The conference will take place on the 21st and 22nd of May, 2015 at the University of Leeds. Please refer to the program below, however, please note that this may be subject to change.

Thursday 21st May
9.30   Welcome
10.00 Renee Conroy "The Art of Making Mistakes?"
11.15 Ian Heckman "Are Instances of Improvisation Works of Dance?"
12.20 Workshop
13.20 Lunch
14.30 Donnchadh O'Conaill "Is Improvisation Non-Intentional?"
15.30 Louise Douse "Flow in Improvisation: A Liminal Space"
16.30 Coffee Break
17.00 Vida Midgelow "Improvisation in Dance: Un/Trans/Disciplinary                 Knowledge"
18.15 End of Day
18.30 Conference Dinner

Friday 22nd May
9.30  Barbara Montero "Should Dance Improvisation be Spontaneous?"
10.45 Sherri Irvin "Variability and the Work of Contemporary Dance"
11.45 Coffee Break
12.00 Improv Exchange Presentations
13.00 Lunch
14.10 Rebecca Stancliffe "Representing the Essential Properties of                   Dance: Scores of Improvisation"
15.10 Coffee Break
15.30 Performance 
16.30 End of Day


Conference Organizers

Aaron Meskin
Sara Protasi

Conference Assistant 

Jade Fletcher

Support 

The British Society of Aesthetics
The Centre for Aesthetics
Improvisation Exchange Leeds

All artwork reproduced by kind permission of Edgar Jansen