Speculative Choreographies:
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Call for Proposals: Conversations vol. 45: Choreographing Access: Aesthetics of InclusionDeaf and disabled, blind dancers and choreographers, and artists with chronic illness and/or pain, artists that identify as mad and/or neurodivergent, or other invisible disabilities—along with interpreters, captioners, and access workers—create what we call micro-choreographies of access. These subtle acts carry artistic, emotional, and political meaning, forming textures of access that shape an inclusive aesthetic rooted in collaboration and interdependence. We refer to the collective impact of these practices as the textures of access: the layers, atmospheres, and communicative pathways that shape movement vocabularies, dramaturgy, and visual/sensory landscapes. When held together, these textures form a distinct, powerful aesthetic of inclusion — one rooted in relation, co-presence, and creative negotiation. We welcome submissions that explore this aesthetic in rehearsal rooms, classrooms, community spaces, digital environments, and performances. We especially encourage contributions from BIPOC, Indigenous, Global South, Asian, Afro-diasporic, migrant, and other underrepresented disabled artists, scholars, and facilitators
Chats Vol.4: Black Men and DanceIn the wake of the 2024 Presidential election and the dismantling of DEI initiatives that have long supported Black studies and affinity spaces, alongside enduring and newly emerging debates about Black masculinity and the Black male body, this issue of Chats turns its attention to Black men in dance as a vital site of inquiry, memory, and inheritance. What new histories of Black men in dance emerge when we center the voices of those working in K–12 classrooms, community spaces, and the academy? How might Black men’s movement practices and artistic labor complicate the narrow scripts of visibility, stoicism, and spectacle imposed upon them—from boyhood to manhood, from student to professional? And how do these practices invite us to rethink the very terms through which Black men in dance are studied, remembered, and carried forward? Submit to the Dance Research JournalDance Research Journal welcomes new submissions for its standard peer-reviewed and Artist Speaks article series. DRJ is published three times per year by Cambridge University Press. Published articles advance knowledge in the areas of dance history, theory, politics, ethnography, and cultures. DRJ is committed to cross-disciplinary research with a dance perspective. Contributions for publication consideration are open to both members and nonmembers of DSA, and will be accepted any time. For submission guidelines, visit https://dasa.memberclicks.net/drj-submission-guidelines. |