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ETHICS
AND POLITICS EMBODIED IN DANCE 9. - 12.12.2004
International
Dance Conference for Practitioners and Scholars
Background
and Vision Statement
Ethical
and political questions have become an apparent concern of
public discussion in various fields during the past decades.
This discussion reflects current change in society as well
as the consequent political fluctuation regarding e.g. multicultural,
ecological, technological, and economic issues. In relation
to the arts these issues have been increasingly discussed
in the fields of aesthetics, social sciences, and cultural
studies. However, the ethical and political dimensions of
daily practices in artistic, educational, and institutional
contexts of dance have been less discussed. Yet it is evident,
that the related issues of truth, value, morality, and freedom
are important concerns of the practices of dance art.
This international
conference will examine ethical and political issues embodied
in the lives of dancers, choreographers, dance teachers, students,
and scholars as they practice their art within dance. The
conference will focus on the everyday reality of dance as
work. The conference will also encourage relating these issues
to theories that connect dance to the larger socio-political
world.
This conference
culminates a three-year effort funded by The Academy of Finland.
The research project Making a Difference in Dance has brought together a team of researchers from Finland,
Sweden, U.K., and USA working on their own projects and sharing
them with each other in a spirit of rigorous inquiry and collegial
support. As the organizers of Ethics and Politics
Embodied in Dance, they hope that the conference will continue this spirit
as the boundaries are extended, opening spaces for encounters
between individuals and ideas, for deconstructing and reconstructing
life and work in the world of dance artists, educators, students,
and scholars.
Participants
and conference venue
The conference
invites practitioners, scholars, and researchers working with
dance and the other arts or human sciences as well as graduate
students from Finland and abroad to join discussions and workshops
investigating the social world within dance art.
The conference
will be held at The Theatre Academy of Finland, Haapaniemenkatu
6, Helsinki.
Conference
organizers
Senior
researchers:
Maija
Lehtovaara, Ph.D., University of Tampere, Department of Education,
Finland
Professor
Sue Stinson University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Dance
Department, USA,
Helena
Wulff, Ph.D., Stockholm University, Social Anthropology, Sweden
Ana Sanchez-Colberg,
Ph.D., Laban Centre, England
Other
researchers:
Soili
Hämäläinen, Ph.D., Head of the project, Theatre
Academy, Finland
Eeva Anttila,
Ph.D., Theatre Academy, Finland
Teija
Löytönen, EdM, Theatre Academy, Finland
Leena
Rouhiainen, Ph.D., Theatre Academy, Finland
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