Conversations Across the Field of the Dance Studies

Issued yearly in autumn/winter, this peer-reviewed publication reflects the dynamic and diverse membership of SDHS, providing an informal form for scholarly engagement with our most exciting research issues.

Conversations is conceived as a “cross-over” publication that speaks to research agendas and the profession, addressing the concerns of the field through discursive, polemic, poetic and experiential articles.

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Call for Contributions Autumn 2012:
Visual Culture and Performing Arts — an Academic Discipline
Guest editors: Tamara Tomic-Vajagic and Dr. Alessandra Lopez Y Royo

While we all engage visually with dance, how much are we aware of the specific issues of visual culture relating to our embodied experiences? While visual components cannot be separated from the overall dance content, with the increasing interest in the area of time-based art, media and visual culture as an academic and artistic fields, dance practitioners and scholars are investigating various possibilities in the area traditionally associated with the visual studies. Many recent dance exhibitions prove that exploring dance content as part of the cultural heritage in museums and gallery spaces is an emerging interest in the field of both dance and visual art studies. Students in academic programmes now increasingly explore aspects of dance as public art, and investigate various challenges posed to received ideas of dance as “art” objects.

The aim of this issue of Conversations is to engage in dialogue about the importance of intersections between dance and visual culture in the practical, historical and ethnographic spheres, and to develop a forum for the exchange of experiences between practitioners and theorists interested in this exciting field.

The submissions could relate (but are not limited) to the following proposed themes:

  1. Dance and its cross-influences (media, film, design, fashion and advertising).
  2. Internet and the new media as materials for creating and exploring dance.
  3. What are the characteristics of the dance as a public art?
  4. Relationships between visual and performing arts materials and mediums.
  5. How visual aspects of the dance speak about the culture they come from?
  6. Curating and/or teaching dance in visual art venues (including galleries, museums and public spaces).
  7. Inventive methodologies for exploring visual in the dance.

Submissions may be up to 3000 words, and may be in many formats, including short articles and poetry to critical dialogues. We particularly invite visual submissions — photography and other types of visual images, drawings, cartoons or performative representations of dance.

Deadline for submissions: 31 May 2012

Please send all contributions to:
Tamara Tomic-Vajagic,
Department of Dance
Froebel College
University of Roehampton
Roehampton Lane
London SW15 5PH
UK
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