The Lilian Karina Foundation's research grant in Dance and Politics will be presented for the last time.

Ph.D. Kate Elswit (UK), awardee 2013, is a dance scholar, choreographer, curator and dramaturg. She holds a lectureship at the University of Bristol and is the author of Watching Weimar Dance. She specializes in interdisciplinary approaches to experimental European dance from modernism through the present, with special attention to transnational histories.  The title of her lecture at Dansmuseet is Dancing Across History´s Borders: Thoughts on Exile and Otherness by way of Kurt Jooss. The talk will reflect upon Jooss´s place in German dance history by way of, among other things, his last piece Dixit Dominus.

Ph.D. Jens Richard Giersdorf (US), awardee 2014, is Associate Professor of Dance at the Marymount Manhattan College. He is a former dancer and dramaturg at the Tanzbühne Leipzig. His monograph The Body of the People: East German Dance since 1945 closes a gap in dance scolarship by offering the first comprehensive reading of East German dance. The book is currently translated into German, entitled Volkseigene Körper: Ostdeutscher Tanz seit 1945.At Dansmuseet Giersdorf will speak about The Politics of Remembrance and Translation or Why I Talk About East German Dance 25 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall.

The Lilian Karina Foundation was formed as a research foundation to further the knowledge about the art of dance and how it was influenced by the political landslide of the 20th century – from the Russian revolution, further to Nazism and the influence of Indian, Asian, African and Afro American dance styles on European dance. In an appendix to her will Lilian Karina formulated the purpose and regulations of the foundation.

Since 2010 the Lilian Karina Foundation has rewarded five highly qualified dance scholars from different countries, with a grant of SEK 70 000 each. The awardees are presented on the foundation's website, with research summaries. www.doch.se/forskning (click Stiftelsen Lilian Karina).

Welcome to  Dansmuseet, Drottninggatan 17, Stockholm, Sweden

November 20th 2014, at 5.30 pm – 7 pm.

The Lilian Karina Foundation
Contact person: Gun Román, Chair    
Phone: +46 (0)73 222 41 25

By courtesy of Dansmuseet, The Carina Ari Memorial Foundation, DOCH, School of Dance and Circus