Dance, Theatre, and Performance Studies Working Group
September 17, 2019
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location
Lower Level of Stevenson Hall
Address
701 South Morgan Street, Chicago, IL 60612
Calendar
Download iCal FileThe Dance, Theater, and Performance Studies (DTAPS) Working Group of UIC's Institute for the Humanities invites you to its inaugural session of a series of reading discussions, workshops, and public presentations.
This first shared-reading session is open to all interested in dance, theater and performance research, pedagogies, and practices. We seek to cultivate a generative community at this and future sessions for discussions of questions such as: how do artists transform the world through performance? how does theater shape and reshape, orient and reorient, our sense of history and human experience? how might everyday practices be viewed as performatives that contribute to the making of everyday realities? how do dance, drama, and performance act as a lens through which to understand and investigate larger social, cultural, and political events and movements? what role do the fields of dance, theater and performance play in fostering collectivities and in shaping contestatory forms?
We imagine this first gathering to be collaborative and participatory, as, by way of provocation, we discuss the readings (listed below) posted to website and work together to map out future working group sessions.
Our 2019-2020 calendar dates will be: September 17, November 19, February 11, and April 21, 1pm-3pm.
READINGS FOR THE UPCOMING MEETING (AVAILABLE AT UIC.HUMINST.EDU)
Jane Barnette, “The Power of Adapturgy," from Adapturgy: The Dramaturg’s Art and Theatrical Adaptation. 2018.
Dwight Conquergood, “Performing as a Moral Act: Ethical Dimensions of the Ethnography of Performance," from Cultural Struggle: Performance, Ethnography, Praxis, ed. and introd. E. Patrick Johnson. 2013.
“Inside/Beside Dance Studies: A Conversation Mellon Dance Studies in/and the Humanities,” Dance Research Journal 45.3. 2013.
Uri McMillan, ‘”Introduction,” from Embodied Avatars: Geneaologies of Black Feminist Art and Performance. 2015.
Date posted
Sep 7, 2019
Date updated
Sep 7, 2019