Long Beach, USA
Speculative Choreographies: Bodies, Economies, and Movement in a World in Flux
Dance Studies Association
This conference explores how dance speculates—how it reflects, resists, and reimagines—the forces that shape our contemporary world, including migration, memory, media, markets, and the social choreography of bodies across borders, platforms, and stages. Set in Los Angeles, a region with indigenous populations, diverse diasporic communities, histories of resistance, and global entertainment industries, it offers fertile ground for rethinking dance's entanglement with questions of value, visibili