CFP: Festival of Original Theatre 2010: Performing Space and Space in Performance

[Luella Massey]

*The Festival of Original Theatre 2010:*

*Performing Space and Space in Performance*

January 21-23, 2010

University of Toronto

 

For as long as there has been theatre, there has been a space that 
accompanies it; however, any significant contribution to the discussion 
of the powers and potentials of the space, place, and geography of the 
theatre have only appeared in recent years. The long-standing 
significance awarded to history and time resigned any discussion of 
space to a secondary role. It has only been in recent years that this 
“intellectual curse”
that accompanies a study of geography has been lifted and replaced with 
serious and diverse discussions of space and geography becoming more 
prevalent in theatre and performance scholarship.

Taking its cues from the recent scholarship on space, geography, and 
landscape, the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama at the University of 
Toronto is now inviting graduate students to submit abstracts for papers 
and performance proposals for its annual conference the /*Festival of 
Original Theatre (F.O.O.T)*/ to be held January 21-23, 2010. /F.O.O.T/ 
seeks papers or performances proposals from all disciplines that explore
or discuss the scenographic, the geographic, and/or the spacial and its 
relationship to theatre, performance, and performativity. Some topics 
may include:

• Site specific theatre(s)
• Performances in different locations/contexts,
• Theatre architecture,
• The function/effect of space, location, geography on 
character/actor/identity,
• Cyber-theatre, virtuality, and performance,
• The scenographer’s place in designing space; the different ways the 
designer can create “space,”
• Staging the globe: different places in one space,
• Borders, borderlands, and liminality in theatre/performance,
• Relationship between location and identity/nationality,
• Performing the city, country, nation, or multi-geographic locations,
• Staging home, homeland, homelessness, exile, and/or displacement,
• Staging theatre/performance in difficult locations,
• Discourse theory, space, and the performing body,
• The collision between geography and history in performance.

 

Please send abstracts (300 words) and a brief bio (100 words), along 
with any questions to this year’s Artistic Director at:
 foot.graddrama at utoronto.ca <mailto:foot.graddrama at utoronto.ca> by 
October 16, 2009.

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