Deadline
for submissions of proposals: April 15, 2019
The University of Cape Town Centre for
Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies & the Institute for the Creative
Arts hosts CONFLUENCES 10 Dance,
(e)merge, Theatre in Cape Town, South Africa from August 29 to 31, 2019.
Submissions of proposals are invited.
Acclaimed NYU professor of Performance
Studies, André Lepecki will present the keynote address.
The Centre for Theatre, Dance and
Performance Studies at UCT has evolved out of a merger between the School of
Dance and Department of Drama in 2018. Many universities and colleges also
negotiate the disciplinary and interdisciplinary connections of the study of
Dance, Theatre and Performance.
Dr Gerard M Samuel, Senior Lecturer and
Head of Dance Section explains: “This 10th anniversary conference will allow
for a deepening conversation and theorisation of such praxis and experiences in
all our teaching, research and socially responsive contexts. The Centre is
engaged in an ongoing process of reimagining what a study of performance in a
contemporary, African university might involve. As we are challenged to strip
away old and colonial habits in terms of body, question the issues of such
erasure and replacement, what are some of the new directions in choreographic
practices and contexts of dance teaching when one of the central concerns of
Performance Studies discourse is culturally framed bodies?
“Our critical enquiry for this conference
centres on the continuing call for decolonisation and decanonisation in varied
educational contexts and what this all might mean for dance in and from the
global South. We want to relook at earlier debates around dance as an embodied
practice to understand shifts in complex interstices of gendered bodies,
classical dance and its negotiations with e.g. pedestrian movement and
innovations of the twenty-first century.”
Some of the key research areas Confluences
10 will begin to address.
-How has Dance and the study of physical
performance been academised in your institution?
-What is the inter disciplinary
relationship between Dance, Theatre and Performance Studies and how is it being
negotiated?
-What does it mean to decolonise Dance/
physical performance in 2019? How do we translate the theory of decolonisation
into a praxis in the classroom?
-How has the inclusion of other dancing
bodies begun to shift an understanding of the politics of movement?
-How do the transdisciplinary approaches in
performance make visible new pedagogies of hope in Freirian terms?
-Why is a relook at Dance and physical
performance as an 'agent of change' still important to discuss?
-What role should a theatre and dance
archive play in the development of post-colonial curriculum? Whose dance knowledge is being produced (and
consumed)?
-What is the impact of new technology and
social media incorporating physical performance on traditional performances and
teaching spaces?
-Why is a differentiation of the role of
the artist in residence and professor of Performance Studies an imperative in a
tertiary institution?
Samuels continues: “We invite the
submission of proposals which could be in a range of formats (including papers,
posters, workshops, masterclass, performances). Your proposal must include a
brief rationale and abstract (max 250 words) of your intended contribution.
Please provide us with your name, institutional affiliation, email address and
contact details. Your proposal should outline whether you intend to make a
joint presentation (max. 30 mins) or individual paper (max. 20 mins) or
workshop or performative experience (max. 60 mins). We will endeavour, as far
as possible, not to run papers concurrently in the conference programme.”
Send your proposal(s) in MS Word to http://www.ctdps.uct.ac.za/CTDPS/Confluences
All proposals will be reviewed by the
Conference Committee and feedback provided to applicants by May 20 2019.
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