Concurrent Sessions 8/3 - Association for Theatre in Higher Education

Concurrent Sessions
Saturday, August 2, 2008 (cont.)
5:45 PM - 8:00 PM
STRP Dinner
Focus Group:................15 (STRP) Senior Theatre Research and Performance
Room:...........................Off-Site
Chair:............................Steven Pennell, University of Rhode Island
Meet, greet, relax, get acquainted and explore new idea while breaking bread. Sign up and meet in the lobby, head to a modestly
priced local restaurant.
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Saturday Night Double Bill Performance
Focus Group:................38 (CC) Conference Committee
Room:...........................Imperial Ballroom - 2nd Floor (Hyatt)
Dijana Milosevic: “Telo koje peva, glas koji plese” (Singing Body, Dancing Voice)
Helen Raffo: “Sounds of Desire: Performance Excerpts”
9:00 PM - 11:00 PM
TLA Hospitality Get-Together
Focus Group:................19 (TLA) Theatre as a Liberal Art
Room:...........................Grays Peak - 2nd Floor (HCC)
Chair:............................Mark Lococo, Loyola University
Session Coordinator:....Jay Sierszyn
Sunday, August 3, 2008
7:15 AM - 7:45 AM
ATME Warm-Up Session
Focus Group:................4 (ATME) Association for Theatre Movement Educators
Room:...........................Grand Ballroom Foyer - 2nd Floor (Hyatt)
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Acting Program Membership Meeting
Focus Group:................1 (AP) Acting Progam
Room:...........................Pikes Peak - 2nd Floor (HCC)
Session Coordinator:....Mark Cryer, Hamilton University
ATME Membership Meeting
Focus Group:................4 (ATME) Association for Theatre Movement Educators
Room:...........................Mt. Wilson – 3rd Floor (Hyatt)
Dramaturgy Membership Meeting
Focus Group:................7 (DR) Dramaturgy
Room:...........................Maroon Peak – 2nd Floor (Haytt)
Session Coordinator:....D.J. Hopkins, San Diego State University
Theatre History Membership Meeting
Focus Group:................18 (TH) Theatre and History
Room:...........................Mt. Oxford – 3rd Floor (Hyatt)
Session Coordinator:....Rick Jones, Stephen F. Austin State University
Two Year College Program Membership Meeting
Focus Group:................21 (TYCP) Two-Year College Program
Room:...........................Blanca Peak - 2nd Floor (Hyatt)
Session Coordinator:....Barbara Marder, Anne Arundel Community College
VASTA Membership Meeting
Focus Group:................22 (VASTA) Voice and Speech Trainers Association
Room:...........................Mt. Yale - 3rd Floor (Hyatt)
Session Coordinator:....Beth McGee, Case Western Reserve University
STRP Membership Meeting
Focus Group:................15 (STRP) Senior Theatre Research and Performance
Room:...........................Mt. Princeton - 3rd Floor (Hyatt)
Chair:............................Steven Pennell, University of Rhode Island
Meeting of Senior Theatre Research and Performance, electing officers, discussing plans, brainstorming session proposals for
ATHE Conference 2009, sharing ideas and needs in the field.
July 31- August 3, 2008
Grand Hyatt Denver
Denver, CO
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Difficult Dialogues: Theatre
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Concurrent Sessions
Sunday, August 3, 2008 (cont.)
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
New Play Development Workshop Part IV: Showcase of New Plays
Focus Group:................12 (PACT) Playwrights and Creative Team
Room:...........................Mt Sopris - Lobby (Hyatt)
Co-Coordinators:..........Char Nelson, Brigham Young University
Judith Royer, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles
Jeffrey Ullom, Vanderbilt University
Showcase performance and public response to the new plays selected for ATHE’s Nineteenth Annual New Play Development
Workshop program.
9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
2009 Conference Planner’s Meeting #2
Focus Group:................38 (CC) Conference Committee
Room:...........................Mt. Yale - 3rd Floor (Hyatt)
Session Coordinator:....Harvey Young, Northwestern University
Advocacy: Theatre Education Reform Subcommittee Business Meeting
Focus Group:................36 (ADV) Advocacy Committee
Room:...........................Blanca Peak - 2nd Floor (Hyatt)
Session Coordinator:....Henry Bial, University of Kansas
Co-Chairs:....................Gail Medford, BTN; Advocacy, Theatre Education Reform
Gale Sheaffer, Advocacy, Theatre Education Reform Subcommittee
Organizational meeting for those interested in the Advocacy Committee’s efforts on behalf of K-12 Theatre Education.
Being Apart, Acting Together: Difficult Dialogues at the Intersections of Identities
Focus Group:................40 (MD) Multidisciplinary Focus; 10 (LGBT) Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered,
(LFG) Latina/o Focus Group, 23 (WTP) Women and Theatre Program
Room:...........................Pikes Peak - 2nd Floor (HCC)
Chair.............................John Fletcher, Louisiana State University
Participants:.................Christopher Krejci, Louisiana State University
Jennifer Popple, University of Colorado--Boulder
Jon Rossini, University of California, Davis
Carrie Sandahl, Florida State University
Alan Sikes, Hunter College, City University of New York
Join us for a multi-disciplinary discussion of how movements based on sexuality, race, gender, nation, and disability can meet and
act together. What are the possibilities? What are the pitfalls?
Beyond “We Loved It” / “We Hated It”: Techniques for Improvising Dynamic Post-Production Dialog with Audiences
Focus Group:................7 (DR) Dramaturgy
Room:...........................Maroon Peak - 2nd Floor (Hyatt)
Session Coordinator:....Ben Gunter, Florida State University / Bainbridge College
Chair:............................Jordan Schildcrout, Ohio University
Participants:.................Louise Edwards, Northwestern University
Leah Lowe, Connecticut College
Bryan Moore, Concordia University
Respondent:.................Maria Beach, Free-Lance Dramaturg
Six dramaturgs draw on a wide range of raw experiences, critical writings, reception theories, and improvisational games to testdrive strategies for stimulating high-quality “talkbacks” with audiences (including audiences at ATHE).
Citing Black, Singing Mad: The Performance of Abjection in Judy Garland, Lauryn Hill and Amy Winehouse
Focus Group:................5 (BTA) Black Theatre Association
Room:...........................Mt. Princeton - 3rd Floor (Hyatt)
Session Coordinator:....Christina Knight, Harvard African American Studies
Through a Glass Darkly: Images of Death, Blackness, and Soul in Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black
Co-Coordinator:...........Nia Witherspoon, Stanford Drama
(For)Get Happy and Get Black; Judy Garland, “The Bitch Pack,” and Surrogation in Black Performance
Participant:...................La Marr Bruce, Yale University
Looking for Lauryn: Madness, Genius, and the Black Prophetess
This panel seeks to explore how blackness permeates American popular culture, specifically by investigating the circular and
citational practices that link contemporary performers to performances in the past. We want to investigate how, for these artists,
blackness becomes a powerful metaphor for insanity or death, setting the stage for narratives of despair or ascendancy.
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Concurrent Sessions
Sunday, August 3, 2008 (cont.)
9:45 AM - 11:15 AM (cont.)
Engaging Dialogue: Voices of Praxis
Focus Group:................17 (TC) Theory and Criticism
Room:...........................Longs Peak - 2nd Floor (HCC)
Session Coordinator:....Chase Bringardner, University of Texas at Austin
Participants:.................Gibson Cima, The University of Washington
Spitting in a Black Man’s Face: Unproductive Dialogues in Athol Fugard’s “Master Harold” . . . and the boys
Leigh Clemons, Louisiana State University
Praxis and the Engagement of Nationality in Serbian Alternative Theatre
Carol Fisher, University of California, Santa Barbara
Theatre and Science: Theoretical & Critical Voices
Jacob Juntunen, University of Illinois, Chicago
Imprisoned by Realism: How Dramatic Form Functions to Maintain or Destabalize the inside/Outside Prison Binary
Respondent:.................Sharon Green, Davidson College
In this panel, part of the “Engaging Dialogue” series, participants engage and dissect the challenging and sometimes unproductive dialogues that occur between theory and practice.
Focus Group Rep Boot Camp
Focus Group:................39 (MM) Membership and Marketing
Room:...........................Mt. Harvard - 3rd Floor (Hyatt)
Session Coordinator:....Barbara Parisi, Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus
A MUST for all current and in-coming focus group representatives (and those who might be interested in leadership down the road). Learn
the ins and outs and the practical information about leading your focus group.
Latina Masculinities: Cross-Gender Performances in Contemporary Latina Theater
Focus Group:................24 (LFG) Latina/o Focus Group
Room:...........................La Plata Peak - 37th Floor (Pinnacle Club)
Session Coordinator:....Coya Paz, Northwestern University
Be A Man? Cross -Gender Ethnographic Performance in Teatro Luna’s MACHOS
Participant:...................Raquel Guitierrez, Center for Feminist Research, University of Southern
Old School Butchographies: An ethnographic wassup
Tamara Roberts, Northwestern University
A Boy Like That: Queer Vocalizations and Latina Masculinities
Using performance theory, ethnography, and critical race theory, this panel examines the role of theatrical performance in critiquing
contemporary ideologies of manhood and masculinity, focusing particular attention on the relationship between gender, race, and national
identities.
Performing the Chinese City: Theatrical Visions of Urbanity and Dystopia
Focus Group:................3 (AAP) Association for Asian Performance
Room:...........................Castle Peak - 37th Floor (Pinnacle Club)
Chair:............................Linda Lau, Tufts University
The Present Future: The Chinese Dystopic Factory in Mallmark, The Musical
Participants:.................Siyuan Liu, University of Pittsburg
Performing the Semi-Colonial Chinese City-- Tianjin People’s Art Theatre’s Huaju Play Wangtianhou
Jiayun Zhuang, University of California, Los Angeles
Mapping and Drawing A Heard Beijing:A Social and Epistemic Practice to Perform the City
Respondent:.................Ping Fu, Towson University
The Chinese city is inhabited by denizens whose lives and passions are continually on display; it is an imagined realm of possibility and
adventure that is best articulated through performance.
*LINKS* Playback Improvisation in Macro/Micro Communities: Engaging in Difficult Dialogues Through Creativity, Spontaneity, and
Personal Stories.
Focus Group:................16 (TASC) Theatre and Social Change
Room:...........................Mt. Elbert - 2nd Floor (HCC)
Session Coordinator:....Anne-Liese Juge Fox, NOLA Playback Theatre, L.S. U. Dept. of Theatre
Participant:...................Leilani Rashida Henry, National Ensemble Playback Theatre
NOLA Playback Theatre (New Orleans) and National Ensemble Playback Theatre (Denver) offer a demonstration and skills workshop of
Playback Improvisation followed by discussion of application of Playback to community processes.
Professional Development Committee Meeting
Focus Group:................26 (PDC) Professional Development Committee
Room:...........................Mt. Wilson - 3rd Floor (Hyatt)
Session Coordinator:....Gail Humphries Mardirosian, American University
July 31- August 3, 2008
Grand Hyatt Denver
Denver, CO
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ATHE’s 22nd Conference:
Difficult Dialogues: Theatre
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Concurrent Sessions
Sunday, August 3, 2008 (cont.)
9:45 AM - 11:15 AM (cont.)
Professional Theatres on University Campus. A Dialogue on the professional and academic partnership of resident theatre companies with educational host institutions.
Focus Group:................8 (DP) Directing Program
Room:...........................Mt. Evans A - 2nd Floor (HCC)
Chair.............................R. Michael Gros, Kansas State University (Former Artistic Director)
Participants:.................Peter Ellenstein, William Inge Theatre Festival, Kansas City Repertory Theatre
William Prenevost, Kansas City Reparatory Theatre
Steven Rothman, Cal State Los Angeles (Former Artistic Director)
Art and Education - a partnership made in ??? Exploring the challenges and benefits of hosting a professional theatre company on a
university campus.
Providence vs. Progress: The Difficult Dialogues of Religion and Science
Focus Group:................40 (MD) Multidisciplinary Focus; 14 (RT) Religion and Theatre,
13 (PS) Performance Studies 18 (TH) Theatre and History
Room:...........................Mt. Evans B- 2nd Floor (HCC)
A Playwright of Pragmatism: The Unity of Science and Religion in Susan Glaspell’s Plays
Session Coordinator:....Kate McConnell, Colgate University
The Modern Morality Play: Biological Figuration and Viewing the Invisible
Participants:.................Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren, University of Washington, Bothell
Regenerating Body Maps: Crossing Lines between Religion and Science
Kelly Rafferty, University of California, Berkeley
Critical Art Ensemble’s Cult of the New Eve: Biblical Metaphor and the Public Understanding of Science
Michael Winetsky, CUNY
An examination of how theater and performance investigate and challenge the contentious
relationship between religion and science.
*LINKS* Speaking to Power through Improvisational Performance
Focus Group:................18 (TH) Theatre and History
Room:...........................Mt. Oxford - 3rd Floor (Hyatt)
Chair:............................Kaarin JohnstonCollege of Saint Benedict
Session Coordinator:....Paulette Marty, Appalachian State University
George Gascoigne’s Improvisational Feats for the Elizabethan Earl of Leicester
Participants: ................Claudia Wilsch Case, Lehman College/CUNY
Nurturing Internal Critique: The Theatre Guild and the Garrick Gaieties
Sarah Meyers, University of Texas, Austin
The Trouble with Tears: Girls’ Autobiographical Performance and the Politics of Empowerment
In various eras, performers have used theatre to communicate with powerful audience members. This panel explores how improvisational theatre techniques can facilitate such dialogues, even when artistic self-expression is risky.
The Questioning Spirit in Cyberspace: Digital Dramaturgy
Focus Group:................25 (ETC) Electronic Technology Committee
Room:...........................Mt. Columbia - 3rd Floor (Hyatt)
Co-Chairs:....................D.J. Hopkins, San Diego State University
Judith Sebesta, University of Missouri-Columbia
Participants:.................Mallory Catlett, Freelance Director
Karen Jean Martinson, University of Minnesota
Nadja Masura, Independent Scholar
Bob Nelson, University of Utah
In this roundtable discussion, dramaturgs explore the use of new technologies in their work, from digital video and other imaging to blogs
to production websites.
9:45 AM - 1:00 PM
Paid Workshop: Devising Civic Theatre: Performance, Collaboration, Social Practice & Dialogue
Focus Group:................38 (CC) Conference Committee
Room:...........................Sunlight Peak – 37th Floor (Pinnacle Club)
Chair:............................ Michael Rohd
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Concurrent Sessions
Sunday, August 3, 2008 (cont.)
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
“Hey, Look Me Over” -- Musical Theatre Historiography/Theory: State of the Field
Focus Group:................11 (MTD) Music Theatre/Dance
Room:...........................Imperial Ballroom - 2nd Floor (Hyatt)
Participants:.................Henry Bial, University of Kansas
“Acting Jewish: Negotiating Ethnicity on the American Stage and Screen”
Bud Coleman, University of Colorado at Boulder
“Women in Musical Theatre: Essays on Lyricists, Writers, Arrangers, Choreographers, Designers,
Directors, Producers and Performance Artists”
Caryl Flinn, University of Arizona
“Brass Diva: The Life and Legends of Ethel Merman”
Paul Laird, University of Kansas
Tom Riis, University of Colorado at Boulder
“Frank Loesser” (Yale Broadway Masters Series)
Judy Sebesta, University of Missouri - Columbia
“Women in Musical Theatre: Essays on Lyricists, Writers, Arrangers, Choreographers, Designers,
Directors, Producers and Performance Artists”
Rick Simas, San Diego State University
“The Musicals No One Came to See”
This roundtable discussion among musical theatre historians and authors will explore strategies they employed as they tackled their subject.
“How Do I Publish My First Journal Article?”
Focus Group:................28 RPC Research & Publications Committee
Room:...........................Pikes Peak - 2nd Floor HCC
Session Coordinator:....David Saltz, Theatre Journal Editor, University of Georgia
Participants:.................Alan Ackerman, Modern Drama
Marcyrose Chvasta, Liminalities
Richard Schechner, The Drama Review Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
Sandra Shannon, Theatre Topics Journal Editor Howard University
First-time authors of journal articles often experience a good deal of needless anxiety as they prepare to pursue their first publication. Most of
this anxiety, however, can be avoided by studying the ABC’s of the process and by taking a proactive approach to this potentially daunting endeavor. “How Do I Publish My First Journal Article?” will allow first-time authors to engage in frank conversations with recent authors of journal
articles as well as with some of the most reputable journal editors in the field of performance studies.
Claiming Cultural Capital: Gao Xingjian and Taiwan, France, and China
Focus Group:................3 (AAP) Association for Asian Performance
Room:...........................Mt. Princeton - 3rd Floor (Hyatt)
Session Coordinator:....Todd Coulter, Truman State University
Colonial Culture - Gao Xingjian as a French Playwright
Chair:............................Haiping Yan, University of California - Los Angeles
Participants:.................Alexander C.Y. Huang, Pennsylvania State University
Jiayun Zhuang, University of California - Los Angeles
Gao -- The Inconvenient Cultural Capital for the Chinese Nobel-Complex
Taking Gao Xingjian as a point of discussion, the panel discusses the politics of recognition and the recognition of politics in the context of cultural output.
Dishy Dialogue: Gossip, Gender and Performance
Focus Group:................10 (LGBT) Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered
Room:...........................Mt. Evans B- 2nd Floor (HCC)
Session Coordinator:....Frank Miller, Georgia State University
I Dish, Therefore I Am: Performing Toothy Tile and Ted Casablanca
Participants:.................Jessica Del Vecchio, University of Texas at Austin
Constructing K-Fed: The Performativity of Tabloids
Ray Matthews, University of Texas at Austin
Queering Spears
Wes Pearce, University of Regina
People are talking but nobody cares: gossip, gender and musical theatre
An exploration of dishing the dirt as performance, as a reinforcement and challenge of gender norms and as an inspiration for theatrical creation.
Expressing the Depression: The Theatre of the Thirties
Focus Group:................18 (TH) Theatre and History
Room:...........................La Plata Peak - 37th Floor (Pinnacle Club)
Session Coordinator:....Meredith Malburne, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Replication, Revision, and Reconsideration: Reading Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun”
through Clifford Odets’ “Awake and Sing!”
Participants:.................Anne Fletcher, Southern Illinois University
Giving it Away and Letting Go: Joe and the Arab in “The Time of Your Life”
Kelly Carolyn Gordon, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
“Charity Begins at Home:” How Stage Actresses Sought to Rescue
Theatre Workers in New York During the 1930s
July 31- August 3, 2008
Roxanne Schwab, Saint Louis University
Grand Hyatt Denver
Expression of the Depression: Arthur Arent’s “One Third of a Nation” as Theatrical Expressionism
We examine the impact of 1930s theatre, including the role of the female/minority “other,” the sustainability of art in the time of crisis,
and the importance—both then and now—of radicalism and history.
Denver, CO
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ATHE’s 22nd Conference:
Difficult Dialogues: Theatre
and the Art of Engagement
Concurrent Sessions
Sunday, August 3, 2008 (cont.)
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM (cont.)
Innovative Uses of Online Classroom Technology to Improve Student Learning
Focus Group:................25 (ETC) Electronic Technology Committee
Room:...........................Grays Peak - 2nd Floor (HCC)
Chair:............................Kate Sinnett, Independent Scholar
Improving Classroom Community and Communication with Online Discussion Forums
Participants:.................Sally Bailey, Kansas State University
Playwriting Online: Workshop over the Internet
Steve Feffer, Western Michigan University
Strange Bedfellows: Virtual Dramaturgy in the Pedagogy and Production of Angels in America
Stephen Schrum, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg
Teaching in Second Life: Communication in the Virtual Classroom
Ronald Smith, Brooks Institute and UC Santa Barbara
Enhancing Online Dialogues: Challenges to Online Discussion Forums and Communities
This panel will offer practical demonstrations of how online classroom technologies can be used to improve and enrich student
learning, and promote dialogue between teacher and student.
Integrating the Curriculum: Methods to Help Students Experience the Connections
Focus Group:................40 (MD) Multidisciplinary Focus; 1 (AP) Acting Progam, 22 (VASTA) Voice and Speech Trainer’s Association,
4 (ATME) Association for Movement Educators
Room:...........................Mt. Wilson - 3rd Floor (Hyatt)
Session Coordinator:....Lionel Walsh, University of Windsor
Participants:.................Ben Fisler, Hartford Community College
Sarah Hickler, Emerson College
Tracey Moore, Western Kentucky University
Scott Nice, University of North Carolina
Nira Pullin, Wayne State University
Panelists will discuss the ways in which they have made helped students in their own classes integrate the training in voice, movement, improvisation, and acting classes.
*LINKS* Links Wrap-Up Session
Focus Group:................38 (CC) Conference Committee
Room:...........................Longs Peak - 2nd Floor (HCC)
Session Coordinator:....Ben Gunter, Florida State University
Performing Place and The Body As Site Of Performance
Focus Group:................23 (WTP) Women and Theatre Program
Room:...........................Mt. Elbert - 2nd Floor (HCC)
Chair:............................Nadja Masura, Independent Scholar
BodyPlaces: The Mixing Of Place and Body In Live and Digital Performance
Participants:.................Kimberly Dark, Cal State San Marcos Sociology Department,
Stripped and Teased: Scandalous Stories with Subversive Subplots
Kate Mendeloff, University of Michigan Residential College
Into the Woods - Environmental Performance: Evolutions and Revelations
This session explores the intersection between places and bodies in performance. From site specific and environmental staging, to
one-on-one performances and performance art, we examine areas places and bodies overlap.
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Concurrent Sessions
Sunday, August 3, 2008 (cont.)
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM (cont.)
Posthuman Performance: Materiality and Immateriality in Conversation
Focus Group:................17 (TC) Theory and Criticism
Room:...........................Maroon Peak - 2nd Floor (Hyatt)
Session Coordinator:....Margaret Araneo, Graduate Center, City University of New York
The Posthuman Hysteric: Epilepsy and Hysteria in The South Wing’s AOI
Participants:.................Daniel Larlam, Columbia University
Motion Capture: Human Data-Transfer within a Posthuman Performance System
Steven Luber, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Orgasmic Media, or Performative Sexual Reproduction
Within the framework of posthuman studies, this session will look at contemporary modes of performance that attempt to reconcile “human” biology and materiality with theories of immateriality and mediality.
Process drama in the community college: Enhancing job interview skills
Focus Group:................21 (TYCP) Two-Year College Program
Room:...........................Mt. Yale - 3rd Floor (Hyatt)
Participant:...................John Socas, Bronx Community College
Process drama in the community college: Enhancing job interview skills.
This presentation will outline a process drama intervention, based on the work of Dorothy Heathcote and Augusto Boal to enhance the job
interview skills of community college students.
Production Seasons as Dialogue: Play Selection Processes in Academic Departments
Focus Group:................8 (DP) Directing Program
Room:...........................Castle Peak - 37th Floor (Pinnacle Club)
Session Coordinator:....Mark Seamon, College of St. Catherine
Chair:............................Leah Lowe, Connecticut College
Participants:.................Kevin Browne, University of Central Arkansas
Rebecca Holderness, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Jordan Schildcrout, Ohio University
Tyler Smith, Ball State University
Steven Weiss, Coe College
The session broadly aims to inspire large-group discussion of ideas, strategies, and methodologies for confronting the challenges of the
play selection process in academic theatre.
Speaking through Adaptation: Conversations in the Process of Conversion
Focus Group:................7 (DR) Dramaturgy
Room:...........................Mt. Harvard - 3rd Floor (Hyatt)
Session Coordinator:....Valleri Hohman, University of Ilinois
Collaborative Adaptation: an approach to adapting James Purdy
Participants:.................Melissa Cooper, Dallas Theatre Center
Writing the Greeks: Crossing the Boundary Between Adaptation and New Work
Nichole Gantshar, Syracuse Stage
The Great Gatsby as Seen Through the Body: Creating a Ballet
Donald Levit, CUNY
The Hyphenated Endeavor and the Re-Making of Griselda Gambaro
The papers in this session highlight the modes and methodologies and the theoretical foundations that enable adaptations to amplify rather
than simplify and challenge as well as celebrate source texts.
July 31- August 3, 2008
Grand Hyatt Denver
Denver, CO
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ATHE’s 22nd Conference:
Difficult Dialogues: Theatre
and the Art of Engagement
Concurrent Sessions
Sunday, August 3, 2008 (cont.)
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM (cont.)
Spectacles of Incarceration: (Im)Prison(ment) and/as Performance
Focus Group:................40 (MD) Multidisciplinary Focus; 13 (PS) Performance Studies, 16 (TASC) Theatre and Social Change,
17 (TC) Theory and Criticism
Room:...........................Mt. Evans A - 2nd Floor (HCC)
Session Coordinator:....Frank Episale, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Participants:.................Laura Hope, Loyola University
Margaretta D’Arcy in Jail: “Loose Theatre,” Rebel Women’s Bodies, and the Performing the Abject in
Northern Ireland’s Armagh Prison
Noe Montez, Indana University
Money the Hard Way: The Performance of Rehabilitation at the Oklahoma
Jules Odendahl-James, Duke University
Private Dancer: GaGa over the YouTube Thriller Filipino Prison Show
An exploration of prison performances in the information age: from Oklahoma, to the Philippines, to North
ern Ireland. Issues of agency, rehabilitation, and the exoticization of the prisoner are examined.
What Do Good Intentions Do? Reflections on Using Theatre to Address White Racism on Predominately White Campuses
Focus Group:................16 (TASC) Theatre and Social Change
Room:...........................Mt. Oxford - 3rd Floor (Hyatt)
Co-Coordinators:..........Ann Marie Gardinier Halstead, St. Lawrence University
What Do Good Intentions Do? Reflections on Using Theatre to Address White Racism on Predominately White Campuses
Jay Pecora
John Youngblood
Colleagues from two universities, public and private, discuss using theatre to dialogue about white racism at their predominately
white campuses. Participants will engage in “difficult dialogue” about race and theatre.
12:00 PM - Colorado Shakespeare Theatre Festival Bus Departs
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Focus Group Representatives’ Meeting
Focus Group:................38 (CC) Conference Committee
Room:...........................Pikes Peak - 2nd Floor (HCC)
Governing Council Meeting
Focus Group:................38 (CC) Conference Committee
Room:...........................Grays Peak - 2nd Floor (HCC)
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Governing Council and Focus Group Representatives' Meeting
Focus Group:................38 (CC) Conference Committee
Room:...........................Grays Peak - 2nd Floor (HCC)
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