The Collegium for African Diaspora Dance 6th Bi-Annual Conference
BODY GEOGRAPHIES|MAPPING FREEDOMS
February 16-18, 2024
Rubenstein Arts Center | Duke University | Durham, NC, USA
Registration opens February 2, 2024
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.
Registration opens February 2, 2024
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 Registration Fee: $30
free for Duke students/faculty/staff/volunteers
free for Duke students/faculty/staff/volunteers
THE VIRTUAL CONFERENCE CALL IS OPEN.
Click here to access online proposal form
INVITED RESEARCHERS & PERFORMERS WILL BE NOTIFIED NO LATER THAN JANUARY 26, 2024.
Gathering in Black Dance, we wonder, how does place matter in our practices? How do our environments inform our embodiments of creative gesture? What does it mean to be of Black Dance while living in Washington DC, South Central LA, Niskey Lake, Atlanta, Long Island, NY? How does our dancing predict a temporary freedom that we move through with kin in the Caribbean, at family reunions in the countryside, or at performance festivals in Port of Spain, Chicago, Toronto, Seattle, Kingston, New Orleans? How do we dance differently when we are in the country, out of the city, in the places where grandma grew? How do our dances from the Caribbean and the Continent allow us to feel better about our lives in Minneapolis, Miami, Roxbury? How do we remember through Black Dance the pull towards freedom that drives our relationships?
The 2024 CADD conference theme BODY GEOGRAPHIES|MAPPING FREEDOMS seeks to center our participation as Africans in diaspora in dance as a resource and method of creative and aesthetic possibility in pursuit of the following lines of inquiry:
Anchored by critical dialogue and provocative research presentations, the conference will feature breakout sessions, movement workshops, and film screenings.
We are interested in papers, pre-formed panels, and 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.
The virtual call is interested in papers, pre-formed panels and performance/presentations.
For performances, please note that only pre-recorded performances and/or dance on camera/dance films may be submitted.
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 challenge
● African diaspora dance: gendering dance, dancing gender
● Places where Black Queer Life converges in dance and reveals other ways of being
The Collegium for African Diaspora Dance aims to facilitate an interdisciplinary discussion that captures a variety of topics, approaches, and methods that might constitute Black Dance Studies.
Questions or for more information: please email Lee Edwards at [email protected]u
The 2024 CADD conference theme BODY GEOGRAPHIES|MAPPING FREEDOMS seeks to center our participation as Africans in diaspora in dance as a resource and method of creative and aesthetic possibility in pursuit of the following lines of inquiry:
- How does our dancing in our neighborhoods affirm shared movements towards an empowered Black political consciousness?
- How does our place allow us to rethink our shared potential as embodied artists and dancers?
- How do the ancestors flow through our dancing, reminding us that our place is always where we find ourselves?
- How do practices of Black celebration through dance operate as registers of collective thought?
- How do spaces of queer dance contribute to Black sovereignty? How do Kiki, Ball cultures and Carnival/Masquerade/Dancehall 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?
Anchored by critical dialogue and provocative research presentations, the conference will feature breakout sessions, movement workshops, and film screenings.
We are interested in papers, pre-formed panels, and 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.
The virtual call is interested in papers, pre-formed panels and performance/presentations.
For performances, please note that only pre-recorded performances and/or dance on camera/dance films may be submitted.
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 challenge
● African diaspora dance: gendering dance, dancing gender
● Places where Black Queer Life converges in dance and reveals other ways of being
The Collegium for African Diaspora Dance aims to facilitate an interdisciplinary discussion that captures a variety of topics, approaches, and methods that might constitute Black Dance Studies.
Questions or for more information: please email Lee Edwards at [email protected]u
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Please note:
We will only accept one sessions proposal per lead presenter; however a presenter can co-present in multiple sessions. In-person presentations are now closed and virtual presentations are open until January 19, 2024. Virtual presenters will be notified by January 26, 2024, and must register before and by February 2nd, 2024 to indicate acceptance. |