[Candrama] CFP - Embodying and Reflecting upon Postmarginality on Stage and in Rehearsal Halls (Curated Panel)

[Diana Manole]

Callfor Papers: Laborarium Curated Panel

Embodyingand Reflecting upon Postmarginality on Stage and in Rehearsal Halls


 
CATR/ACTR Conference, University of British Colombia,Vancouver, June 3-6, 2019

Organizers:Peter Farbridge, Diana Manole and Soheil Parsa 

 The Postmarginal project, initiated by SoheilParsa, the co-artistic director of Modern Times Stage Company, has beenexploring for the last two years the creative potential of interweaving differentcultures, physical abilities, and gender identities in the rehearsal hallthrough a mixture of laboratory and symposium, now called Laborarium, organized in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver(forthcoming). According to co-chairs Natalie Alvarez and Ric Knowles, the firstPostmarginal Symposium started from “the simple assumption that diversity is aGood Thing [and] the very basis of the creative process.” The “post” in“postmarginal” aimed to move the discussion beyond theoretical debates, byexploring effective rehearsal strategies when working in culturally diverse groups.In 2018, Modern Times continued this project with Montreal’s symposium, Postmarginal: La différence au cœur de lapratique théâtrale, along with Subject and Creation acting workshop inToronto. The latter’s main objective was to explore how the artists’ diversecultural backgrounds and performance traditions could enrich Canada’s theatrevocabulary, challenging not only potential personal prejudices and/oressentialist tendencies, but also tokenism as a “skin-deep and ineffective, buttentatively celebratory, version of politically correct multiculturalism”(Manole, “MultilayeredDiversity as Creative Asset,” alt.theatre14.3/2018).


 
This panel invitesparticipantsto investigate postmarginality as atheoretical concept and praxis that aim to integrate differences in/through thecreative process and particularly in rehearsals. The papers may consider but are not limited to the following questions:

·        How can we become aware of ourhidden biases and/or prejudices? 

·        How can we share our differencesand our cultures with respect/self-respect?

·        How does the tension betweencultural appreciation vs. cultural appropriation affect professionalrelationships in the rehearsal hall? 

·        How can we avoid and/or challengetokenism and essentialist tendencies in Canadian theatre? 

·        What rehearsal strategies andapproaches would facilitate a more comfortable and more effective interweavingof different training systems, theatre traditions, abilities and cultures? 

·        Where would it lead us to thinkof culture as practice and of artistic identity instead of themajority-minorities sociopolitical construct?

 The panel welcomes a large range of methodologies,from critical analyses and interdisciplinary approaches to auto-ethnographicdiscussions of practitioners/academics.  

 Please send paper proposalsof no more than 250-300 words, accompanied by a 50-word abstractand a short biography to Dr. DianaManole at dianamanole at trentu.ca andPeter Farbridge at ​peterfarbridge at moderntimesstage.com. Proposals are due on or before 4 January 2019.   

 Please note thatall participants must join or renew their CATRmemberships upon acceptance tothe session.     

 Diana Manole, PhD Lecturer, Trent University & McMaster UniversityWriter, Translator, Dramaturg   “ResignifyingMultilingualism in Canadian Accented Theatre.” Performing Exile: ForeignBodies. Ed. Judith Rudakoff. Bristol,UK: Intellect Books, 2017. Print. Open Access at http://oapen.org/search?identifier=645370
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