Fwd: MATC Acting/Directing Symposium 2009

[Ann Haugo]

Apologies for cross-postings.

>
>
> The 30th Annual
> Mid-America Theatre Conference
> Hyatt Regency Chicago
> March 5-8, 2009
>
> Acting and Directing Symposium
>
> POOR THEATRE?
>
> The Acting and Directing Symposium of the Mid-America Theatre  
> Conference (MATC) is seeking proposals for papers, co-papers,  
> presentations, round-table discussions, organized panels, and  
> visual presentations that can be linked to the notion of “Poor  
> Theatre,” broadly construed.  In the 1960s, Jerzy Grotowski’s  
> Polish Laboratory Theatre leveled a set of challenges at the theory  
> and practice of theatre in the face of the shifting aesthetic,  
> political, and economic landscapes of art in the twentieth century.  
> For the Acting and Directing Symposium of the thirtieth-annual MATC  
> conference we seek to examine current and emerging challenges in  
> acting, directing, and the analysis of the creation and reception  
> of theatre.
>
> Papers may be either personal explorations and analyses of specific  
> theatrical events or
> theoretical investigations of the work of significant actors and  
> directors.  Areas of investigation may include:
> •	What are the difficulties of producing and teaching theatre in  
> times of economic hardship?
> •	How do you theorize practice or practice theory in your work?
> •	How do you see your performance work as research?
> •	With the dark economic forecasts for the national/global  
> economy, what is the state/fate of our University theatre programs?  
> Our productions?  Our research? Academic Theatre?
> •	How do logistical considerations affect your work, for better  
> and for worse?
> •	How, specifically, has your work as an actor or director related  
> to real economics, and what were the results and conclusions of  
> said work?
> •	How does theatre relate to other arts, such as film, television,  
> video, web and multimedia?  How do these new boundaries and  
> divisions (if there are any) affect your work as a theatre artist?
> •	How might our work as actors and directors push and expand new  
> visions of the world and its constantly changing political and  
> economic landscape?
> •	What are the new definitions of “poor” theatre for  
> practitioners?  How has the idea of “poor theatre” changed in  
> the last few decades?
> •	What kind of specific challenges have you experienced or  
> analyzed of site-specific or community-based theatrical creation  
> and production?
> •	How are actor/director or actor/audience relationships affected  
> by economics?
> •	How does technology or the lack of technology impact your work  
> as a theatre artist, scholar and/or teacher?
>
> Applicants are asked to email 150-250 word abstracts that include  
> the following information:  applicant’s name, applicant’s rank,  
> academic affiliation, address, telephone, email, presentation  
> format (single paper, co-paper or co-presentation, panel  
> presentation, round-table discussion, or other), title of  
> presentation, and a two-three paragraph description of the paper,  
> panel or presentation.  Please be sure to include any special  
> technology needs in your abstract, including slides, powerpoint,  
> audio or video.  (Please note that technology accommodations are  
> extremely limited during the conference).
>
> Individual presentations should not exceed 8 double-spaced pages  
> (approximately 2000 words) and will be limited to a 15 minute  
> maximum.  Round table discussions and organized panels will be  
> limited to a 40 minute presentation period followed by a 25 minute  
> audience discussion and question period.  Applicants are also asked  
> to indicate whether they would be interested in submitting their  
> presentation for an external peer review; in exchange, applicants  
> may be assigned to review another submission to the symposium.
>
> Deadline for submissions:  October 15th, 2008
>
> Please send submissions electronically as MS Word or PDF files to  
> BOTH:
>
> Peter A. Campbell
> School of Contemporary Arts
> Ramapo College
> pcampbel at ramapo.edu
>
> John C. Soliday
> School of Communication
> University of Miami
> jsoliday at miami.edu
>
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>
> The 30th Annual
> Mid-America Theatre Conference
> Hyatt Regency Chicago
> March 5-8, 2009
>
> Acting and Directing Symposium
>
> POOR THEATRE?
>
> The Acting and Directing Symposium of the Mid-America Theatre  
> Conference (MATC) is seeking proposals for papers, co-papers,  
> presentations, round-table discussions, organized panels, and  
> visual presentations that can be linked to the notion of “Poor  
> Theatre,” broadly construed.  In the 1960s, Jerzy Grotowski’s  
> Polish Laboratory Theatre leveled a set of challenges at the theory  
> and practice of theatre in the face of the shifting aesthetic,  
> political, and economic landscapes of art in the twentieth century.  
> For the Acting and Directing Symposium of the thirtieth-annual MATC  
> conference we seek to examine current and emerging challenges in  
> acting, directing, and the analysis of the creation and reception  
> of theatre.
>
> Papers may be either personal explorations and analyses of specific  
> theatrical events or
> theoretical investigations of the work of significant actors and  
> directors.  Areas of investigation may include:
> What are the difficulties of producing and teaching theatre in  
> times of economic hardship?
> How do you theorize practice or practice theory in your work?
> How do you see your performance work as research?
> With the dark economic forecasts for the national/global economy,  
> what is the state/fate of our University theatre programs? Our  
> productions?  Our research? Academic Theatre?
> How do logistical considerations affect your work, for better and  
> for worse?
> How, specifically, has your work as an actor or director related to  
> real economics, and what were the results and conclusions of said  
> work?
> How does theatre relate to other arts, such as film, television,  
> video, web and multimedia?  How do these new boundaries and  
> divisions (if there are any) affect your work as a theatre artist?
> How might our work as actors and directors push and expand new  
> visions of the world and its constantly changing political and  
> economic landscape?
> What are the new definitions of “poor” theatre for practitioners?   
> How has the idea of “poor theatre” changed in the last few decades?
> What kind of specific challenges have you experienced or analyzed  
> of site-specific or community-based theatrical creation and  
> production?
> How are actor/director or actor/audience relationships affected by  
> economics?
> How does technology or the lack of technology impact your work as a  
> theatre artist, scholar and/or teacher?
>
> Applicants are asked to email 150-250 word abstracts that include  
> the following information:  applicant’s name, applicant’s rank,  
> academic affiliation, address, telephone, email, presentation  
> format (single paper, co-paper or co-presentation, panel  
> presentation, round-table discussion, or other), title of  
> presentation, and a two-three paragraph description of the paper,  
> panel or presentation.  Please be sure to include any special  
> technology needs in your abstract, including slides, powerpoint,  
> audio or video.  (Please note that technology accommodations are  
> extremely limited during the conference).
>
> Individual presentations should not exceed 8 double-spaced pages  
> (approximately 2000 words) and will be limited to a 15 minute  
> maximum.  Round table discussions and organized panels will be  
> limited to a 40 minute presentation period followed by a 25 minute  
> audience discussion and question period.  Applicants are also asked  
> to indicate whether they would be interested in submitting their  
> presentation for an external peer review; in exchange, applicants  
> may be assigned to review another submission to the symposium.
>
> Deadline for submissions:  October 15th, 2008
>
> Please send submissions electronically as MS Word or PDF files to  
> BOTH:
>
> Peter A. Campbell
> School of Contemporary Arts
> Ramapo College
> pcampbel at ramapo.edu
>
> John C. Soliday
> School of Communication
> University of Miami
>  HYPERLINK "mailto:jsoliday at miami.edu" 
jsoliday at miami.edu
>
Ann Haugo
Assistant Professor
School of Theatre
Campus Box 5700
Illinois State University
Normal IL 61790

(309) 438-3955

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