NEWS FROM NOFOD

GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN ODENSE
The last general assembly of NOFOD was held in Odense on January 28th 2011. You can read the minutes here (pdf). The board's report from October 2008 to January 2011 presented at the general assembly can be read here (pdf).

LAST BOARD MEETING
The board of NOFOD met in September 2011 in Stockholm, where they discussed issues related to the Odense conference as well as the next conference in Trondheim. They discussed further the collaboration with the Nordic Journal of Dance that will be in the future sent to all paid Nofod members. Also, the discussion about creating special interest groups within NOFOD was continued.

PREVIOUS GENERAL ASSEMBLYS
The previous general assembly of NOFOD was held in Tampere on October 24th 2008. You can read the minutes here (pdf).

 

WEBSITE

This website is for us, for the members of NOFOD. Feel free to send in arrangements, seminars and lectures which are going on in the Nordic Countries, or give us just updated news about publications, links or anything related to the content of dance research.

 

PROJECTS IN NORDIC COUNTRIES

The Nordic Journal of Dance. The new Nordic Journal of Dance - practice, education and research has published two volumes and is looking for contributions for the third issue with the theme "Fostering Growth: Motifs and values for the future through Dance Education”. The deadline has been extented until September 1st 2011. Read more: www.nordicjournalofdance.com

Dance in Nordic Spaces. The project aims to investigate dance and dancing as participants in the development of “Norden”, with a focus on comparative perspectives from the late 19th through the 20th century. The project belongs to the research program Nordic Spaces: Formation of States, Societies and Regions, Cultural Encounters, and Idea and Identíty Production in Northern Europe after 1800. Read more: www.nordicdance.net

keðja consists of international dance encounters. Each encounter has a different theme relating to contemporary dance in the Nordic/Baltic countries.

The keðja project is so far the vastest meeting platform for dance artists as well as educators, producers, scholars and academics, artists from other sectors and dancing youth to meet and address important issues within the contemporary dance field in the Nordic/Baltic region.

keðja's actvities have the last 3 years taken place in 8 countries. Artistic events, workshops, seminars and other kinds of exchange has taken place, empowering dance people from the whole Nordic-Baltic region.

The vision is to create: A permanent change of the position of North European contemporary dance, its mobility possibilities, the working conditions within the area and its status as an art form. Inherent in the keðja idea is also the possibility on a long term basis to create a network reaching further out, expanding and involving more countries.

The keðja project partners are: 

Read more: www.kedja.net