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Christena Schlundt Lecture Series in Dance Studies

The Christena Schlundt Lecture Series in Dance Studies is an award in honor of the founder of doctoral studies in dance in the UC system, Professor Emerita Christena Schlundt. This award is made possible by the Center for Studies of Body, Performance and Dance, housed at the University of California, Riverside. The Center for Studies of Body, Performance and Dance constitutes a nexus for interdisciplinary engagement of pressing issues within the field of dance studies, specifically as they circulate around the nodes of corporeality, performance, digital subjectivities and movement.

Past award recipients and lecture topics:

Anita Gonzalez
Reading the Stones and Centering the World: Contexts for Maya Ritual Performance
May 5, 2004
ARTS Performance Lab

Anita Gonzalez earned her Ph.D. in Theater/Performance Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1997). Gonzalez has written book reviews and articles about multi-cultural performance for Modern Drama, The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, and Dance Research Journal. Her book Jarocho's Soul is about nationalism and Afro-Mexican dance. Gonzalez has been a scholar in residence at Rockefeller's Bellagio Center (2003) and was a Fulbright Senior Scholar Specialist to Guatemala (2004).

The lecture topic is Reading the Stones and Centering the World: Contexts for Maya Ritual Performance. The talk uses the Classic Maya as a case study for considering the efficacy of traditional research methodologies for describing Native American and other indigenous performances. The talk proposes that a variety of interdisciplinary methodologies are necessary to decode the meaning and intent of dance performances that emerge from alternative metaphysical world views.