Schedule

9:00-10:00 AM: Presenter Registration
Segal Theatre, first floor, CUNY Graduate Center (In-person)

 

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