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| Dance Chronicle | |
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| Title | Dance Chronicle |
| Discipline | Dance studies |
Dance Chronicle is a scholarly journal dedicated to the study, documentation, and interpretation of dance as an artistic practice and cultural phenomenon. It serves as a forum for scholarship that connects choreography, performance history, ethnography, criticism, and interdisciplinary inquiry, engaging with figures and institutions across ballet, modern, contemporary, folk, and popular dance. Contributors include historians, critics, choreographers, and scholars who address topics ranging from canonical repertory to emergent practices in diverse geographic contexts.
Dance Chronicle publishes peer-reviewed research, critical essays, archival studies, and translations that intersect with the work of choreographers, companies, and cultural institutions such as Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, George Balanchine, Pina Bausch, Twyla Tharp, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Royal Ballet, and New York City Ballet. Articles often examine archival materials from institutions like the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, National Archives (United Kingdom), and Bibliothèque nationale de France, or analyze performances at venues such as Lincoln Center, Sadler's Wells Theatre, Teatro alla Scala, and Bolshoi Theatre. The journal situates dance alongside related arts and histories, engaging with figures from Igor Stravinsky to John Cage, and institutions such as Smithsonian Institution and Museum of Modern Art.
Founded to address a gap in scholarly publishing on choreography and performance, Dance Chronicle emerged amid growing academic interest in dance alongside developments at universities and conservatories like Juilliard School, University of California, Los Angeles, New York University, and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. Early issues engaged with historiographies informed by scholars working in contexts represented by the Royal Opera House, Paris Opera Ballet, and avant-garde scenes linked to Fluxus and experimental collectives. The journal traced the careers of prominent dancers and choreographers connected to companies including Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, Les Six, Ballets Russes, Het Nationale Ballet, and the Finnish National Ballet, while documenting cross-cultural exchanges with folk ensembles like Kudokai and festivals such as the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival.
Contributors analyze technique and choreographic method through the practices of schools and innovators such as Vaganova method, Cecchetti method, Cunningham technique, Graham technique, and improvisational vocabularies linked to artists like Steve Paxton and Anna Halprin. Essays explore staging and dramaturgy at institutions like Arena Stage, Royal Albert Hall, and The Old Vic; costume and scenography production linked to designers such as Irene Sharaff and Boris Aronson; and musical collaborations with composers like Pierre Boulez, Arvo Pärt, and Philip Glass. Methodological pieces draw upon archives from Hulton Archive and oral histories with artists tied to companies such as Paul Taylor Dance Company and Mikhail Baryshnikov's White Oak Dance Project.
Dance Chronicle has published critical analyses and landmark essays on canonical works like The Rite of Spring, Swan Lake, Giselle, Appalachian Spring, and Café Müller, as well as dedicated studies of choreographies by Jerome Robbins, Pina Bausch, Yvonne Rainer, and William Forsythe. Special issues and translations have featured source materials from choreographers’ notebooks and manifestos from figures associated with Constructivism, Expressionism (art movement), and postmodern collectives connected to Judson Dance Theater. The journal has also produced bibliographic surveys and annotated repertoires tied to institutions such as Royal Opera House Collections and archival projects at Harvard Theatre Collection.
Frequent authors and subjects include scholars and practitioners affiliated with Sarah Lawrence College, Indiana University Bloomington, University of California, Berkeley, and Goldsmiths, University of London, as well as choreographers and companies like Alvin Ailey, Paul Taylor, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Pina Bausch's Tanztheater Wuppertal, Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, Kirov Ballet, and Staatsballett Berlin. Profiles and interviews have highlighted careers of artists such as Mikhail Baryshnikov, Anna Pavlova, Rudolf Nureyev, Isadora Duncan, and contemporary figures like Akram Khan and Crystal Pite. The journal also engages with dance scholarship connected to museums and festivals including Tate Modern, Vancouver International Dance Festival, and Sydney Dance Company.
Dance Chronicle is cited in monographs, dissertations, and exhibition catalogues produced by publishers and institutions such as Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Routledge, and Princeton University Press. Its contributions have informed museum exhibitions at Victoria and Albert Museum and programming at festivals like Jacob's Pillow. Reviews in periodicals and responses from critics associated with outlets like The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Washington Post have acknowledged its role in shaping scholarly discourse, archival practice, and pedagogy across conservatories and university departments such as Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and Conservatoire de Paris.
Recent issues reflect intersections with digital humanities projects at institutions like Europeana, Digital Public Library of America, and university labs; performance studies conversations emerging from conferences at Modern Language Association and International Federation for Theatre Research; and collaborations with contemporary companies including Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet and London Contemporary Dance Theatre. Articles increasingly probe topics linked to global networks—engagements with Kathak and Kathakali traditions, research on dance in postcolonial contexts involving scholars from University of the West Indies and Jawaharlal Nehru University, and analyses of festival ecologies across Bali Arts Festival and Carnival (Brazil). The journal continues to bridge archival scholarship, practice-led research, and critical theory in dialogue with institutions such as Wesleyan University and Columbia University.
Category:Dance journals