Location: Zoom Room B / Salle Zoom B https://us06web.zoom.us/j/5324702280?pwd=yuo077u9YJNihv59FvXxbosHNeVpvv.1 • Michelle MacArthur, “Making a Stink: Feminist Killjoy Criticism and the Case of Women Against Sexist Humour” In April 1977, just a week into Tamahnous Theatre’s Vancouver run of Eunuchs of the Forbidden City, local area feminists raised a stink. Protesting the [...]
Location: Zoom Room A / Salle Zoom A https://us06web.zoom.us/j/8075386377?pwd=QGMSB3uhyUxwIbvOIzkUanoMoqRkOX.1 • Francesca Marini, “‘No Archive without Outside’: Embodied Archives and Autobiographical Performance” In Archive Fever, Jacques Derrida writes: “There is no archive without a place of consignation, without a technique of repetition, and without a certain exteriority. No archive without outside.” This [...]
Location: Zoom Room B / Salle Zoom B https://us06web.zoom.us/j/5324702280?pwd=yuo077u9YJNihv59FvXxbosHNeVpvv.1 • Sungwon Cho, “Eating the Other: Food-Performance Aesthetics in Asian Canadian Theatre” In the years following COVID-19 lockdown, there has been an emerging pattern in Asian Canadian performance which positions food as a central object across different works; dinner and a show [...]
Location: Zoom Room A / Salle Zoom A https://us06web.zoom.us/j/8075386377?pwd=QGMSB3uhyUxwIbvOIzkUanoMoqRkOX.1 • Julia Henderson and John Jack Paterson, “Ageing in the Performing Arts Test Kitchen: A Performance Analysis of Anti-Ageist Active Access Design” The number and quality of opportunities for theatre professionals (performers, directors, stage managers, designers etc.) diminishes as they age, limiting [...]
Location: Zoom Room B / Salle Zoom B https://us06web.zoom.us/j/5324702280?pwd=yuo077u9YJNihv59FvXxbosHNeVpvv.1 • Sarah Ashford Hart and Janneth Aldana, “Community Theatre in Colombia: Origins and Trajectories” There has been renewed national interest in socially-engaged arts since Colombia’s 2016 peace agreement, but the legacy of community theatre is largely ignored in pedagogy and scholarship. This [...]
Location: Zoom Room B / Salle Zoom B https://us06web.zoom.us/j/5324702280?pwd=yuo077u9YJNihv59FvXxbosHNeVpvv.1 • Megan De Roover and Kim McLeod, “A Space of Possibility: Theatre’s Place in the Landscape of Experiential Learning” Experiential Learning (EL) can be construed as a liminal space, bridging the classroom and the community, the academic and the professional, the personal [...]
Moderator / Animé par: Jess RileyLocation: Imperial Room, Atlas Hotel • T. Erin Gruber, “Liminal Scenographies in Solo- Performance” Imaginative scenic environments ask an audience to engage deeply with the inner landscape of their own experience and rely less on literal scenic context. In solo performer productions one actor becomes the [...]
Moderator / Animé par: Wes PearceLocation: Silver Room, Atlas Hotel • Jenn Boulay, “Performing Gymnastics: Breaking the Silence of the Multiple Versions of the Gymnast” Not everything is as it seems in Women’s Artistic Gymnastics (WAG). While the sport is celebrated for its spectacular performances, with gymnasts flipping in dazzling leotards [...]
Moderator / Animé par: Robin C. WhittakerLocation: Golden Room, Atlas Hotel • Leah Decter, “Remains: The Implicated Body, Collective Action and Stepping into Spaces of Monumental Absence-Presence” This paper discusses my performance, remains (2024), part of a series commissioned by Métis curator Erin Sutherland in which artists responded to the site [...]
Moderator / Animé par: T. Erin GruberLocation: Silver Room, Atlas Hotel • Nick Fangzheng Wang and Billy Kairan Guo, “Humanized Machine, Dehumanized Us: Exploring the Creation of an AI-Collaborated Scene” This paper explores the use of an AI platform in the bilingual play "They Must Have Smoked," performed at the Calgary [...]