Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham hosts a conference and curated performances open to scholars, dance makers, dancers and students on 20 and 21 February 2015.
Keynotes speakers at the conference will be Professor Jen Harvie (Queen Mary University of London) and 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?
Two days of papers, panels, roundtables, performative papers, performances, and workshops. Registration closes on 13 February. Conference organising committee: Lise Uytterhoeven, Melissa Blanco Borelli, Laura Robinson.
Contact [email protected] with any questions about the event, including accommodation. Tickets and schedule here.