Open Calls

PoP Moves: Special CFP, Practice Based Research (2023)

Call for Case Studies - Dance in US Popular Culture

International Journal of Traditional Arts “Social justice, human rights, and sustainability of traditional arts” CFP

Expressions of interest should comprise a draft title and abstract of the proposed contribution.

Performance Research "On Solidarity" CFP

Call for Abstracts: Special Issue: Dance of the Northern Renaissance

Call for Papers - MAPACA 2021 Virtual Conference: Performance Studies Area

Call for Abstracts: Special issue on “Bach and the Art of Movement"

BACH: Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute, co-edited by Christina Fuhrmann and Reginald L. Sanders

Call for Papers, International Congress: A CENTURY OF DANCE IN SPAIN (1836-1936) Identities, repertoires, imaginaries and contexts

Institute of History-CSIC and National Museum of Romanticism Madrid, December 1-3, 2021

Fulbright: Selma Jeanne Cohen Fund Lecture Award

New York Public Library's Jerome Robbins Dance Division Dance Research Fellowship

Global Hip Hop Studies Call for Papers, Special Issue: Breaking and the Olympics

Special Issue: Breaking and the Olympics

CFP for the Performance, Identity and Community working group meeting at TaPRA at Liverpool Hope University, UK

Call for Submissions, Special Guest Edited Issue of Dance Research Journal Guest Editors: Lucia Ruprecht and Eike Wittrock

QUEERING DANCE MODERNISM: Sexuality and Race on Stage

Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presenca, Brazilian Journal on Presence Studies

Dance: History and Historiography, Call for Papers

Call for Papers | Digital Matters: Designing/Performing Agency in the Anthropocene

​25th Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts Conference, September 5-7, 2021 at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany

Future(s) of Performance: The Responsibilities of Performing Arts in Tertiary Education (Karen Schupp, Editor)

Seeking chapter proposals for a new edited volume that will address the responsibilities of the performing arts in tertiary education.

Journal of Dance Education CFP: Special Issue, Dance Education for Children and Youth: Our Future as a Field

Essence of Embodiment: Call for BIPOC Writers

ATHE’s Music Theatre/Dance Focus Group: The Bruce Kirle Memorial Debut Panel in Music Theatre/Dance

Call for Contributions for Dance Studies: Critical Glossaries a Multi-Volume Anthology

Call for Contributions for multi-volume anthology project for Oxford UP (subject to contract), co-edited by Anurima Banerji, Jasmine Johnson, and Royona Mitra

A Special Issue of Dance Chronicle: Critical Institutional Studies

MA in Choreography, University of the Arts Helsinki

MA in choreography will accept a maximum of five new students in spring 2021.

The International Association for the Study of Popular Music - United States (IASPM-US) Call for Papers

IASPM-US will take place virtually May 19-22, 2021

Call for Book Chapters, Women and Dance in Africa: challenges and persepectives

On Reenactment: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools

Online International Conference, organized by Cristina Baldacci and Susanne Franco

Song, Stage and Screen XV: Musical Mobilities – Stage and Film Musical in Motion Conference, Call for Papers

The conference will be organized in collaboration by the Paris-Lodron-Universität Salzburg (PLUS) and the Anton-Bruckner-Privat-Universität Linz (ABPU).

15th NOFOD CONFERENCE The Danish National School of Performing Arts, COPENHAGEN 17.-20.6.2021

Call for Papers: Moving, relating, commanding: Choreographies for bodies, identities and ecologies

Feminist Modernist Studies Call for Submissions

Feminist Modernist Studies invites submissions for a special issue devoted to dance between 1870-1970.

Danza e ricerca. Laboratorio di studi, scritture, visioni is soliciting original contributions for its 13th issue

An open access journal directed by Elena Cervellati & Elena Randi (published by the Department of Arts, University of Bologna)

The Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University Fellowships

Research in Dance Education call for papers

Dance, health and wellbeing special issue

JOURNAL OF EMBODIED RESEARCH - Video Article Submissions

Call for Video Article Submissions - special issue "Illuminated"

Theatre History Studies Call-for-Papers

CFP Special Section: “Commingled Histories: Theatre & Dance” Volume 41, 2022

“Ilaria Caccia” Annual Scholarship

University of Verona, Department of Cultures and Civilisations AIRDanza (Italian Association for Research in Dance) “Ilaria Caccia” Annual Scholarship

Theatre and Performance Notes and Counternotes inaugural 2021 issues

TPNC —a new, forthcoming generalist journal that publishes short-to-medium length articles —is actively seeking Responses for our inaugural 2021 issues.

Editor in Chief, Dance Chronicle

Call for Editor-in-Chief of Dance Chronicle

Participate in Research Study About Experiences of Pregnancy, Motherhood, and Work in the Dance Field

Dr. Ali Duffy, Texas Tech, seeks participants in a research project about women’s negotiations of their careers in dance with pregnancy and/or motherhood.

The Jerome Robbins Dance Division Research Fellowship

The Jerome Robbins Dance Division invites applications from scholars and practitioners interested in investigating the theme of dance and immigration.

Performance Research: Call for Papers

CFP: Vol. 26, No. 1: ‘On Perception’ (Jan/Feb 2021); Issue Editors: Pil Hansen (University of Calgary, CA) and Freya Vass (University of Kent, UK)

Call for Papers: Journal of Dance Education

Special Issue: 4E Cognition in Dance Education, editor Matthew Henley

Movement Arts in Dance, Theatre, and Intermedial Performance

Laboratory of Dance/Dance as a Vantage Point, University of Łódź, Poland (July 1-3)

International Symposium Call for Papers, Workshops, Lecture Demonstrations

Doug Risner Prize for Emerging Dance Researchers

Unpublished scholars submitting original empirical research study manuscripts to the Journal of Dance Education are eligible for prize consideration.

Dance and Disruption: Science and Body in the Long Nineteenth Century - Call for Papers

A Working Symposium hosted by the Dance Studies Association Working Group, Dancing the Long Nineteenth Century Swarthmore College, June 6-7, 2020

MLA International Bibliography - 3-year Field-Bibliography Fellowships

MLA field bibliographers examine scholarly materials and submit bibliographic and indexing information for citations in the Bibliography.

Workshop on Embodied Cognition and Dance, Call for Abstracts

University of Memphis hosts workshop on embodied cognition and dance. (Free Registration)

Towards a Decentered History of Dance International Conference / Lyon, France (Call for Papers)

How is history moved, reconfigured, stimulated, by current research on dance? This international conference aims to extend this question.

National Endowment for the Humanities - Fellowships

NEH Fellowships are competitive awards granted to individual scholars pursuing projects that embody exceptional research, rigorous analysis, & clear writing.

Call for Applications: New York Public Library Short-Term Research Fellowships

The Jerome Robbins Dance Division is now accepting applications for its 2020-2021 NYPL short-term fellowships.

"Danza e ricerca. Laboratorio di studi, scritture, visioni" soliciting contributions for its 12th issue

"D&R," open access journal (University of Bologna), is soliciting original contributions for its 12th issue scheduled for publication by the end of 2020.

Conference: Post-Utopia and Europe in the Performing Arts

CAP Catalyst Training Series

Nov 2019- May 2020

Creative Articulations Process (CAP) Workshop Dance4, Nottingham

30 Nov -1 Dec and 14 and 15 Dec

Dance around the World textbook: Call for authors

UAI: Union Académique Internationale

Dance around the World textbook: Call for authors

Resources

CFP: Special Issue of ARTS on "Dance and Abstraction"

New York Public Library Short-Term Research Fellowships