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PLENARY. Great Hall, Aberystwyth Arts Centre PRIMARY SPONSORS PE m(IlnnCE Centre for Performance Research Department of Theatre, Film and Televisi on Studies ! STUDIES uoom University of Wales Aberystwyth, UK Department of Theatre, Bowling Green State University, US Dartington College of Arts, UK CONTENTS Harwood Academic Publishers, UK 2 Here Be Dragons Department of Theatre Studies, Lancaster University, UK 3 Welcome Department of Performance Studies, New York University, US 4 PSi PERFORMANCE STUDIES international The Digital Research Unit, Department of Visual and Performing Arts, Nottingham Trent University, UK 5 Thursday, 8 April/Friday, 9 April - 8.00 am-4.00 pm Department of Drama: Theatre, Film and Television, 7 Fri day, 9 April - 4. 15 pm-2.00 am Roehampton Institute London, UK Ab;ryO~h;rth 9 Saturday, 10 April - 8.00 am-I 1.00 am II Saturday, 10 April - I 1.00 am-I . I 5 pm The University of Wales CO-SPONSORS 13 Saturday, 10 April - 1. 15 pm-3. 15 pm Arizona State University, US 15 Saturday, 10 April - 3. 15 pm-2.00 am The programme of International Performance Events is a result of School of Literature, Communication, and Culture, the Giving Voice Festival and the 5th Performance Studies Georgia Institute of Technology, US Conference.The Giving Voice Festival is organised by the Centre 16 Evening Performance Programme for Performance Research at Ab erystwyth in associati on with Division of Performance Studies, Aberystwyth Arts Centre. The 5th Performance Studies 17 Evening Performance Programme Conference is a joint project of the CPR and the Department of Department of Communication and Dramatic Arts, Theatre, Film and Television Studies, University of Wales University of Mary Hardin Baylor, US 19 Sunday, I I April - 8.00 am-I 1.00 am Aberystwyth. Both projects gratefully acknowledge the support of the Arts Council of Wales Interlink Fund, Calouste-Gulbenkian Department of Performance Studies, Northwestern University, US 21 Sunday, I I April - I 1.00 am-I . I 5 pm Foundation, the Britis h Co un ci l, The Arts Council Internati onal Initiatives Fund. Performance Research, UK 23 Sunday, I I April - 1. 15 pm-3. 15 pm The Centre for Performance Research at Aberystwyth is a joint Routledge, UK 25 venture of the Centre for Performance Research Ltd and Sunday, I I April - 1. 15 pm-5.30 pm University of Wales Aberystwyth and working in close TDR - The Drama Review, US association with the Department of Theatre, Film and Televis ion 27 Sunday, I I April -- 5.30 pm-12.00 pm Studies. The Centre for Performance Re search Ltd works with the support of the Arts Council of Wales an d is an Edu cational 29 Monday, 12 April - 8.00 am-I 1.00 am Charity (no. 701544) limited by guarantee (Reg. No. 2315790). DONATORS 3 I Monday, I 2 April - I 1.00 am-I .00 pm Department of Theatre, Speech and Dance, Brown University, US PS5 Services for Delegates Department of Theatre, Film & Dance at Cornell University, US r~~OLFANY~ 32 Schedule ~ '" Back Cover Maps :. ARTS ;:,. < c BOOKFAIR EXHIBITORS Art Books International Oxford University Press Berg Performance Research ::::::: The Black Dog Publishing Phaidon ::••:::•••::•• British ::::::: Council Cambridge University Press Routledge CPR Books Seagull Theatre Quarterly Duke University Press TDR- The Drama Review WALES ARTS INTERNATIONAL :imm:::::: Harwood Academic Publishers Thames and Hudson Johns Hopkins University Press Turnaround Distributors Manchester University Press University Press of New England With thanks to the Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation for permission to reproduce the photograph on the front of this New York University Press University of Michigan Press programme of a Joseph Cornell box 'Cauda draconis'. Nick Hern Books Women and Performance " 5 T H PER FOR MAN C EST U 0 I ESC 0 N FER ENe E, ABE R Y S T W Y T H . W ALE S, I 9 9 9 Dear Colleagu e, all the art ists performing in the evening programme, the HERE BE DRAGONS Performance Platform throughout Saturday and Sunday and the Croeso i Gymru - Welcome to Wales. installations. Our sincere gratitude goes to all our colleagues from 5th PERFORMANCE STUDIES CONFERENCE Welcome to PS5 'Here be Dragons'. the CPR, who have taken the lion 's share in the organisation and management of this event. They have done so whilst curating and Conference Director Richard Gough, Centre for Performance Research & Department of Theatre, Film and TV Studies, One thing we can be certain of is that wherever you have come realising another major international project, Giving Voice 6: A University of Wales Aberystwyth from, even from within this country, you have made quite a journey Divinity of the Voice . The overlap with this project and the to get here. As you will have noticed, the train goes no further; we programming opportunities it gives rise to we will enjoy this Assistant Conference Director: Heike Roms, PSi PERFORMANCE STUDIES international are at the end of a line, on the edge of Europe, looking west across weekend. the vast expanse of the sea. This is a great place from which to explore 'boundaries, hinterlands and the terrain beyond'. We should also like to thank our colleagues from the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, who have offered The 5th Performance Studies Conference 'Here Be Dragons' is jointly The International Performance Programme has been In another sense, your journey is only just beginning, for now you encouragement and support, and particularly our programme hosted by the Centre for Performance Research (CPR)and the produced by Centre for Performance Research in have many choices to make and many routes to plan. You must committee, who helped us read, analyse and respond to over 400 Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies (TFTVS), association with Aberystwyth Arts Centre construct your own 'desire path' through a wealth of presentations proposals for presentations we received. A special thanks is due to University of Wales, Aberystwyth For CPR: and performances. We have arranged an exciting programme, Professor loan Williams, Head of Department, for responding Conference Staff which hopefully you will find both challenging and stimulating -but so positively to our proposal to host both the association Artistic Director, Richard Gough it is demanding, and you must set your own pace. We request secretariat of PSi PERFORMRNCE STUDIES international and the conference Projects Assistant: Karoline Gritzner (CPR/ TFTVS) Executive Producer, Judie Christie that you do not switch between 'breakout' sessions; you must administration within the department with the support of choose one out of the seven options. We have not structured the departmental funds. Registration: Rachel Rogers (CPR/ TFTVS) Giving Voice Director, Joan Mills breakout sessions to allow 'mix and match' - they are each Bookfair Coordinator: Adam Hayward (CPR) Administrator, Claire Swatheridge composed of a different number of presentations, and much The Aberystwyth Arts Centre, currently undergoing major Infofair Coordinator: Myfanwy Williams Archivist & Membership Secretary, Adam Hayward thought and planning has gone into the composition of each of refurbishment and expansion, for which 'Here be Dragons' was Performance Platform Coordinator: Misha Myers (CPR) Assistant Producer, Misha Myers them and their place within the dramaturgy of the whole planned as an inaugural event, has, despite its incompletion, been a conference. major partner in realising with the CPR what is probably one of Technical Director: Giles Parbery, Illicit Productions Projects Assistant, Fiona Smith the most ambitious performance festivals ever to have taken place Performance Studies Banquet Chef: Seren Bell (Aberystwyth Arts Centre) Publications Assistant, Rachel Rogers Our theme of 'Mapping the Undiscovered Realms of Performance in Wales. Many thanks to Alan Hewson, the Arts Centre Director, B Side Club Nite Hosts: Rachel Rogers & Misha Myers Office Assistant, Karoline Gritzner Studies' is going to be explored in fascinating ways over the course and all of his staff. Organisational Assistance: Peter M Boenisch Office Assistant, Deborah Proctor of these next few days. As the Performance Studies Conference itself has journeyed from North America to Europe for the first We should like to express our immense gratitude to the Conference Brochure Coordinator: Kate Moorley-Long time, we have used the opportunity to invite presenters from a institutions who joined CPR and the University of Wales as For Aberystwyth Arts Centre Programme Design: Ashley Martin Design diversity of backgrounds for a critical evaluation of the Primary Sponsors, the universities, journals and publishers who Director, Alan Hewson different histories, genealogies, geographies and politics of contributed as co-sponsors, and the numerous agencies who have Press Contact: Arthur Dafts, University of Wales Aberystwyth Administrator, Maris Davies performance studies. Many of them have been inspired by helped to fund the performance programme. This conference PSi Website: Lucia Ruedenberg-Wright Marketing Manager, Louise Amery interdisciplanary crossovers into disciplines such as geography, would not have taken place without their support. Childcare: Gill Byrne, Glenview Nursery archaeology or cultural studies. Front of House Manager, Auriel Martin Finally, we would like to thank Chief Technician, Wyn Jones Plenaries, panels and case studies will be investigating performance you for making the journey to in all its facets: as epistemology, discipline, pedagogy, and as an join us here in Aberystwyth for aesthetic event. Perhaps because of the centrality of the Centre for this mapping of the field of Performance Research in convening this conference, issues in performance studies, and for PS5 Programme Committee of the Department of Theatre, Conference Bursaries: relation to integrating theory and practice, of meetings between your participation in the practitioners and scholars and of an aesthetic praxis of formation of an association Film and Television Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth: Katherine Adamenko, Alex Alderton, Charlie Bovington, Rhiannon performance will dominate the event. within this still-evolving discipline.
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