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The Power of Movement: 
Dance Traditions and Innovations

Saturday, October 4, 2025 - Monday, October 6, 2025
Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center (MI)

Call for Conference Sessions

Submission Deadline: February 3, 2025

Online submission portal is open! See Call for Conference Sessions to plan your submission.

How to Submit | PDF Call for Conference Sessions

Dance is powerful. It carries cultures and traditions forward, tells stories, bridges divides, connects communities, expresses individuality, develops empathy, and so much more.  As a dance education professional, you are part of the dynamic, affirming, community-building, transformative power of dance. Now more than ever, we need to come together to celebrate the rich traditions that make up this powerful art form and be the change that is needed to push it into the future

The constant advocacy for our classrooms and our communities requires us to think creatively, teach meaningfully, and pivot regularly. We know that dance can be a powerful force for change in our communities and throughout the world. But the question remains--just how do we do it? How do we show the world the power of dance? How do we show our students, parents, administrators, representatives, and communities all of the ways that dance can improve lives? How do we make our classrooms such transformative and impactful spaces, that their necessity to students is undeniable?

We invite all dance educators to reflect on these questions and submit sessions for the 2025 NDEO Conference, “The Power of Movement: Dance Education Traditions and Innovations.” We will come together in Detroit, Michigan to cultivate hope, build connections, share ideas, and remind ourselves exactly why we do what we do. Let’s talk about the power of dance to drive change.

Click here to read the full Call for Conference Sessions.

Preparing Your Submission

• Click here to read the Call for Conference Sessions listing submission and presenter requirements and all questions that you will need to answer in the online form.
• You will access your submissions from within your NDEO Member Dashboard on this website. Once in your dashboard, click on Session Proposals in the lefthand menu. You can work within the form, save your work, and return as often as you’d like prior to the submission deadline. We encourage you to have an offline backup in case anything goes amiss with the form submission. Click here for full online submission instructions and helpful tips.
• Click here to see the scoring rubrics for proposals to assist you in preparing your proposal.
• Click here to review all presenter deadlines prior to submission and make sure all co-presenters on your session are fully aware of them.
• Click here to review conference registration fees and deadlines so you can start planning for attendance. All accepted presenters are eligible for the Early Bird member registraiton fee through the presenter registration deadline of 8/1/25.
• Please contact us at conference@ndeo.org with any questions. Please contact us as early as possible and note that for communications coming in close to the proposal deadline there may be a delay in answers as volume is often quite high. NDEO staff are available during the business hours of Monday - Friday 10 am - 5 pm ET, and emails will not be responded to on weekends, so please plan accordingly.

Need some tips and tricks on submitting a proposal? Review the presentation below by NDEO Member Tanjarae Porter to help you get started.

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