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FEBRUARY INTENSIVE

Dance Education for Students with Special Needs*

Diane Duggan, PhD, ADTR

Mon, Feb 20, 10 am- 6 pm, Tue-Wed, Feb 21-22, 10 am-4 pm, 3 sessions,

 $375 until Feb 13, $400 after

*Offered in collaboration with the 

92Y Dance/Movement Therapy Program.

This course will integrate dance therapy theory with best practices in dance education and positive behavior supports. Create movement activities that utilize the strengths and meet the needs of children and adolescents who have emotional, behavioral, learning, sensory and/or physical challenges. The course includes lectures, discussions, movement experiences, audio-visual media and reading and writing assignments.

For more information visit us online at www.92Y.org/DEL or call 212.415.5551.

Read the full announcement.

Call for Submissions:  

Special Issue of Dance Research Journal on Dance and Disability

 (Final deadline for submissions:  January 1, 2013)

The intersection of dance and disability is a rich site at which to explore the overlapping constructions of physical ability, aesthetic sensibility, individual subjectivity, and cultural visibility in movement performances.  Dance Research Journal is calling for submissions to a special issue focused around this topic in order to engage with the many interesting and critically important issues that arise when one begins to think about dance from the perspective of disability and, conversely, disability from the perspective of dance.  Questions we might consider are: What is different about mixed-ability dance companies?  How do integrated dance companies shift our expectations of virtuosity and visibility in dance?  Is it possible to perform disability without being “really” disabled?  What is the relationship between disability on stage and what Arlene Croce infamously termed “victim art”?  How can we think about the prevalence of moments of awkwardness, stumbling, spastic movements, and prosthetic devices in contemporary dance?  How do different cultures relate to aging dancers or disabled dancers?  How do dance films represent disability differently?  What is the relationship between representations of disabled bodies and queer bodies in contemporary dance?  What would it mean to open the discussion of disability in dance to include non-visual disabilities such as body-image disorders?

Final deadline for submissions:  January 1, 2013

Approximate length: 4,500 words (not including notes & bibliography)

Inquiries to Guest Editors Ann Cooper Albright (ann.cooper.albright@oberlin.edu) or Gabriele Brandstetter (theater-tanz@fu-berlin.de)

Call for Proposals: 

3rd Annual Flamenco Research Symposium: New Perspectives on Flamenco

Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

Deadline for Submissions: February 3, 2012

Announcement Date: March 15, 2012

Conference Dates: June 9-10, 2012

Hosted by the University of New Mexico and the National Institute of Flamenco, the 3rd Annual Flamenco Research Symposium: New Perspectives on Flamenco will take place June 9-10 2012. This event will be held in conjunction with the 25th anniversary of Festival Flamenco Internacional de Alburquerque – the country’s largest and most comprehensive platform for flamenco education and aesthetics. 

The purpose of this research symposium is to engage scholars in a dialogue concerning various elements surrounding flamenco history, theory and culture; and to encourage public participation and provide public education regarding these views. 

We are seeking submissions for 20-minute paper presentations or lecture demonstrations of 20-40 minutes on all topics related to flamenco. If interested, please submit the following information to Christine@nifnm.org:

Name and affiliation of applicant(s) 

Title of Presentation 

Abstract of 1-2 pages 

Audio/Visual Requirements 

Mailing address 

Email address 

Phone number 

Upon announcing acceptance, details regarding travel, lodging and any pertinent information will be provided. Questions concerning this event should be directed to Christine Vigil: Christine@nifnm.org 

Putnam Scholarship for Dance Writers

Award - $500 to attend the Dance Critics Association Conference in June, 2012.

Deadline for submission - Feb 8, 2012

FOR MORE INFORMATION – Janice LaPointe-Crump, gandj@gte.net 

Questions - Amanda Stone, co-chair DCNT Scholarship Committee. 214-882-8967 or amanda stone4@aol.com.  

CALL FOR PAPERS

Dance Under Construction Conference

April 13 – 14, 2012

University of California, Riverside

Deadline for submitting proposals: February 17, 2012

Re-imagining Archives in Motion

“The archive” may evoke a concrete collection of books, articles, and mircofilm contained within a library or museum, yet digital media have allowed remote access to archives to become increasingly commonplace. At the same time, several legal systems have begun to recognize indigenous song and dance as legal evidence, highlighting what performers have known all alongundefinedthat performance is also a way to archive and analyze the human experience. A near-mythic topic in dance research assigned with as much scholarly primacy as perplexity, "the archive" and theoretical notions thereof continue to complicate methods and modes of dance inquiry concerned with records of the past.

Charged with the task to shape the contours of dance studies documentation and discourse, this graduate student conference seeks to explore constantly changing notions of the archive. Through paper presentations, performances, workshops, and working groups, the conference will probe the relationship between source materials and uses of them, trouble the dichotomy between written and performed work, and re imagine scholars’ and performers’ interactions with repositories of information.

View the full Call for Papers

Within the conference series CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, we at DOCH, in Stockholm, Sweden, invites you to send proposals for the conference – 

Contemporary Dance Didactics: Explorations in Theory and Practice. 

A Conference with workshops and working groups at DOCH, 28-31 October, 2012

CALL FOR PAPERS

You are invited to submit abstracts on 200-250 words in English. State in what form you would like to present your proposal, as a paper, a lecture demonstration or a round table discussion as well as what language you wish to use. The conference languages are English and Scandinavian.

State your professional title (for example: researcher at a university, senior lecturer/associate professor, doctoral student or other).

The conference´s three different but partly overlapping themes are: 

• Theoretical aspects of dance didactics/teaching and learning. 
  
• Practical aspects that answer the question "how is it done?"
  
• Dance education in a social context. For example dance pedagogy and gender, dance for young people and community dancing.
  

Proposals should be e-mailed to closeencounters@doch.se before the 26th of February 2012. Late admittances will not be accepted.

The full Call for paper-invitation is available as a pDF.

To stay updated with the conference, be sure to visit our homepage at www.doch.se/CLOSEENCOUNTERS

If you have any questions, please contact our Conference Coordinator Kay Artle, e-mail kay.artle@doch.se 

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Call for Proposals:  Understanding Interdisciplinarity: Theory and Practice

Sheffield Hallam University's conference Understanding Interdisciplinarity: Theory and Practice was formally launched on the 29th November 2011. The conference seeks contributions from across the disciplines related to interdisciplinary working theory and practice including case studies and the theory and methods which underpin interdisciplinary research. Please find the call for papers here<http://research.shu.ac.uk/engineering-for-life/docs/EFLConferneceCall_000.pdf>.

The conference will run over three consecutive days featuring key note presentations <http://research.shu.ac.uk/engineering-for-life/KeyNoteSpeakers.html> from Prof Lizbeth Goodman (University College Dublin), Prof Robert Frodeman (University of North Texas) and Prof Ann Light (University of Nottingham).

All the details relating to the how and when to submit abstracts, participant registration and information pages on travel and accommodation can be found on the conference website<http://research.shu.ac.uk/engineering-for-life/Conference.html>.

The conference is being chaired by Professor Simeon Yates and coordinated by Charlotte Lester. If you have any questions or queries please contact us at engineeringforlife@shu.ac.uk<mailto:engineeringforlife@shu.ac.uk>.

Make Your Reservation for the 2012 Annual Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico Now!

CORD has negotiated a special room rate of $115.00 per night single/double occupancy.  Since this is an Embassy Suites, a hot, cooked to order breakfast and nightly manager's reception is included in your room rate.

Reserve online or call 505-245-7100