[Candrama] A Meyerhold Companion Call For Proposals

[Stefan Aquilina]

Dear all

Kindly consider forwarding this CfP to any one who might be interested in
the work of Vsevolod Meyerhold. It is about a co-edited companion that I am
working on with Prof. Jonathan Pitches of the University of Leeds.

Thanks

Stefan

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*A Meyerhold Companion*

*Call for Proposals*



Prof. Jonathan Pitches (University of Leeds) and Dr Stefan Aquilina
(University of Malta) are delighted to invite proposals for a planned
companion volume to the work, interpretation, and heritage of Vsevolod
Meyerhold (1874-1940). The volume has already been discussed with Ben
Piggott of Routledge who has expressed a strong interest in the project.



The volume seeks to determine the current state of Meyerhold studies and
practice. While past scholarship has done much to place Meyerhold’s name as
a hallmark of modernism, there still remains a plethora of material waiting
to be discovered and analysed. With this in mind, and even at this early
stage, the volume is promising a marked expansion of our knowledge of
Meyerhold as it is seen today. It will be structured in four parts.
Part 1 (*Histories
and Contexts*) will enhance understanding of Meyerhold’s many histories,
expanding beyond conventional subjects like the grotesque and biomechanics,
to contexts which have been overlooked within scholarship on Meyerhold (his
work in the provinces for instance, and with female collaborators). Part 2 (
*Sources*) will equally engage with previously untapped material in
Meyerhold’s oeuvre, this time by reproducing and contextualising previously
untranslated primary and secondary sources on his work. Part 3 (*International
Transmission*) will radically extend geographical understandings of
Meyerhold’s practice by mapping routes of migration across continents, with
planned contributions including entries on South Asia and the Middle East.
Part 4 (*Applications*) will look into ways in which Meyerhold’s work is
being applied in a number of contemporary scenarios, in health, in
education and/or technology, for example. Practice Research investigations
are particularly encouraged for this Part.



The editors are therefore particularly interested in an expansion of these
themes through topics that include but are not limited to the following:

·         Meyerhold and his overlooked contemporaries;

·         Meyerhold as interdisciplinarian;

·         Meyerhold and amateur practice;

·         Meyerhold in the provinces;

·         Meyerhold and opera;

·         Meyerhold’s studios after the Revolution;

·         Meyerhold’s migratory practices (beyond Russia);

·         New sources on Meyerhold;

·         Meyerhold and technology;

·         Novel applications of Biomechanics today.



Prospective contributors are invited to join the core group of writers and
scholars who have already expressed interest in submitting an essay to the
project. These are:

·         Dassia N. Posner (Northwestern University)

·         Marie-Christine Autant-Mathieu (Sorbonne University)

·         Donatella Gavrilovich (Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor
Vergata”)

·         Min Tian (University of Iowa)

·         Bryan Brown and Olya Petrakova (University of Exeter)

·         Rachel Hann (University of Surrey)

·         Amy Skinner (University of Hull)

·         Anna Kovalova (National Research University, Moscow)

·         Teemu Paavolainen (Tampere University, Finland)

·         Robert Leach (Retired Independent Researcher)



Abstracts of about 300 words should reach the two editors on
j.pitches at leeds.ac.uk and stefan.aquilina at um.edu.mt by *not later than 1
March 2020*. Kindly include a short bionote. A full book proposal will be
submitted in May to Routledge, while a tentative deadline for writers to
submit the essays is July 2021.








Dr Stefan Aquilina <https://www.um.edu.mt/profile/stefanaquilina>
Director, School of Performing Arts <https://www.um.edu.mt/performingarts>
Senior Lecturer, Department of Theatre Studies
<https://www.um.edu.mt/performingarts/theatre>
University of Malta

Email: stefan.aquilina at um.edu.mt
Tel: 00356 2340 2989

Director of CTATT Research Project <http://www.ctatt.org/>

Book Publications:
*Modern Theatre in Russia: Tradition Building and Transmission
Processes *(forthcoming;
Bloomsbury)
*Interdisciplinarity in the Performing Arts: Contemporary Perspectives
<https://www.um.edu.mt/mup/onlinebookstore>*(2018; Malta University Press)
*Stanislavsky in the World: The System and its Transformations across
Continents
<https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/stanislavsky-in-the-world-9781472587886/>
*(2017;
Bloomsbury)

And:
 'Cultural Transmission of Actor Training Techniques'
<https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/uhHcNSkG4YyrNfXcYeRC/full?target=10.1080%2F19443927.2018.1538018&fbclid=IwAR0pshmq_mwx1EMz8QYLA2dBLn2Sgn26HQiAaTce1e8ypHZwXZtbPfnaayg>,
in *Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (*Routledge), 10:1, pp. 4-20.
'Meyerhold and the Revolution: A Reading Through Henri Lefebvre's Theories
on "Everyday Life" <https://muse.jhu.edu/article/716843/pdf>, in *Theatre
History Studies*, 2018 Issue, pp. 3-26.
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