De la Torre Bueno Prize

The de la Torre Bueno Prize is an annual award offered by the Society of Dance History Scholars for the best book in the field of dance studies. The award honors José Rollins de la Torre Bueno, the first university press editor to develop a dance studies titles list. The award of $1000 recognizes exemplary scholarship and important contributions to the field.

2011 - Prize to Modernism’s Mythic Pose: Gender, Genre, Solo Performance by Carrie J. Preston. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

2010 - Prize to Tap Dancing America: A Cultural History by Constance Valis Hill. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Special citation to Dance and the Nation: Performance, Ritual, and Politics in Sri Lanka by Susan A. Reed. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009. Special citation to Ritual, Rapture and Remorse: A Study of Tarantism and Pizzica in Salento by Jerri Daboo. New York: Peter Lang, 2010.

2009 - Prize to Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Culture at Harvard University, for Being Watched: Yvonne Rainer and the 1960s. Boston: MIT Press, 2008.

2009 - Special citation to Anthea Kraut, Associate Professor of Dance at the University of California-Riverside, for Choreographing the Folk: the Dance Stagings of Zora Neale Hurston. Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 2008.

2008 - Prize to Jacqueline Shea Murphy, Associate Professor of Dance at University of California-Riverside, for The People Have Never Stopped Dancing: Native American Modern Dance Histories. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007.

2008 - Special citation to Janice Ross, Associate Professor (Teaching) of Drama at Stanford University, for Anna Halprin: Experience as Dance. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.

2008 - Special citation to Sydney Hutchinson, research associate at the University of Arizona's Southwest Center and doctoral candidate at New York University, for From Quebradita to Duranguense: Dance in Mexican Youth Culture Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2007.

2007 - Prize to Gay Morris, independent scholar and critic in New York City, for A Game for Dancers: Performing Modernism in the Postwar Years, 1945-1960. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2006.

2007 - Special citation to Lucia Ruprecht, a University Lecturer in German and Fellow of Emmanuel College at the University of Cambridge, for Dances of the Self in Heinrich von Kleist, E.T.A. Hoffmann and Heinrich Heine. Hampshire, England and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2006.

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