Location: Zoom Room 2 Zoom Link: [TBA] Moderator: Olivia Michiko Gagnon Abstracts: Robert Allan, "Cross disciplinary applications of creativity development in post-secondary non-vocational musical theatre education" Musical theatre education in the post-secondary sector is heavily weighted towards vocational training, aiming to produce (or reproduce) performers capable of fitting into the [...]
Location: Zoom Room 1 Zoom Link: [TBA] Moderator: Olivia Michiko Gagnon Abstract: This curated panel brings together three artist-scholars; playwright and director Frances Koncan (UBC Creative Writing), poet and land defender Rena Priest (MA Student, UBC Theatre & Film), and dramaturge Lindsay Lachance (UBC Theatre & Film), to explore how [...]
Location: Zoom Room 1 Zoom Link: [TBA] Abstracts: Virginie Magnat, "Performance as Radical Collaboration" This paper engages with the work of several generations of Indigenous scholars foregrounding non-anthropocentric principles of respect, reciprocity, and relational accountability, and positing the non-separability of matter and spirit within the complex ecology of human and [...]
Location: Zoom Room 1 Zoom Link: [TBA]
Location: Chief Dan George Theatre
Location: Barbara McIntyre Theatre Moderator: Stephen Johnson Claire Fogal, "Relational Performance Pedagogy as Creative Inheritance" This paper shares the key findings of my 2024 UBC dissertation “Relational Performance Pedagogy: Decroux and Grotowski based innovations in Western Canada.” The project was personal, investigating the entwined training inheritance I’ve received from my [...]
Location: Design Room Moderator: Kelsey Jacobson Tracy Ross, "ART/IF/ACTS: Rehearsing Embodied Futures in University Space" From my overlapping positions as lecturer, doctoral student, artist, and parent, I trace the worn paths of a corporate university where exhaustion, disconnection, and “hope circuits” are frayed. My doctoral work asks: how might we [...]
Location: PNX140 Abstract: Over the past decade, participatory arts initiatives involving people with dementia have grown significantly across North America and Europe. Recent scholarship emphasizes the importance of involving people living with dementia as active, creative consultants and co-creators, rather than positioning them as passive recipients of arts-based programming. In [...]
Location: Roger Bishop Theatre Moderator: Nicole Nolette Abstract: This curated panel will present the ongoing work of Staging Better Futures/Mettre en scène de meilleurs avenirs, a cross–Canada, industry-academic partnership fostering decolonization, anti-racism, equity, diversity, and inclusion, and access (DC/AR/EDIA) in post-secondary theatre education and funded by a SSHRC Partnership Grant [...]
Location: PNX138 Abstract This working group gathers artists and academics around the provocation that theatre is a form of service. Inspired by Audre Lorde’s well-known contention that “poetry is not a luxury”, this working group asks what theatre does in the larger cultural and economic landscape. Drawing from Alex Sarian’s [...]