Call for Proposals – ASA 2018 Conference

An exciting opportunity where dance and health meets…submit a paper to the panel Movement therapy for mental health, during the ASA 2018 Conference on 18-21 September in Oxford. Please see abstract and submission guidelines below: https://nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6852 They are looking for a range of submissions and angles, so your work does not necessarily have to be based in…

Diaspora & Embodiments of Hope: Performances of Spirit & Sustainability

Diaspora & Embodiments of Hope: Performances of Spirit & Sustainability Centre for Performance Philosophy, PATS, University of Surrey April 19th 2018 Registration Now Open Booking: http://gsauk.org/events/research/diaspora-and-embodiment-hope The Centre of Performance Philosophy present a half-day Symposium exploring and interrogating a diverse range of dance practices and other modes of embodied resilience in response to Western modernity and globalization. Key…

PhD – Community performance and gestures of migration

The PERFORMANCE LABORATORY brings together UGA’s performing arts, geography-urban studies and computer science communities to produce innovative performance as research. This new interdisciplinary community of 41 academics will allow the development of cutting edge art research, digital documentation, performance literacy tools and innovative forms of material and immaterial heritage. This will push the very boundaries of the scientific disciplines…

Call for proposals – Reaching | Outreaching

Reaching | Outreaching Loughborough University London, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park 9 June 2018    The language of ‘outreach’ shapes conversation on university and artistic life, from ‘strategic visions’ to arts council applications. But what does it mean to reach out? What is the discourse on outreach as a gesture – an act and effect? In On Being…

 3 year funded PAR PhD, Dance and computer science : Gestures as frequencies: somatics and creative coding

 3 year funded PAR PhD, Dance and computer science : Gestures as frequencies: somatics and creative coding The PERFORMANCE LABORATORY @ UGA brings together performing arts, geography-urban studies and computer science communities to produce innovative performance as research PAR. This new interdisciplinary community of 41 academics will allow the development of cutting edge art research, digital documentation, performance literacy…

Call for Contributions – Slowing and stilling: foregrounding process in performance practices

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire in partnership with Birmingham International Dance Festival Slowing and stilling: foregrounding process in performance practices   June 11th-12th 2018, Birmingham City University   We come together to consider the ways in which practice and process can be honoured in a time short product obsessed culture. From delicate acts, to ferocious interventions. Drawing on Slow…

Laban Guild Annual Conference

Laban Guild Annual Conference Date/Time Date(s) – 29/04/2018 10:00 am – 6:00 pm Location The Place Laban Guild Annual Conference Laban Lecture to be given by Alison Curtis-Jones: Re-imagining Laban: Traditions and Inventions. Re-staging as creative contemporary practice Workshops led by Alison and Adrian Look In honour of Geraldine Stephenson, an evening performance by Summit Dance…

 Journal of Performance and Mindfulness

the inaugural issue of the Journal of Performance and Mindfulness is available online at: http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/journal/pam/ The first issue contains: Deborah Middleton, Franc Chamberlain, Daniel Plá Letter from the Editors Deborah Middleton Mapping Mindfulness-Based Performance Cassiano Sydow Quillici Proposals for a Dialogue between Performative Arts and Contemplative Traditions Candice Salyers Three Insights from Six Reasons: Reflections on a…

9th international interdisciplinary symposium “Education, Research, Creation”

The Ovidius University of Constanţa is pleased to announce that registration is open for the 9th international interdisciplinary symposium “Education, Research, Creation” to be held at the Faculty of Arts, from 29-31 May, 2018. Symposium topics: • Musicology, Composition, Education in music, Ethnomusicology and ethnology, Music Therapy, Stylistic interpretation in music. • Theater and performing arts, Film, Media.…