FOOT 2005 - bodies in space]

[Luella Massey]

>> Please forward
>>
>>                  Festival of Original Theatre (FOOT)
>>                 Performances – Workshops - Conference
>>                        February 10 - 13, 2005
>>                         University of Toronto
>>                        bodies     in     space
>>
>> For four days in February, the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama,
>> University of Toronto, hosts an interdisciplinary gathering of
>> academics and practitioners.  Our space welcomes your body in a
>> Festival promising to explore the theme “bodies in space” through
>> interactive workshops, performances, papers plus demonstrations
>> blurring the boundaries between these three categories.
>> •         Workshops in authentic Shakespearean dance or virtual
>> theatre, asking,
>>            puppetry, voice or aerial movement, stage combat
>> •         Papers concerning radio, visual art, aerial theatre,
>> virtual drama
>> •         Performances of dance, puppetry, clown, fighting, poetry,
>> meditation
>>
>> Re-examine the body in our space.  The Festival is free of charge
>> during the day for keynotes, workshops and conference papers.  Each
>> of the two evenings of performances is $10($8 students/seniors), or
>> a two night package is $15($10 students/seniors).
>>
>> Confirmed Keynote speakers:
>> Brian Macdonald has had a long and distinguished career as a
>> choreographer and director in classical and contemporary ballet,
>> opera, musical theatre, film, and television. An original member of
>> the National Ballet of Canada, he has been artistic director of the
>> Royal Swedish Ballet, the Harkness Ballet of New York, the Batsheva
>> Company of Israel, and Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, and has mounted
>> new productions for companies as diverse as the Stratford Festival,
>> Royal Winnipeg Ballet, New York City Opera, Edinburgh Festival,
>> Kennedy Centre, La Scala, Sydney Opera House, and Sweden’s
>> Gothenburg Ballet.   A Companion of the Order of Canada, he is
>> inaugural recipient of the Walter Carsen Prize for his lifetime
>> contribution to the arts in Canada.
>>
>> David Powell and Ann Powell co-founded Puppetmongers Theatre in
>> 1974. Since then, they have created ten new Canadian plays, eight of
>> which are in repertoire, and established a Toronto Christmas
>> Tradition over the past fourteen winter holidays at the Tarragon
>> Theatre. They have made seven European tours, plus two tours to
>> Iran, as well as performing all over Canada and the United States.
>> David is also a founder of the Toronto School of Puppetry, which has
>> drawn adult students from across Canada, the USA and around the
>> world to its seasonal workshops since 1996.
>>
>> Bruce Barton teaches playwriting and dramaturgy at the University of
>> Toronto. Book publications include Imagination in Transition:
>> Mamet’s Move to Film and Marigraph (an anthology of Maritimes
>> drama).  Current research includes dramaturgy in devised theatre and
>> the relationship between the body and technology in contemporary
>> performance.  He is also a national award-winning playwright.
>>
>> Festival of Original Theatre (FOOT)      February 10-13, 2005
>> Robert Gill Theatre   Box Office:  978-7986
>> 214 College St., 3rd floor  e-mail:  dcfoot2005 at yahoo.ca
>> TORONTO ON  M5T 2Z9  website:  http://gradrama.sa.utoronto.ca/foot
>>
>> Contact: Lydia Wilkinson 416-978-7986
>>
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