Location: Zoom Room 2 Zoom Link: [TBA] Abstract: Over the past few years there has been a dramatic decline in the number of publications dedicated to writing about dance in Canada. In 2020, Dance International magazine went from a quarterly print magazine to an online-only operation. In 2024, they ceased [...]
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 [...]
Location: Zoom Room 3 Zoom Link: [TBA] Abstracts: Magdalina El-Masry, "Performance in the Age of Early Cinema" The cinema of attractions, which Tom Gunning first defined in 1986 as a cinema of “exhibitionist confrontation rather than diagetic absorption,” predates narrative cinema as it developed in the 20th century’s first decade. [...]
Location: Zoom Room 2 Zoom Link: [TBA] Abstract: In many Euro-Western cultures, modern reality causes disruption of emotional, physical and behavioural equilibria. Minds and bodies are constantly under stress, due to phenomena such as the degradation of the environment; the modification of food, and addiction(s) to technology. Hegemonic neoliberal capitalism [...]
Location: Zoom Room 1 Zoom Link: [TBA]
Location: Zoom Room 1 Zoom Link: [TBA] Abstracts: Benedicta Akley-Quarshie, "Rehearsing Future: Performance as a Site for Introspection and Cultural Affirmation" The sociopolitical and cultural necessity of staging Black-authored plays, as affirmed by scholars such as Elam and Krasner (2001) and advocated for by figures such as August Wilson and [...]
Location: Zoom Room 2 Zoom Link: [TBA] Abstracts: T. Nikki Cesare Schotzko and Giorelle Diokno, "TradWife Strife: Ecologies of Performative Femininity, Conservatism, and Identity Politics in Contemporary Social Media" A New York Times’ 6 November thrice-retitled op-ed, “Did Women Ruin the Workplace: And if so, can conservative feminism fix it?” [...]
Location: Zoom Room 1 Zoom Link: [TBA] Abstract: Curated Panel Rationale: The Costume Cutter is a central yet often overlooked role in theatrical production. If the Designer functions as the architect of a costume, the Cutter is its engineer, translating vision into a garment built precisely for a performer and [...]
Location: Zoom Room 1 Zoom Link: [TBA] Abstract: This roundtable emerges from a community-based theatre project, ‘Masa & Memories’ in development that centres the voices of Salvadorian women across three generations living in Toronto, canada. Rooted in teatro popular, testimonio practices, the project asks: How might rehearsal become a site [...]
Location: Chief Dan George Theatre