Moderator: Kailin Wright Location: Room 406, Dalhousie Arts Centre The Performance Art of Sleeping: Working to Sleep, Sleeping to Work I’ve always had sleep disturbances like nightmares, sleepwalking, and night terrors, but didn’t realize their extent and frequency until I started filming myself as part of my performance-based art practice. My [...]
Moderator: Roberta Barker Location: Room 409, Dalhousie Arts Centre Sponsored by the University of Ottawa, Department of Theatre Signalling Through the Flames: Pyroturgs and Theatromancy At what point, what ancient Germano-Greek crossroads of language, did the intellectualization of theatre as a field of knowledge and inquiry become dramaturgy (the work of [...]
Location: Room 406, Dalhousie Arts Centre Moderator: Heather Davis-Fisch Sponsored by The Cole Foundation Remapping Blyth in 2017: Indigenous Performance Confronts Canada 150 My dissertation-in-process is a rural feminist and decolonial historical analysis of the Blyth Festival Theatre. Since 1975, Blyth has produced an entire summer season of Canadian plays (except [...]
Location: Joseph Strug Concert Hall, Dalhousie Arts Centre Live English/French Translation will be provided Hybrid Session
Moderators: Roberta Barker, Heather Davis-Fisch, and Kailin Wright Location: Keynote Zoom Room Live English/French Translation will be provided ASL Interpretation will be provided. Image credit: shalan joudry Conference Welcome and Land Acknowledgements, followed by a streamed performance of KOQM by shalan joudry (https://www.shalanjoudry.com/koqm) and a talkback with joudry. shalan joudry [...]
Location: Zoom Room B Moderator: Michelle MacArthur Sponsored by The Cole Foundation Transatlantic dialogues between Indigenous theatre artists, theorists and scholars from Canada and Upper Silesia, Poland. The paper reflects first on the developments in scholarship and educational activities in the last two decades at the University of Silesia (Poland), [...]