'Processing Dance" Dance Across the Board 2011

Processing Dance

Dance Across the Board Graduate Student Conference (DAB)

Hosted by New York University, Tisch Dance Department

February 11–12, 2011

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PERFORMANCES

DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: Monday, December 6, 2010

The notion of process extends into all aspects of dance, including pedagogy, choreography, performance, therapy, and critique. Emphasis on process allows us to engage with body- or movement-based performance as a question, project, or problem set in motion, rather than a finished product already disappearing. Process refers to pedagogical methods, choreographic practices, performance operations, modes of reception, and critical reflection. Each of these can function not only as a means to an end, but also as a means of research into the social, the political, the theoretical, the experiential, and the embodied. DAB believes process-based approaches to performance can release new potentialities for artists, spectators, presenters, and the communities they serve.

DAB seeks to provide a platform where graduate students from across the country working in various aspects of dance, movement, and body-based performance can come together to dialogue about their research and interests. We invite proposals that consider the theme “Processing Dance” in various areas.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Process as critical and creative methodology

• How does discourse influence the development of artistic work and/or pedagogy? What new discourses are subsequently generated through its performance and/or teaching?
• How does process function in improvised performance?
• How can an ensemble share its process with others?

· Dance and technology

· How does dance participate in new developments in technology, media, or science?

· What are the connections between computer processing and performative processing?

· The temporality of process

· Does process have a timeline?

· Is there such a thing as a(n) (un)finished process?

· Can we read ritual or routine as process?

· The politics of process

· What kinds of movements (social, artistic, political, embodied) are required for, or mobilized by, choreographic processes?

· How might social dance process shared experience?

· Does process always invoke progress?

DAB welcomes proposals in the form of papers, performances, lecture-demonstrations, films, and mixed media. Alternative presentation forms are encouraged. Presentations should not exceed 15 minutes. The conference will be curated into panels.

True to its interdisciplinary scope, the DAB 2011 conference is organized by a committee of students from NYU’s Tisch Dance, Tisch Art & Public Policy, Tisch Performance Studies, Steinhardt School of Education, and Gallatin School of Individualized Study.

To submit a proposal, please download a submission form at http://danceacrosstheboard.weebly.com.

Please direct all questions to danceacrosstheboard@gmail.com.

PROPOSAL EXTENSION

We are now accepting proposals through January 9th, 2010.

Call For Proposals!

New York University presents:

Transitions: Dance Across the Board Graduate Student Conference

Hosted by the Tisch Dance Department, NYU, February 13, 2010

Call for Papers and Performances:

Dance Across the Board is seeking proposals that consider the theme: Transitions. Last year, at the inaugural DAB Conference, we explored the meaning and implications of an impulse to begin; this year we consider the shifts and transformations beyond the impulse, as we change from one movement, condition, or place to another. A transition refers to a passage from one thought to another, one body to another, one dance or social movement to another. In dance and related fields, transitions can be challenging, and yet they are essential parts of choreographic compositions, movement phrases, and even simple shifts of weight.

DAB seeks to provide a platform where graduate students from across the country working in various aspects of dance can come together to dialogue about their research and interests. Suggested areas of investigation include: transitions in theory, history, choreography, and practice; transitions in relation to the political, the social, the body, technology, education, community, and culture. Interpretations of the theme are encouraged as the conference promotes new ideas and possibilities.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• multi-directional shifts from student to performer, performer to teacher, teacher to choreographer, choreographer to scholar, etc.
• transitions between concept, performance, analysis, documentation and critical writing
• locating when/where one movement idea or moment ends and another begins
• physical, biological, or emotional transitions within the body
• gender variance in the body and performance
• translations from the traditional to the contemporary
• cross-cultural performance practices
• how dance companies transition after the passing of choreographers, such as Merce Cunningham and Pina Bausch

Dance Across the Board welcomes proposals in the form of papers, performances, lecture-demonstrations, films, and mixed media. Alternative presentation forms are encouraged. Presentations should not exceed 15 minutes. The conference will be curated into panels. Please be advised that the conference studio is only able to support basic technological needs.

Proposals should include the following:

1. Completed Submission Form including:
- Name
- Title of presentation
- Email address and telephone number
- Institutional affiliation
- Names of other participants
- Format of presentation
- Technical requirements
2. 300-word explanation/abstract that describes your presentation and how it relates to the conference theme
3. 200-word bio for all participants
4. For performances, a 3 to 5-minute clip of the piece or a representative work sample. (Link to online video preferred; DVD/VHS also accepted.)

All proposal materials should be emailed to danceacrosstheboard@gmail.com.

Please mail DVD/VHS, labeled with your name and viewing info, to:
“Dance Across the Board,” NYU Tisch Dance Department, 111 Second Ave. 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10003

Deadline for Proposals: Wednesday, December 23, 2009

The conference is free and open to the public.

Dance Across the Board 2009
“Transitions”
Tisch Dance Department, New York University
February 13, 2010

For conference submission form or other inquiries, please email: danceacrosstheboard@gmail.com .