Dixon-Gottschild To Lecture, Sign Books at ASU September 22 and 23

Dr. Brenda Dixon-Gottschild, a leading voice in dance research, will visit ASU for a lecture and book signing Tuesday and Wednesday, September 22 and 23. Photo submitted

Dr. Brenda Dixon-Gottschild, professor emerita of dance studies at Temple University and a senior consultant and writer for Dance Magazine, will be a visiting artist at ASU Tuesday and Wednesday, September 22 and 23. The public is invited to attend a lecture and book signing with the artist on campus.

Dixon-Gottschild will discuss “Researching Performance: The (Black) Dancing Body as a Measure of Culture” at 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, September 22, in room 114 of Belk Library and Information Commons. On Wednesday, September 23, a reading and book signing with the artist will be held at 2:00 p.m. in the Scholars Bookstore on campus.

Dixon-Gottschild’s residency is sponsored by the Department of Theatre and Dance. It also includes workshops, lectures and discussions with students and faculty. 

Dixon-Gottschild is the author of Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance: Dance and Other Contexts and Waltzing in the Dark: African American Vaudeville and Race Politics in the Swing Era, which won the 2001 Congress on Research in Dance Award for Outstanding Scholarly Dance Publication. She also wrote The Black Dancing Body: A Geography from Coon to Cool, which earned the 2004 de la Torre Bueno Prize for scholarly excellence in dance publication. 

She performs with her husband, choreographer Hellmut Gottschild, in an innovative form of somatic and research-based collaboration for which they coined the term “movement theater discourse.”

In 2008 she was awarded the Congress on Research in Dance Award for Outstanding Leadership in Dance Research. She also received a grant from The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage through Dance Advance to begin work on a new book, titled Joan Myers Brown and the Improbable Hope of the Black Ballerina—An American Portrait. 

For more information, contact Dr. Ray Miller at millerrf@appstate.edu  or 828-262-2707.

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