Location: Zoom Room 1 Zoom Link: [TBA] Abstract: Jenn Cole and Cara Mumford share three drafts of collaborative dance-oriented films oriented towards Indigenous futures arising from ancestral teachings and Land-based relationships. As artists share and talk through films with audience attendees, they curate a conversation about how performance can keep [...]
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Location: Zoom Room 1 Zoom Link: [TBA] Abstracts: Marcia Blumberg, "Theatrical Revisioning as Inheritance in Post-apartheid South African Theatre" Adrienne Rich defines revisioning as, “the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering a text from a new critical direction”. Valuing plays from ancient Greece to modern [...]
Location: Zoom Room 2 Zoom Link: [TBA] Abstract: Educators who engage with embodied practices in relation to performance or performance creation face unique challenges. We are proposing a roundtable that explores pedagogies in practice, a space for movement educators to share what they are currently exploring, adapting, wrestling with etc. [...]
Location: Zoom Room 2 Zoom Link: [TBA] Abstract: Over the past few years there has been a dramatic decline in the number of publications dedicated to writing about dance in Canada. In 2020, Dance International magazine went from a quarterly print magazine to an online-only operation. In 2024, they ceased [...]
Location: Zoom Room 3 Zoom Link: [TBA] Abstract: How can theatre pedagogies serve non-theatre students in rehearsing their futures? How can non-theatre pedagogies guide future practices in theatre training institutions? In this Working Group session moderated by Dr. Jenny Salisbury, four presenters will explore pedagogical approaches to supporting individuals within [...]
Location: Zoom Room 3 Zoom Link: [TBA] Abstracts: Magdalina El-Masry, "Performance in the Age of Early Cinema" The cinema of attractions, which Tom Gunning first defined in 1986 as a cinema of “exhibitionist confrontation rather than diagetic absorption,” predates narrative cinema as it developed in the 20th century’s first decade. [...]
Location: Zoom Room 2 Zoom Link: [TBA] Abstract: In many Euro-Western cultures, modern reality causes disruption of emotional, physical and behavioural equilibria. Minds and bodies are constantly under stress, due to phenomena such as the degradation of the environment; the modification of food, and addiction(s) to technology. Hegemonic neoliberal capitalism [...]
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Location: Zoom Room 1 Zoom Link: [TBA] Abstracts: Benedicta Akley-Quarshie, "Rehearsing Future: Performance as a Site for Introspection and Cultural Affirmation" The sociopolitical and cultural necessity of staging Black-authored plays, as affirmed by scholars such as Elam and Krasner (2001) and advocated for by figures such as August Wilson and [...]