CATR 2013 - ROUNDTABLE CFP - University Student Productions: Between Teaching Tools and Artistic Creations

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*Apologies for Cross-Posting*

 

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS – CATR ROUNDTABLE - University of Victoria,
2013





University Student Productions:
Between Teaching Tools and Artistic Creations

Organizers: Moira Day and Diana Manole

 

The Canadian Association for Theatre Research (CATR/ACRT) holds a conference each year that
brings together theatre scholars, educators, professionals, and students from
around the world. The 2013 CATR conference will take place at the University of Victoria from 1 June – 4 June, 2013. 
Honouring the 2013 conference theme,
drama/theatre/ performance “at the edge” of innovative scholarship and
practice, this roundtable considers both our current practice and possible new
directions in response to Patrice Pavis’s plea to “revamp” university student
productions into “artistic research project(s)” (429) that are properly valued
as both teaching/research activity and theatre production. 

 

The discussions will facilitate a
lively, provocative exploration of the challenges involving university student
productions, including:



•       ways to balance and assess the production’s
artistic and educational values for both the students involved in the show and
the student audiences;

•       strategies to integrate the production into
departmental and university programming, and community outreach;

•       differences between working in large urban
centres and in smaller, more isolated communities;

•       specific challenges of generating productions
for differing streams within theatre departments/programs;

•       steering students through the transition from
the academic to the professional world;

•       strategies for mounting productions within
departments/programs external to performing arts programs/departments;

•       specific challenges of directing/working on a
university as opposed to a professional or amateur production.



Theatre practitioners and scholar/practitioners are invited to submit a
300-500-word statement in two parts. The first will focus on a particular production
in which they were directly involved as a teacher, artist, or student, and
address a specific question or challenge that arose from it. The session will
begin with each participant summarizing that issue to facilitate discussion.
The second part will describe a personal solution to that specific problem or
query, and become part of a collective “How to…?” file circulated in advance
among the participants, then shared with the audience as a hand-out. The first
hour of the roundtable will consist of discussions among participants;
discussion will open to the audience in the last 30 minutes.

 

Please send proposals to Moira Day
(moira.day at usask.ca)
and Diana Manole (dianamanole at trentu.ca)
by Jan.14, 2013.

 

NB: All accepted presenters and participants are required to
join CATR. For more information on CATR and to join or renew your membership
please visit http://www.catr-acrt.ca

 

Diana
Manole, PhD

Assistant
Professor, Cultural Studies

Trent University,
Canada

1-705-748-1011 #6113

dianamanole at trentu.ca
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