Past Conferences

Dance Studies Association continues the tradition of Congress on Research in Dance and Society of Dance History Scholars. Peruse our past conferences below. For our published Conference Proceedings, see our Conference Proceedings.

2023: Movement, Mobility, Reciprocity (virtual symposia series - Brazil, UK, Nigeria & Senegal)
2022: Dancing Resilience: Dance Studies and Activism in a Global Age - Vancouver, BC Canada
2021: GALVANIZING DANCE/STUDIES: Building Antiracist Praxis, Transformative Connections, and Movement(s) of Radical Care - Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
2020: Digital DSA, virtual
2019: Dancing in Common - Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States
2018: Contra: Dance & Conflict - University of Malta, Valetta, Malta
2017: DSA Inaugural Conference 2017 - Transmissions and Traces: Rendering Dance - The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
2017: Dancing East Asia: Critical Choreographies and Their Corporeal Politics - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA (SDHS)
2016: Beyond Authenticity & Appropriation: bodies, authorship, and choreographies of transmission - Pomona College (SDHS & CORD)
2016: Contemporary Ballet: Exchanges, Connections and Directions - NYU's Center for Ballet and the Arts / Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States (SDHS)
2015: Cut and Paste: Dance Advocacy in the Age of Austerity - Athens, Greece (SDHS & CORD)
2015: Dance as Experience: Progressive Era Origins and Legacies - Baltimore, MD, United States (SDHS)
2014: Writing Dancing/Dancing Writing - University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States (SDHS & CORD)
2013: Decentering Dance Studies: Moving In New Global Orders - Mission Inn & Spa, Riverside, CA, USA (CORD)
2013: Dance ACTions - Traditions and Transformations - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway (SDHS)
2013: Tactical Bodies: The Choreography of Non-Dancing Subjects - University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California (CORD)
2013: Sacre Celebration: Revisiting, Reflecting, Revisioning - York University, Toronto, ON, Canada (SDHS)
2012: Re-generations: Cultural Legacies in Contemporary - University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA (CORD)
2012: Dance and the Social City - The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, United States (SDHS)
2011: Moving Music/Sounding Dance: Intersections, Disconnections, and Alignments between Dance and Music, Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown, Philadelphia, PA, USA (CORD)
2011: Dance Dramaturgy: catalyst, perspective, + memory - York University and the University of Toronto, Toronto Canada (SDHS)
2010: Dance & Spectacle - University of Surrey, Guildford and The Place, London UK (SHDS)

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