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<p><b><font size=+1>Festival of Original Theatre (FOOT)</font></b>
<br><b><font size=+1>Performances – Workshops - Conference</font></b>
<br><b><font size=+1>February 10 - 13, 2005</font></b>
<br><b><font size=+1>University of Toronto</font></b>
<br><b><font size=+1>bodies in
space</font></b></center>
<p>For four days in February, the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, University
of Toronto, hosts an interdisciplinary gathering of academics and practitioners.
Our space welcomes your <b>body</b> in a Festival promising to explore
the theme “bodies in space” through interactive workshops, performances,
papers plus demonstrations blurring the boundaries between these three
categories.
<br>• <b>Workshops</b>
in authentic Shakespearean dance or virtual theatre, asking,
<br> puppetry,
voice or aerial movement, stage combat
<br>• <b>Papers</b> concerning
radio, visual art, aerial theatre, virtual drama
<br>• <b>Performances</b>
of dance, puppetry, clown, fighting, poetry, meditation
<p>Re-examine the <b>body</b> in our <b>space</b>. The Festival is
free of charge during the day for keynotes, workshops and conference papers.
Each of the two evenings of performances is $10($8 students/seniors), or
a two night package is $15($10 students/seniors).
<p><b>Confirmed Keynote speakers</b>:
<br><b>Brian Macdonald</b> has had a long and distinguished career as a
choreographer and director in classical and contemporary ballet, opera,
musical theatre, film, and television. An original member of the National
Ballet of Canada, he has been artistic director of the Royal Swedish Ballet,
the Harkness Ballet of New York, the Batsheva Company of Israel, and Les
Grands Ballets Canadiens, and has mounted new productions for companies
as diverse as the Stratford Festival, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, New York City
Opera, Edinburgh Festival, Kennedy Centre, La Scala, Sydney Opera House,
and Sweden’s Gothenburg Ballet. A Companion of the Order of
Canada, he is inaugural recipient of the Walter Carsen Prize for his lifetime
contribution to the arts in Canada.
<p><b>David Powell</b> and Ann Powell co-founded Puppetmongers Theatre
in 1974. Since then, they have created ten new Canadian plays, eight of
which are in repertoire, and established a Toronto Christmas Tradition
over the past fourteen winter holidays at the Tarragon Theatre. They have
made seven European tours, plus two tours to Iran, as well as performing
all over Canada and the United States. David is also a founder of
the Toronto School of Puppetry, which has drawn adult students from across
Canada, the USA and around the world to its seasonal workshops since 1996.
<p><b>Bruce Barton</b> teaches playwriting and dramaturgy at the University
of Toronto. Book publications include Imagination in Transition: Mamet’s
Move to Film and Marigraph (an anthology of Maritimes drama). Current
research includes dramaturgy in devised theatre and the relationship between
the body and technology in contemporary performance. He is also a
national award-winning playwright.
<p><b>Festival of Original Theatre (FOOT)
February 10-13, 2005</b>
<br><b>Robert Gill Theatre Box Office: 978-7986</b>
<br><b>214 College St., 3rd floor e-mail: <a href="dcfoot2005@yahoo.ca">dcfoot2005@yahoo.ca</a></b>
<br><b>TORONTO ON M5T 2Z9 website: <a href="http://gradrama.sa.utoronto.ca/foot">http://gradrama.sa.utoronto.ca/foot</a></b>
<p><b>Contact: Lydia Wilkinson 416-978-7986</b>
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