CFP - FOOT 2011 - Performing Back: Contemporary Theoretical and Practical,,Implications for the Post-Colonial Stage

[Luella Massey]

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"Performing Back: Contemporary Theoretical and Practical

Implications for the Post-Colonial Stage"

*University of Toronto, February 4-6^th , 2011*

/Call for Papers /

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The 2011 Festival of Original Theatre conference sponsored by the 
Graduate Centre forStudy of Drama at the University of Toronto will 
focus its discussion and praxis entirely on the field of Post-Colonial 
theatre. The 2011 F.O.O.T. festival is designed to reflect the 
multi-cultural diversity of the city we inhabit, and to encourage an 
integrative approach between the theoretical and practical. The festival 
intends to promote and discuss contemporary trends in the emerging field 
of post-colonial performance studies as it relates to contentious issues 
ever-present in various cultural/multi-racial communities (such as race, 
marginality, migration, agency and hegemony).

           

As Helen Gilbert and Joanne Tompkins contend, "Post-colonial theatre's 
capacity to intervene publicly in social organisation and to critique 
political structures can be more extensive than the relatively isolated 
circumstances of written narrative and poetry." It is therefore 
imperative that work be done on the relatively unique nature of 
performativity in post-colonial theory; particularly since much of poco 
criticism routinely overlooks drama.

           

A variety of overarching themes may be explored within the context of 
this year's festival and its relation to post-colonial performance such 
as the use of dramatic language (vocal and visual as expressed through 
the performing body), the arrangement of theatrical space and time, and 
the manipulation of narrative and performative conventions of drama. 
Within this field, there will inevitably be a focus on the connections 
between form and content that a politicised approach to theatre always 
recognises.

 

Some specific areas of discussion may include (but aren't limited to):

    *  Re-appraising the Traditional (eg, Ritual, Carnival)
    * Contesting the Canon and Counter-Discursive Strategies
    * The Issue of Marginality and the Use of Theatrical Space
    * Feminist Post-Colonialist Ruptures
    * Ethnicity, Race and the Problem of Theatrical Identity
    * The Problematic Positioning of Language and Spoken Dialogue
    * Mimicry and 'Performing Back' to the Empire
    * Magic Realist Theatre and its Association with Post-Coloniality
    * Characterising Conflict and Colonial Subjectivities
    * Rendering the Post-Colonial Body and its Appearance on Stage
    * The Emergence of Globalization and the Post-Post-Colonial Theatre
    * "In-between Space" and Hybridity
    * Ethnographic Inquiries into Post-Colonial Performance
    * Transculturation and the Effects of Competing Multiple Theatrical
      Discourses

 

Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words by *September 10, 
2010* to Festival Director Dalbir Singh at foot.graddrama at utoronto.ca 
<mailto:foot.graddrama at utoronto.ca>. Include full name, email, 
affiliation status (student, faculty, independent scholar/artist) and a 
50-word bio. /See below for performance proposal requirements./


"Performing Back: Contemporary Theoretical and Practical

 Implications for the Post-Colonial Stage"

*University of Toronto, February 4-6^th , 2011*

/Call for Performances/

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This year, the 2011 Festival of Original Theatre is specifically 
interested in involving the Toronto theatre and performance community 
within this festival's activity. We are eager for this festival to 
reflect the diversity of the city, and the artists who live here.

 

Artists interested in submitting performances that broadly address the 
themes of marginality, race, migration, hegemony, agency, etc., are 
invited to submit their proposals to the 2011 F.O.O.T. Performance 
committee. We are looking for:

   1. Staged readings of new works by emerging and established
      playwrights (not exceeding 45 mins).
   2. Innovative Performance Projects.
   3. Workshop Productions
   4. Re-mounts of productions that directly address our themes.

 

/Artists whose work reflects a mandated concern with diversity are 
encouraged to apply./

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Submission Guidelines:

For artists interested in submission, please employ the following 
guidelines:

   1. A Project Description -- the type of performance you are planning
      for this project, and how participation in FOOT 2011 will benefit
      the development of this project (1 Page max).
   2. Artistic Statement -- What you want to accomplish with this
      project and its relationship to postcolonialism (ie, the themes of
      migration, hybridity, race, hegemony, etc.). We are not looking
      for sophisticated theoretical abstracts on this connection. We
      wish for the artists merely to display that their work relates to
      the larger themes of the conference, and contributes a
      perspective. If your work addresses a tangential theme that you
      still insist is relevant for consideration, please explain (1 page
      max).
   3. Script or Working Document. Companies/artists that are interested
      in the presentation of re-mounts, workshop productions, or staged
      readings are encouraged to submit a writing proposal. Artists who
      are interested in the showcasing of performance work should
      provide a template of what the performance will entail (5 page max).
   4. Bios of participants.

 

Please direct submissions as well as any questions and concerns to 
Festival Director, Dalbir Singh at foot.graddrama at utoronto.ca 
<mailto:foot.graddrama at utoronto.ca>.

Submissions for Performances are DUE *SEPTEMBER 20^th , 2010.*

 

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