Location: Zoom Room 3 Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/4791764100 Abstract: The CATR 2026 conference invites us to reflect on the inheritances of our field at a moment of profound political and cultural transition, marked by rise of right-wing nationalisms, climate change, polarizing technologies, forced displacement, and shifting geopolitical power. Theatre, dance, and [...]
Location: Zoom Room C https://us06web.zoom.us/j/2520107866?pwd=Z7R43MTNhjgQvzQPTQjuzkaQYq7H91.1 Convenors: Sheetala Bhat, Yana Meerzon, and Steve Wilmer Distinctions between inside and outside animate discourses on migration, borders, identity, and culture among other things pertaining to global movements across nations. How do performance artists navigate and complicate the distinction between the inside and outside of [...]
Location: Imperial Room, Atlas Hotel • Kara Flanagan and Cameron Crookston, “Perspectives from Emerging to Emeriti: Innovating and Adapting Canadian Theatrical Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Training to New Interior and Exterior Landscapes in Theatre and Non-theatre Education” Our working group is concerned with applications of theatrical principles and pedagogy to (1) non-theatre [...]
Location: Room 0030 - Pavilion de la Faculté de l’aménagement - 2940 ch. de la Côte Ste-Catherine - Université de Montréal (Building 36 on the UdM Map) In-Person In its final year, the Environmental Stewardship in Theatre and Performance Education Working Group will create a Guidebook on Fostering Environmental Stewardship [...]
Location: Room 1140 - Pavilion André Aidenstadt - 2920 chemin de la tour - Université de Montréal (Building 19 on the UdM Map) In-Person Session For the third year of our collaborations as the Digital Performance Working Group we will focus our in-person seminar as a teach-in on how to [...]
Location: Room 3110 In-Person Session The Course Correction: Reorienting Approaches to Space in Theatre and Performance Working Group is a collection of scholars working in a range of scholarly environments that is looking to build on the twenty-year legacy of the spatial turn by defining and exploring new directions for spatial perspectives [...]
Convenors: Yana Meerzon, Sheetala Bhat and Stephen Elliot Location: Zoom Room B Link to Zoom Room B Online Session This working group aims to bring together Canadian and international specialists in theatre and performance studies and other disciplines to examine the complex impact of global migration and to critique the [...]
Convenor: Sarah Robbins Location: Zoom Room A Link to Zoom Room A Online Session Gatherings: Archival and Oral Histories is seeking participants for a new CATR Working Group. Gatherings—a SSHRC-funded research Partnership focusing on the care and keeping of archival and oral histories of performance in Canada, has been in [...]
Location: Small Rehearsal Studio, Dalhousie Arts Centre and Zoom Room A Hybrid Session Led by Christine (cricri) Bellerose and Mark Lipton. Open to all Conference Registrants Come as you are, coffee in hand or in pajamas from your online space, to observe in silence or engage in gentle moving-thinking activities. [...]
Location: Small Rehearsal Hall, Dalhousie Arts Centre and Zoom Room Open to all Conference Registrants Hybrid Session Led by Christine (cricri) Bellerose and Mark Lipton. Come as you are, coffee in hand or in pajamas from your online space, to observe in silence / take part in gentle moving-thinking activities. [...]