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Online Roundtable 4: Pedagogy in Practice: Reports from the Field of Movement Education

Sarah Robbins2026-06-04T11:36:19+00:00April 2, 2026|

Location: Zoom Room 2 Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/6087153816?pwd=ppMzS6CF8VMyDMKcF9DX0BiTTC3Exf.1 Abstract: Educators who engage with embodied practices in relation to performance or performance creation face unique challenges. We are proposing a roundtable that explores pedagogies in practice, a space for movement educators to share what they are currently exploring, adapting, wrestling with etc. [...]

Online Roundtable 3: Toward a sustainable future for critical dance writing in Canada

Sarah Robbins2026-06-04T12:25:28+00:00April 2, 2026|

Location: Zoom Room 2 Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/6087153816?pwd=ppMzS6CF8VMyDMKcF9DX0BiTTC3Exf.1 Moderator: Shanny Rann Abstract: Over the past few years there has been a dramatic decline in the number of publications dedicated to writing about dance in Canada. In 2020, Dance International magazine went from a quarterly print magazine to an online-only operation. In [...]

Roundtable 3: Non-Traditional Assessment in Performing Arts Higher Education

Sarah Robbins2026-05-11T22:28:58+00:00April 2, 2026|

Location: PNX140 Abstract Failure is a primary part of any learning process, and many students are more concerned with getting a good grade vs. engaging in the process of learning, which must leave room for mistakes and failure. Rather than putting learning first, students make grades their priority and are [...]

Roundtable 5: Skeletons in the Closet: Retrospective Reflections on the Disciplinary Formation of Canadian Theatre Studies

Sarah Robbins2026-05-16T20:14:05+00:00April 2, 2026|

Location: Chief Dan George Theatre Abstract Convened by Jessica Riley and Heather Davis-Fisch, this roundtable considers the formation of Canadian theatre studies as a discipline, with emphasis on the values that informed its founding and foundations. Like the foundations of a house, the formative values and assumptions of our discipline [...]

Roundtable 6: Building the Future with the Past @50: Grad Generations, Generative Grads

Sarah Robbins2026-05-19T08:43:08+00:00April 2, 2026|

Location: Chief Dan George Theatre Moderator: Robin Whittaker (Co-Organizer) Participants: Jenn Boulay (Co-Organizer), Alan Filewod, Thea Fitz-James, Jess Riley, Shelley Scott Abstract This roundtable examines the evolution of the Canadian Association for Theatre Research (CATR) through the perspectives of graduate students then and now. A multigenerational discussion, the roundtable will feature graduate students [...]

Roundtable 4: The Then and Now of Collaborative EDDI Research in Canadian Theatre and Performance: Sharing Learnings and Wise Practices

Sarah Robbins2026-05-09T10:51:55+00:00April 2, 2026|

Location: Chief Dan George Theatre Abstract Over the last five-plus years, Canadian theatre and performance studies has seen a surge of collaborative, often large-scale research projects focused on EDDI issues. These projects share several important goals, including: to centre voices from historically marginalized communities across the artist/scholar spectrum; to uplift [...]

Special Roundtable on Academic/Artistic Partnerships in Theatre & Performance Education

Sarah Robbins2026-05-19T09:43:30+00:00April 2, 2026|

Location: Roger Bishop Theatre Moderator: Michelle MacArthur Speakers: Michelle MacArthur (mod.) with Lois Adamson, Yasmine Kandil, Paulina Grainger, Krystal Cook.

Online Roundtable 2: Training(isms): cross-disciplinary exchanges on practice-based pedagogies

Sarah Robbins2026-06-04T20:55:51+00:00April 2, 2026|

Location: Zoom Room 2 Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/6087153816?pwd=ppMzS6CF8VMyDMKcF9DX0BiTTC3Exf.1 Abstract: Training(isms): cross-disciplinary exchanges on practice-based pedagogies “Touch at a Distance: Examining Equity, Agency, and Consent in Virtual Movement-Based Training Practices”, is a postdoctoral SSHRC/Sport Canada funded interdisciplinary project that proposes a systematic examination of coaching pedagogies in Canadian sports and arts-based training [...]

Roundtable 2: Breaking and Remaking Theatre Boards: A Roundtable on Rethinking Governance in Canadian Theatre

Sarah Robbins2026-04-02T04:13:28+00:00April 2, 2026|

Location: Chief Dan George Theatre Abstract In his provocative American Theatre op-ed, “Boards Are Broken, So Let’s Break and Remake Them,” Michael J. Bobbitt laments spending “three whole months every fiscal year” on board duties—time he wishes he could reclaim for artistic work. His critique is not unique but pointed: [...]

Roundtable 1: Infrastructural Inheritances in Theatre and Performance in Canada

Sarah Robbins2026-05-08T18:48:00+00:00April 2, 2026|

Location: Roger Bishop Theatre Abstract: Since 2020, Canada’s arts and culture sector has undergone radical infrastructural change. The COVID-19 pandemic, the murder of George Floyd, and the discovery of gravesites at former residential schools forced a reckoning with the systemic inequities and unsustainability of many systems, structures, and ways of [...]