The call for proposals is now closed.

dancingBLACKtogether

The Collegium for African Diaspora Dance 5th Bi-Annual Conference

February 18-20, 2022

Duke University | Durham, NC, USA
​celebrating 10 years of CADD!

Registration opens November 30, 2021

In-Person Registration Fees: 

$100/before Dec 31      $150/before Feb 1    $200/after Feb 1

free for Duke students/faculty/staff

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Virtual Option:

​Our virtual option will include highlights of the in-person gathering, including live streaming (EST) of keynote addresses and other special events, in addition to the selected (virtual) presentations.  

Virtual conference fees TBA.

​The Collegium for African Diaspora Dance (CADD) fifth bi-annual conference aims to provoke enlivened discussions on the power and politics of global Black Dance by bringing together scholars, practitioners, educators, and other stakeholders for three days of intellectual and artistic inspiration.

As we can, in person and virtually, we gather to Dance Black Together.  What does our coming together reveal?  What is in our assembly for carnival, for the Black parades, for protest?  How do we care for each other in our dancing together, in homes and streets, on stages and screens?  What sorts of rhythms call us toward collective action?  How do we contemplate, while being together in motion? 

Anchored by critical dialogue and provocative research presentations, the  2022 CADD conference theme dancingBLACKtogether will feature breakout sessions, movement workshops, and film screenings. The convening seeks to center our participation as Africans in diaspora in dance as a resource and method of creative and aesthetic possibility. Together we will pursue the following lines of inquiry:

• How does our dancing together affirm shared movements towards an empowered Black sociality? 

• How does our assembly allow us to rethink our shared potential as embodied artists and dancers? 

• How do practices of Black celebration, joy, and pleasure through dance operate as registers of collective thought? 

• How do spaces of queer dance contribute to Black sovereignty? How do Kiki and Ball cultures produce Black possibilities in gathering to dance?  

• What kinds of resistant practices does Black Dance practiced together offer to combat gendered and race-based discrimination, violence, and brutality?

We are interested in presentations that consider dance practices throughout the African diaspora, the specific contexts that engender them, and the ways that they offer artistic and intellectual possibilities pursuant to the conference theme. We welcome contributions that represent rigorous engagement with any number of disciplinary and methodological perspectives. 
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Possible topics include:

• The dynamic flow between black social expression and concert dance
• African diaspora dance geographies and the fluidity of place
• African diaspora dance in US higher education: opportunities and challenges 
• African diaspora dance: gendering dance, dancing gender 
• African diaspora dance: collective bodies vs. individual (representation vs. presentation)

 

Please note:

We will only accept one sessions proposal per lead presenter; however a presenter can co-present in multiple sessions.

Presenters may submit a proposal for either our in-person or virtual option.  

Proposals due November 15, 2021.

Questions? Contact Shireen Dickson, conference administrator