Dance Research Journal

Dance Research Journal (DRJ), published twice yearly by the Congress on Research in Dance (CORD), carries scholarly articles, book reviews, a list of books and journals received, and reports of scholarly conferences, archives, and other projects of interest to the field. Contributions for publication consideration are open to both members and nonmembers of CORD, and will be accepted at any time.

Views expressed in DRJ are the authors' and not necessarily those of the editors, CORD, or CORD officers. 

As a philosophy of perception and experience phenomenology’s orientation to embodiment has been influential on thinking about dance, dance making, and dance therapies. What has phenomenology contributed? What has it obscured? What new directions — scholarly, performative, choreographic — have emerged from it, or move beyond it? Has the promise to “re-language” movement been realized in specific terms? What other notions of language — writing, inscription and/or scripturality — challenge re-languaging? How do dancers and choreographers address these questions? Does the field of cognition studies emanating from neuroscience challenge or complement the phenomenological orientation to embodiment? How can dance studies, specializing as it does in the theorization of corporeality and movement, address technological interfaces with the body, affect, and non-representational space emergent in digital technologies, new media theory, and geographies of relational space? Can dance theory and practice enable new readings of the most influential texts in the phenomenological tradition (Henri Bergson, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, Hubert Godard, and Vilem Flusser, among others)? We are calling for papers on these and related issues that emphasize new critical perspectives.

Final deadline for submissions: December 1, 2010

Approximate length: 6,000 words (not including notes & bibliography)

Inquiries: to markfranko@earthlink.net

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