[DUC] Dance Under Construction-- April 13th and 14th, 2012 at UC Riverside-- Call for Papers and Performances

[Dance Under Construction .]

Dance Under Construction XIII: Re-imagining Archives in Motion will be hosted at UC Riverside, Friday & Saturday, April 13 & 14, 2012.

In this email:

•   
 Conference description
•    Call for papers and performances (February 17 deadline)


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.

-----

Call for Papers and Performances

 
   
           “The archive” may evoke a
concrete collection of books, articles, and mircofilm contained within a
library or museum, yet digital media have allowed remote access to archives to
become increasingly commonplace. At the same time, several legal systems have
begun to recognize indigenous song and dance as legal evidence, highlighting
what performers have known all along—that performance is also a way to archive
and analyze the human experience. A near-mythic topic in dance research
assigned with as much scholarly primacy as perplexity, "the archive"
and theoretical notions thereof continue to complicate methods and modes of
dance inquiry concerned with records of the past.
            Charged
with the task to shape the contours of dance studies documentation and
discourse, this graduate student conference seeks to explore constantly
changing notions of the archive. Through paper presentations, performances,
workshops, and working groups, the conference will probe the relationship
between source materials and uses of them, trouble the dichotomy between
written and performed work, and re-imagine scholars’ and performers’
interactions with repositories of information.     
            We
encourage participants to think about the many forms that an archive could
take, whether digital, embodied, in memory, or in daily life, and to consider
how each of these archival manifestations impact “the” archive. Can the archive
be enacted or performed or must it be tangible and stable? How can the acts of
performing and archiving interrelate? How are identity politics tied to
archival creation and use? How do live performances change (or what remains)
when they are documented and archived? How has digitization impacted the
permanence of archives, and how are these new digital archives policed? 
 
Proposals might address the
following issues/questions:
 
●      access to archives and issues of power
●      issues of copyright and performance
●      re-imagining “the” archive
●      how archives can be used and enacted
●      issues of permanence, ephemerality, and
instability in archives
●      nostalgia and the archive
●      memory as a form of archive
●      capturing the live performance
●      bodily archives
●      reconstructing dances from archival materials
●      body politics of archives and archival work
●      economic aspects to archival work—both access to
and creation of archives
●      regulating the digital archive
●      issues of translation, whether cultural,
linguistic, or otherwise
           

            We
invite broad and innovative interpretations of the conference theme through
papers and performances. Work that utilizes and/or analyzes multiple mediums
such as dance, film, text, and other performance genres is encouraged.
Proposals for panels, working groups, workshops, and roundtable discussions are
especially welcome. We would like this conference to be an opportunity for
graduate students to come together, collaborate, form connections, and receive
feedback on their work, regardless of the state of their research. It is
understood that all of the research presented will be, in some sense, in
progress.  DUC aspires to foster a
community and network of support for dancers and scholars, so please come
excited to talk about your work and to engage with the work of others.
 
 
Guidelines for Submitting Proposals
 
            To
apply, submit an abstract (250-300 words) of your paper, performance, or
project. Please include your full name, contact information, institutional
affiliation, brief biography (approximately 100 words), 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 for a presentation or performance
or up to one hour for each working group or workshop. Applications should be
submitted in .pdf format to dance_under_construction at yahoo.com by February 17, 2012. A confirmation email will be sent upon receiving your proposal. 

 
Please title the subject line of your
application e-mail as follows: DUC Proposal – (Your Last Name) – (Your
presentation type, e.g. “Paper Presentation” / “Performance” / “Workshop” /
”Working Group”)
 
An applicant may submit ONLY ONE proposal
for ONE of the presentation categories described above. 

For more information, please contact dance_under_construction at yahoo.com.
-----


There will be a registration fee of $25 to present at or attend the conference. Stay tuned for more information concerning registration, lodging and airfare, and other DUC-related activities happening at UC- Riverside that weekend. 

Feel free to forward this email to whomever you think might be interested in this interdisciplinary conference.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.ucr.edu/pipermail/duc/attachments/20120117/b759878b/attachment-0001.html 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: DUC_CFP.pdf
Type: application/pdf
Size: 88126 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.ucr.edu/pipermail/duc/attachments/20120117/b759878b/attachment-0001.pdf