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.
2006 - prize to Yvonne Daniel, Professor Emerita of Dance and Afro-American Studies at Smith College and 2005-2006 Rockefeller Foundation Fellow, for Dancing Wisdom: Embodied Knowledge in Haitian Vodou, Cuban Yoruba, and Bahian Candomblé. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005.2005 - prize to Thomas DeFrantz, Associate Professor of Music and Theatre Arts at MIT, for his book Dancing Revelations: Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.2005 - special citation to David Gere, Associate Professor of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA, for How to Make Dances in an Epidemic: Tracking Choreography in the Age of AIDS. Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004.2005 - special citation to Deborah Jowitt, dance critic for the Village Voice and Adjunct Professor at NYU, for Jerome Robbins: His Life, His Theater, His Dance. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004.2004 - prize to Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Professor Emerita of Dance at Temple University, for The Black Dancing Body: A Geography from Coon to Cool. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.2004 - special citation to Jennifer Fisher, Assistant Professor of Dance at the University of California-Irvine, for Nutcracker Nation: How an Old World Ballet Became a Christmas Tradition in the New World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.2003 - prize to Susanna Sloat, critic and independent scholar in New York City, for her edited anthology Caribbean Dance from Abakuá to Zouk: How Movement Shapes Identity. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002.2003 - special citation to Donald McKayle, renowned choreographer and Professor of Dance at University of California-Irvine, for his memoir Transcending Boundaries: My Dancing Life. London and New York: Routledge Harwood, 2002.2002 - No prize awarded by SDHS.2001 prize to Marian Smith, Ballet and Opera in the Age of Giselle2001 special citation to Stephanie Jordan, Moving Music: Dialogues with Music in Twentieth-Century Ballet2000 prize to Suki Schorer, Suki Schorer on Balanchine Technique2000 special citation to John Forrest, The History of Morris Dancing 1438-17501999 prize to Debra H. Sowell, The Christensen Brothers: An American Dance Epic1999 special citation to Valerie Preston-Dunlop, Rudolph Laban: An Extraordinary Life1998 prize to Roland J. Wiley, The Life and Ballets of Lev Ivanov1998 special citation to Ellen Graff, Stepping Left: Dance and Politics in New York City, 1928-19421998 special citation to Karl Toepfer, Empire of Ecstasy: Nudity and Movement in German Body Culture1997 prize to Judith Kavanagh, Secret Muses: The Life of Frederick Ashton1997 special citation to Susan L. Foster, Choreography & Narrative: Ballet’s Staging of Story and Desire1997 special citation to James Neufeld, Power to Rise: The Story of the National Ballet of Canada1997 special citation to Kariamu Welsh-Asante, ed., African Dance: An Artistic, Historical, and Philosophical Inquiry1997 special citation to Jacqui Malone, Steppin’ on the Blues: The Visible Rhythms of African American Dance1996 prize to Barbara Browning, Samba: Resistance in Motion1996 special citation to Francis Spearshott, A Measured Pace1996 special citation to Amy Koritz, Gendering Bodies/Performing Art: Dance and Literature in Early Twentieth-Century British Culture1996 special citation to Mark Franko, Dancing Modernism/Performing Politics1995 prize to Judith Chazin-Bennahum, The Ballets of Antony Tudor: Studies in Psyche and Satire1995 special citation to Rebecca Harris-Warrick and Carol Marsh, Musical Theater at the Court of Louis XIV: Le Mariage de la Gross Cathos1995 special citation to Carol Martin, Dance Marathons: Performing American Culture in the 1920s and 1930s1994 prize to Maurice Esses, Dance and Instrumental Diferencias in 17th and Early 18th Century Spain1994 prize to Susan Manning, Ecstasy and the Demon: Feminism and Nationalism in the Dances of Mary igman1994 special citation to Sally Banes, Greenwich Village 19631993 prize to Sally Ann Ness, Body, Movement, and Culture1993 special citation to Janet Soares, Louis Horst: Musician in a Dancer’s World1991/2 prize to Agnes de Mille, Martha Graham1991/2 special citation to Larry Warren, Anna Sokolow1990 prize to Elizabeth Sourtiz, Soviet Choreographers in the 1920s1990 special citation to Katrina Hazzard-Gordon, Jookin’1990 special citation to Cynthia Novack, Sharing the Dance1990 special citation to Irwin Spector, Rhythm and Life1989 prize to Lynn Garafola, Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes1989 special citation to Pauline Koner, Solitary Song1988 prize to Deborah Jowitt, Time and the Dancing Image1987 no winner1986 prize to Alexandra Danilova, Choura1986 special citation to Susan L. Foster, Reading Dancing1985 prize to Jennifer Dunning, But First a School1985 special citation to Deborah Jowitt, The Dance in Mind1984 no winner1983 prize to John Mueller, Astaire Dancing1982 no winner1982 special citation to Roger Copeland and Marshall Cohen, What is Dance?1981 prize to Suzanne Shelton, Divine Dancer1980 prize to Jack Anderson, The One and Only: The Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo1980 special citation to Olive Holmes, Motion Arrested1979 prize to Richard Ralph, The Life and Works of John Weaver1978 no winner1977 prize to Nancy Reynolds, Repertory in Review1976 prize to David Vaughan, Frederick Ashton and His Ballets1975 prize to Jane Sherman, Soaring1974 no winner1973 prize to Mary Grace Swift, A Loftier Flight