Legacy Lectures

From the Press Release:

TITLE: Legacy Lectures: Bridging Past, Present and Future
DATE: SATURDAY, JUNE 13TH, 10:00 AM-12:00 PM
LOCATION: Betty Pease Studio Theater, Dance Building (map)

Mark Broomfield, currently a Doctoral Candidate in Critical Dance Studies at UC Riverside, where he has a prestigious Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, will present his paper entitled Passing for Almost Straight: Critiquing the Performance of Masculinity of the Black Male Dancing Body.

UM Professor of Dance Jessica Fogel will present By the Light of a Lantern: Dance’s First Steps at the University of Michigan. Professor Fogel has recently been conducting research on the history of dance at the UM and has spearheaded the Dancing at 100 centennial celebration.

Selma Landen Odom will present The Dance Knowledge Expansion: Generations of Research and Teaching. Selma Landen Odom, Professor Emerita at York University in Toronto, was founding director of the first Canadian graduate program to offer the MA in Dance and PhD in Dance Studies. She holds a BA in English (Wellesley College), MA in Drama (Tufts University), and PhD in Dance Studies (University of Surrey). Her research focuses on teachers and transmission in dance and music. She has published hundreds of articles and reviews since the 1960s, and she co-edited the anthology Canadian Dance: Visions and Stories (2004).