Kate Elswit, Lectureship in Theatre and Performance Studies, Bristol University

Kate Elswit is Reader in Theatre and Performance at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. She is winner of the Oscar G. Brockett Book Prize for Dance Research, the Gertrude Lippincott Award, the Biennial Sally Banes Publication Prize, and honorable mention for the Callaway Prize, and her work has been funded by sources including a Mellon postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University and the Lilian Karina Research Grant in Dance and Politics. She also works as a choregrapher, dramaturg, and curator.

Winner of the Oscar Brockett Book Prize for Dance Research

"In Watching Weimar Dance, Elswit has made an important contribution to the way we practice dance historiography." - The Drama Review

"Groundbreaking ... Kate Elswit's writing is lucid, and her scholarship impeccable ... she cares passionately for the origins of the traces which she analyses (that is the dance themselves)." - Julian Preece, The Times Literary Supplement

"Kate Elswit thinks across history, theory, reception and corporeality and in so doing rethinks Weimar dance for the 21st century." - Susan Manning, Professor of English, Theatre, and Performance Studies, Northwestern University

"In Watching Weimar Dance, Kate Elswit takes the traditional 'obstacles' of dance history - the fragmentary archive, ephemeral performances, and unstable objects - and transforms them into its very strengths. Approaching Weimar dance as a series of eventful and relational encounters, in which spectators contributed as much to the generation of meaning as the performers themselves, the book rediscovers modern dance both as a specific medium and as a forum shot through with broader issues of visual and corporeal culture." - Michael Cowan, author of Technology's Pulse: Essays on Rhythm in German Modernism (2011) and Walter Ruttmann and the Cinema of Multiplicity: Avant-Garde-Advertising-Modernity (2014)