[DUC] 2013 DUC/CORD Conference: Tactical Bodies

[UCR Dance]

The UCLA Department of World Arts & Cultures / Dance Announces

*Tactical Bodies: The Choreography of Non-Dancing Subjects*
*A joint conference of the Congress On Research in Dance (CORD) Special
Topics and Dance Under Construction (the University of California Dance
Studies graduate student conference)*

Keynote speaker: Gabriele Brandstetter, Freie Universität Berlin
Closing comments: Susan Foster, UCLA Department of World Arts and
Cultures/Dance

*April 19–21, 2013*
University of California Los Angeles

*Call For Papers*
Tactical Bodies will interrogate the possibilities and problematics of
choreographic analysis. Choreographers, dance researchers and others have
extended the concept of choreography to works that do not necessarily
involve danced movement, challenging the assumption that choreography must
relate to dance and vice versa. In scholarly and other projects, the value
of choreography as an approach and a means of analysis has been
demonstrated across cultural sites as well as in a variety of disciplinary
domains. Yet interdisciplinary exchange is rare both because of the manner
in which the academic disciplines are organized in the institution, and
because of the marginal position that dance has historically held as an art
form and area of study.

Tactical Bodies provides an opportunity to enrich the discourse surrounding
“choreography” on the one hand, and on the other, to ask what the concept
does in disciplines other than dance studies. We invite submissions from
researchers in disciplines such as performance studies, curatorial studies,
comparative literature, art history and criticism, ethnic studies, gender
studies, LGBTQ studies, disability studies, post-colonial studies, urban
planning, education, and history, as well as art practitioners, curators,
social justice activists, and scholars studying human behavior in the
health and other sciences.

We seek proposals that examine how choreography exists in multiple spaces
and also proposals that consider unexpected subjects—in short, how the
movements of bodies and objects inform our daily social, political and
economic lives. Choreographic terms such as position, locality, direction,
pace, inclusion, and exclusion, and the myriad ways in which movement and
stillness are expressed lend themselves to theorizations of power and
difference. We look forward to offering a forum for textual and
performative presentations that explore the function of choreography within
and beyond the context of dance with a focus on activity that is not
normally conceived of as dancing.

Possible themes include:
- The choreography of curating/Choreography as curating
- Choreography of spectatorship
- Arts production: the invisible labor of moving bodies in theatres,
museums and festivals
- Choreography of torture and punishment
- Migration, apartheid, social and geographical lines of separation and
motion
- Mobilization, insurrection, and occupation in electoral politics, protest
and revolution
- Colonial and post-colonial maneuvers in global and local choreography
- Planning, urban movement, and architectural spatial arrangement
- Moving pedagogy in the choreography of the classroom
- Movement in the context of visual art
- Movement of non-human phenomena
- Choreographing meaning through the rhythm of the text
- Movement as a trope in theoretical discourse

*Genres of Participation*
We invite broad and innovative interpretations of the conference theme
through papers (both conventional and performative) and practice-oriented
presentations. 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 also
welcome.

*Submission Guidelines*
-Abstract (300 words max.) of your paper, presentation*, or proposed theme
for a panel, working group, workshop or roundtable discussion†.
-A half page bibliography for your research.
-Full name, contact information, institutional affiliation or professional
status, and brief biography (approx. 100 words).
-Specify whether a dance studio or lecture setting would best suit your
work in the comments section of the form.
-A paper/presentation cannot exceed 20 minutes. A panel, working group, or
round table discussion cannot exceed one hour with an additional 30 minutes
for open questions.

* Performance-as-Research Proposals should include a critical description
of the practice-based research engaging in artistic, theoretical,
epistemological or political themes relating to the conference. Means of
inviting critical engagement with the research should also be indicated.
Set up/strike for such contributions must take no more than 5 minutes, and
have minimal staging needs as no technical support will be provided beyond
a microphone and projection onto a screen as per a conventional paper
presentation. All presentations will be subject to the 20-minute time
limit, and may be scheduled on a panel with conventional scholarly papers.

† Panel, Working Group, Workshop and Roundtable Discussion Proposals should
provide the full name, contact information, institutional affiliation or
professional status, and brief biography (approx. 100 words) for each
participant. Note that each panelist seeking to present must submit an
abstract (300 words max.) of their own work along with the abstract for the
panel’s theme.

*For online submissions of proposals: Go to
http://www.pmswebreg.info/cord2013/openconf/openconf.php*
Submission deadline: November 16th, 2012.

*Submission Instructions:*
Go to http://www.pmswebreg.info/cord2013/openconf/openconf.php and click
“Make a Submission”

Complete the submission form. Be sure to include your 300 word or less
abstract on the form. This section should contain the abstract for the
panel’s theme for Organized Panel, Working Group, Workshop or Roundtable
Discussion proposals.

Attach your bibliography in the “File Upload” field.

In the comments box, please specify any special requirements you may have.

Click “Make Submission” to submit your form.

If you have additional supporting documents to upload, please follow the
instructions below:
Navigate to the submission homepage (
http://www.pmswebreg.info/cord2013/openconf/openconf.php).
Select “Upload File”
Select the upload type (Bio, Bibliography, or Supporting Docs).
Enter your submission ID and password and attach your file. Click “Upload
File”.
You may repeat this process to add up to two more additional files.
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