Speculative Choreographies: Bodies, Economies, and Movement in a World in FluxThe Dance Studies Association's 2026 conference will be announced in fall 2025. Greater Los Angeles Area Speculative Choreographies invites critical engagement with dance performance and praxis as both spectacle and speculative form. Drawing on multiple meanings of "speculative"—to contemplate, to consider possibilities, to calculate risk—the 2026 DSA conference asks: In this post-truth moment, and in a city shaped by spectacle, migration, media, labor, and ecological extremes, how do bodies move through, with, and against systems of control, extraction, capital, discipline, and erasure? What possibilities emerge when we imagine movement as an affirmative form of world-making? How might speculative thinking support us as we navigate seeing and being seen? Co-chairs: Colleen Dunagan, Arushi Singh, and Ariel Osterweis |