ASA Announces 2023 Selma Jeanne Cohen Prize in Dance Aesthetics

The American Society for Aesthetics is pleased to announce the winner of the 2023 Selma Jeanne Cohen Prize in Dance Aesthetics, Erin Brannigan, for her book Choreography, Visual Art and Experimental Composition 1950s-1970s. (Routledge, 2022). The first chapter is available Open Access on the Routledge web site.

Erin Brannigan is Associate Professor in Theatre and Performance at the University of New South Wales. She is of Irish and Danish political exile, convict, and settler descent. Her publications include Moving Across Disciplines: Dance in the Twenty-First Century (Sydney: Currency House, 2010), Dancefilm: Choreography and the Moving Image (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011) and Bodies of Thought: 12 Australian Choreographers, co-edited with Virginia Baxter (Kent Town: Wakefield Press, 2014). 

The prize was established in 2008 in memory of Selma Jeanne Cohen, and with enormous gratitude for her generous bequest to the ASA. The $1000 prize is awarded every year, for critical articles or books of distinction in dance aesthetics, dance theory, or the history of dance published in English. The next prize will be awarded in 2024 for an outstanding article in dance aesthetics published from May 1, 2022 - February 28, 2024. The submission deadline is March 1, 2024.

Dr Brannigan will be honored at the 81st Annual Meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics in Arlington, VA November 15-18, 2023, at the annual Dance Scholars Breakfast at the meeting.

For more information about the prize: https://aesthetics-online.org/page/CohenPrize
For more information about the Annual Meeting: https://aesthetics-online.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1385535