DANCING IN THE MILLENNIUM CONFERENCE PLANNED FOR 2000.WASHINGTON--Dancing in the millennium, celebrating it, investigating it, talking about it, watching it, affirming it--members of eighteen organizations dealing with dance in all its many aspects will meet July 19 to 23, 2000, to work collaboratively on the exchange of ideas and information about dance. Exhibits, performances, panel discussions, plenary sessions, and film screenings are all intended to be part of this unprecedented gathering of so many groups, all of them dedicated in one way or another to the art of the dance. The four core organizations sponsoring the conference, titled "Dancing In the Millennium," are the Dance Critics Association, the Congress on Research in Dance Congress on Research in Dance is an international non-profit interdisciplinary society for dance researchers. CORD publishes the Dance Research Journal, and sponsors annual conferences which distribute annual awards. , the Society of Dance History Scholars The Society of Dance History Scholars (SDHS) is a professional organization for dance historians in the United States and worldwide. Founded in 1978, it became a non-profit organization in 1983. , and the National Dance Association. These organizations have formed a limited-liability partnership for the conference. Other groups involved on a collateral basis represent a very broad range of specialties and interests. They include the American Dance Guild The American Dance Guild (A.D.G.) was founded in 1956 as the Dance Teachers' Guild by twelve dance teachers in New York City to promote the art of dance in the United States by educating the American public and by maintaining standards of teaching. , American Dance Therapy Association American Dance Therapy Association, n.pr a national organization of professionals with training in dance and movement therapy, the goal of which is to use movement for therapeutic use that enhances the physical, cognitive, and social integration of an , Country Dance and Song Society, Dance and the Child International/USA Chapter, Dance Heritage Coalition, DanCe Notation dance notation Written recording of dance movements. The earliest notation, in the late 15th century, consisted of letter-symbols. Several attempts were made in later centuries to describe dance steps, but no unified system combined both rhythm and steps until the 1920s, Bureau, Dance Librarians Committee/American Library Association, International Association of Blacks in Dance, Dance/USA, International Association of Dance Medicine and Science, Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies, the National Dance Education Association, and Preserve, Inc. A conference steering committee (chaired by Susan Eike Spalding of CORD and Dawn Lille Horwitz of SDHS SDHS San Diego Historical Society SDHS Society of Dance History Scholars SDHS Stephen Decatur High School (Berlin, Maryland) SDHS Satellite Data Handling System SDHS South-Doyle High School ) has met several times to work out the many details involved, including a June meeting at the Marriott Hotel in Washington, D.C., the site of what promises to be an important and innovative conference. A call for proposals for conference content--workshops, panels, papers, and lecture-demonstrations--has gone out to members of every organization involved. |
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