Moderator: Robin Whittaker Location: Room 1411 - Pavilion André Aidenstadt - 2920 chemin de la tour - Université de Montréal (Building 19 on the UdM Map) In-Person Session Compounding Injustice: How School Musicals Exacerbate Social Inequities Musicals are an integral part of many drama programs in Canadian secondary schools. Lauded [...]
Location: Teesri Duniya Theatre 251 Pine Ave. W. (Cité-des-Hospitalières) https://maps.app.goo.gl/zTn7h8LTDtghPq6fA In-Person Session French Translation will be available here: tinyurl.com/CATR2024 Sponsored by McGill Institute for the Study of Canada Schedule 10 am to 11am: Coffee 11 am : CATR Opening Remarks 11:30 am : Plenary Performance - Barbara Diabo's My Urban Nature Cette [...]
Moderator: Shelley Liebembuk Location: Room 1175 - Pavilion André Aidenstadt - 2920 chemin de la tour - Université de Montréal (Building 19 on the UdM Map) In-Person Session Sponsored by the School of Contemporary Arts - Simon Fraser University In Search of Justice through Ethics in Post-COVID Canadian Contemporary Dance [...]
Curator: Yasmine Kandil 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 Session Sponsored by the Department of Theatre - University of Regina The members of this group collaborated on a Research [...]
Moderator: Hope McIntyre Location: Room 0028 - 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 Session Performing in Response to the Anthropocene In this presentation I argue that there is an ethical imperative to [...]
Leader: Paolo Gruni Location: Room 7-425, 7th Floor - John Molson Building, 1450 Rue Guy Concordia University In-Person Session Capitalist Realism is the all-encompassing, colonizing, infinitely plastic and adaptable conception of reality intertwined with systemic injustice (Fisher, 2009). By ‘post-realist perception’, I mean an embodied sense of being-in-the-world corrosively leaking [...]
Leader: Cassandre Chatonnier Location: Room 7-425, 7th Floor - John Molson Building, 1450 Rue Guy Concordia University In-Person Session Theatrical design is often taught with a traditional, hierarchical approach. In such a process, the scenographic creation of a theatrical production consists of thinking and designing the design elements even before [...]
Leader: Rebecca Harries & Heather Lawford Location: Room 7-270, 7th Floor - John Molson Building, 1450 Rue Guy Concordia University In-Person This praxis session is both an introduction to and a conversation about the techniques, challenges and rewards of interdisciplinary collaboration. The praxis session will introduce the work of an [...]
Leader: Suzanne Liska Location: Room 7-270, 7th Floor - John Molson Building, 1450 Rue Guy Concordia University In-Person Session Somatic communities are at a crossroad in their attempts to address the lack of equity, diversity and inclusion awareness among practitioners and participants. Social somatic dance scholars, also known as “politicized” [...]
Moderator: Barry Freeman Location: Room 4270 - 3200 rue Jean-Brillant - Université de Montréal (Building 27 on the UdM map) In-Person Session SESSION CANCELLED