Moderator: Kim McLeod Location: Room 409, Dalhousie Arts Centre Spectating With/Against: How Do Postshow Talkbacks Ask Which Bodies That Matter? Postshow talkbacks invite the audience to pose questions, make remarks, and provide feedback to the cast, director, and dramaturg. In the two talkbacks I witnessed in 2022, for both plays [...]
Location: Fifth Floor Atrium, Dalhousie Arts Centre Vegan, dairy-free, and gluten-free options will be available for each lunch. Please go here by Friday, June 9 to let us know of any dietary requirements or preferences you may have for your lunches, and we will strive to make sure they are in place [...]
Location: Large Rehearsal Studio, Dalhousie Arts Centre Open for drop-ins to explore our members' VR projects! In person at Dalhousie, there will be a Makerspace hosted by the Digital Theatre Working Group. There will be two VR experiences to explore. Be sure to make room in your schedule to stop [...]
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: Studio 2, Dalhousie Arts Centre Workshop Leader: Carla Melo
Closed Session: seminar participants only Hybrid Session Location: Small Rehearsal Studio, Dalhousie Arts Centre Co-Convenors: Jenn Boulay and Signy Lynch Participants: Kat Germain, Caroline Klimek, Shannon Hughes, Daniella Vitinski Mooney, Alejandra Nunez, Gabriela Petrov, Laine Zizman Newman Rationale:This seminar builds off our seminar at last year’s conference: “Performing Complaint: Working [...]
Location: Room 406, Dalhousie Arts Centre Moderator: Kelsey Jacobson Sponsored by The Cole Foundation King Me: Dragging the History of Male Impersonation in Drag King Decades My paper examines the 2019 drag cabaret show Drag King Decades, produced by and starring Clare “Flare” Smyth. The show features seven drag kings [...]
Convenor: Anne Wessels Location: Small Rehearsal Studio, Dalhousie Arts Centre Pure Research is Nightswimming’s program that provides dramaturgical and financial support for inquiries into theatre/performance ideas while favouring exploration over product. Anne Wessels (who has lived experience of stroke) asked a research question about how movement, gesture and stillness might [...]
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. [...]
Strug Concert Hall Lobby, Dalhousie Arts Centre