Friday, 20 February, 2015 – 10:00 – Saturday, 21 February, 2015 – 18:00
Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham
Conference & curated performances, open to scholars, dance makers, dancers & students
Keynotes:
Professor Jen Harvie (Queen Mary University of London)
Professor Priya Srinivasan (University of California Riverside)
– What can the body do as it negotiates the tensions between neoliberalism (an ideology embedded in economic/social policies since 1970s) and post-Fordism (a labour organisation practice)?
– How do dances gain currency and value through the process of financialisation?
– How might dance makers articulate and reimagine transactions in the economies of spectacle?
– What are the risks and opportunities that commercialisation and financialisation bring to the funding, production and presentation of dance in the 21st century?
– How do we make sense of the term ‘commercial dance’ (context, genre or style)?
– How do some dance practices decolonise economic discourse?
– How does dance make visible the excesses of the body (pain, sweat, blood, passion, technique), while at the same time (dis)allowing its complete commodification?
– How does dance negotiate its materiality (the body) with its immateriality (affect)?
– How does dance perform precarity?
Join us for two days of papers, panels, roundtables, performative papers, performances, and workshops.
Conference organising committee: Lise Uytterhoeven, Melissa Blanco Borelli, Laura Robinson.
Please contact naomi@londonstudiocentre.org with any questions about the event, including accommodation.
Book your ticket via Eventbrite here.
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