Dance Rebooted: Initializing the Grid - an international dance conference. When: 1-4 July, 2004 Where: Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia Dance Rebooted: Initializing the Grid will bring together international dance researchers to consider ways to sustain dance practice and research into the future. Papers and presentations from over 40 dance researchers and artists - including four international keynote speakers - will articulate the shape, scale and detail of dance research from the intimacy of individual artists' stories to the imperatives of technology, digital culture and globalisation. During the conference participants will consider: - What is the dance field? - How has it been conceptualised and historicized and how have these operations both expanded and limited the scope and the potential reach of dance research? - What kind of re-booting and what kind of re-initialization is needed to realign dance research with the twin developments of digital culture and globalisation? - How can critical masses be built that can support dance practice and dance research as sustainable ecologies? The conference is presented by the Tertiary Dance Council of Australia, Australia New Zealand Dance Research Society Conference and Ausdance National. To register, visit www.moski.com.au/reboot