Re: details Swarthmore College Dance event--

[Helen Winkler <winklerh...>]

Found this online:
http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/dance/cperformance_2001-2002.html
DANCING HISTORY: POLAND AND CONTEMPORARY DANCE THEATRE
An International Dance Symposium in honor of Jacek Luminski and Silesian Dance 
Theatre
Free and open to the public. For more information, call (610) 328-8200.

This symposium will focus on the work of choreographer Jacek Luminski, both by 
itself and within larger historical, critical, and theoretical contexts. Topics 
will include contemporary dance theater as a genre in Poland and elsewhere, the 
evolution of contemporary dance in post-Soviet Europe, and 20th-century Polish 
dance history. It will provide an unprecedented forum for contact and 
discussion between members of the Swarthmore community and leading North 
American and European dance scholars and critics. Sponsored by the William J. 
Cooper Foundation.

Keynote speech by Jacek Luminski
Nov. 3, 10 a.m.,
Cinema, Lang Performing Arts Center

Dance historians' panel
Nov. 3, 10:30 a.m.,
Cinema, Lang Performing Arts Center

Chaired by Deborah Jowitt (The Village Voice). Participants will include Roman 
Arndt (Poland/Germany, Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, Germany), Linda Caldwell 
(Columbia College), Judith Brin Ingber (University of Minnesota at 
Minneapolis), Joanna Lesniorowski (Teatr Polski, Poznan, Poland), Vita 
Mozuraite (Lithuanian Dance Information Center, Vilnius), and Ninotchka 
Bennahum '86 (Long Island University).

Special Studio Performance
Nov. 3, 2:30 p.m.,
Troy Dance Studio, Lang Performing Arts Center
Silesian Dance Theater performs a reconstruction of Polish Jewish choreographer 
Pola Nirenska's Lament.

Dance Critics' Roundtable
Nov. 3, 4-6 p.m.,
Cinema, Lang Performing Arts Center,
*Closing reception will follow
Chaired by Philip Szporer (Montreal, Canada, BBC's The World). Participants 
will include a representative from The New York Times, Bartosz Kaminski (Gazeta 
Wyborcza, Warsaw), Andrea Amort (Tanz Affiche, Kurier, Vienna), Merilyn Jackson 
(The Philadelphia Inquirer), and other critics from the Philadelphia area and 
beyond.