Location: Room 3110
In-Person Session
The Course Correction: Reorienting Approaches to Space in Theatre and Performance Working Group is a collection of scholars working in a range of scholarly environments that is looking to build on the twenty-year legacy of the spatial turn by defining and exploring new directions for spatial perspectives on theatre and performance. Group members contribute research that heeds Kim Solga’s call, in Theory for Theatre Studies: Space (2019), for the decolonization, not only of the stage, but also of spatial theory and its methodologies. They look for deeper incorporation of feminist and queer spatial theory into the field and encourage the uptake of urgent ecological issues and environmental ethics into spatial theory and practice. They are also looking to assess the consequences of the pandemic’s interruption of spatial co-presence, often seen as fundamental to theatre and performance.