Monday, June 27th, 2011
Broderick Chow is a lecturer and researcher at the Institute for Performing Arts Development, University of East London with interests in popular performance in relation to political change and mobilisation, and performance as ideological critique. His recently completed practice-as-research PhD thesis, ‘How to do things with jokes: relocating the political dimension of performance comedy’ is the first PhD to be awarded by the Central School of Speech & Drama, University of London. His practice includes solo performance, public intervention, installation and stand-up comedy, with five years on the UK comedy circuit. Current research projects include investigating comic and satirical influences in the rhetoric of American politicians, parkour in relation to the physical architecture of global finance, and the economy of labour and work in musical theatre.
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Monday, June 27th, 2011
Eve Katsouraki is a senior lecturer in theatre studies at the University of East London. Her main research interests concern the intersections between theories of aesthetics, political philosophy, and most particularly Jacques Rancière, Alain Badiou, Slavoj Zizek, Chantal Mouffe and Ernesto Laclau, with performance theory. Her doctorate research at the University of Edinburgh and current publications explore issues of early modernist theory in performance in relation to politics and philosophy. Her practice is interdisciplinary and includes writing and directing postdramatic theatre, filmmaking and multimedia performance, with a particular emphasis on performance installation art and interactive practices. She is currently working towards a monograph on the aesthetics and politics of early modernist performance.
Other research projects include investigating the notion of the sublime in contemporary performance theory, radical performance and theories of subjectivity, the politics of subversion and experimental performance, and the manifesto as acts of radical performance.
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Monday, June 27th, 2011
Vicky Angelaki is lecturer in English and drama at Birmingham City University. Her research focuses on contemporary British theatre, aesthetics and politics and phenomenology. She has published articles and book chapters in these areas and has presented papers in many international conferences. Her book The Plays of Martin Crimp: Making Theatre Strange will be published by Palgrave Macmillan.
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Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
Simon Bayly is a principal lecturer in drama, theatre and performance at Roehampton University and artistic director of the London-based performance collective PUR. His first book, A Pathognomy of Performance, published by Palgrave in March 2011, weaves together a series of conversations between the work of major philosophers and an eclectic range of phenomena, from the celebrity on stage to the theatricality of the laugh, grimace and sneeze, exploring how ‘the passion for the real’ that continues to grip contemporary thought finds itself expressed in everyday acts of failure, accident and collapse. He is currently developing projects exploring the aesthetics of organization in grass-roots social movements.
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Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
Geoff Colman with playwrights Alecky Blythe, Dennis Kelly and Neil Grutchfield
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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
Open Offer for Elbow Room – A Silent Lecture
by Antje Hildebrandt
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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
The natural limits of humans and things: how Station House Opera works
by Julian Maynard Smith with respondent Robin Nelson
For thirty years Station House Opera under the direction of Julian Maynard Smith has been making work in a wide variety of media. Throughout there has been a common approach, based on testing the boundaries where human intentions come up against natural restrictions. How have these been manifest in an output that has consistently experimented with the ways to make performance?
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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
Robin Nelson: Stephen Poliakoff on Stage and Screen (Methuen, 2011)
Robin will be here to talk about his new book over a glass of wine …….
Over four decades, Stephen Poliakoff has proved himself to be a distinctive dramatist in the mediums of theatre, film and television. Moving from playwright to television and film director, he has been hailed as “TV’s foremost writer” (The Independent) and as “one of our most poetic and best TV dramatists” (Daily Telegraph). In the USA, his TV “films” have received industry acclaim, The Lost Prince winning three Emmy Awards and Gideon’s Daughter two Golden Globes. However, Stephen Poliakoff has not fully received the critical attention his substantial achievement deserves.
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Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
Julian Maynard Smith has produced solo and group performance work since 1978. In 1980 he founded Station House Opera and is its artistic director. Since then the company has produced 35 productions at major venues world-wide. Commissions include marking the centenary of the Brooklyn Bridge (1983), the Bicentenary of the French Revolution (1989) and the Allied bombing of Dresden (1996). In 2004 the company began a series of telematic productions linking performance sites around the world.
Recent productions include Dominoes (2009), a CREATE Olympic commission linking the five boroughs of the 2012 Games, and Mind Out (2009), on tour in Britain and Europe.
He was Kettle’s Yard Fellow at Cambridge University in 1993 and has taught in art, architecture and theatre schools in Holland and Britain. He currently holds an AHRC Research Fellowship in the Dramaturgy of Telematic Theatre at Central School of Speech & Drama, London.
www.stationhouseopera.com
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Thursday, June 9th, 2011
Adrian Howells invites you to take the weight off both your feet and mind as he washes and dries your feet, anoints them in frankincense and sweet almond oils and massages them.
Partially inspired by his recognition of how the three major religions of Christianity, Islam and Judaism tend to betray their spiritual values, Foot Washing for the Sole is an intensely personal and moving interaction, which forces us to address our own spirituality, culture and faith. Breaking down the barriers between performer and audience, Adrian tenderly and lovingly washes, oils and finally massages the participant’s feet in a one-to-one encounter that is at once beautiful, comforting, thought-provoking and filled with humility. Through a gesture that resonates with particular significance across all societies, he helps – via our two main points of contact – to quite literally reconnect us with the world.
Timetable. To book a place contact Gail Hunt on 020 7449 1571
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Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
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Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
Amanda Stuart Fisher Adrian Howells
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Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
TEST_(i)_monies
by María José Contreras Lorenzini
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Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
Adrian Howells is a performance artist with an interest in creating work that promotes intimacy and genuine exchange with an audience, often in a one-to-one, autobiographical or confessional context, in a range of non-traditional performance spaces. Between 2006 and 2009, Adrian was the recipient of an AHRC Creative Fellowship in the Department of Theatre, Film and TV Studies at Glasgow University, where his practice-led research was engaged with looking at issues of intimacy and risk in the one-to-one confessional performance practice. He is currently Artist-in-Residence at The Arches in Glasgow. Adrian has been a performance artist for over twenty years and has worked with the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow, as well as presenting work at the Drill Hall and BAC in London. In 2009 he won a Total Theatre Award for his one-on-one performance Foot Washing for the Sole at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, which has since toured nationally and internationally.
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Monday, June 6th, 2011
WORKSHOP
The agency of the author: Writing the space through the ‘Local Reality Expo’ process; 09:30 – 11:30
with Clare Duffy
PAPER PANEL
Authorship and the Playwright; 09:30 – 11:00
Chair: Steve Farrier with presenters Vicky Angelaki, Sarah Jane Dickenson and Donard MacKenzie
PAPER PANEL
Bodily inscriptions: new vocabularies of embodiment; 09:30 – 11:00
Chair: Experience Bryon with presenters Maria Kapsali, Funmi Adewole Kruczkowska and Nando Messias
PAPER PANEL
Writing Sites: authoring place; 09:30 – 11:00
Chair: Sally Mackey with Elizabeth Wride, Jane George and Tim Moss
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Professor Christopher Balme; 11:30 – 12:30
WORKSHOP
Authoring Song: points of inspiration between composer and actor; 13:15 – 14:45
with Zachary Dunbar
IN CONVERSATION
Martin Wylde with Colin Teevan; 13:30 – 14:15
PERFORMANCE
Test-i-monies; 13:30 – 14:15
by Maria Contreras Lorenzini
ROUND TABLE
Beyond words: dramaturgies of the real and the limitations iteration; 14:45 – 16:15
Chair: Amanda Stuart Fisher with Alison Forsyth, Steve Gilroy, Olapido Agboluaje, Maria Jose Contreras and Ian Palmer
PAPER PANEL
Scripting the scenographic text; 14:45 – 16:15
Chair: Jessica Bowles with presenters Donatella Barbieri, David Shearing and Michael Spencer
PAPER PANEL
Dis-located territories: writing in postdramatic contexts; 14:45 – 16:15
Chair: Geoff Colman with presenters Cassandra Duell, Luis Manuel Campos and Jesse Schwenk
PLENARY AND CLOSE OF CONFERENCE 16:30 – 17:30
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Monday, June 6th, 2011
IN CONVERSATION
Amanda Stuart Fisher with Adrian Howells; 09:30 – 10:30
PAPER PANEL
Ghost in the Machine: the author as revenant; 09:30 – 11:00
Chair: Joel Anderson with presenters Nelson Barre, Anne Hogan and Kelly Jones
PAPER PANEL
New Voices: place, space and community; 09:30 – 11:00
Chair: Gareth White with presenters Katie Beswick, Tim Jeeves and Mark Swetz
WELCOME
Tony Fisher; 11:15 – 11:30
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Helgard Haug; 11:30 – 12:30
PRESENTATION
The Author is Dead! Long Live the Author! 13:30 – 14:15
by Dan Rebellato with respondent Simon Shepherd
PRESENTATION
The natural limits of humans and things: how Station House Opera works; 13:30 – 14:15
by Julian Maynard Smith with respondent Robin Nelson
PERFORMANCE/LECTURE
Open Offer for Elbow Room – A Silent Lecture; 13:30 – 14:15
by Antje Hildebrandt
PAPER PANEL
The Return of the Auteur! 14:15 – 15:45
Chair: Simon Shepherd with presenters Jem Kelly, James Reynolds and Nick Wood
PAPER PANEL
Architecture, location and the authoring of performance; 14:15 – 17:45
Chair: Jessica Bowles with presenters Juliet Rufford, Rachel Hann and Cathy Turner
PAPER PANEL
Writing Ensembles; 14:15 – 15:45
Chair: Lynne Kendrick with presenters Duska Radosavijevic, Mark Smith and Jesse Weaver
WORKSHOP
Writing through Movement: Using Image Schemata in Creative Writing; 14:15 – 16:15
with Maria Kapsali
ROUND TABLE
The Author as Provocateur – playing the space of politics in the age of dissensus. What are the politics of authorship?; 16:15 – 17:45
Chair: Tony Fisher with Silvija Jestrovic, Simon Bayly, Broderick Chow and Eve Katsouraki
PAPER PANEL
Putting words in their mouths: verbatim and authenticity; 16:15 – 17:45
Chair: Amanda Stuart Fisher with presenters Maria Jose Contreras Lorenzini, Roberto Sánchez-Camus and Steve Gilroy
PAPER PANEL
(Re)Writing the Rules: participatory writing; 16:15 – 17:45
Chair: Nick Wood with presenters Simon Bowes, Alex Eisenberg, John Pinder, Gareth White and Naz Yeni
IN CONVERSATION
Geoff Colman with Dennis Kelly, Alecky Blythe and Neil Grutchfield; 18:00 – 19:00
BOOK LAUNCH WITH WINE RECEPTION
Robin Nelson: Stephen Poliakoff on Stage and Screen (Methuen, 2011); 19:00 – 20:00
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Sunday, June 5th, 2011
Martin Wylde with Colin Teevan
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Sunday, June 5th, 2011
Ola Animashawun with Dennis Kelly and Alecky Blythe
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Sunday, June 5th, 2011
Open Offer for Elbow Room – A Silent Lecture
by Antje Hildebrandt
THURSDAY 14 JULY, 13:30 – 14:15
CLEAN REHEARSAL ROOM, WEST BLOCK
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Sunday, June 5th, 2011
The Author is Dead! Long Live the Author!
by Dan Rebellato with respondent Simon Shepherd
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Sunday, June 5th, 2011
with Zachary Dunbar
FRIDAY 15 JULY, 13:15 – 14:45
REHEARSAL ROOM 8
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Sunday, June 5th, 2011
with Clare Duffy
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Sunday, June 5th, 2011
with Maria Kapsali
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Sunday, June 5th, 2011
Chair: Amanda Stuart Fisher
Contributors: Alison Forsyth, Steve Gilroy, Olapido Agboluaje, Maria Jose Contreras Lorenzini and Ian Palmer
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