A Conspiracy Of Clowns

This from the BASA website for all writers and commentators on SA theatre:

Submissions are invited for a special edition of the South African Theatre Journal (SATJ) on “Movement and Physical Theatre in South Africa.”  The edition will be edited by Marié-Heleen Coetzee and Marth Munro.

Central Thrust of the special edition:
This edition is devoted to work that speaks to and engages with the domain of Physical Theatre as well as movement as it pertains to performance, the performative, the expressive and the aesthetic, in the South African context. Such a South African context can be seen as a geographical, cultural, historical, demographic, gendered or age related context. To this end the following sub-divisions are demarcated:

Sub-division one: Reading Movement and Physical Theatre
In this sub-division the contributions will speak to and engage with systems documentation, of analysis and of research in the field; philosophical and/or aesthetic considerations in such work; historical and/or developmental strategies in the work (both across time and in particular context), and related matters within the South African environment.

Sub-division two: Creating Movement and Physical Theatre
This subdivision is devoted to the reporting on and documenting of products and processes that arise out of Practice-led Research, Practice as research, Arts Based Research and related approaches and that engage with movement and Physical Theatre activities in South Africa.

Sub-division three: Training Movement and Physical Theatre
The central thrust in this section is around the Pedagogy and Methodology in the related areas and domains, including systems of training, development, applications in applied theatre contexts, the interface with educational prerequisites and strategies, and related matters, in the South African context.

General: There will be a general sub-division that will accept limited contributions based on related matters to the major edition theme but are not catered for in the first three subdivisions.

Performance Text: The journal also calls for submissions of movement-based performance texts that have been created and/or performed in South Africa, or about South Africa, wherever such performance texts fall in the movement/physical theatre continuum. These texts will be peer-reviewed.

Reports: Critical reports on current movement and physical theatre productions will be considered for publication in this edition.

Call for Peer Reviewers: An invitation is also extended to those who might wish to be considered as possible peer reviewers – If you wish to be considered as a peer reviewer, please submit your CV and your field of interest to the editors by 15th January 2010. Should you be interested in submitting material or to act as a peer reviewer, please take note of the foreseen timeline:
26 Feb 2010 - Final deadline for initial submissions
10 March 2010 - Submissions out to peer reviewers
30 April 2010 - Return first peer review reports to editors
17 May 2010 - Reviewed submissions back to authors to rework
12 June 2010 - Reworked submissions back to editors
30 June 2010 - Reworked submissions back to peer reviewers if necessary
15 July 2010 - Second round of peer review reports back to editors
1 August 2010 - Second round of comments from reviewers back to authors
15 September 2010 - FINAL deadline for reworked submissions
15 November 2010 - All material from editors to SATJ team for final check and submission to printers

Please note that all correspondence regarding to, and submissions for this thematic edition of the SATJ must be submitted to both of the following email addresses:
Marie-Heleen.Coetzee@up.ac.za
marth.munro@gmail.com

For the full text, including instructions to authors etc, go here.