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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-CA">With
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-CA">“Performing
Back: Contemporary
Theoretical and Practical <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-CA">Implications
for the Post-Colonial
Stage”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b
style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-CA">University
of
Toronto, February 4-6<sup>th</sup>, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><i
style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-CA">Call
for
Papers <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -27pt;"><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-CA">The 2011
Festival of
Original Theatre conference sponsored by the Graduate Centre forStudy
of
Drama at the University of Toronto will focus its discussion and praxis
entirely
on the field of Post-Colonial theatre. The 2011 F.O.O.T. festival is
designed
to reflect the multi-cultural diversity of the city we inhabit, and to
encourage an integrative approach between the theoretical and
practical. The
festival intends to promote and discuss contemporary trends in the
emerging
field of post-colonial performance studies as it relates to contentious
issues
ever-present in various cultural/multi-racial communities (such as
race,
marginality, migration, agency and hegemony). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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lang="EN-CA"><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -27pt;"><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-CA">As Helen
Gilbert and Joanne Tompkins
contend, “Post-colonial theatre’s capacity to intervene publicly in
social
organisation and to critique political structures can be more extensive
than
the relatively isolated circumstances of written narrative and poetry.”
It is
therefore imperative that work be done on the relatively unique nature
of
performativity in post-colonial theory; particularly since much of poco
criticism routinely overlooks drama. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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lang="EN-CA"><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -27pt;"><span lang="EN-CA">A </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-CA">variety of
overarching
themes may be explored within the context of this year’s festival and
its
relation to post-colonial performance such as the use of dramatic
language
(vocal and visual as expressed through the performing body), the
arrangement of
theatrical space and time, and the manipulation of narrative and
performative
conventions of drama. Within this field, there will inevitably be a
focus on
the connections between form and content that a politicised approach to
theatre
always recognises. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"
lang="EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"
lang="EN-CA">Some
specific areas of discussion may include (but aren’t limited to):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-CA"><span style=""> </span></span><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-CA">Re-appraising
the Traditional (eg, Ritual, Carnival)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-CA">Contesting the
Canon and Counter-Discursive Strategies<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -45pt;"><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-CA">The Issue of
Marginality and the Use of Theatrical Space<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-CA">Feminist
Post-Colonialist Ruptures<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-CA">Ethnicity,
Race and the Problem of Theatrical Identity<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-CA">The
Problematic Positioning of Language and Spoken Dialogue<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-CA">Mimicry and
‘Performing Back’ to the Empire<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-CA">Magic Realist
Theatre and its Association with Post-Coloniality<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-CA">Characterising
Conflict and Colonial Subjectivities<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-CA">Rendering the
Post-Colonial Body and its Appearance on Stage<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-CA">The Emergence
of Globalization and the Post-Post-Colonial Theatre<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-CA">“In-between
Space” and Hybridity<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-CA">Ethnographic
Inquiries into Post-Colonial Performance<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-CA">Transculturation
and the Effects of Competing Multiple Theatrical Discourses<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
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lang="EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"
lang="EN-CA">Please
submit abstracts of no more than 250 words by <b style="">September
10, 2010</b> to Festival Director Dalbir Singh at <a
href="mailto:foot.graddrama@utoronto.ca">foot.graddrama@utoronto.ca</a>.
Include full name, email, affiliation status (student, faculty,
independent
scholar/artist) and a 50-word bio. <i style="">See
below for performance proposal requirements.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-CA">“Performing
Back: Contemporary
Theoretical and Practical<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-CA"><span style=""> </span>Implications
for the Post-Colonial Stage”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b
style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-CA">University
of
Toronto, February 4-6<sup>th</sup> , 2011</span></b><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><i
style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-CA">Call
for
Performances<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"
lang="EN-CA">This
year, the 2011 Festival of Original Theatre is specifically interested
in
involving the Toronto theatre and performance community within this
festival’s
activity. We are eager for this festival to reflect the diversity of
the city,
and the artists who live here. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"
lang="EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"
lang="EN-CA">Artists
interested in submitting performances that broadly address the themes
of
marginality, race, migration, hegemony, agency, etc., are invited to
submit
their proposals to the 2011 F.O.O.T. Performance committee. We are
looking for:
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ol style="margin-top: 0in;" start="1" type="1">
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-CA">Staged
readings of new works by emerging and established playwrights (not
exceeding 45 mins).<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-CA">Innovative
Performance Projects.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-CA">Workshop
Productions <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-CA">Re-mounts of
productions that directly address our themes.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ol>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"
lang="EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style=""><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-CA">Artists whose
work reflects a mandated
concern with diversity are encouraged to apply.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style=""><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"
lang="EN-CA">Submission
Guidelines: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"
lang="EN-CA">For
artists interested in submission, please employ the following
guidelines:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ol style="margin-top: 0in;" start="1" type="1">
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-CA">A Project
Description – the type of performance you are planning for this
project, and how participation in FOOT 2011 will benefit the
development of this project (1 Page max).<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-CA">Artistic
Statement – What you want to accomplish with this project and its
relationship to postcolonialism (ie, the themes of migration,
hybridity, race, hegemony, etc.). We are not looking for sophisticated
theoretical abstracts on this connection. We wish for the artists
merely to display that their work relates to the larger themes of the
conference, and contributes a perspective. If your work addresses a
tangential theme that you still insist is relevant for consideration,
please explain (1 page max).<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-CA">Script or
Working Document. Companies/artists that are interested in the
presentation of re-mounts, workshop productions, or staged readings are
encouraged to submit a writing proposal. Artists who are interested in
the showcasing of performance work should provide a template of what
the performance will entail (5 page max). <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";" lang="EN-CA">Bios of
participants.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ol>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"
lang="EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"
lang="EN-CA">Please
direct submissions as well as any questions and concerns to Festival
Director,
Dalbir Singh at <a href="mailto:foot.graddrama@utoronto.ca">foot.graddrama@utoronto.ca</a>.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"
lang="EN-CA">Submissions
for Performances are DUE <b style="">SEPTEMBER 20<sup>th</sup>,
2010.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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lang="EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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