Call 10 March 2014

Programme

Start the week with a conversation about Kurt Jooss and the beginnings of the week with Performing the Archives. Participants: Kate Elswit, Olga Soto and Rani Nair. Small stage, 10 March at 19:00. Please announce in advance that you are coming to [email protected]

Who is Kate Elswit? She is a choreographer, curator and dramaturge. At the University of Bristol, she is a lecturer in Performing Arts and Theatre Studies. She was previously a research assistant at Stanford University with the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities and has also taught at CalArts, Laban and the University of Cambridge, where she holds a PhD. She has won two awards for her scholarly publications including the Gertrude Lippincott Award from the Society of Dance History Scholars. Her essays have been published in Theater Journal, Art Journal, Performance Research and in the collection New German Dance Studies. Currently, she has just submitted the final manuscript for her book; Watching Weimar Dance in forthcoming Oxford University Press.