Location: Zoom Room 1 Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/3874647177?pwd=Jw1g9axPFpvKa8qEe26DCLjGd0ACbW.1 Moderator: Mailka Daya Abstracts: Marcia Blumberg, "Theatrical Revisioning as Inheritance in Post-apartheid South African Theatre" Adrienne Rich defines revisioning as, “the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering a text from a new critical direction”. Valuing plays from ancient [...]
Location: Zoom Room 3 Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/4791764100 Abstracts: Magdalina El-Masry, "Performance in the Age of Early Cinema" The cinema of attractions, which Tom Gunning first defined in 1986 as a cinema of “exhibitionist confrontation rather than diagetic absorption,” predates narrative cinema as it developed in the 20th century’s first decade. [...]
Location: Zoom Room 1 Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/3874647177?pwd=Jw1g9axPFpvKa8qEe26DCLjGd0ACbW.1 Moderator: Sasha Kovacs Abstracts: Benedicta Akley-Quarshie, "Rehearsing Future: Performance as a Site for Introspection and Cultural Affirmation" The sociopolitical and cultural necessity of staging Black-authored plays, as affirmed by scholars such as Elam and Krasner (2001) and advocated for by figures such as [...]
Location: Zoom Room 2 Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/6087153816?pwd=ppMzS6CF8VMyDMKcF9DX0BiTTC3Exf.1 Moderator: Sarah Robbins Abstracts: T. Nikki Cesare Schotzko and Giorelle Diokno, "TradWife Strife: Ecologies of Performative Femininity, Conservatism, and Identity Politics in Contemporary Social Media" A New York Times’ 6 November thrice-retitled op-ed, “Did Women Ruin the Workplace: And if so, can conservative [...]
Location: Zoom Room 2 Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/6087153816?pwd=ppMzS6CF8VMyDMKcF9DX0BiTTC3Exf.1 Moderator: Tarn Mokara and Sasha Kovacs 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 [...]
Location: Zoom Room 1 Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/3874647177?pwd=Jw1g9axPFpvKa8qEe26DCLjGd0ACbW.1 Moderator: Clayton Jevne Abstracts: Virginie Magnat, "Performance as Radical Collaboration" This paper engages with the work of several generations of Indigenous scholars foregrounding non-anthropocentric principles of respect, reciprocity, and relational accountability, and positing the non-separability of matter and spirit within the complex ecology [...]
Location: Barbara McIntyre Theatre Moderator: Stephen Johnson 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 [...]
Location: Design Room Moderator: Kelsey Jacobson 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 [...]
Location: Barbara McIntyre Theatre Moderator: Alex Ferrone Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston, "Randia’s Quiet Theatre: Performing Care and Activism with a Romani Elder" Drawing on my book, Randia’s Quiet Theatre: Performing Care and Activism with a Romani Elder, this paper examines performance ethnography and autofiction as political sites for imagining alternative futures, more-than-human [...]
Location: Design Room Moderator: Jennifer Roberts-Smith Shawn DeSouza-Coelho, "Playing Race Critically: Towards Exploring Embodied Negotiation of Racialized Theatrical Space" At an existential level, I have been undone by the colonial inheritance we call Canadian theatre. As a working professional of colour, I have been made through innocuous and injurious ways [...]