[DUC] Dance Under Construction CFP - deadline extended until January 22nd!

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Dance Under Construction XII: Economies in Motion CFP deadline extended another week: please submit all proposals no later than Friday, January 22, 2010.

Thanks to everyone who has already submitted a proposal!

Call for Papers and Performances

“Economy”
most often conjures thoughts of finances and money, or the production,
distribution, and consumption of goods. Yet the economy and economies
proffer rich terrains of exploration for choreographers, performers,
and dance scholars. Inspired by the global financial crisis,
U.S. recession, and unprecedented budget cuts across the UC system,
this year Dance Under Construction will explore and interrogate
“Economies in Motion.”

In response to the times, the conference
theme intends to investigate and unravel economies in dance, the body,
performance, and other embodied sites of critical analysis. The economy
as defined by its financial or monetary meaning greatly impacts dance
and the study of dance in a university setting, but there are so many
other economies at play, in motion. Economy also refers to the
organization of something, a system of exchange and interaction.
Choreographers account for these economies (for example, of space,
sexuality, gender, politics, power…the list goes on and on) when
creating work and these encounters and systems of organization are ripe
for the picking by dance scholars.

“Economies
in Motion” will be addressed during panels presenting choreography and
paper. Topics can include, but are not limited to:

•       choreographing the recession
•       embodying economies
•       economies of politics, gender, race, class, power, etc.
•       intimate economies/economies of intimacy, love, sex, sexuality
•       global bodies and transnational bodies
•       inverting, protesting, and
 challenging systems of exchange
•       performing institutional culture(s)
•       transgressing systems of power
•       tactics for creative fundraising
•       laboring bodies/bodies as labor
•       dance and/or bodies as a commodity
•       negotiating citizenships and blurring boundaries
•       the poetics of economy in movement practice

We
invite broad and innovative interpretations of the conference theme
through papers, projects, and performances. Work that utilizes and/or
analyzes various mediums such as dance, film, text, cultural
production, and other performance genres are encouraged. Proposals for
panels, working groups, professional development workshops, and roundtable discussions are
 also welcome.

Applicants
should submit an abstract (250-300 words) of your paper, performance,
or project and working bibliography, if applicable. Please include your
full name, contact information, institutional affiliation,
brief biography (2-3 sentences), and indicate all technological and
space requirements. Specify in your application whether a performance
space or classroom setting would best suit your work, and please plan
not to exceed a time limit of 20 minutes. DUC aspires to foster a
community and network of support for dancers and scholars, so please be
prepared to talk about your work and to engage with the work of others.

Please direct your proposals or inquiries to dance_under_construction at yahoo..com by *new deadline* January 22, 2010.

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Conference Description

Dance
Under Construction (DUC) is an interdisciplinary forum for presenting
graduate student work theorizing dance, performance, and the body. It
originated as an initiative of the graduate students of UCLA’s
Department of World Arts and Cultures and has been hosted by various UC
campuses. DUC has grown to an annual student-run event for dance and
performance scholars, as well as those in related disciplines. Designed
for the development of intellectual inquiry in a supportive and
rigorous environment, the conference offers students a chance to
explore through experimental modes of research and performance. This
interdisciplinary event provides a rare and important discursive space
for the stimulation and presentation of cutting-edge research in topics
related to the body as a site of cultural identification.




      
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