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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
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mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">VIRTUAL LAUNCH INVITATION: Special Issue “Performance Training and Well-Being”</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
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<b>(</b></span><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
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and Performance Training </span></i></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;
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13.2)</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
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</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
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mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">June 28, 2022, 4:00 - 6:00 pm Central European Summer Time (GMT+2),
with keynote addresses by </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
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Barba </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
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and</b> <b>Matthieu Ricard </b>(</span><span style="color:black;mso-color-alt:
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
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the Université d’Artois in France, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
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sponsored by the <b>UBC-funded “Culture, Creativity, Health and Well-Being” Research Cluster</b> (</span><span style="color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext"><a href="https://eminencecluster.weebly.com/"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:
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in partnership with the <b>Canadian Association of Theatre Research</b> (</span><span style="color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext"><a href="https://catracrt.ca/"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
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<p style="margin:0cm;line-height:150%;background:white"><span style="color:
black;background:white">The Special Issue “Performance Training and Well-Being,” co-edited by
<b>Virginie Magnat</b> (</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;
background:white;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">University of British Columbia)</span><span style="color:black;background:white"> and
<b>Nathalie Gauthard</b> (Université d’Artois), features <b>thirty-eight contributors from eleven countries</b>, who
</span><span style="color:#2A2A2A;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">critically and reflexively investigate the cultural, social, political, ecological, and spiritual dimensions of performance training modalities that have the potential t</span><span style="color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">o
foster, enhance, restore, and sustain </span><span style="color:#2A2A2A;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold">the well-being of practitioners, audiences, and other/more-than-human participants and collaborators. We are especially honored to feature</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
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the work of Indigenous and non-Western artist-scholars</span><span style="color:black"> responding</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;color:black"> to the urgent need to acknowledge, value, and
engage with multiple ways of knowing so as to decenter, unsettle, and decolonize Eurocentric paradigms that still inform dominant knowledge systems.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-variant:small-caps;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
color:black">We are deeply grateful to
<b>Rena Mirecka, Eugenio Barba, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, Matthieu Ricard, Thomas DeFrantz, Jill Carter, Floyd Favel &
</b></span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:
"Times New Roman",serif">Sabina Sweta Sen Podstawska<span style="color:black">, Ang Gey Pin &
</span><a name="_Hlk95848546">Tay Kai Xin Ranice</a><span style="color:black">, </span>
Jessica Rajko et al., <span style="color:black">Sondra Fraleigh & Karen Barbour, Jean-Marie Pradier</span> et al.,
<span style="color:black">Roanna Mitchell, Bryony Onciul & Konstantinos Thomaidis et al., Christine Bellerose,
</span>Katie Lavers et al., <span style="color:black">Claire Fogal, </span>Jo Losh & Jeremy Neideck,
<span style="color:black">Marco Balbi Di Palma, and </span>Pauliina Hulkko & Riku Laakkonen</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:
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<span style="color:black">for their insightful, thought-provoking, uplifting, and energizing contributions.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
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