Call for papers for a special issue of the SATJ
Last edited: December 03, 2009
Written by Business and Arts South Africa
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-divisions:
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-vision 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
General inquiries in connection to the SATJ can be sent to satj@sun.ac.za or cntr@sun.ac.za
INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS
Editorial policy: All contributions will be critically reviewed by at least two referees. Copyright on all published material is vested in SATJ and such material, once accepted for publication in the
Journal, may not be published elsewhere without the written permission of the editors. Opinions expressed in contributions are those of the authors and not necessarily endorsed by the Editors or
the Editorial Consultants.
Presentation of manuscripts: All manuscripts should be submitted in TRIPLICATE on A4 paper if hard copies of the article are submitted. The editors prefer electronic submissions by means of email. A word-processor version (preferably MS-WORD) of the article can be sent to the editor’s office. Please make sure that you turn the auto-format function on your program off when working on the document to be submitted. Only manuscripts accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope will be returned, if found unsuitable for use in SATJ. The typing must be 1½ spaced with ample margin, on one side of the paper only. Single quotation marks are used throughout. The first page should contain the full title, the name(s) and full address(es) of the author(s). Under no circumstances will an article be published under a pseudonym. This page must also contain a short abstract (200 words in English). The abstract should be both suitable for separate publication and adequate for indexing. Start the article itself on a new page with the title of the article at the top of the page. Articles will be accepted in ANY SOUTH AFRICAN LANGUAGE, but any article not in English must, in addition to the abstract referred to above, carry an extended English summary (500 – 1000 words) to facilitate information retrieval by international abstracting agencies.
References: The Harvard method should be used. References in the text are indicated by the surname(s) of the author(s), the year of publication and the page number(s) in parentheses, for
example (Prince, 1982:50). When reference is made to an entire publication, the page number(s) should be omitted.
Notes: Numbers should be affixed as superscripts (without parentheses) to the right of any punctuation marks and the notes themselves should appear at the end of the text before the references. References at the end of the manuscript: More details of sources should appear at the end of the manuscript (after the Notes, if any) under the caption References. The sources must be arranged alphabetically according to the authors’ surnames. Please note the use of capital letters, punctuation marks and italics in the following examples:
BECKERMAN, B. 1979. Theatrical perception. Theatre Research International (4(3):179 – 194.
NEETHLING, Miemie. 2008. Index Volume 1 (1987) – Volume 28 (2008). www.sun.ac.za/drama/English/Centre/SATJ/index.htm (Accessed 15 March 2009).
PLEASE NOTE:
Authors are encouraged to submit illustrations with their articles, since the performing arts are inherently visual and lend themselves to illustration. All such material should be clearly labelled and captioned, photographs clear reproductions (JPEG-format, of postcard size or larger), and graphs or line drawings should be scanned copies in JPEG-format.