Monthly Newsletter

We love promoting free education and events around dance and decolonial concepts! Every month we send out highlights of upcoming events in our newsletter, but here we will promote a larger variety of upcoming events. Events are listed in the language provided or presented in for promotion.

May 2025

7th May (Online) 17:30 - 19:00; Migration and Performative Practices A free online event hosted by CREATURE, Research Centre in Creative Arts, Cultures and Engagement at London Metropolitan University, exploring key question in how performative and participatory strategies may provide new insights into the experience of migration and asylum seeking. The event is centered around two projects, each focusing on the role of creative practice as a vehicle for research in this area of exploration. Register Here
13th May (Leeds, UK) 4pm; Unmaking Contact: Choreographing South Asian Touch, monograph reading and discussion by Royona Mitra. University of Leeds Campus, Booking with L.M.Watson@leeds.ac.uk.
13th May (Online) 6pm BST; Jeleel Ojuade (Ojaja University, Nigeria). ‘Reclaiming Dance in Africa: Ancestral Heritage and Political Agency.’ Chaired by Sola Adeyemi (University of East Anglia, UK). Register Here
20th May (Online) 3pm BST; Brahma Prakash (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India), ‘A Manifesto to decolonize Dance and Movement Discourses in South Asia’.Chaired by Royona Mitra (Brunel University, UK). Register Here
27th May (Online) 6pm BST; María Regina Firmino-Castillo (University of California Riverside, USA), ‘“Dancing the Pluriverse” redux: (Indigenous) Performance as ontological praxis or anticolonial poiesis?’ Chaired by María Estrada Fuentes (Royal Holloway University of London, UK). Register Here
30th May (Hybrid, UK) 2pm to 6pm BST; Embodying Worldmakings: Bodies as/in Migration. Bringing insights from critical dance studies and performance studies into anthropology, this workshop focuses on interaction and improvisation. Through our moving, interconnected bodies — as scholars, performers, and activists — we aim to explore corporeal imaginaries, utopias, challenges, adaptations, and limitations. More Info and Register Here.

June 2025

3rd June (Online) 6pm; ‘Performance, Memory, and Resistance: A Talk by Palestinian Performance Artist Riham Isaac’ (University of Exeter, UK).Chaired by Manal Massalha (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK). Register Here

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September 2025

Creative Arts in Education and Therapy’s open Call for Papers. Their focus is on reporting and discussing perspectives, artistic expressions, theory-based applications as well as practice-based approaches between the West and the East – particularly China and its neighboring cultures. CAET supports cross-disciplinary dialogue, cooperation and research between the creative arts (creative writing, dance/movement, drama, film and video, music and the visual arts) and therapy, education, psychology, medicine, community applications and other related fields. We encourage creative and imaginative scholarships that promote cultural diversity, inclusivity and social justice.
- Due September 1st; You can find more at: https://caet.inspirees.com/for-authors/

November 2025

A Special Issue of Dance Chronicle has an open call on South Asia’s Courtesan, Hereditary, and Temple Performers: Expanding Discourse and Disrupting Histories. Submission Deadline is 1st November. We hope to illuminate communities from
lesser researched regions such as Delhi, Maharashtra, Assam, Manipur, and Odisha from India, and also communities from larger South Asia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, and Sri Lanka. In doing so, we aim to present a heterogeneous picture and showcase a multiplicity of voices that have shaped these practices and communities in the South Asian subcontinent.
- Due November 1st, contact chatterjee.199@osu.edu and shriya.patnaik@graduateinstitute.ch for more information on the call.

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