Journal of Dance and Embodied Structure welcomes interdisciplinary research on dance, embodied knowledge, movement structures, choreography, performance, and the cultural, spatial, philosophical, and technological dimensions of the moving body.

The journal encourages submissions from scholars, artists, choreographers, educators, practitioners, and researchers working across dance studies, performance studies, embodied research, cultural studies, aesthetics, philosophy, education, digital humanities, and related fields.

Core Subject Areas

• Dance studies
• Performance studies
• Choreography and composition
• Movement structure and movement analysis
• Embodied knowledge and embodied practice
• Somatic studies and body-based methodologies
• Body, space, rhythm, gesture, and perception
• Dance aesthetics and philosophy of the body
• Historical and contemporary dance research
• Dance anthropology and ethnographic approaches to performance

Interdisciplinary Areas

• Embodied cognition and movement perception
• Dance education and embodied pedagogy
• Practice-based and practice-led artistic research
• Intercultural dance and cross-cultural performance
• Body, gender, identity, memory, and cultural representation
• Ritual movement, community dance, and socially engaged performance
• Dance documentation, notation, archives, and preservation
• Digital dance, motion capture, artificial intelligence, and movement technologies
• Media, screen dance, and dance in digital environments
• Health, wellbeing, and movement-based practices, where relevant to dance and embodiment

Practice-Based and Artistic Research

The journal welcomes practice-based and practice-led research that demonstrates clear scholarly framing, methodological reflection, and critical engagement with dance, choreography, performance, or embodied practice. Artistic practice may serve as a research method, a mode of inquiry, or a primary object of analysis, provided that the submission presents a clear academic argument and contributes to the field.

Performance and Choreographic Analysis

The journal considers critical studies of performances, choreographic works, movement practices, festivals, archives, and artistic processes. Submissions in this area should move beyond description and provide analytical, theoretical, historical, cultural, or methodological insight.

Topics Outside the Journal’s Scope

The journal does not normally consider manuscripts that are purely promotional, purely descriptive, or unrelated to dance, embodiment, movement, choreography, or performance research. Manuscripts focused only on general sports science, physical training, clinical rehabilitation, or health exercise without a clear connection to dance or embodied performance studies may be considered outside the journal’s scope.

Keywords

Authors are encouraged to select keywords that clearly reflect the manuscript’s disciplinary focus, method, and subject matter. Relevant keywords may include, but are not limited to: dance studies, embodied knowledge, choreography, movement analysis, performance studies, somatic practice, body-space relations, gesture, rhythm, dance anthropology, practice-based research, digital dance, motion capture, embodied cognition, dance education, and intercultural performance.