Schedule
10:00-11:00 AM: Opening Session
Welcoming RemarkS
Jean Graham-Jones, Lucille Lortel Professor of THEATRE, CUNY Graduate Center
Keynote Address
DAVE HARRIS, Poet and playwright (Tambo & Bones, Exception to the Rule)
Segal Theatre, first floor, CUNY Graduate Center (In-person)
11:00-11:15 AM: Transition to First CONCURRENT Session
COFFEE available IN Room 3111 (“The Green Room”)
11:15 AM-1:15 PM: CONCURRENT SESSION 1
Contagious Performances: Embodiment, Affect, Virality
MODERATOR: Alexandra Rego
Room 3111 (“The Green Room”) (IN-PERSON)
- “Contagious Crowds: Music Festivals during the COVID-19 Pandemic”
Adam Koehler Brown (The New School for Social Research)
- “The Night Donald Trump Came to Town: Exploiting the Rupture of Shared U.S. Performance Traditions”
Stephen Cedars (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
- “The Show Goes on At Home: Performing TikTok Dances in the Wake of the Pandemic”
Bettine Josties (The New School for Social Research)
- “Eat Yourself Out”
Red Guhde (Sarah Lawrence College)
11:15 AM-1:15 PM: CONCURRENT SESSION 1
Ruptured Futures: State Power and Politics of Bodies
MODERATOR: Esther Neff
SEGAL THEATRE, FIRST FLOOR, CUNY GRADUATE CENTER / VIRTUAL AND IN-PERSON
- “Anti-Authoritarian Collectivities and the ‘Dissident’ Body”
Sanchita Sharma (University of California, Los Angeles)
- “Eva’s Wedding (1972): Socialist Agonism in the work of Alex Mlynarčík”
Sam Čermák (Queen Mary University of London)
- “The Loss of a Viable Future: Negative Dialectics in The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes by Back to Back Theatre (2019)”
Hannah Ray (University of New South Wales)
1:15-2:15 PM: LUNCH BREAK
ATTENDEES get lunch in the area
2:15-3:45 PM: CONCURRENT SESSION 2
Afterlives: Ephemerality, Archive, and Event
MODERATOR: Alyssa Hanley
Room 3111 (“The Green Room”) (IN-PERSON)
- “Choregraphing Death, Materializing the Afterlife”
Miranda Tuckett (The New School for Social Research)
- “Anti-Ephemerality, Ecology, and the Rise of Dance Film”
Samantha Schmeer (SUNY Buffalo)
- “The Sunset of Brilliant Brill: Red Cross Theatre of World War II”
Bridget Anderson (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
2:15-3:45 PM: CONCURRENT SESSION 2
Youth Theatre at the Margins: Coloniality, Language, Resurgence
MODERATOR: Stephen Cedars
SEGAL THEATRE, FIRST FLOOR, CUNY GRADUATE CENTER (IN-PERSON)
- “Feeling Our Way through the Fascist Fog: Catalan-Language Youth Theatre during the Final Days and Direct Aftermath of Francoism”
Riocárd Ó hOddail / Richard Huddleson (University College Dublin)
- “‘I Will Betray My Country’: Youth in the Devised Creation Process”
Ash Marinaccio (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
- “The Role of Welsh Language Youth Theatre in Exploring Rupture 1979-1997”
Hannah Sams (Swansea University)
3:45-4:00 PM: BREAK
COFFEE available IN Room 3111 (“The Green Room”)
4:00-6:00 PM: CONCURRENT SESSION 3
Infrastructural Rupture: Audience, Labor, and Care
MODERATOR: Jasmeene Francois
Room 3111 (“The Green Room”) (IN-PERSON)
- “Mask Up!: Covid-19 Labor in the Broadway Theatre, 2021-2022”
Christine Snyder (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
- “Ruptured Accessibility: The Disabled Experience of Immersive Theatre and Society Through the Pandemic”
Allie Marotta (Independent Scholar)
- “What Happened to Laughter?”
Joseph Richards (The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
- “Scaffolding Care: Covid, Zoetrope, and Safety in Performance”
Joanna Gurin (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
4:00-6:00 PM: CONCURRENT SESSION 3
Moving On: Recuperation, Praxis, Resistance
MODERATOR: Cen Liu
SEGAL THEATRE, FIRST FLOOR, CUNY GRADUATE CENTER (IN-PERSON)
- “Should Ballet be Abolished? Perreo as an Invitation for Somatic Decolonization in Dance Education and Performance”
Diego Martinez-Campos (University of California, Davis)
- “Time and the White Theater Institution”
Marc Jablonski (The New School for Social Research)
- “Grupo Choñik: Reconstituting the Indigenous Identity in Uruguay through Performance Practices”
Maria Litvan (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
- “Performance, Protest, Injury: What happened to the Gilets Jaunes Movement?”
Clara Beccaro-Lannes (The New School for Social Research)
6:15-7:00 PM: RECEPTION
REFRESHMENTS PROVIDED
Room 3111 (“The Green Room”)
7:00 PM: PERFORMANCE / READING
Excerpts from the Jersey Plays
SEGAL THEATRE, FIRST FLOOR, CUNY GRADUATE CENTER (IN-PERSON)
- “This Play is Native Made”
Lead artist: Opalanietet
- “I Went to Paterson”
Lead artist: Ash Marinaccio