Conferences
Conferences serve as essential hubs for scholars and practitioners to share new work and ideas, and form creative and professional connections in the field. DSA presents large Annual Conferences oriented around a general theme, as well as smaller Special Topics Conferences that delve into a more limited area of focus.
"Agonistic Acts: Anti-Racist and Decolonial Interventions for Dance Studies," closing plenary at the 2018 DSA conference Contra: Dance and Conflict, University of Malta
The Annual Conference is the principal international meeting point for all members of the Dance Studies Association. The conference program usually comprises some seventy sessions, presented over
The Special Topics conferences are smaller, shorter gatherings around a specific issue, theme, or area of interest within dance scholarship. They do not follow an annual schedule, but
Recipients of DSA awards receive complimentary conference attendance.
Annual Conference
The Dance Studies Association is hosting its 2019 annual conference at Northwestern University August 8-11, located on the shore of Lake Michigan with a view of the Chicago skyline. We invite you to join us for papers, panels, roundtable discussions, lecture-demonstrations, movement workshops, dance works, and screendances that address the conference theme, “Dancing in Common.”
future conferences
Dance Studies Association welcomes proposals for future conferences. For further information on how to suggest a conference or to volunteer in the organization of DSA conferences, please see our guidelines and contact the Vice President for Conferences.
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.