The Journal of Dance, Movement and Spiritualities invites contributions for a third special issue titled: ‘Dance and the Goddess: She in the dance’. This issue responds to the wider cultural revival, interest and re-emergence of the Goddess in contemporary cultures. The issue will document how She is appearing in contemporary dance practices, Somatics movement modalities, performance, therapeutic practice (and in personal sensory moving experience).  The journal seeks to embrace a diversity of experienced and felt spiritualities and discussion of methodologies suited to discovering more about dance and spirituality are most welcome, as well as innovative methods for recording, digesting and articulating the experiences of spirituality.

Topics may include:
·         Goddess spirituality and dance in ancient cultures and civilizations
·         Goddess spirituality related to Deep-ecology, environmentalism and dance
·         Goddess spirituality in Jungian dance/movement forms
·         Buddhism, Goddess and dance/movement
·         Dance, folklore, legend, earth mysteries, symbols and myths
·         Feminisms, feminist debates, dance and embodiment
·         Earth-centred moving relationships
·         Somatics movement and gendered research
·         Archetypical goddesses in performance and/or therapeutic practices
·         Gendered debates, ambiguities and tensions

The submission date for this issue is: 1st of November 2016. Standard articles will be in the range of 5000-8000 words, including a 150 word abstract, six indicative key words, institutional affiliation and a short biography.