Congratulations to Rosemary Candelario for winning the Oscar G. Brockett Prize for Dance Research. This prize is given every year to the best book in the field of dance published within the previous three years. The Dance Studies Association adjuncts the prize every year and a $1,000 cash prize is given by the Oscar G. Brockett Center for Theatre History and Criticism at the University of Texas Austin.
Rosemary Candelario won the prize for her book Flowers Cracking Concrete: Eiko & Koma’s Asian/American Choreographies, published in 2016. The book is the first study of Eiko Otake and Takashi Koma Otake, generally known as Eiko & Koma. Eiko & Koma are a Japanese performance duo who have been central to the American avant-garde dance scene since the 1970s. This in-depth study details the duo’s forty-year career as co-directors, co-choreographers, and performers.
Associate Professor of Dance at Texas Woman’s University, Rosemary Candelario’s works about dance and popular culture have been published in Dance Research Journal, The Scholar & Feminist Online, and The International Journal of Screendance, among others. She also co-edited The Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance (Routledge 2018) and her choreography has been produced across the United States and internationally in Canada, Brazil, Germany, and South Africa.
