The International Video Dance Festival of Burgundy (France) is pleased to announce that it is now accepting abstracts for short papers to be presented during the festival’s fourth annual Screendance Conference to be held April 28-30, 2016. This year the conference will be dedicated to the theme: Les Danses Macabres: Death and the Moving Image. The conference is an international place of meeting for artists, scholars, curators, students and others interested in exploring the movement and choreography of moving images. The conference is composed of screenings, round tables, and moderated panel presentations. Select papers will be considered for a future publication of screendance essays.
Deadline for applications: January 10
The festival is seeking papers that address any aspect related to the theme: Les Danses Macabres: Death and the Moving Image. Presentations that draw on a diverse range of research areas are welcome, including film studies, performance studies, art history, literature, philosophy, the social sciences and the humanities, among others. Topics including explorations of death through movement, editing, and camera work are encouraged, in addition to how screendance may explore mortality through rituals, analogies, and related subjects, including but not limited to: requiems, architectural ruins, ghosts and memory, the Gothic, Romanticism, Butoh, André Bazin’s “mummy complex”, absence/presence, and death as new beginning or transformation.
Please note: There is no registration fee to participate in the conference, but the festival is unable to offer travel or accommodation stipends at this time. We are happy to provide letters of support/invitation should you wish to seek institutional funding to attend. Please request your letter at least one week in advance of the time you need it.
LOCATION: The conference and festival events, as well as hotels and restaurants are all located within short walking distance in the city center of Le Creusot, Burgundy. Le Creusot is only one hour’s travel time from Paris via TGV train and 30 minutes from Lyon (also via TGV train).
SUBMIT: Proposals should include a detailed 500-1,000 word abstract that clearly explains your thesis, methodologies, and references. As presentations are limited to 20 minutes at the conference, it is highly recommended to communicate one specific question or idea that can be well developed within the presentation format rather than attempting to include too much material that won’t have time to be explored. Alternative conference presentations are welcome (interactive, danced, etc.), but please include detailed information about how it relates to the conference theme, the format it will take, and any technical needs. The conference’s working language is English.Please include a C.V. with your proposal and send to: info@videodansebourgogne.com before January 10. Notification of conference program will be sent via e-mail by mid January.
For further information please visit: http://videodansebourgogne.
