Open Calls
DSA hosts a current listing of scholarly opportunities to present research, apply for fellowships, and present work. To post a listing you or your institution need to be a current DSA member.
Open Call
Due April 02, 2021
Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection Library Research Fellowship Program 2021-2022
California State University, Sacramento
Open Call
Due April 15, 2021
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.
Open Call
Due November 01, 2021
Journal of Dance Education CFP: Special Issue, Dance Education for Children and Youth: Our Future as a Field
Open Call
Due February 12, 2021
Essence of Embodiment: Call for BIPOC Writers
Open Call
Due March 01, 2021
ATHE’s Music Theatre/Dance Focus Group: The Bruce Kirle Memorial Debut Panel in Music Theatre/Dance
Open Call
Due April 01, 2021
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
Open Call
Due June 01, 2021
A Special Issue of Dance Chronicle: Critical Institutional Studies
Open Call
Due January 20, 2021
MA in Choreography, University of the Arts Helsinki
MA in choreography will accept a maximum of five new students in spring 2021.
Open Call
Due December 04, 2020
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
Open Call
Due December 27, 2020
Call for Book Chapters, Women and Dance in Africa: challenges and persepectives
Open Call
Due November 15, 2020
On Reenactment: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools
Online International Conference, organized by Cristina Baldacci and Susanne Franco
Open Call
Due December 14, 2020
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).
Open Call
Due January 06, 2021
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
Open Call
Due November 01, 2020
Feminist Modernist Studies Call for Submissions
Feminist Modernist Studies invites submissions for a special issue devoted to dance between 1870-1970.
Open Call
Due May 15, 2021
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)
Open Call
Due November 02, 2020
The Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University Fellowships
Open Call
Due January 04, 2021
Research in Dance Education call for papers
Dance, health and wellbeing special issue
Open Call
Due November 01, 2020
JOURNAL OF EMBODIED RESEARCH - Video Article Submissions
Call for Video Article Submissions - special issue "Illuminated"
Open Call
Due January 01, 2021
Theatre History Studies Call-for-Papers
CFP Special Section: “Commingled Histories: Theatre & Dance” Volume 41, 2022
Open Call
Due October 15, 2020
“Ilaria Caccia” Annual Scholarship
University of Verona, Department of Cultures and Civilisations AIRDanza (Italian Association for Research in Dance) “Ilaria Caccia” Annual Scholarship
Open Call
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.
Open Call
Due August 15, 2020
Editor in Chief, Dance Chronicle
Call for Editor-in-Chief of Dance Chronicle
Open Call
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.
Open Call
Due May 15, 2020
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.
Open Call
Due April 29, 2020
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)
Open Call
Due November 15, 2020
Call for Papers: Journal of Dance Education
Special Issue: 4E Cognition in Dance Education, editor Matthew Henley
Open Call
Due August 15, 2020
Movement Arts in Dance, Theatre, and Intermedial Performance
Open Call
Due March 27, 2020
Laboratory of Dance/Dance as a Vantage Point, University of Łódź, Poland (July 1-3)
International Symposium Call for Papers, Workshops, Lecture Demonstrations
Open Call
Due June 01, 2020
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.
Open Call
Due April 30, 2020
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
Open Call
Due April 01, 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.
Open Call
Due May 30, 2020
Workshop on Embodied Cognition and Dance, Call for Abstracts
University of Memphis hosts workshop on embodied cognition and dance. (Free Registration)
Open Call
Due March 13, 2020
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.
Open Call
Due April 08, 2020
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.
Open Call
Due January 15, 2020
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.
Open Call
"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.
Open Call
Conference: Post-Utopia and Europe in the Performing Arts
Open Call
CAP Catalyst Training Series
Nov 2019- May 2020
Open Call
Creative Articulations Process (CAP) Workshop Dance4, Nottingham
30 Nov -1 Dec and 14 and 15 Dec