Reconnections: Looking back, moving forward, enacting change
2023 Dance & Somatic Practices Conference

Deadline for the submissions: 30th November 2022.
Proposals should be submitted online via Google Forms please follow this
link: https://forms.gle/sh7zP2bjvQUg1qqM7

Confernce dates: Friday 14th to Sunday 16th July 2023
Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE), Coventry University, Coventry, UK.
To be held at the ICC Building, Coventry University, Parkside, Coventry, CV1 2NE, UK.

Call for Papers
The Dance & Somatic Practices Conference invites practitioners, dance artists and scholars from a range of somatic practices and disciplines to debate and share investigations in the field of somatic informed movement practices.
The conference will take place in-person with the opportunity to present online.

The conference – Reconnections: Looking back, moving forward, enacting change – will offer a space to collectively engage with themes pertinent to the field of somatic practices internationally and to consider recent world events and concerns such as COVID-19, social justice and the climate emergency. Historically, the Dance & Somatic Practices Conference has been a moment for all areas of somatic practice, research and other modes of somatic enquiry to meet and share experience, knowledge and
connection. This year we have recognized a need and desire in the wider somatic community to gather together in this way again. Welcoming different perspectives from the ever-enrichening field, we also want to acknowledge, celebrate and honour who and what has come before, to reflect on what has happened in recent years and to collectively explore current and future priorities for our community.
We invite proposals for papers, panels, workshops, presentations and other formats that we may not have thought of that, through somatic movement and enquiry, engage with the following questions: