ImPulsTanz 2026 – Vienna International Dance Festival
Im Jahr 1984 gegründet, hat sich das ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival zum größten Festival für zeitgenössischen Tanz und Performance entwickelt. Alljährlich präsentiert es im Sommer ein einzigartig vielfältiges Programm mit Performances, Workshops, Research Projects und musikalischen Acts.
Time and Place: 09.07.–19.08.2026, Vienna, Austria
Artist Pedagogy and Artistic Thinking: Perspectives and Practices
This conference investigates current approaches to artist pedagogy and explores how artistic thinking both emerges from and influences teaching and education in the arts. It focuses on how pedagogies have changed and evolved in response to shifting concerns. At the same time, it examines what we have held on to and why and asks how artist pedagogy should develop to meet future societal circumstances and challenges. The conference will be held on the Sörnäinen campus on 27–28 August 2026, with an online post-conference event on 4 September 2026. The conference registration will be open in June 2026.
Time and Place: 27–28 August 2026, Sörnäinen campus with an online post-conference event on 4 September 2026.
Opera and Dance in Nineteenth-Century Italy
This two-day conference invites scholars to explore interactions between opera and dance in Italy and the Italian operatic industry from a broad range of disciplinary perspectives. The overall aim is to consider what the interaction between the two art forms — extending to their literal occupation of the same theatres — might reveal about broader shifts in Italian musical culture across the period 1790–1922.
Time and Place: 14.–15.01.2027, University of Rome La Sapienza
49th International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance (ICTMD) World Conference
The ICTMD World Conference provides the leading international venue for the presentation of new research on traditions of music and dance. Many new initiatives emerge at World Conferences and, perhaps even more crucially, discussion at these meetings helps us shape our ongoing work. A successful World Conference is a truly stimulating place to be, and a wonderful place to meet and share ideas, music, and dance, with colleagues from all over the world.
Time and Place: 14.–20.01.2027, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Santiago, Chile