2004 CORD/WDA ASIA PACIFIC/ICKL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN TAIPEI:
DANCE, IDENTITY, AND INTEGRATION
National Taipei University of the Arts
Taipei, August 1-4, 2004

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

The 2004 Congress on Research in Dance/World Dance Alliance Asia Pacific/International Council of Kinetography Laban INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN TAIPEI will focus on both the role of DANCE in keeping traditions alive and on dance as both reflection and catalyst of cultural, environmental and political change.  We will investigate dance as a healing agent in a cataclysmic environment and explore representations of IDENTITY across international, individual, cultural, and temporal borders.  The dialogue between dancers, notators, choreographers, audiences, educators, therapists, writers and researchers will demonstrate how dance contributes to understanding changing societies.  

Taiwan serves as a touching example of the power of dance for healing and social INTEGRATION as dance therapists worked to heal the emotional scars of the 1988 earthquake, which killed 3200 people.  Seminars with practitioners who lead workshops for survivors, as well as with international dance professionals will give voice to the pivotal role of dance and the arts in making a culture whole after war, natural devastation, or other massive cultural change.

Although the conference seeks thematic coherence, conference sessions on all topics are invited.  Sessions to be considered include paper presentations, panel sessions, and workshops.  Abstracts of papers and proposals for panels, roundtable sessions, workshops, or lecture/demonstrations should be postmarked no later than February 15, 2004.  All abstracts should be in English and no more than 500 typed words describing the type of presentation, and outlining the session content.  The more clearly and completely you can describe the session content, the easier it will be for the readers to equitably assess it.  There should be no names, affiliations or other identifying information in the body of the abstract.  The cover page (see reverse) must include complete contact information for all presenters: name(s), preferred mailing addresses, day and evening phone contact(s), and fax and e-mail contact(s), audio/visual or other technical requirements, and space requirements.  Applicants must also indicate which organization they are a member of, and if more than one, which one is most appropriate to the specific proposal.  Students applying for the CORD Graduate Research Award Panel must submit the full text of their papers.  Notification of selection will be mailed to presenters by March 15, 2004.  Send all material via postal mail to:

2004 CORD/WDA ASIA PACIFIC/ICKL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN TAIPEI
Program Committee
Temple University
Department of Dance
309 Vivacqua Hall
Philadelphia, PA 19122

Abstracts and cover sheets may be submitted electronically to medsall@astro.temple.edu by February 15, 2004.  If submitting electronically please send the abstract and cover sheet as an attachment using Microsoft Word, saved as a rich text format document.  Further information will be available on the CORD www.cordance.org and ICKL www.ickl.org websites.

Conference Co-chairs:		Yunyu Wang, Taipei Planning Committee
				Mary E. Edsall, USA Planning Committee/Program Committee

Conference Program Committee:  Karen E. Bond, Barbara Browning, Uttara Coorlawala, Martha Eddy, Mary E. Edsall (Chair), Ilene Fox, Cara Gargano, Luke Kahlich, Janice LaPointe-Crump (Proceedings Editor), Basilo Esteban Villarux

CONGRESS ON DANCE RESEARCH
SUBMISSION FORM
(must accompany conference proposal)

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Date

Name

Address

Address

Weekday telephone number				Evening/weekend telephone number

Fax number						E-mail address

Title of Presentation

Format (Please check appropriate presentation category):

Individual Paper (20 minutes for paper presentation, 10 minutes for response)______________________
Panel or Roundtable Sessions (50 minutes for presentation, 10 minutes for response)_________________
Workshop or Lecture-Demonstration (50 minutes for presentation, 10 minutes for response)___________

Audiovisual and/or other technical equipment required

Time required						Space required

If this is a workshop is there recommended attire?  Specify:

Affiliation:  CORD__________ WDA__________ ICKL__________

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