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Conference 2015 Conference Programme 8th - 10th September 2015 PUBLISHERS AT TAPRA 2015 The following publishers will be present at the TaPRA 2015 Conference. Their display stands will be located in the Quandrangle Court where all refreshments and lunches will be served daily Manchester University Press Matthew Frost [email protected] Palgrave Macmillan Jenny McCall [email protected] Lucinda Knight [email protected] Bloomsbury Publishing Mark Dudgeon [email protected] Emily Hockley [email protected] Cambridge University Press Kerr Alexander [email protected] Routledge Marie Coffey [email protected] Claire Spence [email protected] Ben Piggott [email protected] Kate Edwards [email protected] Intellect [email protected] WELCOME TO TAPRA 2015 @ WORCESTER Last year we celebrated TaPRA @ 10 at Royal Holloway, this year we look forward to the next decade for TaPRA with our conference hosts at the University of Worcester. A record number of members booked early this year and we have a packed conference programme but, as always, there will be plenty of opportunities to meet old friends and make new connections with colleagues representing the rich and diverse research interests of our field. There are a number of ‘new’ things to note this year: a new Working Group, Performance and Science, has its first full meeting in Worcester, bringing the number of Working Groups to twelve, with a proposal for a thirteenth group, Asian Performance and Diaspora gathering to test the level of interest from the membership. Another initiative making its debut at Worcester is Research Matters, the first in a series of conference panels curated by TaPRA’s executive committee and designed to respond to issues of current importance to the wider research community. This year’s discussion brings together four panel members from REF2014 who will share their experience and knowledge of the process by looking forward to the potential we can realise for the research future of our discipline. TaPRA’s Executive Committee is also looking forward to ways in which we can forge stronger links with SCUDD and other organisations committed to demonstrating the importance of Arts research and practice in our HEIs and out to our cultural industries. As individual researchers and members of TaPRA our vision and ambitions for theatre and performance research are worth supporting. There will be opportunities to become conveners of Working Groups over the coming year, or perhaps you might put yourself forward as a candidate for the Executive Committee? Thanks to everyone who has given time and energy to TaPRA over the past year and thanks especially to our hosts at Worcester for 2015. Next year, we will be in Bristol. Gilli Bush-Bailey (Chair) TaPRA 2015 Conference Programme P a g e | 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Welcome to TaPRA 2015 @ Worcester ............................................................ 1 TaPRA Practice-as-Research Exhibition 2015 .................................................... 3 Keynote Speakers ..................................................................................... 4 Performance ............................................................................................ 6 Postgraduate Events .................................................................................. 8 Conference Schedule ................................................................................. 9 TaPRA Curated Panel ................................................................................ 14 Abstracts and Biography ............................................................................ 16 Applied & Social Theatre .......................................................................... 17 20th-21st Century Performer Training............................................................. 28 Directing and Dramaturgy ......................................................................... 36 Documenting Performance ........................................................................ 44 Performance and the Body ........................................................................ 48 Performance, Identity and Community .......................................................... 58 Performance and New Technologies ............................................................. 66 Performance and Science .......................................................................... 80 Popular Performance ............................................................................... 87 Scenography ......................................................................................... 95 Theatre History and Historiography ............................................................. 102 Theatre, Performance and Philosophy .......................................................... 110 TaPRA Working Group Conveners ............................................................... 120 TaPRA 2015 Delegate List ......................................................................... 122 Useful Information for Delegates ................................................................ 134 P a g e | 2 TaPRA 2015 Conference Programme TAPRA PRACTICE-AS-RESEARCH EXHIBITION 2015 Image source: Rebecca Gamble. Instruments for a participatory performance entitled ‘Mariela Hosomaki’ researching the role between performer (host) and audience (host) in a one-to-one gastronomic performance. The Practice-as-Research Exhibition, curated by Rebecca Gamble, explores research inquiry through practice (Frayling 1993). The exhibition examines the intimate relationship between theory and practice and reveals different practice-as-research methodologies through visual examples of work. These include printed scripts and choreographic scores, photographic and video documentation, performance objects and traces/remnants of live work. The inclusion of a curated exhibition to coincide with the annual TaPRA conference follows the success of last year’s Practice Gallery, curated by Nik Wakefield, for the TaPRA 2014 Conference at Royal Holloway. This year we build on this through the inclusion of over twenty practice-as-research examples from theatre and performance practitioners, exhibited through the University of Worcester’s Cotswold Gallery and Digital Arts Centre. Exhibitors include Caroline Astell-Burt, Aurelia Baumgartner, Angela Bartram, Mathilda Branson, Paul D Brownbill, Sally Doughty, Mark Edward, Mark Ellis, Rebecca Gamble, Teri Howson, Maria Kapsali, Belinda Grantham, Beatrice Jarvice, Jess McCormack, Priya Mistry, Roma Patel, Barbara Roland, Joan-Sabas Pardo, Marianne Sharp, Daniel Somerville, Tiffany Strawson and Harry Wilson. Further information and exhibition documentation can be viewed online at: https://tapraexhibition2015.wordpress.com Exhibition Opening and Drinks Reception: Tuesday 8 September, 5.15pm–6.30pm. Exhibition Opening Times: 9–10 September 9am–4pm. TaPRA 2015 Conference Programme P a g e | 3 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Tuesday 4pm-5.15pm Yelland and Urwin Lecture Theatres, Elgar Building Theatre for Young Audiences: The Perils of Cultural Translation Manon van de Water Most of my scholarly, and practical, career of the last two decades has been devoted to exploring the interdependence of meaning and material condition; or, what happens when you translate, or transfer a cultural artifact that has been created under one set of material circumstances (social, cultural, ideological, economic, political) to another culture that functions under alternative materials circumstances. Simultaneously I have been working on bridging the gap between theatre for young audiences (TYA) and theatre for adults, particularly from a scholarly perspective. Both through education and work, I have straddled research and practice, theatre for young people and for adults, in four different countries, under four different sets of circumstances. The perils of cultural translation as well as notions of TYA as cultural production, touch upon many questions that are under researched; from challenging, or conforming to, cultural taboos, to different notions of child and childhood, to economic concerns. In this paper, I will address some of these issues, by using, among others, theories of material semiotics as outlined by Ric Knowles. Proceeding from the premise that theory and practice go hand in hand and are mutually dependent on each other, I will give examples of attempts to contextualize and foster cultural sensitivity and understanding from International TYA Festivals. Ultimately, this keynote aims to defy the notion of TYA as “less than,” or “theatre but not theatre,” by demonstrating its rich potential for researchers and practitioners alike. Biography Manon van de Water (Phd in Theatre, Arizona State University; Doctorandus in Slavic Languages and Literature, University of Leiden, The Netherlands) is the Vilas-Phipps Distinguished Achievement Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Professor van de Water has published widely on theatre, drama education, and theatre for young audiences in national and international journals and she is the author of Moscow Theatres for Young People: A Cultural History of Ideological Coercion and Artistic Innovation, 1917-2000 (2006); Dutch Theatre for Children (2008/ 2009), and Theatre, Youth, and Culture: A Critical and Historical Exploration (2012), for which she received the 2013 American Alliance for Theatre and Education (AATE) Distinguished Book Award. She