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Dance Community AnnouncementsPlease find information about upcoming events for dance and dance related organizations below. All events are arranged by date. **Please visit each organization's website for full event information. If you have an event you would like to submit for inclusion, please email me at Ashanti@cordance.org.
September 2010
Call for Proposals: Staging Sustainability: Arts, Community, Culture, Environment
April 20-22, 2011
York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Deadline for Submissions: September 1, 2010
How can we produce art that reflects, celebrates, critiques and advances the cultural life of our community without contributing to the destruction of the setting that inspires these artistic endeavours?
The Faculty of Fine Arts at York University (Toronto - Canada) invites proposals for papers for Staging Sustainability: Arts, Community, Culture, Environment, a conference taking place April 20-22, 2011. The conference will provide an opportunity for artists and those who support the arts in a myriad of ways – from scholars, critics, producers and designers to policy-makers, industry and government – to engage in interdisciplinary dialogue about issues associated with the creation of environmentally sustainable arts practice and performance. The conference committee welcomes proposals for papers that consider the relationship between the cultural and ecological aspects of sustainability in the arts, and may encompass aspects of subjectivity with respect to community and identity. Please forward a 250-word abstract of your proposal, including your name, affiliation, mailing and email address to:
Ina Agastra, Executive Assistant to the Dean
Faculty of Fine Arts, York University ffadeanasst@yorku.ca Submission deadline: September 1, 2010 Conference website: www.stagingsustainability.ca
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Call for Proposals: ICTM 41st World Conference
July 13–19, 2011
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
ICTM is dedicated to the study of traditional, folk, popular, classical, and urban musics and dances of the world.
http://www.mun.ca/ictm DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: SEPTEMBER 7, 2010 PROPOSALS
Proposals are invited in the following categories: Individual Paper, Film/Video, Organized Panel, Forum/Roundtable, and Participatory Workshop. Abstracts of up to 300 words can be submitted online at http://www.mun.ca/ictm by 7 September 2010. Forms for mailing or faxing proposals are also available at this site. Proposals will be evaluated anonymously by the international program committee.
Program Committee Chair Contact Information: LOCATION
North America’s oldest city, St. John’s is the capital of Canada’s newest province (Newfoundland and Labrador). Located on a centuries- old shipping route, this historic port city developed at the hub of trans-Atlantic trade, becoming home to a variety of vibrant cultural traditions. A rich array of performances are in the planning. You will enjoy local traditions, diverse styles of Native American music and dance, and distinguished performers from across Canada. Our safe and amiable city is also family friendly.
Local Organizing Committee Contact Information:
October 2010
Call for Contributions: 2010 Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies
Deadline for Submission: October 1, 2010
Issued yearly in autumn/winter, this peer-reviewed publication reflects the
dynamic and diverse membership of SDHS, providing an informal forum for scholarly engagement with our most exciting research issues. We seek to bring you themes and debates current in the field of dance studies and the profession, alongside news from the international community of scholars in dance and related disciplines. Dancing the Popular Chances are that all of us have practiced popular dance at some point in our lives—whether in a neighbourhood dance studio or in front of our own television; in the audience at a music concert or in an urban dance club. Given its prevalence and power, we devote a special issue of Conversations to explore the myriad ways in which popular dance might be conceptualized, experienced, and researched. Submissions might address the following questions:
Submissions may be up to 3000 words and can be in many formats—from images and cartoons to performative musings, short articles and poetry to critical dialogues.
*We especially welcome photographic images.
Please send all contributions to this issue’s guest editor:
To view the full call, please refer to the SDHS website at http://www.sdhs.org
November 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS
Thinking Through Dance: The Philosophy of Dance Performance and Practices
Deadline for Submission: November 15, 2010 A one-day conference on 26th Februrary 2011 at Froebel College, Roehampton University This conference explores the philosophical questions raised by and in dance. Relatively under-theorised as it has been in the history of aesthetics, dance presents fertile ground for philosophical enquiry. Abstracts are invited for papers and (part-) practical presentations of 30 minutes (plus 15 minutes discussion time) on topics including, but not limited to, the following. Papers and presentations in any philosophical tradition are welcome.
Deadline for submission: 15th November 2010 (Presenters will be notified of acceptance by 17th December 2010). Panel for selection of asbtracts / papers includes: Graham McFee, Jenny Bunker, Sara Houston, Geraldine Morris, Anna Pakes & Bonnie Rowell Please e-mail your abstract and contact/affiliation details (on a separate sheet) in MsWord or PDF format to Julia Noyce: Julia.Noyce@roehampton.ac.uk. Organised by Roehampton University Dance Department.
January 2011
GENRE, MUSIC AND SOUND SERIES: VOLUME 6
MOVIES, MOVES AND MUSIC: The Sonic World of Dance Films Edited by Dr Pauline Manley and Dr Mark Evans Published by Equinox, London
CALL FOR PAPERS
About the Volume
Over the last 40 years, while the musical film has faded from its historical high-point to a more isolated and quirky phenomenon, the dance film has displayed refulgent growth and surprising resilience. A phenomena of modern movie-making, the dance film has spawned profitable global enterprises (Billy Elliot), has fashioned youthful angst as sociological voice (Saturday Night Fever, Footloose and Dirty Dancing) and acted as a marker of post-modern ironic camp (Strictly Ballroom). This modern genre has influenced cinema as a whole in the ways bodies are made dimensional, in the way rhythm and energy are communicated, and in the filmic capacity to create narrative worlds without words.
Emerging as a distinct (sub) genre in the 1970s, dance film has been crafting its own meta-narrative and aesthetic paradigms that, nonetheless, display extraordinary variety. Ranging from the experimental, ‘you are there’ sonic explorations of Robert Altman’s The Company and the brutal energy of David La Chappelle’s Rize to the lighter ‘backstage musical’ form displayed in Centre Stage and Save the Last Dance, this genre has garnered both commercial and artistic success.
Meanwhile, Bollywood has become a juggernaut, creating transportable memory for diasporic Indian communities across the world. This is an entire industry based on the ‘dance number’, where films are pitched around the choreography, where the actors are not expected to sing, but they must dance.
This series of essays will investigate the relationship between movement and sound as it is revealed, manipulated and crafted in the dance film genre. It will consider the role of all aspects of sound in the dance film, including the dancer generated sounds inherent in Tap, Flamenco, Irish Dance and Krumping. Drawing on significant post-War dance films from around world, this volume will finally address this mainstream genre, where image and sound meet in a crucial symbiosis.
Requirements:
Please send a 250 word abstract to the e-mail address listed below. Final articles would be due mid January 2011.
This volume will focus on the feature dance film rather music video or musicals. We are especially interested in avant-garde, hip hop, Bollywood and commercial ‘backstage’ dance films, but articles which fall outside these categories are also encouraged.
Finalised articles should be between 6000-8000 words.
Please note that acceptance of the proposal does not guarantee publication and all chapters will be subject to normal processes of peer review. Please send proposals and further enquiries to
Spacing Dance(s) - Dancing Space(s)
10th International NOFOD Conference University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark 27 – 30 January 2011
The notion of space relates both to the very concrete physical and
technological settings of dance and to the implicit contexts created through movement. In both senses dance takes place in many kinds of spaces. Recently the venues have appeared to grow in number and diversity: New arenas and old ones revived offer places to enjoy the social atmosphere when dancing salsa, tango or Nordic folkdances, diverse rural and urban outdoor locations host engaging events with dance performances and workshops almost throughout the year; a plethora of film clips on diverse forms of dance circulate in the internet, for example. However, at the same time movement also constructs and sets space. Moving generates an embodied and shared spatiality.
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