YorkU grad program

[Marlis Schweitzer]

Dear CanDrama Colleagues,

Please let your students know about these opportunities for graduate 
study:**

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*York**University**M.A. and PhD in Theatre Studies*

*_Application deadline_: January 15, 2012*

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Brochure is attached--please print and post, or distribute via email.

The website for the program is: http://www.yorku.ca/gradthst/phd.html

*_Program description_:*

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York University's Department of Theatre offers a boutique-style graduate 
program in Theatre Studies. Internationally recognized faculty lead 
advanced seminars and mentor student research in theatre and performance 
studies in one of the English-speaking world's most active cities for 
theatre and the performing arts. We accept a limited number of students 
each year to ensure small classes and close working relationships with 
faculty.

In keeping with York's proud history as a progressive, politically 
engaged university, our program embraces students who are interested in 
exploring the intersections of theatre, performance, and cultural 
politics, both past and present, within Canada and throughout the world. 
Program specializations include Canadian, First Nations and African 
theatre; postcolonial theatre; performance studies; gender and sexuality 
studies; theatre and health; and theatre and social change.Recent 
courses include: Issues in Canadian Theatre, Theatre Laboratory, 
Theatricality and Anti-theatricality, Performance and Culture, Cultural 
Production Workshop: Performance-Based Practice, Performing Arts and the 
City, Staging the Body in Popular Culture, Post-Colonial Perspectives on 
Performance, and Performance Art: Politics and Aesthetics.

*_Student opportunities_:*

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During their time at York, students have the opportunity to work with a 
professional organization as part of an internship program requirement. 
Many of these placements lead to continuing work with those companies 
and connect students to local, national, and international theatre 
communities. Internships have included work with: Lorraine Kimsa Theatre 
for Young Audiences, 2boys.tv, Modern Times Theatre Company, Obsidian 
Theatre Company, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Mixed Company Theatre, 
the Shaw Festival (Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON), the Canada Council, the 
Hudson's Bay Company, La Pocha Nostra (US), Sandglass Theatre (US), the 
Clod Ensemble (UK), and numerous others.

Students also have opportunities to work closely (for course credit) 
with leading artists from around the world in intensive workshop 
environments. Recent guest artists include Johanna Schall, La Pocha 
Nostra, Adrian Howells, Femi Osofisan,//and the Workcenter of Jerzy 
Grotowski and Thomas Richards. These workshops are part of 
performance-based research classes, offered each year, which encourage 
students to explore intersections of theory and practice.

Please direct questions to gradthea at yorku.ca <mailto:gradthea at yorku.ca>.

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