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

[Diana Manole]

Call for Participants - Laborarium Praxis Session

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 polemic generated by Robert Lepage’s “Kanata” and “SLAV”in 2018 has demonstrated the need for greater peripheral vision when creatingtheatre that addresses marginalized communities, but also the need for bothmental and real-life spaces in which discussions about cultural appropriationand artistic freedom can take place in secure, equal, and respectful ways. 

This praxis session will address some of the underlyingquestions:

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

·        How can we share our differencesand our cultures with respect?

·        How does the tension betweencultural appreciation vs. cultural appropriation affect professional relationshipsin the rehearsal hall? 

·        How can we avoid and/orchallenge tokenism 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?

 This 90-minute participatory workshop, whichincorporates demonstrations, acting exercises, somatic experiences, and designthinking strategies, intends to bring citizens (audience) and artists togetherto rethink how to address challenging issues in the arts, in particular thoserelated to inclusion. 

 The workshop will engageparticipants in the praxis of Postmarginality, whose main objective is toexplore how toinspire creation through differencesin the rehearsal hall. The session will conclude with agroup self-reflection and discussions on rethinking the contemporary theatre vocabulary to reflect increasinglyglobalized cities and regions in Canada and all over the world. 

 Please send abrief letter of intention and a short biography to Dr. Diana Manole at dianamanole at trentu.caand Peter Farbridge at ​peterfarbridge at moderntimesstage.com. 

 Submissions are due on or before 31 January 2019.        

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

 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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