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Dancing East Asia: Critical Choreographies and their Corporeal Politics
The University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies will host a conference examining the moving body as a medium of artistic experimentation, cultural exchange, and political activism in East Asia.
When:
April 7, 2017 9:00am to April 8, 2017 5:00pm
This conference examines the moving body as a medium of artistic experimentation, cultural exchange, and political activism in East Asia. Invited scholars from Asia, Europe, and North America will present new research on dance in the East Asian region, including China, Japan, North and South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Covering late imperial times to the present, the conference will offer a landmark event for the emerging field of East Asian dance studies.
Dancing East Asia has been designated the 2017 “Special Topics Conference” by the Society for Dance History Scholars, the dance studies organization of ACLS.
This conference is one part of an ongoing research project focused on Dance Studies and Global East Asia and an edited volume directed and authored by Emily Wilcox and Katherine Mezur.
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