Amherst Early Music Festival
Connecticut College in New London , Connecticut
Amherst Early Music Festival will offer a Historical Dance Program (Classes in Baroque Dance, Baroque Dance Notation, Renaissance Dance, and Music of Italy: The Late Renaissance and Baroque Eras; two public performances; English country dance, lectures; concerts; more).
Faculty: Kaspar D. Mainz , Dorothy Olsson,
Dance Assistant: Peggy Murray.
Dates: July 9-17, 2011.
Location: Connecticut College in New London , Connecticut , U.S. Web
Site: http://www.amherstearlymusic.org;
Further information: info@amherstearlymusic.org.
Also see: http://www.newyorkhistoricaldance.com/
Congress on Research in Dance Annual Conference
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Moving Music/Sounding Dance: Intersections, Disconnections, and Alignments between Dance and Music
Dance and music are often natural partners. In many contexts, they are not even separable, as when a dance is defined by the rhythm that drives it or a music performance is only considered relevant if it animates its listeners into motion. Many dance forms are executed by dancer-musicians who simultaneously generate sonic and visual effects. Even when the distinct roles of dancer and musician are maintained, musicians and dancers are constantly inspiring and challenging each other. In academia, however, dance and music are separated by disciplinary boundaries undefined exploring similar issues and theories, practices and places, commonly in parallel worlds that rarely intersect. With this conference, we hope to forge pathways of (re)connection between our fields that will prove long lasting and meaningful. By drawing attention to the multiplicity of sounds in dance and ways in which music moves its listeners, we aim to generate fruitful dialogue that will enable a regeneration of the relationships between music and dance scholarship.
For full details, please refer to the
2011 Annual Conference section of this website.
CORD Special Topics Conference
Meanings and Makings of Queer Dance
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
This conference seeks to bring together queer studies and dance studies to consider the questions, methods, practices, and politics that preoccupy both fields. We encourage submissions from both artists and scholars, who study, make, and/or participate in dance in and for a variety of venues—from the concert stage to the social club dance floor to the video screen. Submissions exploring the limits or problems of the term “queer” are also welcome. While dance will be at the center of the conference, we hope submissions will take up dance from a range of disciplines and practices, including visual culture; cultural studies; theatre and musical theatre studies; film, radio, and television studies, etc. Given the provocative challenges dance studies and queer studies make to hierarchies of power and ways of knowing, this conference invites submissions in a range of formats: traditional paper panels, embodied workshops, performances, and screendance.
The full call for proposals will be available May 23rd. Abstracts will be accepted beginning
June 1st and continuing until
September 15th.
CORD Annual Conference
Embassy Suites Hotel & Spa
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Host Institution: University of New Mexico
The topic and call for papers for this conference will be released in November 2011. Stay tuned for additional details!
