Online Praxis 2: Shared Indigenous Futures: Rough Cuts

2026-06-03T13:55:55+00:00April 6, 2026|

Location: Zoom Room 1 Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/3874647177?pwd=Jw1g9axPFpvKa8qEe26DCLjGd0ACbW.1 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 [...]

Online: Meet the Funders: SSHRC and Canada Council for the Arts

2026-06-04T09:34:23+00:00April 2, 2026|

Location: Zoom Room 1 Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/3874647177?pwd=Jw1g9axPFpvKa8qEe26DCLjGd0ACbW.1 Staff from the Canada Council for the Arts and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) join us for a professional development session on their programs and ways to access funding. The Council has undergone a considerable expansion in its funding processes for [...]

Online Paper Panel 6: Re/Visioning Performance Space, Place & Time

2026-06-10T00:17:59+00:00April 2, 2026|

Location: Zoom Room 1 Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/3874647177?pwd=Jw1g9axPFpvKa8qEe26DCLjGd0ACbW.1 Moderator: Mailka Daya 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 [...]

Online Roundtable 4: Pedagogy in Practice: Reports from the Field of Movement Education

2026-06-04T11:36:19+00:00April 2, 2026|

Location: Zoom Room 2 Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/6087153816?pwd=ppMzS6CF8VMyDMKcF9DX0BiTTC3Exf.1 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. [...]

Online Roundtable 3: Toward a sustainable future for critical dance writing in Canada

2026-06-04T12:25:28+00:00April 2, 2026|

Location: Zoom Room 2 Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/6087153816?pwd=ppMzS6CF8VMyDMKcF9DX0BiTTC3Exf.1 Moderator: Shanny Rann 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 [...]

Online Working Group 2: The Individual in the Collective: Borrowing and sharing pedagogical strategies between theatre and non-theatre training to support individual experiences within collective action

2026-06-04T12:25:52+00:00April 2, 2026|

Location: Zoom Room 3 Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/4791764100 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 [...]

Online Paper Panel 5: Adaptation, Mentorship, and Transformation

2026-06-04T12:26:33+00:00April 2, 2026|

Location: Zoom Room 3 Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/4791764100 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. [...]

Online Praxis 1: Rehearsing for livable futures

2026-06-03T12:08:48+00:00April 2, 2026|

Location: Zoom Room 2 Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/6087153816?pwd=ppMzS6CF8VMyDMKcF9DX0BiTTC3Exf.1 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 [...]

Online Paper Panel 1: Inheritances of Futures in Transition

2026-06-03T11:14:23+00:00April 2, 2026|

Location: Zoom Room 1 Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/3874647177?pwd=Jw1g9axPFpvKa8qEe26DCLjGd0ACbW.1 Moderator: Sasha Kovacs 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 [...]