DRJ invites papers and paper proposals addressing the following issues/questions:

• How has dance contributed to inter-, cross- or trans-disciplinary knowledge production?
• In what sense, today, is dance still academically and performatively a discipline?
• What are the historical and circumstantial reasons for disciplinary status?
  • What militates against it?
• What is the history and theory of dance's disciplinarity in its relation to that of the other disciplines academic and artistic?
• What are the institutional forces at work determining dance's relations to the disciplines and/or its resistance to disciplinary status, now and in the past?
• How can we map the field of dance studies choreography and performance, and/or dance history and theory from contemporary methodological perspectives?
• What disciplinary or interdisciplinary grounding do we inherit from the history of professional dance organizations?
• How is disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity situated cross-culturally in dance?
• Where is dance located today on the map of interdisciplinary creative and scholarly pursuits world-wide?