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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span
style="font-size: 22pt; font-family: Helvetica-Bold;">The Festival of
Original Theatre 2010:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span
style="font-size: 22pt; font-family: Helvetica-Bold;">Performing Space
and Space in Performance<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span
style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";">January
21-23, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span
style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";">University
of Toronto<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";">For as long as there
has been theatre, there
has been a space that accompanies it; however, any significant
contribution to the
discussion of the powers and potentials of the space, place, and
geography of the theatre
have only appeared in recent years. The long-standing significance
awarded to
history and time resigned any discussion of space to a secondary role.
It has only been in
recent years that this “intellectual curse”<br>
that accompanies a study of geography has been
lifted and replaced with serious and diverse discussions of space and
geography
becoming more prevalent in theatre and performance scholarship.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p>Taking its
cues from the recent scholarship on
space, geography, and landscape, the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama
at the
University of Toronto is now inviting graduate students to submit
abstracts for
papers and performance proposals for its annual conference the <i><b>Festival
of Original
Theatre (F.O.O.T)</b></i> to be held January 21-23, 2010. <i>F.O.O.T</i>
seeks papers or performances
proposals from all disciplines that explore<br>
or discuss the scenographic, the geographic,
and/or the spacial and its relationship to theatre, performance, and
performativity. Some
topics may include:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";">• Site specific
theatre(s)<o:p></o:p><br>
• Performances in different locations/contexts,<o:p></o:p><br>
• Theatre architecture,<o:p></o:p><br>
• The function/effect of space, location,
geography on character/actor/identity,<o:p></o:p><br>
• Cyber-theatre, virtuality, and performance,<o:p></o:p><br>
• The scenographer’s
place in designing space; the different ways the designer can create
“space,”<o:p></o:p><br>
• Staging the globe: different places in one
space,<o:p></o:p><br>
• Borders, borderlands, and liminality in
theatre/performance,<o:p></o:p><br>
• Relationship between location and
identity/nationality,<o:p></o:p><br>
• Performing the city, country, nation, or
multi-geographic locations,<o:p></o:p><br>
• Staging home, homeland, homelessness, exile,
and/or displacement,<o:p></o:p><br>
• Staging theatre/performance in difficult
locations,<o:p></o:p><br>
• Discourse theory, space, and the performing
body,<o:p></o:p><br>
• The collision between geography and history
in performance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";">Please send abstracts
(300 words) and a brief
bio (100 words), along with any questions to this year’s Artistic
Director at:<o:p></o:p><br>
<span style=""> </span><a href="mailto:foot.graddrama@utoronto.ca">foot.graddrama@utoronto.ca</a>
by
October 16, 2009.</span></p>
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