ACDFA 2010
ACDFA Conference / Central Region
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REGISTRATION IS FULL
Exploring the Creative Process
March 19 - 22, 2010
We are building our conference around the theme of Creative Process, focusing all conference activities on this central choreographic element. In addition to the traditional adjudication process, we will offer alternative feedback sessions, composition workshops, and discussion groups designed to expand our understanding of diverse creative practices and develop effective models for feedback to deepen our choreographic methodolody.
With a desire to create increased communication between our university populations and contribute together to the borderless terrain of the imagination that dance offer us, we sincerely hope you will join us to share your own investigations. Together we can continue to reinvent the university as a crucial national laboratory for contemporary dance.
Linda Lehovec, Conference Coordinator
ACDFA Central Region
For more information e-mail Linda Lehovec
Conference Website is now open
Registration is full.
Papers, Presentations, and Informal Experimental Performances Forum
The Creative Process is the theme of this year's ACDFA, hosted by the Department of Dance at the University of Illinois. To contribute to the discussion and practice of making work, we invite papers, panels, presentations, and informal experimental performances that explore the creative process and the ways in which language assists in the creative process itself.
In dance making, the creative process is revelatory, though often mysterious. Frequently the most valuable part of the performance, making the dance work satisifies the desire and pleasure of a shared creative experience with other working artists. At this conference, we'd like to assist in celebrating and/or demystifying the creative process through language. Possible areas of inquiry include: How do we discuss the creative process in an art form that is primarily physical? How do we expose its challenges and sort through its difficulties? How does language assist the creative process or the dance created?
Length of paper and presentations will be no more than 20 minutes. Please send title, abstract, length of presentation/panel, and biographical information to John Toenjes by December 15, 2009. Please include "ACDFA presentation" in the email subject line.
