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<p class="CM7" style="margin-bottom: 25.25pt; text-align: center;"
align="center"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Call for
Papers for the International
Colloquium <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">“Passing
on the Commedia dell’Arte
Tradition: <o:p></o:p></span></b>
<br>
<b><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Past and Present
Training and Pedagogical
Approaches” </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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style="margin-bottom: 10.85pt; text-align: center; line-height: 12.65pt;"
align="center"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style=""> </span></span><br>
<b><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">18 February
2012, Toronto. </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div align="center"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Event
organized by the Drama Studies Programme, Glendon
College, York University,<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;"><span style=""> </span>in
collaboration
with the University College Drama Programme <o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">and the Graduate Centre
for Study of Drama
at the University of Toronto <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<p class="Default"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="CM7"
style="margin: 0in 6.35pt 0.0001pt 0.25in; text-align: center; text-indent: 0.25in; line-height: 12.65pt;"
align="center"><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">“A
famous
Spanish comedian named Adriano, who came to Naples with other [actors]
to put
on<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="CM7"
style="margin: 0in 6.35pt 0.0001pt 0.25in; text-align: center; text-indent: 0.25in; line-height: 12.65pt;"
align="center"><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">their
comedies, could not understand how one could produce a comedy by simply
coordinating<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="CM7"
style="margin: 0in 6.35pt 0.0001pt 0.25in; text-align: center; text-indent: 0.25in; line-height: 12.65pt;"
align="center"><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">several
characters and staging it in less than an hour. An undertaking as
fascinating
as it is difficult<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="CM7"
style="margin: 0in 6.35pt 0.0001pt 0.25in; text-align: center; text-indent: 0.25in; line-height: 12.65pt;"
align="center"><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">and
risky,
it should not be attempted except by qualified and competent people...”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="CM2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Andrea
Perrucci’s quote
raises the issue of the training of the Commedia dell’Arte performers.
While
the success of Commedia dell’Arte troupes throughout the centuries is
well
documented, the performers’ training practices often remain elusive.
Today,
various teaching approaches have been devised to recreate the Commedia
dell’Arte. This colloquium proposes to explore the transmission of
performance
knowledge from the Golden Age of the Commedia dell’Arte to current
practices
inspired by this tradition.<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="CM8"
style="margin-bottom: 12.75pt; page-break-before: always;"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Paper topics may include, but
are not
limited to: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="CM3" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">-The transmission of
performance knowledge in the Golden Age of
the Commedia dell’Arte; <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="CM3" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">-Deducing practices from
Commedia scenarios; <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="CM3" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">-Interpreting Commedia
dell’Arte treatises; <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="CM3" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">-Commedia dell’Arte training
trends in the 20<sup><span style="position: relative; top: -4.5pt;">th </span></sup>and
21<sup><span style="position: relative; top: -4.5pt;">st </span></sup>centuries;
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="CM4" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">-Specific training approaches:
Meyerhold, Giorgio Strehler and the
Piccolo Teatro of Milan, Dario <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="CM5" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Fo,
Jacques Lecoq, etc. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="CM4" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">-Commedia dell’Arte training in
various countries; <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="CM4" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">-Specific aspects of training:
rhythm and musicality,
improvisation, grammelot, masked <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="CM5" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">performance
techniques, dialects, etc.; <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="CM4" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">-Commedia dell’Arte training
and the other performing arts:
circus, opera, puppetry, etc.; <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="CM8"
style="margin: 0in 0in 12.75pt 0.25in; line-height: 12.8pt;"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">-Commedia
dell’Arte training and interculturalism. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="CM8"
style="margin: 0in 8.25pt 12.75pt 0in; line-height: 12.65pt;"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Dr.
<b>Robert Henke</b>, Professor of Comparative Literature and Drama,
Washington
University in St Louis is the confirmed key-note speaker of the
conference. He
is the author of <i>Performance and Literature in the Commedia
dell’Arte </i>(Cambridge
UP, 2002), a groundbreaking book that examines the interplay between
oral and
literary cultures in the Commedia dell'Arte. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default" style="margin-right: 13.85pt; line-height: 12.65pt;"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;">We are open to various presentation formats;
from
academic presentations with a historical focus to
lecture-demonstrations.
Presentations may be in English or French and should be 20 minutes in
length.
Proposals should include the following items: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="CM4" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">-Your name, title (student,
faculty, independent scholar), and
academic affiliation. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="CM4" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">-Your contact information
(particularly email) and a short bio. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="CM4" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">-The title and abstract for
your paper. Please limit abstracts to
250 words. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="CM8"
style="margin: 0in 0in 12.75pt 0.25in; line-height: 12.8pt;"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">-Any
special requests for your presentation. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="CM2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Please
direct queries
and proposals in Word format to the colloquium co-chairs: Guillaume
Bernardi
(Coordinator, Drama Studies Programme, Glendon College, York
University) and
Gabrielle Houle (PhD candidate, Graduate Centre for Study of Drama,
University
of Toronto), at the following address: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: windowtext;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="CM8" style="margin-bottom: 10.85pt; line-height: 12.65pt;"><b><span
style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="mailto:commedia2012@glendon.yorku.ca">commedia2012@glendon.yorku.ca</a>
</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="CM8"
style="margin: 0in 4.85pt 12.75pt 0in; line-height: 12.65pt;"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;">All
proposals must be received by October 31, 2011. Emails of acceptance
will be
sent by November 15, 2011. We intend to publish selected papers in a
peer-reviewed publication. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="CM6" style="margin-right: 8.25pt;"><b><span
style="font-size: 11pt;">In
parallel with the colloquium, Carlos Garcia Estevez, internationally
acclaimed
Commedia performer, educator and co-founder of Amsterdam based Teatro
Punto,
<</span></b><u><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a
href="http://www.teatropunto.net/"><b><span style="color: blue;">www.teatropunto.net</span></b></a></span></u><b><span
style="font-size: 11pt;">>, will be leading a Commedia dell'Arte
workshop at
the University College Drama Program (University of Toronto). For more
information on this workshop and to enroll in it, please contact the
workshop
organizer, Lester Trips Theatre, at <</span></b><u><span
style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="mailto:lestertrips.theatre@gmail.com"><b><span
style="color: blue;">lestertrips.theatre@gmail.com></span></b></a></span></u><b>.
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