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Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies is an annual publication of Dance Studies Association dedicated to current themes and debates in the field of dance studies. Each issue is edited by (a) different guest editor(s) and is published online in an open access format. As such, Conversations is a venue in which scholars, artists, and educators of dance and related disciplines can respond quickly and publicly to current events and pressing issues as identified by members of an international dance studies community. Conversations publishes a range of formats, such as think pieces, scholarly dialogues, practitioner critical reflections, photo and video essays, poetic reveries, reports from the field, ethnographic considerations, introductions to archival repositories, theoretical provocations, interviews, proceedings from important recent roundtables, and more. The Conversations Editorial Board provides editorial support to the guest editors and peer review to the issue contents.

Conversations has published annual issues from 2007-present. Prior to 2007, the Society for Dance History Scholars (SDHS) newsletter served as a similar platform for publication.

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Call for Editor of Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies
Posted by Conversations Editors on 2024-02-29

The Editorial Board for the DSA e-publication Conversations Across the Field of Dance invites expressions of interest for the position of Editor. The Editor of Conversations is a voluntary position and has a 3-year term of office, with the option for a second term. Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies is an annual publication of Dance Studies Association dedicated to current themes [...]

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Welcome Editorial Fellow T. Shacon Jones II
Posted by Conversations Editors on 2024-02-29

We are thrilled to welcome T. Shacon Jones II as the 2024 Editorial Fellow at Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies.  Jones is in ABD status for his Ph.D. in Theater and Performance Studies at Stanford University, where his doctoral research examines the choreo-resistance work of Black queer men through the interplay of social dance, pleasure, and slowness, and seeks to [...]

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New Features: Chats and Talk-Back
Posted by Dance Studies Association on 2022-10-31

Conversations is pleased to announce two new features: Chats and Talk-Back. Chats function as a platform for timely exchanges and discussion prompts, such as written or video recorded roundtables, a curated response to a particular question or issue, and the like. See guidelines here. Talk-Back offer individuals or small groups of authors a venue to address problems, to support, or to [...]

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  • Volume 42 • 2023 • Dancing in the Aftermath of Anti-Asian Violence

    Volume 42 • 2023 • Dancing in the Aftermath of Anti-Asian Violence


Editors: SanSan Kwan (Guest Editor), Yutian Wong (Guest Editor)

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Dancing in the Aftermath of Anti-Asian Violence: An Introduction in Three Parts

SanSan Kwan and Yutian Wong

2023-04-13 Volume 42 • 2023 • Dancing in the Aftermath of Anti-Asian Violence

Violences, Aftermaths, and Family, or: How to Make Dances in this Body?

Rosemary Candelario

2023-04-13 Volume 42 • 2023 • Dancing in the Aftermath of Anti-Asian Violence

Dancing on the (Bamboo) Ceiling: Performing while Asian in U.S. Postmodern Dance

Gerald Casel

2023-04-13 Volume 42 • 2023 • Dancing in the Aftermath of Anti-Asian Violence

a reclamation of the disposable

maura nguyễn donohue

2023-04-13 Volume 42 • 2023 • Dancing in the Aftermath of Anti-Asian Violence

Bystander Choreography

Al Evangelista

2023-04-13 Volume 42 • 2023 • Dancing in the Aftermath of Anti-Asian Violence

Feeling Arab: Sound Worlding, Hishik Bishik, and Belly Dance

Juliana Fadil-Luchkiw

2023-04-13 Volume 42 • 2023 • Dancing in the Aftermath of Anti-Asian Violence

Queen for a Day: Yuriko Amemiya Kikuchi’s Crowning at Tulare Detention Center

Mana Hayakawa

2023-04-13 Volume 42 • 2023 • Dancing in the Aftermath of Anti-Asian Violence

Black-Salpuri: The Innovation of A Traditional Korean Dance Form

Hye-Won Hwang

2023-04-13 Volume 42 • 2023 • Dancing in the Aftermath of Anti-Asian Violence

Asian American Activation Through Hip Hop Dance

grace shinhae jun and MiRi Park

2023-04-13 Volume 42 • 2023 • Dancing in the Aftermath of Anti-Asian Violence

Speaking and Dancing My/Our Truths in Here Lies the Truth

Li Chiao-Ping

2023-04-13 Volume 42 • 2023 • Dancing in the Aftermath of Anti-Asian Violence

Diversity Dancing 101

Joyce Lu

2023-04-13 Volume 42 • 2023 • Dancing in the Aftermath of Anti-Asian Violence

Is My Body My Own?

Tiffany Lytle

2023-04-13 Volume 42 • 2023 • Dancing in the Aftermath of Anti-Asian Violence

Writing “Chinese Dance” in the West

Fangfei Miao

2023-04-13 Volume 42 • 2023 • Dancing in the Aftermath of Anti-Asian Violence

Choreography for Lola, March 2021

Dahlia Nayar

2023-04-13 Volume 42 • 2023 • Dancing in the Aftermath of Anti-Asian Violence

Dance as an Act of Re-membering Who We Are

Johnny Huy Nguyen

2023-04-13 Volume 42 • 2023 • Dancing in the Aftermath of Anti-Asian Violence

Rocks Thrown at His Head

Chuyun Oh

2023-04-13 Volume 42 • 2023 • Dancing in the Aftermath of Anti-Asian Violence

Toward an Afro-Asian Hip-Hop Pedagogy

J. Lorenzo Perillo and Kellee E. Warren

2023-04-13 Volume 42 • 2023 • Dancing in the Aftermath of Anti-Asian Violence

If I Was Your Girlfriend: A Lexicon of Funk and Desire in Academia (or Things I Learned as a Young Asian American Artist)

Michael Sakamoto

2023-04-13 Volume 42 • 2023 • Dancing in the Aftermath of Anti-Asian Violence

Asian American Follows and the Feeling and Practice of Freedom

Crystal Song

2023-04-13 Volume 42 • 2023 • Dancing in the Aftermath of Anti-Asian Violence