Congress on Research in Dance (CORD) was a professional organization for dance historians in the United States and worldwide that was founded in 1964 and then merged in 2017 with the Society of Dance History Scholars to form the Dance Studies Association (DSA).
An international non-profit learned society for dance researchers, artists, performers and choreographers, CORD published the Dance Research Journal and sponsored annual conferences and awards for scholarship and contributions to the field.CORD award recipients. http://congressonresearchindance.camp7.org/pastwinners The journal and awards have been absorbed into the DSA.
History The society was founded in 1964 as the Committee on Research in Dance, and based at New York University. It was formally incorporated as a 501 (c)(3) not-for-profit organization in 1969. The organization changed its name to Congress on Research in Dance in 1977. In 1991, it moved to the State University of New York College at Brockport. In 2007, the CORD National Office moved to the care of Prime Management Services based in Birmingham, Alabama. Membership generally includes performers, choreographers, artists and dance academics from colleges and universities. The official records for CORD are held at the University of Maryland's Special Collections in Performing Arts.
Dance Research Journal
The Dance Research Journal is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal publishing scholarly articles, book reviews, and other reports of interest to the field of dance research, with its primary orientation being towards the historical and critical theory of dance. The journal was published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Congress on Research in Dance until the merger in 2017. Now it is on behalf of the Dance Studies Association. The journal was established in 1969 as CORD News.
The journal is abstracted and indexed in Academic ASAP, Academic Search Elite, Academic Search Premier, Expanded Academic, Humanities Index, Index to Dance Periodicals, International Index to Performing Arts, and ProQuest.
Awards issued Outstanding Contribution to Dance Research 1996, Joann Kealiinohomoku 1997, Ann Hutchinson Guest 1998, Kapila Vatsyayan 2000, Ivor Guest 2001, Deborah Jowitt 2003, Sally Banes 2005, Marcia B. Siegel 2007, Robert Farris Thompson 2008, Joan Acocella 2009, none awarded 2010, Stephanie Jordan 2011, Mark Franko 2012, Sue Stinson 2013, Susan Manning 2014, Deidre Sklar 2015, Janice Ross 2016, Randy Martin, in memoriam 2017, Thomas F. DeFrantz
Outstanding Leadership in Dance Research 1995, Carl Wolz 1996, Gigi Oswald 1997, Selma Jeanne Cohen 1998, Vicki Risner 1999, Ernestine Stodelle 2000, David Vaughan 2001, Beate Gordon 2003, Jane Bonbright 2005, Katherine Dunham and Anna Halprin 2006, Elsie Ivancich Dunin and Allegra Fuller Snyder 2007, Susan Leigh Foster 2008, Brenda Dixon Gottschild 2009, none awarded (now the Dixie Durr Award for Outstanding Service to Dance Research) 2010, Ann Dils 2011, Barbara Sellers-Young 2012, Cara Gargano 2013, Sally Ness 2014, Libby Smigel 2015, Elizabeth Aldrich 2016, Jacqueline Shea Murphy 2017, Ann Cooper Albright
Other CORD awards include one for "Outstanding Book", such as one for Marta Savigliano.
See also Timeline of music in the United States (1950 - 1969) American Dance Guild Society of Dance History Scholars
References
Further reading Kealiinohomoku, Joann W. and Mary Jane Warner, "Dance", pgs. 206 - 226, in the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
External links
Dance Research Journal at Project MUSE Congress on Research in Dance records, Special Collections in Performing Arts, University of Maryland Libraries.