Artists needed for International Human Rights Day

Dancing While Black

in partnership with

the Human Rights Project 

at the Urban Justice Center

announces

OPEN SEASON

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Open Season is an event that combines art and creative conversation with nationally recognized experts about race and the culture of policing in America. The inaugural session will be held on December 10, 2014—International Human Rights Day. The Human Rights Project at the Urban Justice Center, in partnership with Dancing While Black, is pleased to offer an opportunity for performance and visual artists to become a part of this immersive experience.

WANTED: Imaginative, provocative visual and performance art on the topics of community, confinement, race and gender. We encourage submissions that address these themes in a creative and expansive way.

ELIGIBILITY: Artists of color who are working in dance, performance, photography, multimedia installation, animation, illustration, painting or drawing. Performance work should be performance ready in a small or unconventional space, no longer than five minutes, require minimal setup and technical support. For visual art submissions, please send up to ten images saved as a pdf portfolio labeled with your lastname_firstname.

We encourage submissions from artists who have personal experience with the criminal justice system, including people who are incarcerated or formerly incarcerated and their family members.

SUBMISSION: Please prepare a PDF portfolio of no more than 10 images and/or a link to a 5 minute performance you would like us to consider. Include:

    a 150 word description of the work and why it should be included in Open Season;

    a resume and 150 word bio;

    Performance Artists: A list of technical requirements;

    Visual Artists: List of images by number that includes artist name, name of work, medium, dimensions, and date.

DEADLINE 

November 12, 11:59pm

Complete submissions should be sent to:

OpenSeasonSubmission@gmail.com

Submit your poetry for the Walt Whitman First Book Award

Rae Armantrout
photo by Rosanne Olson

Walt Whitman First Book Award Deadline: December 1

Submit your manuscript today.

The Walt Whitman Award brings first-book publication, a cash prize of $5,000, and a one-month residency at the Vermont Studio Center to an American who has never before published a book of poetry. The Academy also purchases thousands of copies of the book for distribution to our members, and promotes the winning poet on Poets.org and in American Poet.

This year's judge is Pulitzer Prize- winning poet Rae Armantrout. 

Past winners of the prize include April Bernard, Nicole Cooley, Suji Kwock Kim, Alberto Rios, and Matt Rasmussen, whose 2012 Walt Whitman Award winning manuscript, Black Aperture, is a finalist for this year's National Book Award.

"Lavender Review" e-zine plans issue on lesbians in dance

Mary Meriam edits Lavender Review, an international, biannual e-zine dedicated to poetry and art by, about, and for lesbians, whatever might appeal to a lesbian readership. For the December 2013, she plans to publish poems and images about lesbians in dance.  

She's asking: "Are there lesbian dancers? Are there lesbian poets who write about dance? Lesbians who make art about dance? Lesbian dancers who write poems?" 

If you're interested in contributing to this issue of Lavender Review--or know lesbian dancers or poets who should be included--please reach out to Mary at lavender.review@gmail.com.

Because it's the...Dancer's Turn!

Let me now introduce you to something brand new in dance writing and to my colleagues at Dancer's Turn--the group blog devoted to long-form profiles of dance artists. Check it out here, and subscribe so you'll never miss a post!

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Writers are welcome to submit queries and proposals. Click for the Dancer's Turn Call for Submissions.

You're essential to Essential Dance Film [call for submissions]

Essential Dance Film - Spring/Summer 2013

The art of capturing dance on film is as old as the art of film itself - the first dance films were created by the Lumiere Brothers in 1895. Essential Dance Film is proud to showcase the state of dance film today by presenting a curated election of features and shorts from around the world. The Essential Dance Film collection includes works by festival winners, Hollywood veterans and emerging filmmakers.    

Submissions for Essential Dance Film - Spring/Summer 2013 will be considered on an ongoing basis until January 15, 2013.

TenduTV (tendu.tv) is now accepting submissions for Essential Dance Film, a curated selection of features and shorts by choreographers and filmmakers from around the world. Building upon the original Essential Dance Film collection, a series of 9 dance shorts released by TenduTV in 2010, the expanded and newly-rebranded channel now releases new films each week via TenduTV’s digital platform partners. Essential Dance Film is available on the popular US platform, Hulu, and is mirrored on a branded YouTube show page that is available to audiences worldwide.

Essential Dance Film is on YouTube at www.youtube.com/show/essentialdancefilm and on Hulu at www.hulu.com/essential-dance-film

If you would like your film to be considered for Essential Dance Film, email content@tendu.tv with the following information:

• Title of film

• Year and place of premiere

• Screening history

• Type of source video (eg. Beta, Digibeta, Apple Pro Res)

• Link to a clip (if available)

• Confirmation of music rights   

Call for submissions: "Her Saturn Returns," Queer Women of Color

Her Saturn Returns | Queer Women of Color Life Transitions seeks essays, prose, poetry, interviews, and other forms of documentary writing for an upcoming Anthology on women’s experiences turning 30, and/or turning 60 – when Her Saturn Returns.

Deadline: October 15, 2012

Submit on the Submissions Page or email hersaturnreturns@gmail.com for more information.

Obama, Occupy, outrage: an interview with Jesse Phillips-Fein

Unbind it!, a work by Jesse Phillips-Fein (photo by Jesse Phillips-Fein)

own,Owned, a work by Jesse Phillips-Fein (photo by Eva Ostrowska)

CLICK AUDIO LINK (21:00)
an interview with Jesse Phillips-Fein, curator

From Obama to Occupy: Works of Outrage from 2008-2012

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BAX / Brooklyn Arts Exchange announces
an open call for submissions for the guest-curated showcase

FROM OBAMA TO OCCUPY: Works of Outrage from 2008-2012

curated by Jesse Phillips-Fein

A sequel to the hit Requiem for W, Overture for O: Works of Conscience from 2000 - 2008, From Obama to Occupy: Works of Outrage from 2008-2012 will present performances works that addressed Obama Administration policies and corresponding political events of the past four years. This showcase aims to generate thoughtful, provocative, risky, and respectful critical reflection on Obama's first term.

We are seeking works made from 2008-2012 in dance, theater, music, spoken word, multimedia, and performance art, that engage with Obama as a phenomena, his Administration's' policies, and political events reflecting key challenges of the past 4 years. Works should be from 5-15 minutes in length. Excerpts from longer works are permitted.

Deadline for submission: Friday, July 27th, 5pm (received)

Artists will be notified by September 1st. 

To apply, visit http://www.jotform.us/BAX/Apply-ObamatoOccupy.

Shows are Friday & Saturday January 18 & 19th, 2013 at 8pm at the BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange. Visit http://bax.org/tech-specs/ for technical specifications of the Theater @ BAX. In addition, artists must be available for workshops on Sunday September 30th, 4pm - 7pm and Sunday November 18th, 4pm - 7pm.

ABOUT JESSE PHILLIPS-FEIN

Jesse Phillips-Fein grew up and is based in Brooklyn, NY, where she choreographs, teaches dance, and produces shows and community events to engage the performing arts in political dialogues. Require for W, Overture for O: Works of Conscience from 2000-2008 marked the end of the Bush era by celebrating how artists responded to the policies of the Bush Administration while encouraging continued action for justice. Hosted by Shanté Paradigm, the evening featured performances in dance, music, and poetry on themes including 9/11, the wars in Iraq & Afghanistan, gay marriage, Hurricanes Katrina & Rita, and the now evident disastrous effects of debt-driven consumerism. The pieces move beyond simply bashing President Bush and heralding President-elect Obama. Instead, they provided reflection how we survived and commemoration for those who didn't, critical thought about the role of artists in activism, and information about how to become involved in local organizations that are working on issues of social justice. Artists included: Alexandra Beller, Tara Betts, Sabrina Chapajiev, Drastic Measures, Guta Hedwig, Remi Kanazi, Rachel Lane, Sapphire, Paul Singh, Spiritchild & Gina Young.

Without knowing the outcome of this November election, there is still need to reflect on how artists have responded to Obama and the political events of the past four years.  Through celebrating what artists created, we can discuss the new challenges for political debate and presidential critique that Obama's term brought. Obama's election highlighted racial discourse, from contentious debates about a "post-racial society", to racist attacks in the popular media, stifled response from the political Left, and the differing emotions, expectations, and disappointments, that his term had for white people and people of color. From Obama to Occupy: Works of Outrage from 2008-2012 generates a space for art to be a powerful platform to engage deeply with the contradictions and questions that Obama's presidency raised.

ABOUT BAX

Founded in 1991, BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange is a is a multi-faceted community performing arts center located in Park Slope, Brooklyn offering an annual presenting season, artist services, and educational programs for youth and adults. BAX receives support from city, state and national public and private foundations. Our programs have been featured in several Brooklyn, NYC, and national publications, celebrating our continued support of artists of all ages.

American Dance Guild seeks choreographers

Call for Choreography

ADG 2012 Performance Festival

September 6-9

@ The Ailey Theater

Honoring Elaine Summers and Dianne McIntyre

After great enthusiasm and sold out performances at our Festival in 2011, the American Dance Guild (ADG) continues its mission of serving artists and audiences. For our 2012 Performance Festival, we invite applications from contemporary dance artists of diverse backgrounds, ages and aesthetics throughout the United States and internationally.

Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theater is a terrific performance space (26'x35') with an audience capacity of 275. Four different programs will be presented during the festival on Thursday through Sunday, September 6-9.

DEADLINE EXTENDED: APRIL 20

Click here for information and an application.

Seeking Latina artists for Dixon Place show

Jenny A Mendez is seeking Latina performing artists for a show at Dixon Place on October 16. She can be reached by email here.

And here's her announcement:

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

I am embarking on an exciting collaboration with Dixon Place--an artist theater located in the heart of the Lower East Side, NY--and need your help!

I will be curating a show on October 16 (7:30pm), with a focus on presenting works from female, Latina performers (dance, music, poetry, performance art, etc).  I am reaching out to you for your recommendations and suggestions as to who would have an interest in and would be a good candidate for this event.  My goal is to find 4 to 6 diverse female, Latina artists from all over New York and beyond to take part in DP's first ever event of this kind!

Dixon Place is a non-for-profit organization that was established in 1986 and has remained true to it's mission since its inception - to support and nurture the development of new work and work in progress from diverse artists and to build new audiences for their work.  I encourage you to visit www.dixonplace.org to read its mission statement in its entirety and to familiarize yourself with the theater and its diverse and interesting programming. 

Those artist chosen to perform at this event will get the opportunity to present a 10-15 minute work, receive a small artist stipend, an hour of free non-tech rehearsal, plus an hour-long tech rehearsal on the day of the show.

PLEASE help me spread the word around so that talented female Latina artists can present and share their work and expand their audience!

 Kindly,
 Jenny

Color me...itchy

LA-based itch is at it again. Hot off the email, here's their latest call for submissions!

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Calling all writers, dreamers, bunnies, drifters and drawers...

Please find below the call for submissions to itch #13. We hope that you will share something with us. The submission deadline is April 15th.

Feel free to send questions to us (submit@itchjournal.org)

in love,
team itch

*****

For 2011, the Year of the Rabbit, we present
itch #13 -- The Magic Rabbit: a coloring book of expulsions for embracing radical vibrations


You underdog you... Ahem,"rabbit". You never really wanted to fight. You taught us to expel murkiness and fear, and in exchange embrace the bizarre and irreconcilable things that we love, that give life to our living.

Your hidden teachings taught us to take to our curiosity. That living by our own wits can be an act of protest in and of itself... To approach living and art-making the same way we did our favorite coloring book: draw big bold outlines around the things that matter and turn it all polychromatic.

Besides, we never stopped loving coloring books. They provided us the important exercise of recognizing grossly oversimplified (for better or worse) visions of the world and the opportunity to place our colorful mess within it. Crayons were our first lesson in a type of intervention that was about dreaming up a world we wanted to see and inserting the details that mattered.

How did you color?

In this year of the rabbit and itch's 5th anniversary, we offer up an invitation to talk about celebrations, new modes of protest and approaches to making a mark in the world. Let's bring back the soft, meandering clarity of our childhood minds as a force for re-conceiving the past, present and future. Dream us up a fable, a drawing, or share your research, first-hand experiences or future fantasies.


Some rabbits/suggestions we've pulled out of the hat:

how do you mark space to honor your capacity to occupy, do, love, create and act as you desire?

In what (magic rabbit) ways do you wander across templates, borders, language, policy, etc?

What frames do you create, recreate, or otherwise make visible the world you want to live in?

How do you personalize/magical-ize/colorize your surroundings?

How do you mess with the codes of art-making, living, socializing, political action, etc?

What does play mean? How do you maintain play in your life?

What irreconcilable things can't you live without?

Lover but not a fighter? Discuss.

What's making you happy these days?

Alternative modes of competition...

What acts do you expel in the quest for magic?


Also: Coloring book illustration portfolio contest
draw, steal, dream up an image that you'd like to have colored in.

Let’s make a mess together.

Submission deadline: April 15th, 2011

 
Send submissions, questions and provocations as attached, uncompressed word files or pdfs to submit@itchjournal.org
 
No pre-published submissions, please.

Please include a short bio (2-3 sentences) and your mailing address with your submission.

itch is an evolving art project in the form of a journal that aspires to serve the community of dancers and other artists of the Los Angeles area and beyond. Practice participation in the developing LA dance culture: insert your thoughts, your body, your voice. help itch grow should you be enhanced by it...

submit volunteer donate distribute subscribe participate!

Dance Heritage group wants your essays

Online Treasures Exhibit—Call for Contributors

The Dance Heritage Coalition is soliciting contributions of essays for a new online exhibition presenting America’s Irreplaceable Dance Treasures: The First 100. The site will convert a successful traveling exhibit into a permanent online resource, including a 1,000-word essay on each of the Treasures, augmented by multimedia, links and references. This online exhibition will provide a much-needed web source for reliable scholarship on dance and a gateway to further research.

We are seeking writers to contribute 1,000-word essays, which should offer a fresh perspective on the significance of the subject, provide an accurate biographical/historical overview, and place the topic within dance scholarship. Essays should be written in clear, jargon-free language and include a list of recommended references.

Writers should have substantial knowledge of the subject, including academic study or professional experience, and have a successful record of professional and/or academic writing. If you are interested in contributing, please list the subject(s) you would like along with about 100 words on your credentials related to those topics. If available, include selected links or references to published works.

Contact: Imogen Smith, Project Manager, at ismith@danceheritage.org.

Essays have not been confirmed for the following subjects; those with asterisks are particularly in need of a writer. Additional topics may become available.

Charles “Cholly” Atkins

Ballet Russe

Michael Bennett

Bennington School of Dance

Jack Cole*

Honi Coles*

Aaron Copland

Merce Cunningham

Asadata Dafora*

Dance Notation Bureau

Dance Theater Workshop

Alexandra Danilova

Chuck Davis*

Agnes De Mille

Isadora Duncan

Katherine Dunham

Suzanne Farrell

Federal Dance Project*

Bob Fosse

Jose Greco*

Gregory Hines

Hanya Holm*

Lester Horton*

Doris Humphrey

Sol Hurok*

Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival*

Robert Joffrey*

Master Juba*

Bella Lewitzky*

Jose Limon

Iolani Luahine*

Matteo and Carola Goya*

Donald McKayle*

Meredith Monk*

Lillian Moore*

Mark Morris

New York City Ballet

Bronislava Nijinska

Rudolf Nureyev*

The Nutcracker

Ruth Page*

Anna Pavlova

Pearl Primus*

Bill “Bojangles” Robinson

Ruth St. Denis*

Savoy Ballroom

Bessie Schonberg

Ted Shawn

Oliver Smith

Swing Dance

Helen Tamiris*

Twyla Tharp

Jennifer Tipton*

Antony Tudor

Edward Villella

Charles Weidman*

Dance Heritage Coalition
1111 16th St., NW, Suite 300, Washington, D.C. 20036
Phone: 202-223-8392 

Fax: 202-833-2686
dhc@danceheritage.org

Signify, Sanctify, Believe: The Library of Sacred Technologies

Every now and then, an announcement comes along that is way too good to not share. Here's the latest!

A Call for Contributions
Signify, Sanctify, Believe: The Library of Sacred Technologies

archivists: Tanya Rubbak and Adam Overton
at The Church of Public Fiction in Highland Park (Los Angeles)
in April 2011

dear friends,

do you ever feel like you see things that are invisible to others? 

do you ever intuit the presence of other possible realities?

do you ever sense a thickness of energies swirling within the materials around you?

do you ever look at plants and animals and think, “I know what you’re thinking.”

perhaps you’re interested in age-old traditions, but tired of age-old religions?

perhaps you hanker for sacred acts that history has forgotten,

or better yet, perhaps you’ve discovered NEW ways to gently channel the magic in your life?

sceptic or saint, believer or apostate, we’d like to talk to YOU …

about being a part of something very, very SPECIAL ...

The Library of Sacred Technologies

we would like to invite you to participate in our library/reading room in April as part of a residency at the Church of Public Fiction in Highland Park. the space will feature several artists and groups from February through April 2011 as it transforms itself into a church and spiritual center.

our library aims to intercept and illuminate a relationship between contemporary religious and artistic pursuit. we are interested in overlapping the sisterly processes of signification and sanctification, which we view as being innately creative and living in spirit.

with a mixture of found and invented ephemera in the form of pamphlets, newsletters, and articles of faith, the library will capture a communal voice as we celebrate a tradition of religious experimentation in the city of Los Angeles.

Do you hear the call? Will you heed it?

we invite you to temporarily become a best-selling self-published self-helper, a charismatic guru or spiritual leader, a religious anthropologist, or any other type of sincerely mystical dabbler from the past, present or future. we primarily desire text(s) and images to include in printed ephemera, but will consider video and sound documents as well. to whet your appetite, we’ve posted below a list of possible technologies we might be looking to collect. you’re welcome to contribute as much or as little as you’d like, and it can be as [in]comprehensive and [in]comprehensible as you please.

we plan to compile, design, and display these materials for visitors of our Library of Sacred Technologies opening in April 2011. meanwhile, artist-led sermons, services, and workshops based around the temporary observance of [semi-]fictional religious practices will be taking place throughout the month that, with your permission, may or may not incorporate some of these documents. (if you’re interested in leading one of these, please let us know and we’ll contact you as soon as we finish developing a separate call for that portion of the residency.)

here are some starting points for religious invention that we pray you’ll contemplate and contribute:

a religion of the hour

a religion of the day

a religion of the month

a religion of the year

alternative horoscope systems and charts

dance instructions that direct the kundalini or the schizophrenic flow

shaman seances to commune with animal spirit helpers

guided meditations for sudden reality shifts

cures for tardiness

recipes for honesty

maps, formulae and visualizations for time travel

guides to local vortex and portal areas

exorcisms of deep heteronormative conditioning

automatic writing to channel the language of light-beings

alternate creation myths

incantations for accessing the transverbal space of the semiotic chora

harmonic science scores of the ancients that modifies DNA

visualizations for clearing debt

scriptures on radical responsibility

ceremonies that deal with water, driving or synaesthesia

rituals for loss, or lost rituals

prayers and hymns for making new friends

resurrections, fortune-telling, channeling, oracles, predictions and sooth-sayings on the matter of anything you please

et cetera, et cetera, et cetera ...

please send your submissions to: sacredtechnologies@plus1plus1plus.org

deadline for text and image submissions is January 15, 2011

deadline for audio and video submissions is February 1, 2011

also: stay tuned, as we hope to convene a couple sacred technology group writing sessions in late December and early January

Genesis Project residency welcomes applications

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:
Genesis Project, New York
Artist Residency Program

Genesis Project is a unique, month-long, artists' residency program catering to body-based artists who identify as working between disciplines and/or seek to integrate other disciplines into their performance practice through individual experimentation and open-source collaboration. We seek to diversify the range of skills present in the residency; therefore, the committee will also consider artists working in non-performance disciplines and professionals from art-related fields who want to incorporate performance into their practice. To enhance the residency experience and to promote ideological exchange and discourse, local artists from various fields will conduct workshops with the program participants and take part in a lecture series throughout the month.

Genesis Project is a program of Culture Push, a New York-based non-profit arts organization that focuses on collaboration and group learning through active, participatory experiences. The residency will be hosted by 319 Scholes; a studio and exhibition space in Bushwick, Brooklyn that supports the minds and needs of contemporary artists of various disciplines. Genesis Project is directed by Culture Push co-director, Arturo Vidich.

Application Deadline: Friday, January 14, 2011
Notification: Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Residency Timeframe: Monday, August 1, 2011 to Monday, August 29, 2011

For more information, please send a brief letter of inquiry to genesisproject@culturepush.org

Genesis Project
Culture Push

Theater/dance fest seeks submissions

The Midtown International Theatre Festival (MITF) seeks submissions for its twelfth season, running from July 11-31, 2011.  The deadline for submissions is February 21, 2011.

The Festival accepts submissions in all genres--any sort of stage play, musical or otherwise, new or classic, mainstream or specifically focused on an ethnic or cultural niche.  To be eligible, each show must have a producer and production team attached to the project.   

For the first time, this year, the Festival will introduce a dance division.  In addition, the MITF will include a Short Subjects division.

Application forms for the Midtown International Theatre Festival are available online at www.midtownfestival.org.  All submissions must be postmarked by February 21, 2011 to guarantee consideration for the 2011 Festival.  Full details and further information about the MITF can be found at www.midtownfestival.org.

Itching to write about competition?

Just in from the editors of itch, this provocative call-for-submissions of writing about dance and competition:

itch #12 -- Com(petition): The Big Throw Down

The stench of competition seems to be everywhere thanks to the infiltration of prime-time competition reality dramas. Many of us thought the art world was immune to the play of juvenile and canned rivalries, but five years deep into So You Think You Can Dance, followed by Bravo's Work of Art, even non-commercial ventures are employing contest tactics as a P.L.A.U.S.I.B.L.E(!) means of supporting emerging artists. In the aftermath, audiences become collectives whose supposed "voting power" turns them against work that doesn't offer instant gratification, and the veneer of the artwork itself gets shinier and shinier.

While we all know that the politics of art are never immune to popularity contests, what do the unapologetic turns to the "spectacle of the contest" do to the aesthetic discourses and conversations that we value, struggle for, establish and teach?

And what about you? Do you play the game? Does it play you? What are you competing against? (something real, imagined, personal, artistic, conceptual, political, psychological, tactical, choreographic...your last piece???) When does competition inspire you to dig deeper and question your methods, motivations, and desires; and when does it just blow up in your face? What or who motivates you to throw down and where does it go from there?

Competition functions to pit peers against one another, but does it have to? What happens if we instead petition the competition, question its mechanics and tactics, thwart the rules of the game, and refuse its authority?

For this issue of itch, (Com)petition: The Big Throw Down, we're interested in the many ways in which you wrestle with the notion of competition, turning it into a clause of action, a site of inquiry or an avenue for confronting fears of failure. Yes, we're talking about fighting the system, but we're also talking about recognizing and usurping the format of winning and losing altogether.

What's really worth fighting for anyway?

Submission deadline: November 30

Send submissions, questions and provocations as attached, uncompressed word files or pdfs to submit@itchjournal.org

itch is an evolving art project in the form of a journal that aspires to serve the community of dancers and other artists of the Los Angeles area and beyond. Practice participation in the developing LA dance culture: insert your thoughts, your body, your voice. help itch grow should you be enhanced by it...
submit volunteer donate distribute subscribe participate!

Call for papers on African/Black Dance

Journal of Pan African Studies (JPAS) Call for Papers: Special Edition on African/Black  Dance

Despite the importance of dance in the daily lives of African/Black people throughout the Diaspora and the inclusion of dance during the discipline's inception; African/Black dance as a body of knowledge within Black Studies is one of the least developed areas of the discipline. In fact, very few Black Studies' departments offer African/Black dance classes, and even fewer require it as part of their degree program. Also, very few Black Studies' journals tend to publish scholarly work, either specifically or generally, on African/Black dance. Therefore, in order to further develop this area of the discipline; JPAS is dedicating a special edition to scholarship on African/Black dance. This special edition is seeking scholarly work on topics such as:

*African centered approaches to African/Black dance 

*The role of the African worldview in African/Black dance 

*The Black dancing body

*Pedagogical styles in African/Black Dance

*Theories in African/Black dance

*Philosophies in African/Black dance

*Methodologies in African/Black dance

*The different  genres or styles of movement in African/Black dance: hip-hop, jazz, tap, modern, African, etc.

*The various techniques in African/Black dance: Dunham,  Ailey, Umfundalai, etc.

*The presence of racism and white supremacy in the world of dance

*The contributions of specific African/Black dancers  and/or African/Black dance companies to African/Black dance

*The relationship of African/Black music to African/Black dance

*The future of African/Black dance in the academy and/or in Black Studies *Book/film reviews on African/Black dance

*Review articles on African/Black dance resources

*Interviews with African/Black dancers, choreographers, etc.

*Annotated bibliographies on African/Black dance sources and citations *Narrative photo essays

This JPAS special edition will be co-edited by Dr. Aimee Glocke, Visiting Assistant Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies at the University of Wyoming, and Dr. Lawrence Jackson, Assistant Professor of Dance at the University of Wyoming.

Abstracts should be 250 words or less and should include the participant's name, affiliation, paper title, and email address. 

Please send all abstracts to Dr. Aimee Glocke at _aglocke@uwyo.edu by December 1, 2010.

Notifications will be sent out by January 15, 2011, and the final papers will be due by June 1, 2011.     

Aimee Glocke, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant  Professor
African American and Diaspora Studies
University of  Wyoming
110 Ross Hall
Dept. 4297  1000 East University  Avenue
Laramie, WY 82071
307-766-3856 (phone)
307-766-2555  (fax)

ADG 2011 Fest invites choreographers

Call for ADG 2011 Festival Choreography!

American Dance Guild

Essays sought: Black women writers' spirituality

Call for essays on Black women's writing as spiritual and ritual experiment

Brenda R Smith, Ph.D.

Deadline for abstracts: November 15, 2010

Deadline for papers: January 14, 2011

Click here for more information.

DUMBO fest wants your site-specific dance

  Young Soon Kim

2010 DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL - CALL FOR ARTISTS

Call for site-specific works

Application Deadline: Postmarked August 15, 2010

In celebration of our 10th anniversary WHITE WAVE is proposing a series of site-specific dance works to be performed in seven outdoor spaces throughout DUMBO during the 2010 DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL. The seven sites are situated within two designated areas: the Brooklyn Bridge Park (near the entrance at Washington and Plymouth Streets), and along the Pier 1 waterfront (entrance at Old Fulton and Water Streets) in DUMBO Brooklyn.

There is no application fee to apply.

Ideally we would like these pieces to be collaborations between dancers, movement artists and multimedia artists of all kinds: musicians, composers, fashion/costume designers, video artists, photographers etc. You may apply as collaborators or as individual artists who we will match together. We are primarily a dance festival but are open to creative applications from artists in different media who can make a strong case for the way their work would fit in a dance context.

Be imaginative. Your proposals will be reviewed, selected and curated by a committee headed by Young Soon Kim, Artistic Director of WHITE WAVE. The sites are presented raw—i.e. no built stages, sound systems, lights, electricity: All production value for the site specific pieces will be self-generated. Successful applications will propose flexible performances that are adaptable to shifting circumstances and enthusiastic about the creative potential of collaboration with other artists. Applicants are encouraged to present new work.

Before you submit your application, we strongly suggest that you visit the site – specific designated areas in person.

We are excited to offer this opportunity and to see your submissions!

See more details and RSVP on DNA World.

Call for submissions: Yellow Medicine Review

Yellow Medicine Review: A journal of Indigenous Literature, Art and Thought, seeks material "The Ancestors We Were Looking for We Have Become: International Queer Indigenous Voices," edited by Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán.

As queer Indigenous writers, and queer artists of color more broadly, we have spent many years looking for our ancestors, looking for those Native and brown people who loved as we did, who moved in the world and created a space for us. Part of our queer genealogy involves not only finding those voices in our lineage, in our Nations, but also recognizing the way we are becoming those we have sought, and the importance of recording our stories for those coming after, and making the journey with, for we are not only descendents but ancestors. 

Kin coming together at the meeting grounds to share sustenance: stories of survival, resistance, and affirmation. May we make good medicine for our peoples and Nations. May our words nurture and move us forward, our visions deeply rooted in the past and the continuance of our presence.

Same-gender-loving, multiple-gender-loving, and transgender Indigenous peoples from around the world are invited to submit their work, words. May they be blessed.

Submission deadline: June 25. For complete information and submission instructions, click here.