DEC 15 is deadline[Corporeality] Call for Papers for SDHS Conference Dance and the City

[Katherine Mezur]

hi All, and thanks. Please see latest announcement (BELOW) from Tommy DeFrantz for SDHS below. First it is Dec. 15th, second please look at the themes suggested in his questions, they are really good and inspiring. Third, there are no toes to step on in a collaborative enterprise like ours!! Many thanks for all, like Rosemary for putting together everything, but each one of us should go to the website and open up the actual application and see how it is laid out for panels and discussion groups. We might also ask for a "screening time" outside the panel to look at whole works. Back later, xx k

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Call for Proposals:  SDHS 2012 Conference
SDHS Annual Conference 2012
Dance and the Social City
15-17 June, 2012
The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
The Society of Dance History Scholars invites proposals for individual
papers, panels, roundtables, movement workshops and lecture demonstrations
for its thirty-fifth annual conference, hosted by the University of the Arts
in Philadelphia, PA. SDHS invites scholars and artists from across the globe
to join us as we consider histories and narratives of dance and the social
city. SDHS defines history in  the broadest possible way and includes in its
conference programs a wide range of research methodologies, interpretive
approaches, and analytic techniques. The program committee encourages
interdisciplinary perspectives, and scholars from disciplines related to
dance are strongly invited to submit their work. SDHS also encourages
submissions from graduate students and independent scholars.

Meeting in the City of Brotherly Love affords us the opportunity to consider
the rich traditions of  social dance and performance inspired by one of the
nation’s largest metropolitan areas. We invite individual papers or entire
panels that engage with dance practices in Philadelphia. We invite
presentations that rethink the multiple meanings of social and city: urban
identities, dance as a site  of social exchange, historical and contemporary
iterations of dance and city planning. Some questions that might be
considered include:
•    Is dance an inherently cosmopolitan enterprise? In other words, when
we tell histories of dance, are we also telling histories of cities?
•    Is dancing essential in a well-ordered society? How does dance
reinforce, or subvert, urban social hierarchies?
•    What does it mean to love an urban landscape in dance?
•    How can dances suggest alternative urban topographies? How can
thinking about topography suggest alternative urban dances?
•    How do commerce and ‘the arts’ intersect in the city? What is the
business of culture?
•    In what ways do cities inform and choreograph nostalgia and memory?
•    How do city settings choreograph inhabitants’ relationship to their
environment, for example through urban development and renewal programs,
‘white flight’, gentrification, and  investment in infrastructure?
•    What is the relationship of the urban to the suburban, and how does
dance contribute to upholding boundaries between them? Some sites to
consider include local dance studios,  regional companies, professional
schools and companies, or dance on television.
•    How has an idea of the city mapped itself onto dance practices,
especially in so-called urban/street/hip hop dance forms?
•    In what ways do city structures guide, promote, script, or inhibit
social relations? Does study of dance in global south cities mark structures
of power, or shift embodiments of "modernity?"
•    Is an urban environment more likely to foster trend-setting or
trend-following among dancers and choreographers? How do dance innovations
spread from one city to another? At what point in a city's growth can it be
said to have a local dance style?
Submissions should be submitted by December 15, 2011.

http://sdhs.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=188

Please refer to the SDHS website at www.sdhs.org to review the full call for
proposals and to review the SDHS Guidelines for Making Proposals.
Information regarding the University of the Arts campus can be found at:
www.uarts.edu.

Information on the following awards is also available on the SDHS website:
•    de la Torre Bueno Prize® - Awarded annually to a book published in
the English language that advances the field of dance studies.
•    Distinction in Dance Award - Annual award that is made to an
individual whose professional, artistic or scholarly work has made a
significant contribution to the field of dance.
•    Gertrude Lippincott Award – Awarded annually to the best
English-language article published  in dance studies
•    Graduate Student Travel Grants – A travel stipend to defray
conference travel expenses
•    Selma Jeanne Cohen Award – Writing Award for Students

SDHS 2012 Conference Committee
Harmony Bench, DonnaFaye Burchfield , Thomas F. DeFrantz, Kate Elswit,
Rebekah Kowal, Raquel Monroe , Carl Paris, Maria Urrutia, Gabriele Klein,
Jillian Peña

________________________________________
Special Call for Panel Proposals
As we gather this year around issues of the social city, we invite you to
think how we also structure our own scholarly community: Who do you want to
be in dialogue with? Is there an issue to which you want to draw attention?
And in what format?

With the deadline for SDHS 2012 conference submissions approaching, we
wanted to remind members that they are encouraged to submit panel proposals
as well as individual papers.

To name just a few possible formats, in recent years, we have had
roundtables; paper panels curated around a theme with an expert moderator;
and panelists each responding to a chosen topic with shorter papers meant to
spark discussion. Sometimes panelists exchange work in advance, or all read
a chosen text together and respond to it individually.





Thomas F. DeFrantz
Professor, DUKE University
African & African American Studies|Dance
Director, SLIPPAGE:Performance, Culture, Technology
President, Society of Dance History Scholars





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[Michael Sakamoto]

Hi, guys. Just an FYI that I've already submitted a separate lec-dem proposal for my work with Rennie. It kind of made too much sense since he's from Philly where the conference is next year. Also, I did one of these types of presentations this year, and it was great fun.

As for the panel, my only two cents right now is that I'd like to see more integration in discussions about Japanese and non-Japanese butoh lineage performance. Plenty of young and old Japanese practitioners are operating internationally, and their work is affected by this context. Butoh's always been influenced by east-west confluences, beginning with Hijikata's training, literary predilections, and subversive, anti-Western content and writing. I think sometimes we may be playing it too safe and inadvertently reifying culturalist borders.

Anyway, hope we all get in!

Cheers,

M.

 

Michael Sakamoto
Performance and media artist
Faculty, MFA-Interdisciplinary Arts, Goddard College
email: michael...@yahoo.com
site: www.michaelsakamoto.com
blog: anemptyroom1.blogspot.com

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Subject: DEC 15 is deadline[Corporeality] Call for Papers for SDHS Conference Dance and the City

[Rosemary Candelario]

I just got confirmation from the SDHS office that the deadline has been extended to the 21st. -R.

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[Zack Fuller]

Hello All,

Regarding the proposal for SDHS, my want would be to have a panel where we actually presented and responded to papers, rather than a roundtable discussion.

Regards,

Zack

[Tanya Calamoneri]

Ditto to Zack.

I think I want to take on aspects of these two questions:

•    How can dances suggest alternative urban topographies? How can
thinking about topography suggest alternative urban dances?

•    Is an urban environment more likely to foster trend-setting or
trend-following among dancers and choreographers? How do dance innovations
spread from one city to another? At what point in a city's growth can it be
said to have a local dance style?

And expand on something I've been writing about the different buto scenes in NY and SF.

Will work on this and get back shortly...
Tanya

--
PhD Candidate, Presidential Fellow
Temple University Department of Dance

Artistic Director, Company SoGoNo
www.sogono.org
718-207-3307

[Katherine Mezur]

hi Tanya's suggestion is cool and might fit with many:  

How can dances suggest alternative urban topographies? How can

thinking about topography suggest alternative urban dances?:

I wanted to add   this one:  In what ways do cities inform and choreograph nostalgia and memory?

I wanted to question how different "butohs" reflect their urban space/environment or turn it around to consider how the cityscape changes through butoh....

What are the questions you all are asking in your current writing, aside from this conference theme? Can we take what is pressing us into this theme? Or is their some other urban notion that butoh engenders or uses or pushes? 
 

k

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From: Tanya Calamoneri <tcala...@gmail.com>
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Sent: Sun, December 4, 2011 11:51:32 AM
Subject: Re: SDHS Panel

[Megan V Nicely]

Hi everyone,
I wonder if our panel might propose certain conceptions of body or
city (or both), and that we then rebound our proposals off of this,
taking the idea into different directions? i.e. we define urban
topography as.......the body here acts as......butoh then is a way
to.......
So leading with as intro statement about butoh and a relationship
between the urban, the rural, and imagination (nostalgia, memory)...
and why these issues are so relevant now as many turn back to "nature"
within the urban environment. How butoh is a way to interact with
(urban) environments.

Just thoughts. Fine with a panel of papers.
I need a little more time on mine, when do we plan to send this in? I
leave town on Dec. 19 (and out of email land).

Looking forward....

Megan

hi Tanya's suggestion is cool and might fit with many:

How can dances suggest alternative urban topographies? How can

thinking about topography suggest alternative urban dances?:

I wanted to add   this one:  In what ways do cities inform and choreograph nostalgia and memory?

I wanted to question how different "butohs" reflect their urban space/environment or turn it around to consider how the cityscape changes through butoh....

What are the questions you all are asking in your current writing, aside from this conference theme? Can we take what is pressing us into this theme? Or is their some other urban notion that butoh engenders or uses or pushes? 
 

k

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From: Tanya Calamoneri <tcala...@gmail.com>
To: butos-corp...@googlegroups.com
Sent: Sun, December 4, 2011 11:51:32 AM
Subject: Re: SDHS Panel

Ditto to Zack.

I think I want to take on aspects of these two questions:

*    How can dances suggest alternative urban topographies? How can

thinking about topography suggest alternative urban dances?

*    Is an urban environment more likely to foster trend-setting or

*    Is dance an inherently cosmopolitan enterprise? In other words, when

we tell histories of dance, are we also telling histories of cities?

*    Is dancing essential in a well-ordered society? How does dance

reinforce, or subvert, urban social hierarchies?

*    What does it mean to love an urban landscape in dance?
*    How can dances suggest alternative urban topographies? How can

thinking about topography suggest alternative urban dances?

*    How do commerce and 'the arts' intersect in the city? What is the
business of culture?
*    In what ways do cities inform and choreograph nostalgia and memory?
*    How do city settings choreograph inhabitants' relationship to their

environment, for example through urban development and renewal programs,
'white flight', gentrification, and  investment in infrastructure?

*    What is the relationship of the urban to the suburban, and how does

dance contribute to upholding boundaries between them? Some sites to
consider include local dance studios,  regional companies, professional
schools and companies, or dance on television.

*    How has an idea of the city mapped itself onto dance practices,

especially in so-called urban/street/hip hop dance forms?

*    In what ways do city structures guide, promote, script, or inhibit

social relations? Does study of dance in global south cities mark structures
of power, or shift embodiments of "modernity?"

*    Is an urban environment more likely to foster trend-setting or

trend-following among dancers and choreographers? How do dance innovations
spread from one city to another? At what point in a city's growth can it be
said to have a local dance style?
Submissions should be submitted by December 15, 2011. 

http://sdhs.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=188

Please refer to the SDHS website at www.sdhs.org to review the full call for
proposals and to review the SDHS Guidelines for Making Proposals.
Information regarding the University of the Arts campus can be found at:
www.uarts.edu.

Information on the following awards is also available on the SDHS website:

*    de la Torre Bueno Prize® - Awarded annually to a book published in

the English language that advances the field of dance studies.

*    Distinction in Dance Award - Annual award that is made to an

individual whose professional, artistic or scholarly work has made a
significant contribution to the field of dance.

*    Gertrude Lippincott Award - Awarded annually to the best

English-language article published  in dance studies

*    Graduate Student Travel Grants - A travel stipend to defray
conference travel expenses
*    Selma Jeanne Cohen Award - Writing Award for Students

-- 

Megan Nicely
mnd...@earthlink.net
http://home.earthlink.net/~mndance/

[Katherine Mezur]

Hi I thought I would throw out this unspellchecked proposal for my own presentation but I can modify it in any way. I am also just hooked on TIME at the moment, which is not set just has been in my frame of writing for a while. I think this could go with Megan's framing ideas. If we get more than 4 presenters we can do a part 1 and 2 or consider an arching topic: "Badlands: butoh's radical geographies"  just kidding K

Just a beginning idea for my presentation:

"A 'hood, a street, a storefront: 9XBerlin+Mumbai+Tokyo"

            The 27hr performance, "9" which took place in September 2011 at 9 Günthaler Strß, Wedding, Berlin, between Nikhil Chopra (action painter artist), and Kaseki Yuko, butoh dance performance artist, was based on an encounter with their cities (Tokyo and Mumbai) in Berlin. The work grew from historical research on these cities in WWII and the postwar and post-calamity and postcolonial rebuild of cities into districts and sections, Ku in Japanese, X in Hindi, and neighborhoods, Kinjo in Japanese, X in Hindi, Kiez in German and the boundaries and walls of bodies, of cities, of memories. None of these cities has as much forgotten and wasteland spaces as Berlin, which has been slow to heal in its long 20th century horror history of wars, occupation, and abandonment. It is marked by duration: walls and boundaries built and destroyed and buried and memorialized. Part of this encounter with urban spaces was also the place/space of the two performers, both coming out of/from migrant "Asian" contemporary performance and meeting in Berlin. This brief analysis will focus on several "acts" of this encounter, and the element of time, in particular duration. I want to question these acts of encounter: bodies with movement, objects, film, sidewalks, glass windows, plaster, tile, ladders, charcoal, paper, and their different histories of traditions of moving peoples, immovable cities, and the gaps between them.

 

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