Re-Searching Dance: International Conference on Dance Research
Programme Schedule
Day 1: 28th November, 2009
8:30 – 9:45 amRegistration
10:00-11:30 amInaugural Session at IIC Annexe Auditorium
Inauguration by Chief Guest Dr. Karan Singh, Member of Parliament
Welcome address by Chairperson, Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan, President, Dance Alliance, India
Address by Dr. Anis Nor, President World Dance Alliance - Asia Pacific
Address by H S Shivaprakash, Dean, School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Introduction to the conference theme by Dr. Urmimala Sarkar, Secretary, Dance Alliance - India
Release of the bookCelebrating Dance in Cambodia by Dr. Karan Singh
Key Note address by Prof. Adrienne Kaeppler, Curator of Oceanic Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
11:30-11:45 amTea/Coffee Break
11:45 am – 1:15 pmParallel Sessions 1A and 1B
Session 1A: Dance as/for healingVenue: IIC Annexe Auditorium / Session 1B: Dance as/and pedagogy
Venue: IIC Annexe Conference Room III
Chair: Anomita Goswami
Panelists :
Sohini Chakraborty
Empowering through dance movement therapy
Tania Kopytko
Using dance as a tool for development
Barbara Snook
A Circle of Life / Chair: Pornrat Damrhung
Panelists:
Alison East and Bindu Rajendran
Transcultural Dance Education between New Zealand and India: A Dance Field Trip from the University of Otago, New Zealand to South India
Navina Jafa
Extending Dance to Society
Navtej Johar and Vaswati Mishra
Zaroorat: Breaking the Cycle of Poverty through the Arts
1:15 – 2:00pm Lunch hosted by Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan
2:00 – 4:00 pmParallel Sessions 2A and 2B
Session 2A: Divergent Practices in Improvisation in Australian Contemporary DanceVenue: IIC Annexe Auditorium / Session 2B: Dancing the Thesis
Venue: IIC Annexe Conference Room III
Chair: Maggie Philllip
Panelists :
Simon Ellis
Hands that don’t want anything (dancing with Kirstie Simson)
Shaun McLeod
The weight of the thing leaves different marks
Paul Romano
Relentless Transparency
Dianne Reid
Living at a Rakish Angle
Olivia Millard
If Every Time was the First Time / Chair: Samik Bandopadhyay
Panelists:
Cheryl Stock
Dancing the Thesis : Potential and Pitfalls in Practice-led Research — Cultural Inflections
Maggi Phillips
Dancing the Thesis : Potential and Pitfalls in Practice-led Research — Documentation or Stilling Ephemerality
Kim Vincs
Dancing the Thesis : Potential and Pitfalls in Practice-led Research - Interdisciplinarity
Shrinkhla Sahai
Reading Dance, Performing Research: Meaning, Interpretation, Context and Re-contextualization in Dance Performance and Research
4:00 – 4:15 pm Tea/Coffee Break
4:15 – 6:00 pmParallel Sessions 3A and 3B
Session 3A: The Politics of RepresentationVenue: IIC Annexe Auditorium / Session 3B: TheCritics and Dance
Venue: IIC Annexe Conference Room III
Chair: Mohd. Anis Mohd Nor
Panelists :
Lokendra Arambam
Patronage, Politics of Culture and the Dancing Body of the Other: A North East Indian Experience
Patrick Alcedo
How Black is Black? The Indigenous Atis on their way to Philippine Festival
Lubna Marium
Restructuring Tradition: An Experiment in Introduction of Dance Pedagogy in an Indigenous Dance Form of Bangladesh / Chair: Urmimala Sarkar
Panelists:
Leela Venkataraman
Indian Dance Orphaned: Chandralekha
Sunil Kothari
Documenting Gotipua dancers; issues of caste, gender, sex and female impersonation
Shanta Serbjeet Singh
What is Creativity? A Process or an Impulse? How does the Artistic Process get Mutated to Re-Present Creativity?
7:00 pmDance dialogue – An evening with the choreolab participants at the IIC Auditorium
DAY 2: 29th November, 2009
9:30-11:00 amParallel Sessions 4A and 4B
Session 4A: Re-inventing TraditionVenue: IIC Annexe Auditorium / Session 4B: Teaching Dance
Venue: IIC Annexe Conference Room III
Chair: Sadanand Menon
Panelists :
Pornrat Damrhung
From “Phra Lor” to “Jai Jao Lor”: Representing presentation in Thailand’s hybrid dance traditions
Fred Frumberg
Creating a Platform for Contemporary Dance in Cambodia
Ileana Citaristi
Choreographic patterns in Indian Traditional Performing Arts / Chair: Cheryl Stock
Panelists:
Ranjita Karlekar
Questions for the Modern Dance Teacher: Child-Parent Responses to Modern Dance Education
Sue Cheesman
Unravelling the Elusive: A Teacher’s
Perspective within a Community Integrated
Dance Class
Nicholas Rowe
Evaluating Postgraduate Dance in the South Pacific
11:00-11:30 amTea/Coffee Break
11:30am-1:00 pmParallel Sessions 5A and 5B
Session 5A: Cultural BodiesVenue: IIC Annexe Auditorium / Session 5B: Re-viewing Women Performers
Venue: IIC Annexe Conference Room III
Chair: Lubna Marium
Panelists :
Caren Carino
Cultural Continuity through Contemporary Dance in Singapore
Sruti Bandopadhay
Transcending Templerinciples, Facing the
Proscenium: An Investigation into Bipin Singh’s Style of Manipuri Dance
Vikram Iyengar
Stepping Off the Pedestal of Indian Classical
Dance: Risking Conversations/Forging
Communication, Community and Creativity / Chair: Bishnupriya Dutt
Panelists:
Ruchika Sharma
The Nautch Girl: The Dancing Girl in the European Gaze
Urmimala Sarkar
The Tale of the Professional Woman
Dancer in Folk Traditions in India
Priyanka Basu
Bollywood Item Number: A Carnival out of Everyday
1:00-2:00 pmLunch
2:00-3:30 pmParallel Sessions 6A and 6B
Session 6A: Presentation/RepresentationVenue: IIC Annexe Auditorium / Session 6B: Interpreting Choreography
Venue: IIC Annexe Conference Room III
Chair : Parul Dave Mukherji
Panelists:
Mohd. AnisMd. Nor
Presenting Islamic Representations in the
Dances of Maritime Southeast Asia
Basilio Esteban S. Villaruz
Staged Aesthetics and Politics of Ramayana in
the Philippines and other Cultural Routes
Siri Ramaswami
In the Path of the Lotus: Re-Searching Buddha
in the Language of Indian Dance / Chair : Navtej Johar
Panelists:
Stephanie Burridge
Extrinsic and Intrinsic Approaches to Choreography: Contradictions and Dilemmas
Sandra Chatterjee and Cynthia Lee
Rewriting Choreography: Unfaithful and Impossible Translations
3:30-4:00 pmTea/Coffee Break
4:00-6:00 pmParallel Sessions 7Aand 7B
Session 7A: Reconstructing History and DanceVenue: IIC Annexe Auditorium / Session 7B: Experiencing Choreography
Venue: IIC Annexe Conference Room III
Chair: Sunil Kothari
Panelists:
Tizianna Leucci
A Neglected Chapter in the History of Indian
‘Classical’ Dances: The East-West Interactions (1889-1947)
Ashish Mohan Khokar
Pre-Independence and Post-Independence Dance Construct: The Role and Contribution of Pioneers from Abroad and at Home
Parul Shah
The Practice of Recording the Action of Indian
Classical Dance / Chair : Stephanie Burridge
Panelists :
Raka Maitra
‘Circular Ruins’: A Journey in search for a my Own Vocabulary
Shreeparna Ghosal
Exploring Dance: The Aquatic Predicament
Priyadarshini Ghosh
Dance and Yoga as Mind Body Spirit Well-Being
7:00 pmAn evening of South East Asian Performances at Stein Auditorium, IndiaHabitatCenter
- Dear Friends – TaipeiNationalUniversity of the Arts, Taiwan
- Khmeropédies II – Amrita Performing Arts, Cambodia
- Toccata – Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore
6:00 – 6:45pm E-MO-KO by PADATIK, Kolkata
AndKamani Auditorium
7:15 – 8:00pm
DAY 3: 30th November, 2009
9:00 am Tea
9:30 am – 1:30 pm Annual General Meeting – World Dance Alliance - Asia Pacific and launch of website for the WDA Global Summit 2010
1:30 – 2:15 pm Lunch
2:30 – 4:30 pm Closing Session: Mission & Vision of World Dance Alliance
Chairperson: President, Dance Alliance – India, Dr: Kapila Vatsyayan
WDA World: Dr. Adrienne Kaeppler (PastPresident, WDA-Americas); Prof. Jin WenYu (Present President of WDA- Americas); Prof. Basilio Esteban Villaruz(Past president, WDA - Asia Pacific); Prof. Mohd. AnisMd. Nor (Present
President, WDA - Asia Pacific)
Vote of Thanks: Vice President, Dance Alliance – India, Dr. Sunil Kothari
7 pm Sharira – APerformance by Chandralekha Groupat Stein Auditorium, IHC
Day 4: 1st December - Network Meetings
Venue: India International Centre (Annexe), New Delhi
9:00 – 10:30Creation & Presentation(Annexe Auditorium)
10:30 – 11:00Tea
11:00 – 12:30Education & Training(Annexe Auditorium)
12:30 – 1:30Lunch
1:30 – 3:00 Research & Documentation(Annexe Auditorium)
3:00– 3:30Tea
3:30 – 4:30 Status & Welfare (Annexe Auditorium)
Management & Promotion (Annexe Conference Room III)
4:45 – 5:00 Leave for evening celebrations and farewell
dinner at Sanskriti – Hosted by Mr. O.P. Jain