[ANPPOM-L] CFP: Dance History

[Carlos Palombini]

Grounding Moves: Landscapes for Dance
June 15-18 2006
The Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta Canada

The Society of Dance History Scholars invites submissions for its 
twenty-ninth annual conference, hosted by the Banff Centre for the Arts 
in Alberta, Canada, a unique centre known for its dedication to the arts 
and to creative process, and for its breathtaking location in the heart 
of the Rocky Mountains.

In recognition of this stunning site and the vibrant role the Banff 
Centre has played in Canada for decades, the 2006 conference will engage 
with dance projects fostered in this location. These include the unique 
and internationally-renowned "Aboriginal Dance Project," inaugurated in 
1996; the many cutting edge media and visual arts programs of the Banff 
New Media Institute, which include numerous projects that integrate 
dance and technology; and the Centre's renowned ballet program, which 
has trained dancers in Canada since the 1940s.  The program committee 
hopes to stimulate proposals that will look at Aboriginal dance, dance 
and new media, ballet training, and issues of state and institutional 
support that may be raised by the success of the Banff Centre itself.

Although the conference proposes and promotes this focus on the Banff 
Centre, we welcome proposals outside that realm.  The conference is open 
to any new research in dance studies, and we imagine that the issues 
raised will be applicable to dance practices, institutional structures 
and histories in locations the world
over.

Questions include:
*What is dance's relation to institutional structures?
*How do issues of self-determination, ownership, state control, 
intellectual and artistic property, sovereignty, and of European-imposed 
definitions about these, intersect with the histories of institutional 
support?
*How have -- and haven't -- Aboriginal dance practices flourished in 
relation to these structures and in the face of institutional constraints?
*What is ballet's relationship to institutional structures, such as 
those provided by governments or schools (universities, conservatories, 
arts centers, neighborhood studios); by cities (New York, Winnipeg, 
Seoul, Beijing...); and by ideologies of, for example, gender, 
nationalism and globalization?
*What possibilities do the realms of new media hold in addressing these 
histories and issues?  In contributing to the extension and evolution of 
dance practice and performance?
*How does dance ground practitioners across geographic, institutional, 
and ideological divides?  Submissions encouraged for individual papers 
and  panels, as well as for roundtable discussions, movement workshops, 
lecture-demonstrations, collaborative presentations, and other formats 
that will enable the active engagement of conference participants. More 
info on the Banff Centre can be found at: 
http://www.banffcentre.ca/about/  Submission guidelines and forms can be 
found at <http://www.sdhs.org/confpropinst.html>.

Submissions should be emailed or postmarked by November 15, 2005.  If 
submitting by email, please download form and send to 
sdhs em primemanagement.net  If submitting by mail, please send six copies 
of the proposal along with the submission form to:
Jacqueline Shea Murphy
Department of Dance
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521

Queries may be addressed by email to: jshea em ucr.edu 
<mailto:jshea em ucr.edu>. No submissions accepted by fax.

Other members of the committee include: Susan C. Cook (School of Music, 
University of Wisconsin, Madison); Susan Kozel (School of Interactive 
Arts and Technology,  Simon Fraser University); Allana Lindgren (SSHRC 
Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Victoria); Jens Richard Giersdorf 
(Department of Dance Studies, University of Surrey); and Nadine 
George-Graves (Department of Theatre and Dance, University of 
California, San Diego).
-- Jim Ranieri Account Manager Society of Dance History Scholars 3416 
Primm Lane Birmingham, AL 35216 Telephone: 205.978.1404 Fax: 
205.823.2760 Web: www.sdhs.org Email: sdhs em primemanagement.net

-- 
carlos palombini
diretor
centro de pesquisa em música contemporânea
universidade federal de minas gerais
cpmc-ufmg
<palombini em terra.com.br>