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style=""><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Dance
Dramaturgy: Catalyst, Perspective and Memory<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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style="">Society of Dance History Scholars Annual Conference<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">York University’s Masters of
Fine Arts Graduate Program in Dance, the Graduate Centre for Study of
Drama and
UC Drama at the University of Toronto as well as<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt;">the Toronto-based companies
Dancemakers, Series 8:08 and Nightswimming<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">Toronto,
Canada</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b
style="">June 23 – 26, 2011<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For the first time in North America, this
conference brings
together an international body of scholars and artists to discuss the
growing
impact of the discipline, history and potential of dance dramaturgy<a
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We invite proposals for papers, panels, workshops and PERsentations<a
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from a broad spectrum of dance scholarship and practiced-based research
on
dance dramaturgy, or any other topic in dance.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In the last three decades, the discipline of dance
dramaturgy has evolved to facilitate creative and strategic engagement
with a
multitude of perspectives (including, though not limited to,
historical,
cultural, social, political, aesthetic, semiotic, perceptual and
embodied) that
are inherent within and acting upon dance practices. The dance
dramaturg is
often seen as an important catalyst for choreographic invention as well
as
dance preservation and audience appreciation.<span style="">
</span>Both the independent and company-based dance dramaturg may be
called
upon to fulfill the roles of navigator, facilitator, catalyst, curator
and
documenter.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This conference brings together the resources of
York
University’s Masters of Fine Arts Graduate Program in Dance, the
Graduate Centre
for Study of Drama and UC Drama at the University of Toronto as well as
the
Toronto-based companies Dancemakers, Series 8:08 and Nightswimming in
an
unprecedented collaboration between artistic practice and scholarly
research.<span style=""> </span>Toronto is one of the most culturally
diverse
cities in North America and it is a nucleus for numerous dance, theatre
and
performance artists, physical theatre companies, community arts
organizations
and arts-focused educational institutions.<span style="">
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align="center"><b style="">Please direct questions and inquiries to
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href="mailto:sdhs11@yorku.ca">sdhs11@yorku.ca</a><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<b style=""><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">Our take on it
(Dance Dramaturgy)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;"
lang="EN-GB">When turning to dance and
movement-based performance, conventional dramaturgical strategies,
which focus
primarily on either the development of a written script or its analysis
and
conceptual realization on stage, are of limited utility. Rather, in
these forms
of creation, development and production are often fully integrated
activities.
We regard this level of integration as an opportunity to combine the
tools of
established forms of dramaturgy and to gain a broader and more
interconnected
field of orientation. In addition to this expanding of the field,
modern dance
invites the dramaturg to develop tools to work with more complex
performance
materials than those that, for instance, cluster around a dramatic
focus on
structure, character, and meaning. Instead of striving to deliver a
completed
artwork for reception, movement-based and dance performances often
become
“events” that facilitate experiences both embodied and sensory. These
events
exist as performative products of the meeting between performance and
audience
and cannot be located within a compositional structure, or in such a
structure’s ability to evoke the recognition of a conventional
theatrical
frame. Of course, not all of these developments in practice are new;
rather,
the news lies in the significant increase in the involvement of
dramaturgs and
dramaturgical strategies in community and theatrical dance contexts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;" align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">(Dr. Pil Hansen)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style=""> </span><b style="">PERsentations</b>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">In the
spirit of the “SHIFT” component recently
adopted as part of <i style="">Performance Studies international</i>’s
annual conference, PERsentations (Performance-Presentations) are sites
of
active, participatory practice/research interaction by teams of
collaborating
artists, scholars, and artist/scholars. Multiple slots in the schedule
will be
reserved specifically for PERsentations, which should involve the
participation
of conference attendees and which will include both indoor and outdoor
events.
Priority will be given to proposals that directly address the
conference theme.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt;">(PERsentation
Coordinator, Dr. Bruce Barton)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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