[DUC] Fwd: Re: DUC

[Dance Under Construction .]

hello ... so, duc may be happening this year after all
at uc davis.  this is an email from a graduate student
at davis ...please send your thoughts/feedback to this
email address (dance_under_construction at yahoo.com).
  
thanks,
jennifer  

> hi all
> 
> just to keep things rolling now now now
> I'm proposing dates and a simple structure for a
> gathering of grad students
> interested in dance and performance.
> 
> 
> Please respond - even with ambivalence - so we can
> all see if this is
> possible
> 
> This proposal is bare bones - if interest grows, we
> can grow the event -
> longer days, more presentations
> 
> TEST: 
> If you don't have time for this email, you don't
> have time to help with this
> conference.
> 
> 
> THEME: 
> I get that some are interested in an intersection of
> dance/performance
> studies with research-as-practice. Should this be
> our theme for a
> collaborative conference?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> PROPOSAL:
> Something simple. No keynote speaker.
> 
> Presenting the Body, Staging the Body, some title?
> A graduate student collaborative to share ideas,
> practice, and performance
> 
> 
> Saturday schedule:
> € Arrive - morning
> € Lunch - catered
> € Big Meeting For All with Intros
> € 1, 2 or 3 Sessions of papers/presentations
> (depending on # of
> participants)
> € Dinner ­ out in Davis
> € Performance - low-tech at the Uclub maybe,
> maybe the emphasis of the performance is on sharing
> research/process rather
> than completed work for the concert stage
> but maybe that's what the daytime sessions will
> be...
> 
> Sunday schedule:
> € Coffee, breakfast, chat - catered
> € Another Sessions of papers/presentations
> € Big Meeting for All to discuss 2008... maybe to
> name any significant
> issues that arose in chat and sessions
> € Late lunch ­ out in Davis
> 
> 
> COST: Free
> Everyone pays for (fundraises) their own
> transportation and hotel.
> Davis folks who can host a guest will be encouraged
> to offer homes, beds...
> Davis folks (and others too?) raise money for simple
> catered lunch and
> breakfast and any materials we might need.
> 
> 
> 
> DATES (3 options):
> 
> very soon: April 7-8
> 
> soon after: April 14-15, which coincides with Picnic
> Day, a massive campus
> wide annual festival with lots of drunken students
> and their parents,
> BUT also coincides with our annual undergrad dance
> concert which I'd love to
> discuss/critique/deconstruct with consideration
> towards how to train dancers
> and choreographers, especially how experimental and
> conceptual post-modern
> faculty can create learning/performing opportunities
> for students whose
> dance ideas and images are primarily sourced in
> Nutcrackers, Music videos,
> post-colonial Ethnic dances and Dance team.
> 
> later: May 4-5
> 
> I prefer the latter dates but I recognize that those
> on Semesters (rather
> than Quarters) are finishing their school year at
> this time.
> 
> 
> 
> OK, your turn.
> 
> Respond.
> 
> Dates?
> Themes?
> Concerns?
> Commitments?
> 
> 
> Keith
> 
> 
> 



 
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