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Dear Colleagues,
This is a reminder that the Call for Papers for the 17th World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) that will take place in Manchester August 5th-August 10th, 2013 closes tomorrow August 3, 2012. All proposals must be made via the
online form. Go to http://www.nomadit.co.uk/iuaes/iuaes2013/panels.php5?PanelID=1707
Georgiana Gore and I have proposed the panel "Dance, sociality and the transmission of embodied knowledge" as part of "The world of the mind and the mind in the world" (WMW015)
Short Abstract
This panel explores how the specificities of dance, in which the corporeal is salient, make it necessary to conceptualise transmission as a special kind of sociality in which experimenting modes of interaction is intrinsic whether for creation or preservation.
Long Abstract
We take as axiomatic that the arts, including dance and the other performing arts, are both reflective of society and generative of new ways of being. They memorialise the past for present or future usage and invent new possibilities. With such potential what kind of cultural continuity do they offer? Is it sufficient to think of the transmission of artistic knowledge, in terms of technique and savoir-faire, or in the case of the performing arts of continuous regeneration, through the re-creation of "works" at each performance? Do the specificities of the performing arts in which the corporeal is a feature, make it necessary to conceptualise these processes as a special kind of sociality and relationality in which experimenting modes of interaction is intrinsic whether for creation or preservation? What happens when the relationship is not just between dancers, but between dancers and spirit being, or between dancers and landscape? What conceptions of knowledge should we mobilise in order to understand these processes better? May the safeguarding of intangible heritage (cf. UNESCO's 2003 Convention) ever be other than a reification and instrumentalisation of culture by the state or parastatal institutions, a politically motivated form of cultural surveillance assuring continuity within the bounds of the normative? This panel welcomes contributions which question any of these issues and respond in the form of theoretically oriented or ethnographically based propositions to help us invent dance worlds to come.
We are expecting your proposals
bets wishes
Andrée
Professor Andrée Grau
Professor of the Anthropology of Dance
Convener MA Dance Anthropology
Director Centre for Dance Research
Roehampton University
Froebel College
Roehampton Lane
London SW15 5PJ
Direct Line: 0208 3923372
http://roehampton.academia.edu/AndreeGrau
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