The Dance Critics Association returns to New York City for its 2012 annual conference being held Friday, June 22 to Sunday, June 24, 2012. The conference, called “21st Century Dance Writing: Multimedia, Multiarts, Multitasking,” will be held at the Joan Weill Center for Dance in New York City, home to the Alvin Ailey dance companies and school. There will likely also be a reception at another location in the evening of Thursday June 21, 2012.
Panels planned for the 2012 conference will look at some of the current issues impacting the field of dance writing and dance writers.
The conference will begin with a keynote panel led by Virginia Johnson, artistic director of the Dance Theatre of Harlem on how changes in the cultural landscape have impacted changes in dance coverage. A closing panel will look at the New York school of dance criticism from 1965-85.
Other panels will include sessions on:
- The state of dance criticism today
- Lessons to be learned from critics of other art forms
- Dance writing in the digital age
- The growth of dance on television
- Choreographers who use language in dance
Nancy Goldner has been selected to receive the 2012 Dance Critics Association's Senior Critic Award. Ms. Goldner will receive her award during the conference, on Saturday June 23.
NANCY GOLDNER studied at the School of American Ballet and began writing dance criticism in the late 1960s for Dance News. In addition to Dance News, she has written about dance for such publications as The Christian Science Monitor, The Nation, Saturday Review, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. She is the author of More Balanchine Variations (2011), Balanchine Variations (2008) and The Stravinsky Festival of the New York City Ballet (1974). She has also lectured widely for the George Balanchine Foundation.
Other highlights of the conference include Elizabeth Zimmer’s Kamikaze Writing Workshop.
The conference will coincide with performances by, among others, the American Ballet Theatre at Lincoln Center, and the 65th Anniversary season of the Limon Dance Company at the Joyce Theater that will include a world premiere by Rodrigo Pedemeiras to a commissioned score by Paquito D'Rivera
For more information contact:
Karyn D. Collins
DCA 2012 Conference Coordinator
kdc13@verizon.net
732-249-4517