Special Issue of Dance Chronicle (Published by Routledge) - Choreographers at the Cutting Edge: Contemporary Practices in Concert Dance :: edited by Lynn Matluck Brooks and Joellen A. Meglin :: Call for Research Articles: Deadline: January 30, 2009.

Choreographers today are pushing the edges of dance as a concert form: extending movement capacities of the body, intermixing movement genres, integrating the virtual with the actual body through technological applications, presenting dance in non-traditional sites, challenging audience-performer boundaries, and in other ways exploring and expanding dance as a theater art. Papers might address such subjects as those listed below (as well as other topics proposed by authors):

♦ What questions are current choreographers asking in their choreographic research? What motivates this research?
♦ What boundaries are contemporary choreographers exploring? Are these explorations continuous or discontinuous with explorations in the past?
♦ Does dance change its definition as its bounds shift? Are dance entities – performers, companies, concerts, theaters, festivals–changing as a result of cutting-edge dance practices?
♦ How are presenters and audiences responding to cutting-edge choreography?
♦ Does the lived body endure amidst the technological bodies appearing on stages and screens?
♦ How are dancers training and preparing for new work?
♦ Are critics and philosophers keeping up with the changes in concert dance, and if so, how?
Authors may wish to consider Routledge’s capacity of publishing material electronically concurrently with the printed version, so that readers can tune into digital recordings of music and dance (examples) referred to in the article text. All manuscripts will receive double blind peer review.

Submissions will be accepted at any time before January 30, 2009.

Send manuscripts or inquiries to Lynn Matluck Brooks at lynn.brooks [at] fandm.edu or Joellen Meglin at jmeglin [at] temple.edu.

Style and formatting guidelines are available as Instructions for Authors at the Dance Chronicle
website.