Moderator: Shelley Liebembuk Location: Zoom Room A Link to Zoom Room A Online Session Exploring human-elephant conflict through playwriting in Kenya Set against the backdrop of apparent human disconnect from nature as a cause for degradation of the planet, this article focuses on the human-elephant conflict in areas of rural [...]
Moderator: Location: Zoom Room C Link to Zoom Room C Online Session Immersive Theater as Leadership and Leading Social Justice Goat in the Road Productions has staged three immersive theater pieces set in historic houses in New Orleans’ French Quarter, the first opening in spring of 2018 and the most [...]
Moderator: Selena Couture Location: Zoom Room B Link to Zoom Room B Online Session “Oh, to confound Justice with Laws!”: Imagining beyond settler colonial time in Beth Piatote’s Antimony Indigenous artists-scholars have long urged settlers to go beyond performative utterances, “beyond [the] settler present, beyond colonial sovereignty, and beyond the [...]
Location: Room 409, Dalhousie Arts Centre Moderator: Christine (cricri) Bellerose Sponsored by Dalhousie University, Fountain School of Performing Arts Buried Rivers and Shifting Shorelines: Mobile Performances Shaped by Water Focusing on mobile performances that have been shaped by water routes– some hidden and others still flowing; I will examine how four [...]
Moderator: Kailin Wright Location: Room 406, Dalhousie Arts Centre The Performance Art of Sleeping: Working to Sleep, Sleeping to Work I’ve always had sleep disturbances like nightmares, sleepwalking, and night terrors, but didn’t realize their extent and frequency until I started filming myself as part of my performance-based art practice. My [...]
Moderator: Kim McLeod Location: Room 409, Dalhousie Arts Centre Spectating With/Against: How Do Postshow Talkbacks Ask Which Bodies That Matter? Postshow talkbacks invite the audience to pose questions, make remarks, and provide feedback to the cast, director, and dramaturg. In the two talkbacks I witnessed in 2022, for both plays [...]
Moderator: Roberta Barker Location: Room 409, Dalhousie Arts Centre Sponsored by the University of Ottawa, Department of Theatre Signalling Through the Flames: Pyroturgs and Theatromancy At what point, what ancient Germano-Greek crossroads of language, did the intellectualization of theatre as a field of knowledge and inquiry become dramaturgy (the work of [...]
Location: Room 406, Dalhousie Arts Centre Moderator: Kelsey Jacobson Sponsored by The Cole Foundation King Me: Dragging the History of Male Impersonation in Drag King Decades My paper examines the 2019 drag cabaret show Drag King Decades, produced by and starring Clare “Flare” Smyth. The show features seven drag kings [...]
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 [...]