A Notice from the Dance Studies Association
Registration today for Speculative Choreographies to secure early bird pricing! Early bird rates are available through July 1, 2026.
Join us at California State University, Long Beach October 23-25 for our 2026 Conference. This conference explores how dance speculates—how it reflects, resists, and reimagines—the forces that shape our contemporary world. These forces include migration and memory as well as media, markets, and the social choreography of bodies across borders, platforms, and stages. The conference site rests on what was originally the Tongva village of Puvungna, meaning “gathering place,” a site featured in the Tongva/Gabrieleno/Acjachemen peoples’ creation stories and stories of emergence. With its indigenous populations, diverse diasporic communities, deep histories of resistance, and global entertainment industries, Los Angeles and the conference location offer fertile ground for rethinking how dance is entangled with questions of value, visibility, and survival.
A full list of registration rates, hotel information, and sponsorship/advertising are available on DSA’s website.
Call for Editorial Board Members: Studies in Dance: Theories & Practices Book Series
A Studies in Dance editorial board member serves a three-year term. We seek to build a board with coverage of a wide and balanced range of expertise.
Specific duties include
- Attending all editorial board meetings (usually about 2 per year)
- Helping to evaluate submissions
- Helping to identify potential new authors
- Weighing in on editorial board policies and procedures
Eligibility/Qualifications include
- familiarity with the Studies in Dance book series,
- publication of at least one monograph, and preferably also editing of an anthology and/or other collaborative publishing experience, and
- relevant experience in editing and mentorship
To apply, please submit a one-page letter of interest and current cv to info@dancestudiesassociation.org with the subject: Studies in Dance, Editorial Board Applicant – NAME by June 1st
Position begins Sept 1st.
Upcoming Events & Important Dates
Grad Student Weekly Writing Accountability Meeting
Weekly, Monday-Thursday 11am-1pm Central
DSA 2026 Conference: Speculative Choreographies: Bodies, Economies, and Movement in a World in Flux
October 23-25, 2026
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