[dance-tech] Special Issue of 'Participations' – Screen Dance Audiences: Call for Papers
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Special
Issue of Participations – Screen
Dance Audiences
Call for Papers
Screen dance is a dynamic and hybrid practice that is rapidly
increasing in prominence and profile. Its presence morphs between hugely
popular forms (Strictly Come Dancing; the Hollywood
‘dancical’); avant-garde practice (presented at dedicated screen dance
festivals); the extremely prominent use of dance in commercial advertising
(recent examples include Visa, Gap, iPod, Highland Spring); documentary
recordings and adaption of live works; and digital and virtual dance
performances (such as Bill T Jones’ Ghostcatching).
The academic profile of screen dance has been gradually
catching up with the development of the form – particularly Mitoma 2002, Dodds
2004 and McPherson 2006 – yet the relationship between screen dance and its
divergent and diverse audiences is an
area warranting specific attention in its own right. This is particularly so as
the audience contexts of screen dance are extremely diverse – including
broadcast television, cinema, dedicated festival performance, site specific
projection, music television and the internet.
This special issue of Participations
will explore Screen Dance Audiences
across this range of practices and contexts and in doing so will seek
contributions from a similar diverse range of methodological approaches from
which to consider audiences – qualitative audience research, cognitive science,
choreographic and practitioner perspectives, theoretical and practice-based. The
journal will be co-edited by Dr Matthew Reason and Professor Dee Reynolds and
is emerging from the ongoing AHRC funded Watching Dance research project
(www.watchingdance.org).
Participations is
an on-line, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the strengthening and development
of the fields of audience and reception studies (www.participations.org). It
will be possible for papers to include video, audio and visual materials where
copyright is held or permission obtained by the author.
Proposals for papers should be no more than 500 words and be
emailed to both co-editors: Matthew Reason at m.reason@xxxxxxxxxxxx and Dee
Reynolds
at Dee.Reynolds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Proposals should be received by no later than 1st
May 2010.
This special issue on Screen
Dance Audiences is scheduled to be released in November 2010.
If you have any questions please contact the issue editors.
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