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Online Working Group 2: The Individual in the Collective: Borrowing and sharing pedagogical strategies between theatre and non-theatre training to support individual experiences within collective action

Sarah Robbins2026-04-02T05:05:26+00:00April 2, 2026|

Location: Zoom Room 3 Zoom Link: [TBA] Abstract: How can theatre pedagogies serve non-theatre students in rehearsing their futures? How can non-theatre pedagogies guide future practices in theatre training institutions? In this Working Group session moderated by Dr. Jenny Salisbury, four presenters will explore pedagogical approaches to supporting individuals within [...]

Online Working Group 1: Performance, Migration, and Nationalism

Sarah Robbins2026-04-02T04:58:37+00:00April 2, 2026|

Location: Zoom Room 3 Zoom Link: [TBA] 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 [...]

Working group: Performance and Migration

Robin Whittaker2025-05-16T13:59:42+00:00May 16, 2025|

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 [...]

Working Group (In Person)

Robin Whittaker2025-05-16T13:01:22+00:00May 16, 2025|

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 [...]

Environmental Stewardship in Theatre and Performance Education: “Guidebook Launch – Fostering Environmental Stewardship in Theatre and Performance Training Programs”

Robin Whittaker2024-04-13T02:54:58+00:00April 13, 2024|

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 [...]

Digital Performance: “Teaching and Learning: AI in/as/for Digital Performance”

Robin Whittaker2024-04-13T02:52:52+00:00April 13, 2024|

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 [...]

Course Correction: Reorienting Approaches to Space in Theatre and Performance

Robin Whittaker2024-04-13T02:50:59+00:00April 13, 2024|

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 [...]

Performance, Migration and Nationalism Working Group

Robin Whittaker2024-04-11T14:20:00+00:00April 11, 2024|

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 [...]

Gatherings: Archival and Oral Histories Working Group

Robin Whittaker2024-04-11T10:44:02+00:00April 11, 2024|

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 [...]

Somatic Engagements | Engagement Somatique (Part Three – In-Person/Online): “performance-lecture & thinking-moving

phantomowl2023-06-05T21:55:03+00:00June 5, 2023|

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. [...]