Location: Zoom Room 3 Zoom Link: [TBA] Abstract: The CATR 2026 conference invites us to reflect on the inheritances of our field at a moment of profound political and cultural transition, marked by rise of right-wing nationalisms, climate change, polarizing technologies, forced displacement, and shifting geopolitical power. Theatre, dance, and [...]
Location: Zoom Room 3 Zoom Link: [TBA] Abstract: The last 50 years have been formative for Canadian theatre and performance studies and CATR. As we contemplate the next 50, we find ourselves facing multiple crises, both within our field and beyond: the increased precarization of work, the threat of funding [...]
Location: Zoom Room 2 Zoom Link: [TBA] Abstracts: Robert Allan, "Cross disciplinary applications of creativity development in post-secondary non-vocational musical theatre education" Musical theatre education in the post-secondary sector is heavily weighted towards vocational training, aiming to produce (or reproduce) performers capable of fitting into the moulds required by commercial [...]
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Location: Zoom Room 1 Zoom Link: [TBA] Abstracts: Katrina Dunn, "Prairie Theatre Exchange: Inside an architectural reinvention" The persistence of theatre buildings as an amenity in the western city is, for Marvin Carlson, a sign of theatre’s ability to adjust alongside civic transformations and can be read as a map [...]
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Location: Chief Dan George Theatre
Location: Barbara McIntyre Theatre Moderator: [TBA] Claire Fogal, "Relational Performance Pedagogy as Creative Inheritance" This paper shares the key findings of my 2024 UBC dissertation “Relational Performance Pedagogy: Decroux and Grotowski based innovations in Western Canada.” The project was personal, investigating the entwined training inheritance I’ve received from my father [...]
Location: Design Room Moderator: [TBA] Tracy Ross, "ART/IF/ACTS: Rehearsing Embodied Futures in University Space" From my overlapping positions as lecturer, doctoral student, artist, and parent, I trace the worn paths of a corporate university where exhaustion, disconnection, and “hope circuits” are frayed. My doctoral work asks: how might we re-map [...]
Location: PNX140 Abstract: Over the past decade, participatory arts initiatives involving people with dementia have grown significantly across North America and Europe. Recent scholarship emphasizes the importance of involving people living with dementia as active, creative consultants and co-creators, rather than positioning them as passive recipients of arts-based programming. In [...]