Location: Zoom Room 2 Zoom Link: [TBA] 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. [...]
Location: Zoom Room 2 Zoom Link: [TBA] 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 2024, they ceased [...]
Location: Zoom Room 1 Zoom Link: [TBA] Abstract: This roundtable emerges from a community-based theatre project, ‘Masa & Memories’ in development that centres the voices of Salvadorian women across three generations living in Toronto, canada. Rooted in teatro popular, testimonio practices, the project asks: How might rehearsal become a site [...]
Location: Zoom Room 2 Zoom Link: [TBA] Abstract: In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Canadian Association for Theatre Research, this roundtable brings together international scholars and artists who work within the cross-cultural exchange of Canadian plays through adaptation, transnational production, research, and teaching. Participants from Africa, Europe, and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Location: Chief Dan George Theatre Moderator: Robin Whittaker Abstract This roundtable examines the evolution of Canadian Association for Theatre Research (CATR) through the perspectives of graduate student representatives who have served on the board. The first part of the roundtable will feature a multigenerational discussion--ideally inviting at least one representative [...]
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 [...]
Location: Chief Dan George Theatre Moderator: Michelle MacArthur Abstract Biographies:
Location: Zoom Room 2 Zoom Link: [TBA] 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 [...]