Choreographing Identity and Difference:
Cross-cultural Dance Seminar

The purpose of the seminar is to share models for examining cross-cultural transmission in and through dancing. Contributions are invited from people who research dance and dancing, its production or reception, in a range of historical and cultural contexts and from diverse disciplinary backgrounds. Participants will be invited to reflect on how concepts of embodiment, performativity, ritual and enactment work in these contexts and what other theoretical tools are useful in crosscultural dance research. More information

Attending the seminar

Participants are invited to contribute a working paper to the symposium of not more than 4000 words in length by 10 November. Participants attending will read the papers in advance, and discussion will be focussed around these papers and brief accompanying presentations. Participants are encouraged to consider innovative ways of presenting their dance or choreographic analysis.

The seminar is open to postgraduate students as well as experienced researchers. Some assistance will be available for travel costs and there will be an accompanying workshop on December 10 at Mirramu Creative Arts Centre, just outside Canberra.

Please indicate if interested in participating or observing at the workshop as numbers will be restricted to this event.