TaPRA-SCUDD Postgraduate Symposium 2019
Engaging with Dissonance in Performance Research
Wednesday 13thMarch, Faculty of English, University of Oxford
9.15-9.45 Registration
9.45-9.55 Welcome
10.00-11.30 Parallel panels
| Panel 1: Embodied dissonance
Chair: Hannah Greenstreet |
Panel 2: Conflicted spaces
Chair: Harriet Richmond |
| Joe Parslow – ‘Queer Learning/Learning Queer, or Drag Queens Made Me Do It’ | Bomi Choi – ‘Koreans in-between: Staging North Korean migrants in heterotopic spaces’ |
| Nina Michelle Worthington – ‘Phenomenological Perspectives of Disability Dissonance in Theatre Practice’ | Leah Sidi – ‘Between reality and hallucination: Sarah Kane and the Bayesian Brain’ |
| Ban Heo – ‘”The Rumble in the Jungle”: A Post-Colonial Performance of Violence within a Necropolitical Arena of Valuation’ | Phoebe Patey-Ferguson – ‘Cultural Dissonance As a Critical Element In The Production of Heterotopic Theatre Festivals’ |
| Kirsty Clarke – ‘Dissonance and conflict within a drag king performance of Paganini’s 24th caprice’ | Reka Polonyi – ‘Unity and Discord: Ideological shifts and contradictions in approaching play in Performance Studies’ |
11.30-11.45 Coffee
11.45-13.15 Parallel panels
| Panel 3: Dissonant practices
Chair: Cathy Sloan |
Panel 4: Conflicted identities
Chair: Robert Laurella |
| Dónall Mac Cathmhaoill – ‘Modes and techniques of authorship in applied theatre projects in Northern Ireland’ | Sue Healy – ‘The Royal Court Theatre’s fraught and fruitful years, 1968-1975’
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| Majeed Mohammed Midhin – ‘Cognitive Dissonance as a Cultural Tool in Drama Analysis’ | Sudip Chakroborthy – ‘Performing Bangladesh: identity, violence and quest of a pluralist society’ |
| Aparna Mahiyaria – ‘Political Performance: Building Equal and Opposite Forces of Action’ | Alexander Coupe – ‘Between wholeness and particularity: masculinity and the politics of entanglement in Owen McCafferty’s Scenes from the Big Picture’ |
| Beth Potter – ‘Reacting to the premiere of The Death of Klinghoffer’ | Ariadni Lignou Tsamantani – ‘Dialectical challenges: towards a redefinition of national identity on the Greek stage’ |
13.15-14.00 LUNCH
14.00-14.45 Rehearsed reading of Unsettledby JC Niala, recently published in Contemporary Plays by African Women (Methuen, 2019), followed by Q&A with the playwright. Chair: Hannah Greenstreet.
14.45-14.50 Short break
14.50-16.15 Provocations and plenary discussion
| Susannah Henry | ‘Get Set: Running as scenographic process’ |
| Isla Lindsay Hall | ‘Performing Power in Julius Caesar: How casting and performance choices impact our implicit bias regarding leadership’ |
| Amin Heidari | ‘Body who performs ideal, Body who performs dissonant’ |
| Mihai Florea | ‘Sewing languages – stitching dissonances’ |
| Magdalena Mosteanu | ‘Richard Schechner and Rustom Bharucha: The collision of cultures in the creative process of theatre making’ |
| Nicky Gluh | ‘Dissonance as a shade of grey’ |
| Faye Rigopoulou | ‘Female aging voices and the sine qua non of musical theatre sensoriality: a provocation’ |
| Anna Woolf | ‘Performing invisible disability’ |
16.15-16.30 Coffee
16.30-17.30 SCUDD Workshop. Chair: Harriet Richmond.
‘Transitions into the Academy: Advice for Early and Second-Career Academics’
Panellists: Ilaria Pinna, Sophie Jump, Kate Katafiasz, Nina Michelle Worthington, Katherine Collins.