Keynote Speaker Kelly Tsai: Workshop, Lecture and Performance

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The Department of Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance, The Association for Research in Theater at IU, and Indiana University Student Association invite you to a workshop, a lecture and a performance by:

Kelly Tsai

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Kelly Tsai is an award-winning writer, performer, and director based in Brooklyn. Her theatrical work has been developed and presented by Ars Nova, New York Live Arts, Downtown Urban Theater Festival, Museum of Chinese in America, Brooklyn Museum, El Museo del Barrio, Culture Project, University of California-Santa Cruz Rainbow Theater, and more. She was a founding ensemble member for Mango Tribe, an Asian American Pacific Islander women’s and genderqueer spoken word theater group, and an original cast member for We Got Issues!, a national hip hop theater project promoting young women’s leadership and electoral engagement. She has also collaborated with acclaimed dance companies and theater artists like Urban Bush Women and Ping Chong. Her work as a spoken word poet has been featured at hundreds of performances worldwide including audiences at the White House, Lincoln Center, Apollo Theater, Kennedy Center, and HBO’s “East of Main Street: Asians Aloud” and “Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry.” Her current work spans screen, print, live performance, and new media. Throughout her career, Kelly has been committed to the arts as leverage for social change for issues as diverse as cultural identity, feminism, domestic violence and sexual assault prevention, immigrant rights, law enforcement reform, and voter enfranchisement.

Events with Kelly Tsai:

Friday, March 31:

Writing Workshop
2:00-3:30pm, Studio Theatre
This workshop focuses on how to write & develop solo performance material of all kinds.

Saturday, April 1st: 

Performative Keynote Address
12:00-12:30 pm, Studio Theatre

Formosa, solo performance
7:30pm, Studio Theatre

 

Pictures from the ART@IU Replotting Performance Conference 2016

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ART@IU Replotting Performance ART@IU President Sarah Campbell opening the confrerence
ART@IU Replotting Performance rountable on Antigone
ART@IU Replotting Performance Conference with the cast of Hello Again performing selected scenes
ART@IU Replotting Performance Conference with the director and cast of Hello Again during a roundtable session
ART@IU Replotting Performance Conference Dr. Jennifer Goodlander and Essay Contest winner Abby Ang
ART@IU Replotting Performance Conference with Keynote Speaker Julia Listengarten and ART@IU officer Whit Emerson
ART@IU Replotting Performance Conference with MFA Playwright Maurico Miranda

Replotting Performance Conference Schedule

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Conference Schedule

All events take place at the Lee Norvelle Theatre and Drama Center, located at
275 N Jordan Avenue on Indiana University’s Bloomington Campus.

Friday, March 25th
REGISTRATION AND OPENING EVENTS
5:00 pm-6:30 pm
Registration Table Open Theatre Art Gallery

6:30 pm-7:15 pm
Pre-Show Talk and hors d’oeuvres* Theatre Art Gallery
Featuring: Peter Gil-Sheridan, Mauricio Miranda, and Bruce Walsh

7:30 pm-10:00 pm
Performance 1: Wells-Metz Theatre
Occupants by Mauricio Miranda

Saturday, March 26th
BREAKFAST AND DEPARTMENTAL WELCOME
8:45 am-9:20 am
Breakfast* DeVault Lobby

9:20 am-9:25 am
Welcome A201

PANEL PRESENTATIONS
9:30 am-10:45 am
Panel 1a: Moving Through Language and Body A201
1. “Kinetic Image Schema – Performance Moving Through Metaphors in Windstorm”
Eric Heaps, Ph.D. Candidate in Theatre History, Theory, and Literature, Indiana University
2. “From choreo-singularity to choreo-anatomy: dancing the body-score of Becoming”
Laura Potrovic, Ph.D. Student in Theatre Studies, University of Paris 3- Sorbonne Nouvelle
3. “Space Animator: A ‘Bodymind’ Finds Flow with Suzuki Movement”
Justin Rincker, Ph.D. Student in Theatre History, Theory, and Literature, Indiana University
Panel Chair: Bridget Sundin, Ph.D. Student in Theatre History, Theory, and Literature, Indiana University

9:30 am-10:45 am
Panel 1b: Women, Politics, and Transformation Through Narrative A152
1. “Nationalist Mythology and Yeats’ Cyclical View of History”
Miriam Poole, Ph.D. Student in Theatre History, Theory, and Literature, Indiana University
2. ““I love dirty stories’: Lost, Happy Voices and Female Narrative Transformation”
Susannah Stengel, M.A. Student in Theatre History, Theory, and Literature, Indiana University
3. “The Pursuit of Identity by Women in The Force of Change and In the Blood”
Huihui Huang, Ph.D. Student in Theatre History, Theory, and Literature, Indiana University
Panel Chair: Whit Emerson, Ph.D. Student in Theatre History, Theory, and Literature, Indiana University

11:00 am-12:00 pm
Panel 2: Practice as Research Roundtable: Antigone A 201
Panelists: Katie Horwitz, M.F.A. Student in Directing, Indiana University
Ashley Dillard, M.F.A. Student in Acting, Indiana University
Liz Shea, Associate Professor & Director of IU Contemporary Dance Program, Indiana University
Adam McLean, Assistant Professor of Movement & Stage Combat, Indiana University
Moderator: Bridget Sundin, Ph.D. Student in Theatre History, Theory, and Literature, Indiana University

12:00 pm-2:00 pm
Lunch

2:00 pm- 3:00pm
Performance/Roundtable 2: A201
“‘In Some Other Life’; Methods of Adaptation in Michael John LaChiusa’s Hello Again”
Joshua Robinson, Ph.D. Student in Theatre History, Theory, and Literature, Indiana University
Performers: Joey Birchler, Kayla Marie Eilers, Christian Fary, Mia Fitgibbon, Jimmy Hogan, Kaitlyn Mayse, Scott Van Wye, &
Michelle Zink; Amanda Li (Musical Direction), Kaitlyn Louise Smith (Choreography)
Moderator: Joe Stollenwerk

3:00 pm-4:15 pm
Panel 3a: Sheep, Sacrifice, Scotland, and Shootin’ A152
1. “Stage Violence as Religion, Ritual, Sacrifice”
Tom Oldham, Ph.D., Independent Scholar
2. “Performing Populism: A Play, a Pie, and a Pint”
Deana Nichols, Ph.D., Independent Scholar
3. “Annie Oakley, Folk Heroine and Actress”
Katherine A. Johnson, Ph.D. Student, Communication & Culture, Indiana University
4. “Disruptive Presences: Talking to Sheep in the Brome Abraham and Isaac”
Abby Ang, Ph.D. Student, English, Indiana University
Panel Chair: Whit Emerson, Ph.D. Student in Theatre History, Theory, and Literature, Indiana University

3:00 pm-4:15 pm
Panel 3b: Verbal Art as Performance A201
1. “‘Wait. What did You Just Say?!’ Using Irving Goffman’s Expression Games To Analyze a Magic Performance”
Andres Lopez, Ph.D. Student in Theatre History, Theory, and Literature, Indiana University
2. “Ethics and Ethnography: An Attempt in Understanding Dialect and Transcription”
Lora Smith, Ph.D. Student, Communication & Culture, Indiana University
3. “The Establishment and Maintenance of Short-Term Joking Relationships”
Sarah Campbell, Ph.D. Student in Theatre History, Theory, and Literature, Indiana University
Panel Chair: Dr. John H. McDowell, Professor of Folklore, Indiana University

4:15 pm-4:45 pm
Snack Break* DeVault Lobby

4:45-4:55 pm
Presentation of Essay Prize A201
Dr. Jennifer Goodlander

5:00-6:00 pm
Panel 4: Bodies in Performance A201
1. “A Concrete Utopia: The Call of Authenticity and Hope in Gay Verbatim Theatre”
Brennan Murphy, B.A. Student in Theatre, Indiana University
2. “The Actor’s Verse: An Analysis of The Second Shepherd’s Play”
Alexis DeSollar, B.F.A. Student in Acting, Millikin University
Panel Chair: Andrés López, Ph.D. Student in Theatre History, Theory, and Literature, Indiana University

6:00-7:30 pm
Catered Dinner * DeVault Lobby

Sunday, March 27th
8:30-9:15
Breakfast* DeVault Lobby

9:15 am-10:30 am
Panel 5: Race and Gender in Performance A201
1. “‘Help Us Stand Up Proudly Again’ – Lao She’s Love and Revolution”
Whit Emerson, Ph.D. Student in Theatre History, Theory, and Literature, Indiana University
2. “Ramleela in Kangra Valley of Himalaya”
Chitra Upadhyaya, Freelance Journalist, University of Pune, India
3. “The Re-Construction of Gender –– Masculinized Women’s Body in the Chinese Model Opera”
Weiyu Li, M.A. Student in Theatre History, Theory, and Literature, Indiana University
Panel Chair: Andrés López, Ph.D. Student in Theatre History, Theory, and Literature, Indiana University

10:45am- 11:45am
Keynote Address A201
“Sites of Possibilities: Converging Research and Creative Practice in Our Own Work”
Dr. Julia Listengarten, Professor of Theatre, University of Central Florida

11:45am-12:00pm
Closing Remarks A201

Call for Papers: 4th Annual Graduate Symposium on Theatre and Performance Studies Hosted by the Association for Research in Theatre at Indiana University

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4th Annual Graduate Symposium on Theatre and Performance Studies
Hosted by the Association for Research in Theatre at Indiana University (ART@IU)

Replotting Performance

Jon McKenzie, in his 2001 book Perform or Else, makes the prediction that “performance will be to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries what discipline was to the eighteenth and nineteenth, that is an onto-historical formation of power and knowledge” (18). As McKenzie indicates, over the last part of the 20th century, there has been a growing emphasis on performance, which has permeated the social sciences and humanities. Disciplines as methodologically varied as anthropology and English, theatre and folklore, sociology and history all have related concerns
about the body, the place, the text, or even the object that performs– from the informal to the formal, from the everyday to the special event. Theorists from Victor Turner to Richard Schechner, from Erving Goffman to Richard Bauman and Charles Briggs, from Clifford Geertz to Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett all entertain, in some way, an orientation toward performance and in some respects, practice. If McKenzie’s prediction holds true, what space does this leave for theatre studies?

• Where do theatre artists find themselves situated amongst all of this theorizing on performance?
• How do current theatre practice trends confirm or trouble the idea of “performance”?
• What is theatre? What is performance? Is theatre just a subset of performance?
• How can performance studies in its varied forms and manifestations advance theatrical practice?
• How can rethinking performance inform the discipline of theatre?
• How can we translate this shift in perception into our work as theatre artists?
• What can perform? Just people? Things?
• What can be performed? Novels? Poems? Comic books?
• What benefits can we receive from rethinking performance in its broadest terms?
• What do we get when we expand our notions of what is and is not performance?
• What do we gain from looking broadly at related phenomenon under the umbrella of “performance?” What do we lose?

We call for individuals and groups to propose academic papers, experimental talks, live performance, roundtable discussions, informal presentations of research, staged readings, artistic manifestos,
workshops, and other media at the intersection of performance, theory, and practice. We encourage applicants to address the conference theme, but it is not required. We welcome and encourage a diversity of approaches, styles, and methods.

Please submit a 250-word abstract, if appropriate, or an artist statement and a brief bio to artatiu@gmail.com by January 1st, 2016. Participants will be notified of their acceptance by January 15th, 2016. The conference will be held on Indiana University’s Bloomington campus Friday, March 25th- Sunday, March 27th, 2016.

Photos from the 2014 Cultural Indigestion Conference

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Everyone enjoyed the 2014 Art@IU Cultural Indigestion Conference. Papers, performances, and a roundtable were held to discuss the importance of intercultural theatre and performance practice. Here are a few pictures of the various events that made the conference successful!

 

Keynote Speaker Lucienne Guedes Fahrer Workshops and Lecture

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The Department of Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance, The Association for Research in Theater at IU, and Indiana University Student Association invite you to workshops and a lecture by:

Lucienne Guedes Fahrer  (University of São Paulo/Teatro da Vertigem)

Lucienne Guedes Fahrer

Lucienne Guedes Fahrer

Workshop

“Working with Actors in Site-Specific Performance”

Tuesday, December 9, from 4:30 – 6:00 pm

Studio Theatre (Lee Norvelle Theatre and Drama Center. 275 North Jordan Ave, Bloomington, IN)

 

Lecture

“The Works of Lucienne Guedes Fahrer and the São Paulo Theatre Scene”

Wednesday, December 10, at 5:30 pm

A200 (Lee Norvelle Theatre and Drama Center)

Workshop

“The Collaborative Playwriting Process”

Thursday, December 11, from 4:30 – 6:30 pm

Studio Theatre (Lee Norvelle Theatre and Drama Center)

Another lecture, co-sponsored with the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, will be offered in the Redbud Room of the Indiana Memorial Union, Wednesday, December 10, at 2:30 pm. This lecture will be in the Portuguese language and is entitled “O Processo Colaborativo de Criação.”