JEREMY E. CARTER-GORDON
Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
2015 (August) Erasmus Mundus- Choreomundus International Master in Dance Knowledge, Practice and Heritage
Advisors: Georgiana Wierre-Gore, László Felföldi.
Dissertation: Temporal-Aesthetic in Rapper Dance Competition:
Aesthetics, Discourse, and Decision Making Strategies Among Expert Judges
2011 B.A in Anthropology, Bard College (NY, USA)
Advisor: Mercedes Dujunco
Thesis: ‘If We All Danced, There Would Be No War:’ Transmission and Inscription of Communal Values in Contra Dancing
ARTICLES
Participation, Photography and Facebook: Contra Dance and Digital Performance. Country Dance and Song Journal (Forthcoming, Autumn 2015)
GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS, & ACADEMIC AWARDS
2013-2015 Erasmus+ Choreomundus Scholarship: Tuition and Stipend.
2011-2012 Thomas J. Watson Fellowship: European Hilt-and-Point Sword Dance.
2011 President Leon Botstein Award: Graduating senior with a strong academic record across the disciplines judged by the faculty to have demonstrated intellectual ambition, creativity and integrity.
2008-2011 Trustee Leader-Scholar: Social action fellowship. Founder of the Vermont Harmony Project, doing oral histories and cross-cultural workshops.
2010 Flow Circle Fund: Oral history project with the Vermont Harmony Project
CONFERENCES & TALKS
2015 Trailguide to a Temporal-Aesthetic Map: Aesthetics, Discourse, and Decision Making Strategies in Rapper Dance. SDHS/CORD Joint Conference, Athens, June 4th-7th
2015 Temporal-Aesthetic Mapping in Dance Research: When’s Important! K(no|w)Body, University of Roehampton, London, June 18th -19th
2015 European Sword Dance History and Practical. University of Roehampton, Guest Lecturer, World Music and Dance, January 19th
2014 Intersubjective Discourse and Adjudication in Dance: Aesthetic Mapping of Judging at the Dancing England Rapper Tournament. Local Dance as Knowledge, Practice, and Heritage Symposium, Budapest, November 21st-23rd
2012 Chasing the Star of Swords: Researching European Sword Dance. Thomas J. Watson Foundation, Appleton, OH, August 3rd-5th
2012 Hilt-and-Point Sword Dancing Traditions of Western Europe. ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology Symposium, Limerick, July 22nd-29th
2011 University and the Formation of the Voting Habit. International Student Conference on Freedom and Responsibility, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, April 29- May 1
SERVICE TO PROFESSION
2015 Editorial Board: Country Dance and Song Journal
2015 Co-Founder, Co-Organizer: K(no|w)Body Symposium 2015
DANCE LEADERSHIP
2013-2015 Board Member: Country Dance Society-Boston Centre.
2006-2015 Sword Dance Instructor: Teaching sword dance professionally in schools, festivals, and to teams in the USA, UK, Spain, France, Italy, and Germany.
2015 Judge: Dancing England Rapper Tournament
2012-2013 Chairman: Swing into Summer Dance Weekend, Pinewoods Camp, MA.
2009-2015 Contra and English Dance Caller: Teaching and calling social dancing.
2007-2011 President: Bard Contra Dance
2009-2011 President: Bard College Tango Club
2009-2011 President: Bard College Contact Improv
SELECTED PERFORMANCES & TEACHING
2014 American Music Abroad: Folk group Windborne selected by U.S. Dept. of State for a month-long cultural diplomacy tour of Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Angola performing and teaching workshops in music and dance
2009-2012 Country Dance and Song Society: Taught rapper, longsword, morris, bal folk, couples dancing, play party games, contra, and harmony singing to children and adults
2000-2015 Folk Dance performance: Rapper: Newcastle Kingsmen (UK) Beside the Point Morris: Pinewoods Morris Men, Great Meadows Morris and Sword. Other: Orion Longsword (US), Kezka (Basque), Traunstein Schwerttanz (German)
2007-2011 Renewal Chorus: Co-director of world music ensemble, fifty-plus concerts
2006 Dancing England Rapper Tournament York: 1st place Showcase Award
OTHER EXPERIENCE
2010 Smithsonian Folkways: Wrote new Mission Statement and Strategic Vision for the organization’ education division. Created guidelines for and wrote new lesson plans to help teach traditional music and dance in classrooms.
2010-2011 Bard College: President of the Student Association, Student Representative to Board of Trustees, Head of Student Life Committee, Senior Class Officer
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
2015 (June) Elicitation Interview: Describing bodily experience with elicitation techniques with Dr Anne Cazemajou
2014 Labannotation: Advanced Labanotation with János Fügedi.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
International Council For Traditional Music
Society of Dance History Scholars
American Anthropological Association—Music and Sound Interest Group
Society for Cultural Anthropology
Association for Feminist Anthropology