Location: Zoom Room 1 Zoom Link: [TBA] Moderator: Olivia Michiko Gagnon Abstract: This curated panel brings together three artist-scholars; playwright and director Frances Koncan (UBC Creative Writing), poet and land defender Rena Priest (MA Student, UBC Theatre & Film), and dramaturge Lindsay Lachance (UBC Theatre & Film), to explore how [...]
Location: Zoom Room 1 Zoom Link: [TBA] Abstracts: Virginie Magnat, "Performance as Radical Collaboration" This paper engages with the work of several generations of Indigenous scholars foregrounding non-anthropocentric principles of respect, reciprocity, and relational accountability, and positing the non-separability of matter and spirit within the complex ecology of human and [...]
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Location: Zoom Room 2 Zoom Link: [TBA] Abstract: Training(isms): cross-disciplinary exchanges on practice-based pedagogies “Touch at a Distance: Examining Equity, Agency, and Consent in Virtual Movement-Based Training Practices”, is a postdoctoral SSHRC/Sport Canada funded interdisciplinary project that proposes a systematic examination of coaching pedagogies in Canadian sports and arts-based training [...]
Location: Zoom Room 1 Abstract: Curated Panel Rationale: The Costume Cutter is a central yet often overlooked role in theatrical production. If the Designer functions as the architect of a costume, the Cutter is its engineer, translating vision into a garment built precisely for a performer and the action on [...]