Location: Blue Room (Riddell Centre, University of Regina) • Dale MacDonald, “Dyeing a Good Death” Ostensibly, the corpse’s experience appears as total, inexpressible interiority; Hamlet’s “undiscovere’d country, from whose bourn/No traveller returns” rings temptingly true for the living, especially if they have encountered a dead body. But I’m not so [...]
Location: Shu Box (Riddell Centre, University of Regina) • Alexandra Sproule, Naty Tremblay, Sedina Fiati, Faith-Ann Mendes, and Mojo Noble, “Switching Regina” Place-based theatre making can cut through stories of ‘exterior’ that actually turn out to be 'interior' stories when we interrogate them. Many of our stories of the world [...]
Location: Zoom Room C / Salle Zoom C https://us06web.zoom.us/j/2520107866?pwd=Z7R43MTNhjgQvzQPTQjuzkaQYq7H91.1 • Kara Flanagan and Joe McCoy, “Acting Curriculum to Travel Across Interior and Exterior Realities and Liminal States of Being” The practice of acting moves between interior and exterior realities and engages liminal states of being. However, working across such large [...]
Location: Shu Box, University of Regina • Andrew Denton, Jennifer Nikolai, “Live and Digital Performance Processes: Choreographic Camera Dramaturgy” As creative collaborators in moving image and dance processes and performance/exhibition outcomes, our process departs from a dyadic relationship between moving subjects with recording devices; in the hands of the actor/dancer [...]
Location: RCMP Heritage Centre 5907 Dewdney Ave, Regina SK https://g.co/kgs/Hz5832j • Taiwo Afolabi, “Histories of (In)Justice in Canada. A Site Visit to the RCMP Museum” RCMP Heritage Centre Delivered under the “Staging Justice” research project, this site-specific praxis workshop will offer participants the opportunity to visit the RCMP Museum and [...]
Leader: Christine Balt Location: Room 7-425, 7th Floor - John Molson Building, 1450 Rue Guy - Concordia University In-Person Session This workshop asks how drama-based methodologies can advance more justice-oriented modes of inquiry in community-based, ethnographic research. Specifically, the workshop will grapple with the tensions that exist regarding the role [...]
Co-leaders: Art Babayants and Carlos Rivera Martinez Location: Room 7-425, 7th Floor - John Molson Building, 1450 Rue Guy - Concordia University In-Person Session Inspired by the IFTR Embodied Knowledge Working Group, we propose a space of exchange of embodied practices, training, research and knowledge as they pertain to performing [...]
Leader: Thea Fitz-James and e. clayton scofield Location: Studio I - Concordia University In-Person Session This workshop explores collaborative performance methods in creative research though the idea of “deep play”. Facilitated by collaborators Clay and Thea, who co-run the Deep Play Artist Residency annually, this workshop explores how deep play [...]
Leader: Peter Farbridge Location: Room 7-425, 7th Floor - John Molson Building, 1450 Rue Guy - Concordia University In-Person Session Many performing arts organizations have recognized a need for more diversity and equity in practice and to incorporate marginalized experiences and voices in performance to be more relevant to the [...]
Leader: Cyrus Sundar Singh Location: Room 7-270, 7th Floor - John Molson Building, 1450 Rue Guy - Concordia University In-Person Session Dogs, Gods and City Hall is a collaborative 50-minute co-creative presentation that engages practice, theory and performance in the framing of the narrative. The participants are immersed in experiential [...]