Forthcoming events


Ongoing events
Tiny Pop Moves Salons provide an opportunity to stay connected to your local popular dance community. Designed to support tiny ideas in their formative stages and as they develop into popular dance research, these virtual salons are approximately an hour long. Up to three scholars/practitioners will be given time to share what they are working on in a low-key, five-minute presentation, after which the floor is open for reflections, questions, and constructive conversation. You can bring the smallest ideas: a project in its early stages; a draft chapter or essay; a work that is stuck; or a fully fledged project you want to share. There are no stakes at all, except to talk about popular dance and create a support network. Tiny PoP Moves Salons aim to foster community care. We are rooted and organized locally, to open up the opportunity to meet and connect beyond the screen as well, if possible.
We are inspired by MESS (Melbourne Emerging Screen Scholars), whose virtual salons bring together and support creative practitioners and scholars (whatever their status and career level) in screen studies. We thank Dr. Elena Benthaus for seeing the potential to adapt this format for PoP Moves, designing the blueprint with the peer-mentoring sub-committee, and ensuring its smooth roll-out.
Salons are run separately by local PoP Moves nodes, ie. UK, Americas, Francophonie, Australia/Australasia. Click here to check for upcoming salons.
Previous Events
Popular Dance: Pivoting Towards Digital Sociality
Circling Caribbean Dance: A Global Community Discussion
23rd June 2021...
PoP MOVES 12th Annual Conference- Moving Beyond Coloniality
22nd-24th November 2019...
Annual Conference 2018 – Memory, Migration and Movement
8th-9th December 2018...
Annual Conference 2017 – PoP Turns 10: Celebrating the Popular, Practicing the Urban
18th November 2017...
PoP Moves partnership with IASPM-Canada Annual Conference 2017
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
25th-27th May 2017...
Dance Fields Roundtable 2017 – Possibilities in the Popular: Grooving into the future
Annual Conference 2016 – Im/mediate bodies: materiality and mediation in popular culture
PoP Moves Seedbed: Dancing Methodologies
Annual Conference 2015 – Popular Dance: Curating, Collecting Reflecting
Emerging Scholars Symposium 2015: Moving Forward
October 2014 Conference
Royal Holloway, University of London, 18th October 2014...