CFP: CATR Performing Girlhoods

[Heather Fitzsimmons Frey]

Looking forward to Congress and CATR already!  Please share this CFP with
anyone you think might be interested in this panel.

Performing Girlhoods and Girlhood Performances

A Curated Panel proposed by Heather Fitzsimmons Frey (University of
Toronto) and Marlis Schweitzer (York University)



Girlhood performances are profoundly significant for communities: they are
the focus of moral panics, fairy tale heroines, schoolyard behaviours, not
to mention staged dramas. Catherine Driscoll writes that the way people see
girls is a barometer for how they see the future, but also how they
understand their present and their past.  Girl communities however, can
operate in ways that support or counter the larger community in which they
exist.  Ideas about girls colour the way that artists make work; ways
artistic work is received and consumed, and ways that girls choose to
perform their lives on a daily basis. This panel will present research
concerning how culturally and socially constructed ideas about girls and
girl communities influence, shape, and inform our research, research
agendas, and ways our research is received; it is also interested in how
the way we understand girlhood performances is connected to how we
understand community.



This seminar invites participants to share ways that their own research
concerning performing girlhoods and girlhood performances, in contemporary
or historical contexts, in Canada or elsewhere, relates to the theme of
community.  Topics may include (but are not limited to):

-       Young female artists in the performance industry

-       Girl cliques, girl clubs, and girl spaces

-       Girl communities and girlhood cultural production,

-       creating and staging girl characters,

-       performing girlhood identities

-       trans, bi, queer and/or virtual girls’ communities

-       girl focused events: girls’ sports, dance, beauty contests

-       applied theatre projects or qualitative research with girls

-       girlhood diaries



In the form of a 20 minute paper we invite participants to discuss their
research regarding intersections between girlhood, performance and
communities.



Interested participants are asked to submit a 250 – 300 word abstract of
their proposed paper topic and a short bio to: Heather Fitzsimmons Frey (
heatherff at gmail.com) and Marlis Schweitzer (schweit at yorku.ca) by January
15, 2016. The area of research is not restricted to a particular time or
place.  Explorations of the challenges related to girlhood and any area of
dance, drama, theatre and performance studies, whether amateur or
professional, are welcome.





-- 
Heather Fitzsimmons Frey, PhD

Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Toronto

NEW BOOK: *THEATRE AND LEARNING *(edited by Art Babayants and Heather
Fitzsimmons Frey) http://www.cambridgescholars.com/theatre-and-learning
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