Dance-Related Events and Papers at AMS Chicago 2024

[Lena Leson]

Hi all, 

In keeping with tradition, we wanted to share (some of) the dance and movement events on offer at the AMS annual meeting next week.

Please make special note of our Saturday evening workshop, The Body as Instrument, the Body as Insight: Bridging Jazz Music and Its Dance through Rhythm Tap, featuring Bril Barrett, a renowned tap dancer, NEA National Heritage Fellow, and the founder of a leading Chicago-based rhythm tap company M.A.D.D. Rhythms (“Making A Difference Dancing”), from 7:30–9pm in Honoré. 

And don't forget our special session on Nijinska's musical legacy—on Saturday, November 12, at 12:30pm in Adams, which happens during our annual business meeting. 

Thursday, November 14

Performing Disabled or Non-Normative Bodies // 4–5:30pm

• “Visible Music”: Defiant Bodies and Instrumental Theater at the Fluxus International Festival of the Newest Music (Wiesbaden, 1962). Elaine Fitz Gibbon, Harvard University

• Beggars, Prisoners, and Other “woful Figures”: “Crutch Dances” and Performing Disability on the Eighteenth-Century Musical Stage. Vanessa L. Rogers, Rhodes College

• Making a Monster: Louise Bertin, Victor Hugo, and the Nineteenth-Century Hunchback. Sarah K Miller, University of California, Davis.
  

Mungo in the Ballroom(s): Performance Practice, Error, and Ignatius Sancho’s Country Dances. Emily H. Green, George Mason University (second paper in Black Musical Worlding: Early Contributors to a Black Musical Aethestic, 4:00–5:30pm)

“We will dance again”: Amplifying Jewish Joy in the Face of Contemporary Trauma; organized by the Jewish Studies and Music Study Group // 7:30–9:30pm

Friday, November 15

Performing Gender in Music and Dance // 10:45am–12:45pm

• The Jeanie Auditions: Stephen Foster and White Southern Womanhood in Florida, 1951-1979. Esther M. Morgan-Ellis, University of North Georgia

• "Girling" at the Tropical Piano: Race, Sex, Value, and the Domestication of Cuban Contradance. Brian Barone, Boston University

• The Relatable Rebel: Miranda Lambert’s Expressions of Femininity. Madison Stepherson, University of Oregon

• Erotic Agency and Queer Embodiment in Martines–Metastasio’s Secular Chamber Cantata La Tempesta (1778). Jonathan Gerrard, University of California, Irvine

Philip Glass’s Dance and the Institutionalization of Minimalism. Anne Searcy, University of Washington (third paper in Critical Examinations of Minimalism: Focusing on Gender and Race, 4–5:30pm)

Saturday, November 16

Scandinavian Symphony and Ballet // 10:45am–12:15pm

• Creating Musical Modernism in Mid-Twentieth Century Iceland. Arni Heimir Ingolfsson, Reykjavík Academy

• George Balanchine and Song of Norway (1944). Patricia Sasser, Furman University

• Composition as a Feminist Act: The Case of Elfrida Andrée’s Symphony No. 1 (1869). Jonathan David Spatola-Knoll, Whitman College

Music and Dance Study Group Meeting feat. papers on Nijinska's Musical Legacy // 12:30–2pm

Staged Dance // 2:15–3:45pm

• “A ballet unlike any other”: Belsky’s Leningrad Symphony. Laura Kennedy, Blanchelande College

• A Friendship in Music and Dance: Carlos Salzedo and Adolph Bolm. Carolyn Jo Watts, Princeton University / MCCC

• What’s Funny About War? Humor, Banality, and French Artistic Identity in Parade. Julian William Duncan, Florida State University

From Apotheosis to Bacchanal: Dance and the Beethovenian Finale. Erica Buurman, San Jose State University (second paper in Rethinking Beethoven in Theory and Practice, 2:15–3:45pm)

The Body as Instrument, the Body as Insight: Bridging Jazz Music and Its Dance through Rhythm Tap, MDSG Workshop 2024 // 7:30–9pm

Sunday, November 17

Dance Scenes: Defining Self and Community through Dance // 9:00–10:30am

• ‘Tea for Two’: Transatlanticism in the music of the British dance bands. Catherine Tackley, University of Liverpool

• The City of Neighborhoods Takes On the 1913 “ Tango Issue.” Sophie Benn, Butler University

• Rhythmic Diasporas and Performances of Sovereignty in London’s Early Jungle Scene. Kyle Rogers, New York University

• Dance Like There’s No Tomorrow: Electronic Cantopop and Apocalyptic Aesthetics at the New Millennium. Heidi Yin-Hsuan Tai, University of California, San Diego

Making Sense of Trauma through Music and Dance // 10:45am–12:15pm Jubano Rikudim in Havana: Cultural Politics of Dance in Cuban Synagogues. Hannah Marie Junco, University of Pennsylvania Settling the Score: Trauma and Domestic Revolution in Alicia Adelaide Needham’s Irish Suffrage Songs. Danielle Roman, New York University “Does Anyone Hear My Voice?:” Foregrounding of Sonic Trauma From Turkey and Syria's February 6th, 2023 Earthquake in Turkish Popular Music. Ashley Nicole Thornton, The University of Texas at Austin Looking forward to seeing you all soon, Rebecca Schwartz and Rachel Gain AMS Music and Dance Study Group Co-chairs

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Lena Leson (she/her)

Assistant Professor, Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College

PhD, University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance

[Daniel Callahan]



Hi Lena,

I'm not sure if I am able to email the group directly like this, so if not would you please forward?

Today, Saturday at 4:00–5:30 PM in the Monroe Room on Floor 6, right after the session Staged Dance, the session Sound/Body Connections will have three papers of interest to MDSG members, the first two very specifically on dance:

Sound / Body Connections Participants and Paper Titles

 

Celine Elizabeth Gosselin	ceg...@case.edu	Journeys Through Snow: A Case Study on Nutcracker Reinvention
Wayne Henry Heisler	whei...@tcnj.edu	Mr. Ailey, Sam, Miss Price, and the Hermitage: Intersections of Sexuality, Race, and Gender in Alvin Ailey’s Hermit Songs
Alexandria Renata Smith	alexandr...@gatech.edu	Pauline Oliveros and Biofeedback

Hope to see some MDSG folks there!

Best,

Daniel

Daniel Callahan

Associate Professor of Music, Boston College

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