LAST CALL CFP Scenography Working Group IFTR

[David Vivian]

The IFTR World Congress: Cultures of Modernity
July 26th-31st 2010
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Munich

LAST CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE IFTR SCENOGRAPHY WORKING GROUP

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE SWG WILL CONTINUE TO RECEIVE ABSTRACTS 
until February 20, 2010, with the intention of completing 
the program for February 27. You have a few days left to 
propose to participate in what promises to be a very 
satisfying program.  Participation in Working Group sessions
is an excellent introduction to the IFTR/FIRT

The theme of the SWGs panels will be: 
 
STAGE SPACES AND MODERNITY, and are linked to the conference 
theme.  In particular, proposals in the following fields will 
be welcomed:

The relationship between the dramatic text and theatrical 
space as a theatrical signifier (for example, Cocteau, 
Beckett, Pirandello)

Relationship between drama and set design

Set design, costume, actor and space (for example, Grotowski,
Kantor)

Biomechanics, constructivism and scenography

New stage technologies as signifying systems

The inter-relationship of costume design and the body 
in modernist design (such as Schlemmer, Futurist design, 
Dalcroze-Appia collaboration)

The scenographer as theorist of modernity (such as Craig, 
Svoboda, Witkacy, Marinetti, Prampolini)

Avant-garde modernists (Bauhaus, Dadaism, Constuctivism, 
Futurism, etc.)

Reviewing modernity in a postmodern and postdramatic epoch

There will be an open session for those who wish to present 
work unaligned to the conference theme.

Abstracts (<250 words) should be submitted by email in English 
or French by February 20, 2010, to dvivian at brocku.ca

Official languages are English and French.  

the 2010 SWG conference chairs:
Professor David Vivian (Brock University, Canada): 
dvivian at brocku.ca
Dr. Dominika Larionow (University Lodz, Poland):
dominikalarionow at autograf.pl

more information about the conference may be found here:
www.iftr2010.theaterwissenschaft.uni-muenchen.de/iftr2010