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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Candrama members, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The <b>MAY 1</b> deadline to submit a one-pager in response to our working group questions is approaching. If you are attending PSi in Hamburg and have a professional or scholarly interest in dramaturgy then we would love to hear your thoughts.
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<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">In the 2017 session in Hamburg, we focus on dramaturgical attention to interactions, affect, and forms of agency.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">There currently are dramaturgical and theoretical tools available to consider an overwhelmingly large amount of factors that inform agency and affect interaction. To offer a few examples these include:<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Understandings of human cognition that enable us to make choices about how we direct attention, facilitate sensory and embodied perception, draw on autobiographical memory, and generate new memories.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Notions of presence that consider implicit memory of skills and new learning active parts of the interactions between collaborators that generate performance.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Approaches that take into account the agency of environments, objects, and processes that are not human-centred and how they act on the embodied perception of human beings as they perform and respond to performance. <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></pre>
<pre><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">With this context in mind, we invite the PSi community to join us in responding to the following questions:<o:p></o:p></span></b></pre>
<pre style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span></b><![endif]><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">How do we act on this impossible-to-grasp-at-once overflow of factors when dramaturging or researching processes of creation, performance, and audience experience within and beyond the performing arts? <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre>
<pre style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span></b><![endif]><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Why do we look at some factors and not others and how do we choose positions? <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre>
<pre style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span></b><![endif]><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">How do our choices actively shape the attention, relationships, and actions we take part in fostering? <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre>
<pre style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span></b><![endif]><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">What are the ethical and political implications of such choices? <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre>
<pre style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span></b><![endif]><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Are we promoting or constituting new hierarchies or relationships between elements in the world? <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre>
<pre><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></pre>
<pre><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Please forward your response (max. 500 words) and a short bio (max. 100 words) to </span></b><a href="mailto:pil.hansen@ucalgary.ca"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">pil.hansen@ucalgary.ca</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black"> by May 1, 2017.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></b></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></pre>
<p class="MsoNormal">The objective of this working group session is to map positions, generate possible answers, and articulate new questions. All members of the Performance Studies community are welcome to contribute in writing, during the session, or both.
The working group is chaired by Pil Hansen and co-convened by Maaike Bleeker and Imanuel Schipper.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please take a look at the call on the PSI website for more information:
<a href="http://www.psi-web.org/2017/03/20/call-for-participation-psi-working-group-on-dramaturgy-and-performance-2017/">
http://www.psi-web.org/2017/03/20/call-for-participation-psi-working-group-on-dramaturgy-and-performance-2017/</a>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Warm regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Pil<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Pil Hansen, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Assistant Professor:
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Drama, Dance</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Graduate Program Director:
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Drama<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">School of Creative and Performing Arts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">University of Calgary<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Honorary Adjunct Professor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Graduate Program in Dance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">York University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dramaturg<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Vertical City / Kaeja d’Dance / Theatre Junction<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/Dance-Dramaturgy/?sf1=barcode&st1=9781137373212"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#0563C1">Dance Dramaturgy:
Modes of Agency. Awareness and Engagement</span></i></a></span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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