2026 IDS Keynote Event: Power Moves Book Launch & Book Fair

In partnership with Hart House and FOOT34, join us for the Institute for Dance Studies 2026 Keynote Event. This two-part event celebrates the launch of Seika Boye and MJ Thompson’s essay collection, Power Moves: Dance, Culture, Politics, published by Playwrights Canada Press. Hear from Seika and MJ, alongside contributors to the collection. Following the presentations, stay to explore the book fair and discover recent publications and the incredible work happening in dance and performance research - connect with authors and maybe acquire a book or two!

Schedule:

1:00-3:00pm - Power Moves Book Launch

3:00-4:00pm - Book Fair

About Power Moves: Dance, Culture, Politics

This collection of essays focuses on how dance and movement engage and enact political questions around agency, mobility, pedagogy, and resistance. Committed to crossing disciplinary boundaries, Power Moves looks to movement knowledge for its radical insights and critical forms of public intervention and pedagogy.

About Festival of Original Theatre | FOOT34

The Festival of Original Theatre (FOOT34) at UofT’s Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies, organized by graduate students, gathers around the theme “Encountering the Threshold.” This year’s conference invites scholars, practitioners, and artists to reflect on moments of passage, suspension, and transformation. In both performance and global scholarship, thresholds resonate as spaces between memory and futurity, rupture and renewal, where oppositions meet and new meanings emerge. FOOT34 offers a forum to pause, to engage critically, and to imagine how performance might reshape our relation to the present.