Location: Barbara McIntyre Theatre Moderator: Yasmine Kandil Emilia Hillyer, "The Fantasy of Antiseptic: Performing Rubbish Theory and Critiquing Monumental History via Community-Engaged Gender-Diverse Puppetry Practices" The “negative privilege” of low art forms like puppetry call out to the scapegoats of the modern moment: gender-diverse people. At a time when community-engagement [...]
Location: Design Room Moderator: Jill Carter Claire Borody, "Backwards into the Future: Observation of Past Performance-making Practice as a Means Forward" The conference theme Inheritance in Transition: Rehearsing Change for Theatre and Performance Futures aptly identifies the present as a time of shift and revision within the field of theatre [...]
Location: PNX140 Abstract: The Creative Community Experience (CCE) is an ensemble of actor-creators with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) affiliated with the non-profit organization Community Living Windsor. This praxis workshop introduces participants to the devising methodologies employed in the creation of The Big Production, a collaboratively devised performance developed by [...]
Location: Chief Dan George Theatre Moderator: Cassandre Chatonnier Pierre-Olivier Gaumond Alexandre GauthierTaylor Marie GrahamErin HurleySasha KovacsJean Murray-TanguayNicole Nolette
Location: Movement Room 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 cuts and attacks on [...]
Location: Roger Bishop Theatre Moderator: Carmen Alatorre Yasmine Kandil and Jena Mailloux, "Reimagined Places of ‘Home’ through Newcomer Immigrant Queer Journeys" Places, locations and experiences from the past are embodied and brought to life in places of the present, creating a reimagined hopeful future for newcomer queer immigrants and refugees. [...]
Location: PNX138 Abstracts Moderator: Jenny Salisbury 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 a collective [...]
Location: Chief Dan George Theatre Abstract: Session led by Rebecca Burton, Lisa Davenport, Barry Freeman, and Brenda Martinez Luna Rina Fraticelli’s 1982 landmark report, “The Status of Women in the Canadian Theatre,” exposed widespread gender inequities, including the stark figure that plays by women comprised only 10% of the nation’s [...]
Location: Barbara McIntyre Theatre Moderator: Anthony Vickery Kelsey Blair, "Rehearsing Empire in Canada: Ordinary Spectacles and Performance Venues" From October to December of 2024, Centre Bell in Montreal hosted 19 Montreal Canadiens’ games, 15 performances of Ovo by Cirque de Soleil, and 3 stadium concerts by Justin Timberlake, Sabrina Carpenter, [...]
Location: Design Room Moderator: Karen Fricker Barry Freeman, "Stage Wright: a Celebration, a Critique, a Mourning" On April 19, 2023, my friend and colleague Kevin Wright unexpectedly passed away. Kevin was the Technical Director of the Leigha Lee Browne Theatre at the University of Toronto Scarborough, where I have worked [...]