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Deadline for submissions extended:
<br>CALL FOR ORIGINAL WORKSHOPS & CONFERENCE PAPERS; PERFORMANCES,
& PLAYS.
<br>Festival of Original Theatre -- February 10-13, 2005
<p>The Annual Festival of Original Theatre, produced by The Graduate Centre
for
<br>Study of Drama at the University of Toronto explores the possibilities
of
<br>theatre in theory and practice. FOOT 2005 is an entirely student-run
event
<br>that investigates the theme "Bodies in Space" in a combination of short
<br>plays, conference papers, and workshops. We especially welcome submissions
<br>that might interlink performances, workshops and/or papers.
<p>The theme of FOOT 2005 will also give potential performers the freedom
to
<br>explore one or more exciting possibilities, provided that the body
is
<br>foregrounded in some way, whether it be through
<ul>
<li>
movement (or stillness)</li>
<li>
vocabularies for movement across cultures</li>
<li>
dance or mime</li>
<li>
athletic disciplines, martial arts forms, or approaches to body awareness
and spiritual disciplines such as yoga or tai chi</li>
<li>
theatre pedagogy concerning the body, such as Alexander Technique</li>
<li>
objectification (for example, with the use of masks, costumes, or prosthetics)</li>
<li>
identity (race, gender, age, ableness, body shape)</li>
<li>
the substitution of the artificial body (or puppet), or some other technique.</li>
</ul>
<p><br>There will be a series of practical workshops offered over the course
of the
<br>festival as well as a conference, in which theatre practitioners, students
<br>of the craft, and academic experts are afforded the opportunity to
come
<br>together and to share their research.
<p>SUBMISSIONS:
<br>** The plays-performances are to be 15-30 minutes in length. Please
submit
<br>as comprehensive a description as possible (full script not required),
by
<br>November 15, 2004.
<p>** Conference papers are to be 20 minutes in length. Please submit a
200
<br>word abstract by November 15, 2004. As this is a festival that
celebrates
<br>and interrogates the body, "papers" that are not delivered in
<br>the traditional manner (that is, those that might be labeled "performance
<br>papers") are also welcome but are subject to the same length restriction.
<p>** Workshop proposals are not limited in length. Please submit as
<br>comprehensive a description as possible by November 15, 2004.
<p>Please send submissions to dcfoot2005@yahoo.ca
<br>Website: <A HREF="http://gradrama.sa.utoronto.ca/foot/">http://gradrama.sa.utoronto.ca/foot/</A>
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