Closed Session: seminar participants only Hybrid Session Location: Small Rehearsal Studio, Dalhousie Arts Centre Co-Convenors: Jenn Boulay and Signy Lynch Participants: Kat Germain, Caroline Klimek, Shannon Hughes, Daniella Vitinski Mooney, Alejandra Nunez, Gabriela Petrov, Laine Zizman Newman Rationale:This seminar builds off our seminar at last year’s conference: “Performing Complaint: Working [...]
Location: Small Rehearsal Hall, Dalhousie Arts Centre and Zoom Room Open to all Conference Registrants Hybrid Session Led by Christine (cricri) Bellerose and Mark Lipton. Come as you are, coffee in hand or in pajamas from your online space, to observe in silence / take part in gentle moving-thinking activities. [...]
Moderator: Natalie Alvarez Hybrid Session Location: Room 409, Dalhousie Arts Centre Performances of ‘Shoring up’: Infrastructural Imaginings of an Uncertain Future This presentation takes the “performing shores” prompt as an opening to explore how performance represents and engages with the infrastructural forms that “shore up” or support contemporary life. Performance, as [...]
“FINDING HER”: ON WOM❤️NHOOD, BLACKNESS, AND THE SOLO PLAY Location: Joseph Strug Concert Hall, Dalhousie Arts Centre Live English/French Translation will be provided Hybrid Session Sponsored by the University of Toronto, Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies In this performative keynote, playwright and performance artist Shauntay Grant moves between [...]
Location: Joseph Strug Concert Hall, Dalhousie Arts Centre Live English/French Translation will be provided Hybrid Session
Co-Convenors: Jenn Boulay and Signy Lynch Location: Small Rehearsal Studio, Dalhousie Arts Centre Hybrid Session Burning It All Down: Advocating for Structural Change Through Disability Justice (Part Two) This seminar builds off our seminar at last year’s conference: “Performing Complaint: Working on theatre and performance institutions,” which drew inspiration from [...]
Location: Studio 2, Dalhousie Arts Centre Hybrid Session Panelists: Taiwo Afolabi, Christine Brubaker, Yvette Nolan, Heather Russet, Jessica Thornton Strategic Foresight and the Future of Prairie Theatre Future Prairie Theatre (FPT) is a team of theatre researchers and practitioners taking a multi-pronged and multi-year approach to engaging theatre artists and [...]
Location: Room 406, Dalhousie Arts Centre Hybrid Session Moderator: Laura Levin In the Shoals Between Media and Performance: Rebecca Schneider’s (im)Media Theory Rebecca Schneider, arguably the leading theorist of American Performance Studies, has recently moved from Brown’s Theatre department to its storied department in Modern Culture and Media. To her [...]
Location: Studio 2, Dalhousie Arts Centre Hybrid Session Sponsored by St. Francis Xavier University, Department of English Co-Convenors: Sasha Kovacs and Michelle MacArthur Participants: Amanda Attrell, Bridget Baldwin, Roberta Barker, Kailin Wright, Keren Zaiontz Historiographing Hannah: A Critical Scrapbook Dedicated to Hannah Moscovitch “Scrapbooks are archives in and of their [...]
Moderator: Barry Freeman Location: Small Rehearsal Room, Dalhousie Arts Centre Hybrid Session Exploring Canadian ‘Authenticity’ in Early Twentieth-Century Documentary Film and Folk Drama, presented and written by Moira Day This presentation builds on a 2019 paper that examined W.S. Milne’s reviews in the University of Toronto Quarterly (1935-40) as key [...]