[Candrama] CFP. The S-Word: STAND IN PLACE / STANISLAVSKI AND PLACE, Western Australia, 4-6 APRIL 2024

[Paul Fryer]

*The S-Word: STAND IN PLACE / STANISLAVSKY AND PLACE*

*4-6 APRIL 2024*

*WAAPA, EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY*

*PERTH/BOORLOO, WESTERN AUSTRALIA*

Stanislavsky was clear that the actor must /take their place/ in the 
theatre. His writings are full of injunctions to reflexively situate 
oneself with respect to the stage, set, actors, objectives, and so on. 
Echoing Stanislavski’s conceptual and physical praxis, modernist 
performance makers such as Meyerhold and Schlemmer went on to postulate 
that the /actor brought their own sense of place onto the stage/, 
shaping the performance space and enabling performers to align 
themselves, their attention, and their movements to a range of axial 
placements and combinations, as in Laban’s kinesphere. Later theatre 
makers as varied as Declan Donnellan and Suzuki Tadashi have suggested 
that the theatre is a /place of life-and-death struggle/, a site where a 
battle for survival is conducted by both characters and the actors 
themselves.

The act of the performer /taking their place/ in their body in the 
theatre developed in parallel to the importance of ‘place’ in the world 
of the playwright and in the places represented on stage. Stanislavski’s 
not always happy peer, Anton Chekhov, has been described as the “first 
/environmental playwright/,” with scripts such as /Uncle Vanya/ (1898) 
and /The Cherry Orchard/ (1904) being concerned with the places wherein 
they are set, with the environmental and socio-political conditions 
and//histories etched across their landscapes. Interestingly, there is a 
rich tradition of Australian plays which are strongly connected to 
place, /No Sugar/ (Jack Davis, 1985), /Cloudstreet /(Nick Enright and 
Justin Monjo, 1998, after the novel by Tim Winton), /When the Rain Stops 
Falling/ (Andrew Bovell, 2008), and more recently, /City of Gold /(Meyne 
Wyatt, 2019).

For the forthcoming /Stanislavsky and Place/ symposium, we call for 
submissions for academic papers, artist presentations, and panels, which 
consider the /places of theatre arising from or existing alongside 
Stanislavskian performance and acting praxis./ We invite you to Stand in 
Place with us, on Whadjuk Noongar Boodja/Country, here at the Western 
Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University, 
Perth/Boorloo, and interact with this place, as you tell us about your 
places.

Papers will be 20 minutes in length, workshop/artistic presentations 40 
minutes and panels a combined total of 60 minutes in length.

Selected papers will be considered for publication in our journal, 
/Stanislavski Studies, /and material generated by this event will form 
the basis of a title in the book series, /Stanislavsky And../. 
(published by Routledge, Taylor & Francis).

Topic areas could include (but are not limited to):

 1. Performance and theatre in relation to ideas of being in place and
    being out of place
 2. Stanislavskian performance in /your /place (what changes with/in it?)
 3. Placemaking and theatre making
 4. Futures of Eco dramaturgy and theatre form
 5. Decolonisation strategies and First Nation knowledge of place and
    performance
 6. Beyond Stanislavski, extending his ideas in concepts of place/space
 7. Training in relation to ideas of place including but not limited to
    intercultural/transcultural form and practice
 8. Site specific and place specific performance modes in relationship
    to realism, Stanislavsky and actor and audience relationship
 9. Movement, body weather and other performance modalities and training
    methodologies

We are very excited to announce that *Professor Jonathan Pitches* from 
the University of Leeds (UK) will be a keynote speaker presenting on 
/mountainous opportunities: interrogating place in ritual, theatre, and 
performance training. /More announcements on additional keynote 
presenters to follow

Please send an abstract of no more than 250 words, with presentation 
type, to s-word2024 at ecu.edu.au <mailto:s-word2024 at ecu.edu.au>by *15^th 
September, 2023*.

Notification of acceptance will be in late October.

*Early bird registration will be in December 2023 and follow up 
registration in January 2024*.

All enquiries to Renee Newman r.newman at ecu.edu.au 
<mailto:r.newman at ecu.edu.au>or Jonathan W Marshall 
jonathan.marshall at ecu.edu.au <mailto:jonathan.marshall at ecu.edu.au>

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