Deadline extended: 28 January 2019.
The Dance Studies Association is hosting its 2019 annual conference at Northwestern University August 8-11, located on the shore of Lake Michigan with a view of the Chicago skyline. We invite you to join us for papers, panels, roundtable discussions, lecture-demonstrations, movement workshops, dance works, and screendances that address the conference theme, “Dancing in Common.”
What might it mean to speak about “the common” or “the
commons” in relation to dancing bodies? How do long-standing ideas about
the common good and common property inflect past and present practices?
What opportunities might dance and its concomitant registers of
embodied exchange and identity offer in solidarity to emancipator modes
of sociality? Thinking about our different experiences and
understandings of the commons, we gather in Chicago to reflect, move and
create.
Presentations may address, but are not limited to, the following topics and questions:
- Commons and canons: “Common knowledge” and “common practices,” including studio practice, historiography, repertory work, reconstruction, and pedagogy.
- Cultural commons and the public sphere: How might we think about the commons across time and space, for example in relation to past and present (g)localities? What is dance’s responsibility to and role within the environment as common site?
- Intellectual property and the commons: Copyright and power versus common property, as well as the value of movement as part of a cultural commons associated with both heritage and innovation.
- Media and the commons: What is the role of the (popular) screen as a site of global production and distribution for an affective commons? What kinds of appropriations, intercultural practices, and commodifications could be (counter) productive to neoliberal approaches to the “cultural commons”?
- Relationships between the commons and institutions: From funding dance with claims for the common good, to the limits of institutional belonging.
- Ethics of difference, belonging, and solidarity: How do we support an undercommons; a queer commons; a brown commons? How do we engage with institutional practices of intersectionality, including finding common ground between multiple disciplines or causes, without devaluing their particularity or presuming shared experience? How does dance practice solidarity and alliance?
- Theorizing the (un)common: What are the tensions in dance making and scholarship between the unique or exemplary and the claim to speak for what is taken for granted as “common sense”?
“Dancing in Common” meets on the campus of Northwestern University on the shore of Lake Michigan. The Hotel Orrington and other conference hotels are just a few blocks away in Evanston, near public transportation to downtown Chicago and airports. Film screenings, club outings, and performances at Links Hall complement the wide range of panels, workshops, and plenaries planned for DSA 2019
Submit your proposals by January 28, 2019 by clicking here.
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