Convenor: Anne Wessels Location: Small Rehearsal Studio, Dalhousie Arts Centre Pure Research is Nightswimming’s program that provides dramaturgical and financial support for inquiries into theatre/performance ideas while favouring exploration over product. Anne Wessels (who has lived experience of stroke) asked a research question about how movement, gesture and stillness might [...]
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. [...]
Strug Concert Hall Lobby, Dalhousie Arts Centre
5:30–6:30pm CST / 17h30–19h30 HNC
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 [...]
Location: Room 406, Dalhousie Arts Centre Moderator: Heather Davis-Fisch Sponsored by The Cole Foundation Remapping Blyth in 2017: Indigenous Performance Confronts Canada 150 My dissertation-in-process is a rural feminist and decolonial historical analysis of the Blyth Festival Theatre. Since 1975, Blyth has produced an entire summer season of Canadian plays (except [...]
Location: Fifth Floor Atrium, Dalhousie Arts Centre Vegan, dairy-free, and gluten-free options will be available for each lunch. Please go here by Friday, June 9 to let us know of any dietary requirements or preferences you may have for your lunches, and we will strive to make sure they are in place [...]
“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
Location: Large Rehearsal Studio, Dalhousie Arts Centre HEIST is presenting their critically acclaimed performance work Frequencies at the Dalhousie Arts Centre (the main conference venue), exclusively for members of CATR. The show will take place from 19:00-20:15 on each night. There will be approximately 40 tickets available per show, free [...]