Principal  Editor

Dr. Amanda Williamson

Coventry University                                     
ACWilliamsonDanceResearch@hotmail.com

Associate Editors

Dr. Bradford Keeney
The University of Louisiana
bpkeeney@gmail.com 

Dr. Hillary Keeney
The University of Louisiana
hillarykeeney@gmail.com 

​Dr. Eline Kieft
Coventry University
eline.kieft@coventry.ac.uk

Dr. Rebecca Weber
Temple Universitybeccaweber@gmail.com

Dr. Dunja Njaradi
University of Chester
dunjanjaradi@fmu.bg.ac.rs
 
Dance, Movement & Spiritualities is interested in publishing works concerned with the relationship between spirituality, dance and movement, and contributions are invited from across disciplines. Research into spirituality receives comparatively little attention in Western dance practices. In contrast, this double-blind peer-reviewed journal provides a platform for those practitioners and researchers who are actively and creatively working with spirituality at the centre of their practice/research to disseminate their ideas and findings.
 
The journal is particularly interested in scholarship that explores spirituality and movement from different inter-disciplinary perspectives offering a broad stage for academic discussion and innovation. Recognizing the plurality and diversity of spiritual experience, the journal invites contributions from a vast panorama of the world’s sacred dance traditions to topics such as secular, New Age and postmodern spiritualities. Articles may range from performance praxis and analysis, composition and aesthetics, Dance Movement Psychotherapy, community practice and holistic pedagogies. The journal seeks to embrace diversity of experienced and felt spiritualities and discussion of methodologies suited to discovering more about dance and spirituality are most welcomed, as well as innovative methods for recording, digesting and articulating the experiences of spirituality.

We invite contributions for Dance, Movement and Spiritualities.
Standard articles will be in the range of 5000-8000 words, including a 150 word abstract, six indicative key words, institutional affiliation and a short biography. amanda@dance-somatics-and-spiritualities.com
Example topics may include - but are not limited to: 

• The intersections between religion, spirituality and dance
• The meeting points between health, movement and spirituality
• The cultural production and historization of spirituality in relation to the growth of dance and movement practices
• Spirituality, gender and dance/movement
• The impact of secularization on Dance Education
• Connections between philosophy, spirituality and dance/movement
• The emergence and appreciation of new forms of spiritual dance in Western contexts otherwise undocumented (both popular and academic)
• The documentation of spiritual forms associated with institutionalized religion
• Dance/movement forms aligned with non-institutionalized spirituality (evolving forms linked to New Age Spirituality and the holistic spirituality paradigm)
• Secular spiritualities underpinning practice, performance and pedagogy
• Postmodern spiritualities underpinning practice, performance and pedagogy
• Movement/dance forms conversant with Feminist Spirituality
• Embodied and somatic spiritualities
• Jungian/post-Jungian dance/movement forms
• The influence of non-Western/Eastern sacred narratives as they continue to inform Western dance practice
• Intercultural, cross-cultural and multicultural perspectives
• Creative transformation and life-force celebration
• Shamanic dance traditions

The journal offers a diverse platform for scholars working within and across the fields of Dance Studies, Theology/Religious Studies, Anthropology, Ethnography, Sociology, Health Studies, Dance Movement Psychotherapy and Dance Histories. Dedicated to cross-dialogue and the potential inventive perspectives interdisciplinary collaboration generates, the journal aims to progress the academic study of spirituality in Dance Studies.

​. amanda@dance-somatics-and-spiritualities.com
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