Visinski, Dance,"Di?/ 12/1; "Space, Time, and National Bureau of Standards, and has 1973; South Slavic Dances in Cali- Festival: An Analysis of a San Juan also held postdoctoral fellowships at fornia: A Compendium for the Years Event," Essays in Dance Research. the University of Michigan and at 1924-77; Yugoslav Dance: Introduc- Dance Research Annual IX, 1978. Gallaudet College. He is currently tion and List of Sources in United Honors: Phi Kappa Phi, Frieda Butler assistant professor of psychology at States Libraries, co-authored with Scholarship, UCI 1978, '79; Alumni Simmons College in Boston, Massa- Nancy Lee Ruyter, 1980. CORD acti- Thesis Award, UCI; University Fellow- chusetts, teaching psychology of vities include: a paper presented at ship, UCI 1973, '74; Choreographer's language, cognitive development, and

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In addition to Recueil de Danses by Feuillet (1700); Judith Lynne Hanna with Alan psychological organizations, he is a and various contredances from Recueil Lomax, conducted a discussion ses- member of AAAS, the Acoustical de Contredances by Feuillet (1706). sion on Black Dance at the International Society of America, and the Society Her partner, Judson Greene, also per- Dance Council Conference meeting for Ethnomusicology. formed the "Chacoon for a Harlequin" April 17, 1980 at the Library and by F. le Roussau (1730). The 1980-81 Museum of the Performing Arts at Reports — Committee Chairmen season will include a third dancer, Lincoln Center. The International Christina Stohl, and reconstructions of Dance Council is the American division Proposed Bylaws changes were ap- "An Ecchoe" by Mr. Groscort from of the Counsel International de la proved by CORD Board of Directors An Essay for the Improvement of Danse and is affiliated with UNESCO. at February 3, 1980 meeting in New Dancing, Pemberton (1711) and "la Its purpose is to preserve the chore- York and by vote of CORD member- Contredance" by Pecour. ography of all forms of indigenous ship June-July 1980. The four- Performances with the Cambridge dance, especially those threatened by member Executive Committee has Court Dancers (Ingrid Brainard, our changing society; to promote and been expanded by one. It now consists director) include concerts at the Uni- encourage high standards of dance of the Chairman, Chairman-Elect or versity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, education, choreographic creativity Past-Chairman, Recording Secretary, and Nurnberg College, Allentown. and research on an international Corresponding Secretary, and Treasurer Bodenstein has been promoted to level; to investigate the problems of Until this change the Secretarial duties the rank of Associate Professor at social security in the dance profession, were in the charge of one person. Salem State College in the Music and the laws and legal practices relat- The governing unit of CORD consist- Department and has been granted a ing to author's rights and copyright ing of the Executive Committee and sabbatical for the second semester, worldwide. The president of the the Board of Directors is hereby during which she will continue studies American division is Genevieve Oswald increased to twenty persons. A further in computer science and prepare for with Walter Terry serving as vice- change in the by-laws also affects the teaching courses in it in the fall. president. J.L.H. Board of Directors. CORD ex-chairmen N.M.B. who have served a four-year term of Clifford R. Jones and Betty True Lynn Matluck Brooks, a doctoral Jones have been teaching at the Uni- office have been given the pivilege of student (Ed.D.) in the Dance Depart- attending Board meetings with a full versity of Hawaii at Manoa since ment of Temple University, has January 1980 and will continue there vote as long as they wish to remain received a Fulbright grant to do active in CORD. G.A.B. through the spring semester 1981. research in Spain. Her dissertation is Present plans are to proceed in June Study of CORD Operations: At entitled "Los Seises: Liturgical Dance of 1981 to India for work on a project the October 1979 meeting of CORD's in Medieval and Early Renaissance titled "The Sacred Year," for which Board of Directors, board member Spain." She will do research in the support is being sought from the Lynne Weber was asked to perform cathedral and city archives, and in the Smithsonian Institution through the a study of CORD's office operations. libraries and museums of Seville, American Institute of Indian Studies. She accepted the task and proceeded Toledo and Madrid. She intends to The project involves research and film with the study in coordination with investigate the social, economic, documentation of ritual and ceremony the CORD Finance Committee. political, religious and cultural con- throughout the year in a single South Interviews were held and procedures texts that encouraged the develop- Indian village temple, plus household and documents were reviewed. Ms. ment and continuation of liturgical rituals of worship and lifecycle rites Nancy Belle Brass provided profes- dance in a western religious tradition. conducted by Hindu families of the sional assistance on office management She hopes to recreate as closely as area. Special emphasis will be given and distribution procedures through a possible a Medieval and/or early to those temple rituals and religious grant from the New York State Council Renaissance version of the dance celebrations which involve the arts, on the Arts(NYSCA). Several account- itself. Los Seises were very young choir particularly the performing arts. In ants gave advice on record-keeping boys who danced in the Catholic addition to her duties as Administra- and financial reporting. cathedrals of Seville and Toledo dur- tive and Research Assistant for the The resulting recommendations ing religious holidays and municipal project, Betty True Jones expects to were all approved by the board at the celebrations in which the church took engage in further research on Cavittu meeting in February 1980. These part. In Seville they still perform Natakam, the 16th century Christian include methods to improve organiza- whenever financing is available. dance-drama form of Kerala. tion, procedures, and financial record- Elizabeth Burtner, in the capacity keeping. During the fall semester 1980, of CORD representative, attended a Clifford R. Jones taught a course in The recommendations are currently meeting on the future of dance accredi- Sanskrit drama, and also a course in being implemented. We on the board tation called by the Joint Commission ethnic/modern dance technique, feel this is an important step in on Dance and Theater Accreditation offered by the Department of Drama strengthening and improving CORD's September 30, 1980, Philadelphia. and Theatre. Betty True Jones will operations. L.W. Other national dance organizations continue to teach a performance and their representatives were: National course in Indian dance, and will also Members — Professional Activities Dance Association, Gay Cheney and teach a course which will deal with the Performances by Nancy M. Bodenstein Edrie Ferdun; National Association of religious associations of Indian dance with the New England Baroque Regional Ballet, Doris Hering; Ameri- forms, offered by the Music Depart- Ensemble during the 1979—80 season can Dance Guild, Myron Nadel. E.B. ment. A lecture-demonstration- have included "The Rigadoone" by Judith A. Gray, Ph.D., University performance of Kathakali dance-drama Mr. Isaac, "The Louvre," and "The of Arizona, Assistant Professor in scheduled for October, involved a Bretagne" from the book, The Art of Dance Education, University of Wis- number of students who began their

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A formal report is All of the material will be made sation" at the American Dance Guild now being prepared to submit for available to qualified research scholars Conference, Minneapolis June 19—22, publication consideration to a schol- through the Motion Picture, Broad- 1980. M.H.K. arly dance journal. Van Zile hopes this casting and Recorded Sound Division Gretchen Schneider, recent Pre- project will serve as the basis for and other specialized divisions of the doctoral Fellow in the Division of a larger project presently in preliminary Library. Performing Arts and Political History planning stages. The American Folklife Center of at the Smithsonian Institution, will Besides the specific research accom- the Library of Congress inaugurated a become Research Fellow in Public plishments, the group realized the summer series of outdoor concerts Behavior with the Rockefeller-endowed tremendous value of team work, and beginning in May and ending in Octo- Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. the informant expressed an interest ber. Featured were Armenian music Schneider will assume research respon- in pursuing studies in Laban Move- and dance, bluegrass and oldtime sibility for theater, dance, and etiquette. ment Analysis. Five weeks was much music, and zodico music from Louisi- She will develop dance programs, too short a time period, but yielded a ana. teach, write dramatic scripts, and direct variety of positive results. J.V.Z. Complimenting such concerts are actors and interpretors in behavior the nearly 100 record ings of folk music, and deportment suitable to the inter- ballads, dances, instrumental pieces, pretive levels of the restored eight eenth- Libraries, Institutions and folk tales from the United States and early nineteenth-century village. and other countries that have been Schneider's immediate focus is the Library of Congress issued as recordings from the Library. ballroom and balls of the soon-to-be- Walter Zvonchenko, Theatre Librarian A free catalog of the selections is rennovated Governor's Palace during for the Kennedy Center Performing available upon request from the the period of Virginia's Governor Arts Library, has prepared an article Recorded Sound Section, Library of Baron Norborne B. Botetourt (1769- for a new journal Special Collections, Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540. 1770) to the Revolution. edited by Lee Ash and devoted to In preparation for the five-year Schneider who has interest in the library collections in the United States review of photocopying practices uses of cultural and socially expressive and Canada. Zvonchenko's article, required by the 1976 copyright law, behavior (most usually subsumed under "Theatre Resources in the Library of the U.S. Copyright Office in the the rubrics of theater and dance) in Congress," is a broad overview of col- Library of Congress has begun a series research and programs in museums, lections of interest to theater and of regional hearings to gather informa- will express her ideas and experiences dance historians. The article will appear tion concerning the effect of the new in a future DRJ article. G.S. in Volume 1, Number 1 of the new law on library procedures, user access Lucy Venable, The Ohio State Uni- quarterly journal. Subscriptions and to information, patterns in the pub- versity, College of the Arts, Depart- information can be obtained by writ- lishing industry, and relationships ment of Dance, taught two sessions on ing to Lee Ash, Special Collections, with authors. Notices of public hear- "An Introduction to F.M. Alexander's The Hay worth Press, Inc., 149 Fifth ing are published in the Federal Discoveries" at the Annual Conference Avenue, New York City, New York Register, and information about them of the Midwest Chapter of the Ameri- 10010. can also be obtained by writing or can Dance Therapy Association March telephoning the Office of General The Library of Congress has recently Counsel, Copyright Office, Library 21-23, 1980 in Indianapolis. In added a large collection of material December 1979, Venable visited Judy of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20559, relating to Emile Berliner (1851— tel. (705) 557-8731. G.S. Allen at the University of Iowa to see 1929). Berliner is best known today at first hand work with notation and for his invention of the lateral cut disc computer. DNB Extension, 1979-80 gramophone record which became the Dance Library honors Hanya Report, OSU. basis for the modern recording Holm Judy Van Zile was recently awarded industry. Berliner, who lived most of Hanya Holm, pioneer modern dance a grant from the University of Hawaii his life in Washington, D.C., was one choreographer, was honored July 27, Office of Research Administration to of the most important inventors active 1980 by the Martha Faure Carson pursue a research project, "Human in the fields of electricity, acoustics, Dance Library, Colorado Women's Movement Analysis: Towards a and communications. In addition to College, with its Distinguished Service Working Model Based on Dance." the phonodisc, he is credited with the Award for her innovative choreography, She coordinated a team of Irmgard invention or perfection of a number of dedicated teaching, and contribution Bartenieff, Peggy Hackney, Carl items including the loose contact trans- to the American musical theatre. The Wolz, and herself in the examination mitter which became the radio micro- citation was presented to Holm as of a dance from the Mohiniyattam phone, the "Gramophone," and part of the Hanya Holm Dance Festi- repertoire. (Mohiniyattam is a dance acoustic tiles. val celebrating her fortieth anniversary form of South India). Betty True This collection which may appear as teacher and choreographer at the Jones, a recognized Indian dance unrelated to dance research may yield Summer Dance Institute, Colorado scholar and performer, served as important information about dancers. College, Colorado Springs. Dr. Sherry informant. Research took place in The collection includes early gramo- Manning, President of the college, Honolulu for five weeks during Janu- phone records, many of which are presented the citation which gave ary and February 1980. The purpose experimental or unpublished record- recognition to: The Ballad of Baby of the project was to explore specific ings dating from the 1890s or earlier. Doe, an opera commissioned by and uses of movement analysis as research There are a number of recordings of premiered in Central City, Colorado tools in dance. actress Ada Rehan from 1898, as well (1956), music by Douglas Moore, The project was particularly excit- as records relating to the Berliner lyrics by John Latouche, choreography ing. Interchange resulting from a team Gramophone Company of Montreal comprising two Effort/Shape specialists

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The Hir- back to campus alumni who graduated Hauser, Glen Tetley. shorn, home of the Smithsonian prior to 1976 and features two types The Martha Faure Carson Dance Institution's modern art collections, of concerts. One concert series involves Library is an independent dance col- hosts the last of the series on February performances by companies currently lection housed at Colorado Women's 23, "Dance and the Camera: Sage directed by OSU graduates. The second College in Denver. It is believed to Cowles and Molly Davies," an experi- series is a quarterly concert program be the largest dance collection in the mental work with dance and film. of solo, duo, and small group works. United States, west of the Mississippi. Both Smithsonian Institution dance Also included are lecture/demonstra- The collection includes more than five series will be accompanied by a sched- tions, workshops, and seminars embrac- thousand volumes, scores, films, ule of lecture-demonstrations, working all aspects of dance. Master classes photographs, posters and other dance- shops, master classes, seminars, and in technique (ballet, modern, tap, jazz), related material. film showings. technical production (lighting and The Distinguished Service Citation Further information on the two sound), movement fundamentals, to Hanya Holm was the second pre- dance series, World Explorer and Laban Movement Analysis, video for sented by the Library. The first was American Dance Experience can be dance, children's dance, and historical presented to dance critic and author, obtained from Division of Performing dance are planned. Walter Terry. Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Wash- The OSU Department of Dance For additional information contact ington, D.C. 20560. G.S. Alumni Celebration Series 1980-81 Justin W. Brierly, The Library, Colo- is funded in part by a grant from the rado Women's College, Montview Ohio State Arts Council. For further Boulevard and Quebec, Denver, Colo- Conferences/Festivals information, write Department of rado 80220. MFC Dance Library Dance, OSU or phone (614) 422- The twelfth biennial conference of the 7977. I.M. Smithsonian Institution International Council of Kinetography A February Films Festival in Dance Laban (ICKL) will be hosted by the History with guest lecturer, Dale The Division of Performing Arts is Department of Dance at the Ohio Harris, was presented by the Five Col- offering two series of concerts devoted State University, Columbus, Ohio, lege Dance Department at Smith to the art of dance in its 1980-81 13-24 August 1981. This will be the College February 18-19, 1980. Five season. The now yearly World Explorer first time the Council has met in the programs of films were designed to series featured Kuchipudi, ancient United States in its twenty-two years indicate some of the principal ways in stories of South India, danced by of existence. The main objective of which the art of dance has developed Indrani, October 26. Other presenta- the Council is to encourage and guide in the twentieth century. tions will be Kabuki Dance performed consistent development in the system The Five College Dance Department by Sachiyo Ito Febraury 22; The Philip- particularly in the unification of pine Dance Company, March 15; and is made up of colleges Amherst, Hamp- orthography and in standards of prac- shire, Mount Holyoke, Smith and the Kathakali for a May/June date to be tice. Membership is open to anyone announced. All World Explorer con- University of Massachusetts. A press interested in the work of ICKL. It is release titled "A Dance Film Festival: certs are held in Baird Auditorium in of particular interest and value to those the Museum of Natural History. Not Just for the Record" by Joyce with advanced knowledge in the theory Caruso pinpointed highlights of the The American Dance Experience, a and practice of Labanotation/Kineto- lectures by Professor Dale Harris. J.C. new series, offered "American Tap graphy Laban. It is important to join Masters," September 8, in Baird The first American National College early in order to receive technical Dance Festival will be held at the John Auditorium. The program featured papers which will be discussed and to George T. Nierenberg's award-winning F. Kennedy Center for the Performing return comments on them before the Arts, Washington, D.C. May 14-16, documentary film, No Maps on My conference. For information about the Taps, followed by a live performance 1981. It will be presented by the organization, write to the Secretary, Kennedy Center Education Program with the film's stars, the legendary Billie Lepczyk, 1800 Old Meadow hoofers Howard (Sandman) Sims, through its Programs for Children and Road, McLean, VA 22102; for confer- Youth in cooperation with the Ameri- Chuck Green, and Bunny Briggs. ence details contact Lucy Venable, Journal readers are referred to Arlene can College Dance Festival Association. 554 South 6th St., Columbus, OH Student dancers from throughout the Croce's review of No Maps on My 43206 or phone (614) 469-9984. Taps and other tap films in "Doing the United States will be presented in con- Old Low Down," The New Yorker, L.V./M.J.W. certs. The Kennedy Center Education April 28, 1980, pp. 133-36. On The 1981 ICHPER Congress will Program also presents the American October 27, the Repertory Dance be held in Manila at the Philippine College Theatre Festival in its 13th Theatre of Utah (RDT) re-created National Convention Center, July year as of spring 1981. For further "Modern Dance in America: The Early 20-25, 1981. The program will information, contact American College Years" with works by Duncan, St. include a section on dance. For Dance Festival Association, Kennedy Denis, Shawn, Holm, Tamiris, Weid- information, write to Dr. Adina R. Center, Washington, D.C. 20566. J.K. man, Humphrey, Horton, and Graham. Ferrer, Far Eastern University, Manila, A seminar on applications of Laban As part of their Smithsonian residency, Philippines. P-C.A.B. Movement Analysis was held at the RDT gave two free concerts of the The Alumni Celebration Series Dance Notation Bureau, June 13, work of Ruth St. Denis, October 25, 1980-81 is planned by the Depart- 1980 preceding the annual general at the National Portrait Gallery as part ment of Dance, College of the Arts, meeting and the fortieth anniversary of that institution's concert series, The Ohio State University to honor celebrations of the Bureau. Papers "Portraits in Motion." "Post-Modern the achievements of Helen P. Alkire. discussed the use of Labanotation and Under her chairmanship, the dance Effort/Shape in identifying a variety

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Four films (16mm color/ Vera Maletic, candidate for doctoral nation of Relationships between Music sound) made in India during 1973—74 degree, The Ohio State University, and Dance in the Work of Doris and 1975—76 document Kutiyattam Columbus, OH, is writing her disserta- Humphrey" by Stephanie Jordan. S.J. Sanskrit drama and the three forms of tion on multiple methodologies for ritual/theatre which are the subjects of dance research. DNB Extension, these short monographs. Special study- 1979-80 Report, OSU Work in Progress guides will be provided for the films in Ray Miller, Dance Co-ordinator, addition to the above-mentioned pub- Creative Arts Department, Oregon Judith O. Becker, associate professor lications. Both films and publications College of Education, Monmouth, of musicology, University of Michigan, are a part of the results of the Project Oregon, is currently engaged in research- School of Music, Ann Arbor, was for the Documentation of Selected ing musical theatre dance on the awarded a grant from the National Ritual Art Forms as Communication Broadway stage 1914—1942 as prepar- Endowment for the Humanities to Systems of Traditional Culture, sup- ation for writing a Ph.D. dissertation. prepare for publication fifteen essays ported by Smithsonian Institution and Any information is this area would be and monographs on the history, administered by the American Institute appreciated. R.M. of Indian Studies. B.T.J. theory, and performance of central Mary Skeaping is working on a Javanese gamelan music. The two- Meredith Ellis Little, Christena L. translation of Gennaro Magri's Treatise volume work, entitled Source Read- Schlundt, Judith L. Schwartz are col- on the Theory and Practice of Dancing ings in Javanese Gamelan Music, laborating in a work entitled French (1779) and expects it to be completed publisher, the Center for South and Court Dance and Dance Music in the late in 1980. This announcement is Southeast Asian Studies of the Uni- Reigns of Louis XIV-XVI: An Anno- intended to dispel any impression that versity of Michigan, was scheduled for tated Bibliography of Primary Sources the project has been abandoned. M.S. publication summer of 1980. D.J.H. edited by Judith L. Schwartz. Actually Judith A. Gray, Assistant Profes- three related bibliographies (of roughly Requests for Letters: Currently sor in Dance, University of Wisconsin- 600 items), the work describes printed there is available on film in North Madison, is currently engaged in (and some manuscript) sources origin- America very little showing the ballets research in the following: Dance ating in the period ca. 1643—1789, of August Bournonville. Psychology - a book of selected read- inlcuding choreographic documents, As it happens, Danish television has ings in the area of dance and movement writings about dance, and relevant telecast over the last several years a behavior; A Biography of Louis Chalif: writings about music. Meredith Ellis considerable amount of Bournonville founder of the Chalif School of Danc- Little's treatment of notated chore- material. These programs have included ing; Barbara Mettler: her approach ographies with music provides an an- direct transmissions from the Royal and materials of teaching dance. Pro- notated bibliography of printed and Theatre in Copenhagen showing the posed research is in the areas of dance manuscript choregraphie sources, Royal Danish Ballet performing com- teacher behavior; dance teacher followed by a thematic inventory of plete Bournonville ballets including evaluation. J.A.G. all choreographic sources that contain La Sylphide, A Folk Tale, Kermesse in Clifford R. Jones and Betty True notated music, arranged by dance Bruges, King's Volunteers on Amager, Jones, currently teaching at the Uni- type. Christena L. Schlundt contri- Napoli, and others. There have also versity of Hawaii, Manoa, are negoti- butes an annotated bibliography of been documentaries on the choreog- ating with publishers in India with writings about dance and dance rapher and on the Bournonville daily reference to the four-volume work on notation, and Judith L. Schwartz adds classes. Kutiyattam Sanskrit drama. One a similar bibliography of writings per- Although there are a number of volume is a monograph on Kutiyattam; taining to dance music. These two legal and financial difficulties in getting the other three include Sanskrit texts include respectively dance and music these programs released so they can be and English translations of two plays histories, almanacs, dictionaries, used for educational purposes in North from the repertoire, accompanied by encyclopaedias, performance and com- America, Danish authorities seem quite English translations of the relevant position manuals, treatises on aesthet- willing to try - if the need for such production manuals or kramadipika ics and criticism, and biography. (Some films can be demonstrated. (and an acting manual or dttaprakdra theater materials also appear.) A If you would like to help demon- for one important act) currently in use checklist of composers of dance music strate this need, please send me a by Kutiyattam actors. These manuals and suites precedes a detailed index of letter, preferably on institutional have been handed down within the names, subjects, and titles. Materials stationery, stating two points: 1) You families of the traditional actors for cited are in French, English, German, would like to use such films for your centuries. This will be the first time Italian, Spanish, Dutch, and Portuguese; own students or for your own study that examples from this class of litera- all concern the French style of dancing. (or both); 2) you would be willing to ture have been published in English Publication information not for pay a reasonable rental fee for such use. translation. They provide in effect a The letter should be headed "To link between such texts as the Bharata announcement at this time. C.L.S. Annette Macdonald, Department of whom it may concern," can be quite Ndtyas'astra (ca. 2nd century B.C. to brief, and should be sent to: John 3rd century A.D.) and present-day Theatre Arts, San Jose State University, CA, spent August in Haiti continuing Mueller, Dance Film Archive, Univers- practice. Clifford R. Jones is Coordin- ity of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627. ating Editor of the four volumes and field work in Haitian Vodun and I will see that the letter gets to the author of the monograph; Betty True collecting interviews with Lavinia correct Danish authorities and will Jones is involved principally in the Williams. She is working on an article keep you posted on the results. J.M. translation from Sanskrit and Malaya- (or monograph) with both biographical lam of the acting/production manuals. and Haitian folklore focus. A second

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