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

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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. Richard Gough, Lisa Lewis, Roger Owen, Mike Pearson, Heike Roms Brace, Kerstin Bueschges, Claire Cooke, Molly Cross, Laura Davidse, Zoe Ellison, Claire Eriksson, Bridget Escolme, Dawn Evans, Anna Right from the outset we would like to thank all the scholars and We hope you will enjoy your practitioners who are making presentations; whether that be on a stay. We wish you a warm Fenemore, Esther Gardiner, Linsey Garney, Claire Harris, Berith panel, in a workshop, or a case study. We should also like to thank welcome. Special Thanks Hjelmgaard, David Illari, Bridget Keehan, Christian Klose, Mark Lewis, Gareth Lewis-Jones, Jani Loikkanen, Lindesey Mace, Dan Professor Derek Llwyd-Morgan Vice-Chancellor and Principal, Maloney, Irma Mandler, Nina Marg, Luise Moggridge, Cormec Power, University of Wales Aberystwyth Deborah Procter, Rachael Quayle, Marie Richards, Gillian Ronan, AI Professor loan Williams and the staff of the Department of Theatre, Richard Gough Russell, Willow Simpson, Jenny Smith, Ana Tasic, Emma Thompson, PS5 Conference Director Film and Television Studies, University of Wales Aberystwyth Rachel Whorton lona Jones and Glenys Hartnell (Theatre Department Office) James Wallace and staff (Conference Office) PS5 UK Advisory Board: Heike Roms Keith Lewis and staff (Finance Office) PS5 Assistant Conference Director Mike Price and staff (Media Services) Ric Allsopp (Dartington College of Arts) Roger Matthews and staff (Information services) Michael Anderson (University of Kent at Canterbury) John Severs and staff (House Services) Susan Melrose (Rose Bruford College London) Ed Kelly, Adrian Hopkins and staff (Guild of Students) Robin Nelson (Manchester Metropolitan University) Sonia Dobson and staff (Guild of Students Travel Office) Alan Read (Roehampton Institute London) staff of UWA Printing Services and Post Room Talia Rodgers (Routledge/ Taylor & Francis) and our colleagues from PSi, especially Peggy Phelan, Jill Lane, Maria Shevtsova (Lancaster University) Amanda Barrett and Branislav Jakovljevic. David Williams (Dartington College of Arts) Noel Witts (DeMontfort University) Phillip Zarrilli (University of Surrey)

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4.00 - 6.00 pm REGISTRATION, 8.00 - 9.00am BREAKFAST, Bronwen 's Restauront, Penbryn Hall Granwood Corridor Suite, Penbryn Hall PERFOR(IlAnCE II am - 3.00pm BOOKFAIR, Gronwood Corridor Suite, Penbryn Hall ! STUDIES intern~Hollcll 4.00pm-7pm & INFOFAIR, Granwood Corridor Suite, Penbryn Hall Ceredigion Museum Aberystwyth Lisbourne House, Terrace Road 10.15 am Bu s pick-up point, Porter's Lodge, Cam pu s

10.30am - "AMGUEDDFA" 12.30pm Lisa Lewis (Theatre, Film and TV Studies, University of Wales, Aberystvvyth/UK) Roger Owen (Theatre, Film and TV Studies, 7.30pm PERFORMANCES* University of Wales, Aberystvvyth/UK)

9.00 pm PERFORMANCES* Mike Pearson (Theatre, Film and TV Studies, University of Wales, Aberystvvyth/UK) *[for more information on Eddie Ladd (Brith Gof, Wales/UK) the evening performance programme, please refer 11.00 am-7pm REGISTRATION, Granwood Corridor Suite, Penbryn Hall to page 17] 12.30 -1 .30 pm LUNCH, Bronwen's Restaurant, Penbryn Hall throughout COFFEE, TEA, REFRESHMENTS, 2.00 pm COFFEE, TEA, REFRESHMENTS, Aberystwyth Arts Centre Great Hall, Aberystwyth Arts Centre

from 5 pm DINNER, Virginia Kerovpyan 3.00pm WELCOME, Great Hall, Aberystwyth Arts Centre Aberystwyth Arts Centre GREETINGS AND INTRODUCTION BAR, Aberystwyth Arts Centre Richard Gough, Centre for Performance Research, Conference Direaor PSi PERFORMRNCE STUDIES international is a professional association founded • an electronic bulletin board for posting of employment E 0- Heike Roms, in 1997 to promote communication and exchange among scholars and opportunities, calls for papers, and publication opportunities <:> <:> practitioners working in the field of performance. We seek to create -.t PSi PERFORMANCE STUDIES international, • a discussion list and electronic forum in which members will have opportunities for dialogue among artists and academics in a variety of E Assistant Conference Direaor the opportunity to post research in progress in order to solicit 0- disciplines whose concerns converge in the stili-evolving areas of live <:> feedback from peers <:> art and performance. ...; WELCOME ADDRESS • a biannual newsletter, distributed electronically and in print PSi PERFORMRNCE STUDIES international is actively committed to creating a Derek Llwyd Morgan, membership base of artists and scholars from throughout the world. • a directory, which will include contact information and descriptions Vice Chancellor, University of Wales Aberystwyth We recognize that while performance studies as a field encourages of current projects and major research interests of all members conversations across disciplinary boundaries, professionals in various • discounts on subscriptions to a number of international journals, Plenary, Great Hall , Aberystwyth Arts Centre parts of the world often wish for greater opportunities to exchange amongst them Performance Research, Seagull Theatre Quaterly, 3.30 - 4.00 pm KEYNOTE PROVOCATIONS research and information about performance with others who share TDR-The Drama Review, Women and Performance. their interests and expertise. PSi is a network of exchange for scholars 4.00 pm COFFEE, TEA, REFRESHMENTS, and practitioners working in diverse locations, both disciplinary and The current working language of PSi is English, but we are geographic. endeavouring to make PSI a multi-lingual organization. Great Hall, Aberystwyth Arts Centre PSi Advisory Board: Dwight Conquergood, Jill Dolan , Guillermo PS i is currently seeking founding sponsors for the organization. For Gomez-Pena, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Peggy Phelan, Joseph details on the available rates and special benefits of institutional Roach , Richard Schechner. sponsorship, please contact the PSi office. PSi Board of Directors: Richard Gough (President), Lisa Wolford PSi PERFORMRNCE STUDIES international gratefully acknowledges the (Vice-President), Cindy Brizzell (Secretary), Peggy Phelan and Ron administrative and infrastructural support of the Centre for Performance Shields (Interim Treasurers), Heike Roms (Administrator). Chairs PSi Research and the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies at the Subcommittees: Amanda Barrett, Laurie Beth Clark, Catherine Cole University of Wales, Aberystwyth. and Diana Taylor, Adam Hayward, Jill Lane, Lucia Ruedenberg-Wright. For further information and a membership brochure visit the PSi As a professional organization, PS i is committed to encouraging stall at the Infofair or contact: the development of both emerging and established artists and scholars. Towards this end, we are creating: Heike Roms PS i PERFORMRNCE STUDIES international • a series of international conferences, featuring presentations by Laura Place, Aberystwyth SY23 2AU, Wales, UK recognized and emerging artists and scholars. Tel : +44 (0) 1970 - 621517 Fax: +44 (0) 1970 - 622831 • a calendar of significant performances, workshops, conferences and Email: [email protected] other events of interest to our membership http://www.nyu .edu/pages/psi

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4. 15 - 6.00pm BREAKOUT SESSIONS I Panel C 164 Semi nar Room LIVING DISPLAY: RETHINKING HUMAN EXHIBITION Panel A 12 Lecture Theatre Mary Chapman (University of Alberta/CAN) • PERFORMANCE ECOLOGIES "Living Pictures: Innocent Obscenities?" Moderator: Susan Melrose (Graduate Studies, Rose Bruford Jennifer Fisher (Society for Fellows in the Humanities, Cornell College, London/UK) University/US) Baz Kershaw (Drama, University of Bristol/UK) "COUNTERPOSES: Reimagining Tableaux Vivants " 'The Theatrical Biosphere and the Ecology of Performance" Jim Drobnick (Concordia University/CAN) Gregg Whelan (Dartington College of Arts/UK) "Body Events and Implicated Gazes" "A Place for Criticism: Eventing Geography" Alan Read (Drama and Theatre Studies, Roehampton Institute Panel C43 Lecture Room London/UK) TRANSATLANTIC MELODRAMA: REALISM'S DOUBLE "Actor-Animal: The Nature of the Anomalous" Charles Dove (English, University of Houston/US) "Theatrical Infections: Melodrama and Realism in Dreiser's Sister Carrie" E Panel A 14 Lecture Theatre g. Lynn Voskuil (English, University of Houston/US) PERFORMATIVE ENCOUNTERS ~ "Sensational Realism on the Victorian Stage" Moderator: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (Performance Studies, Alison Forsyth (Theatre, Film and TV Studies, University of Wales E New York University/US) ~ Aberystvvyth/UK) E Rory PB Turner (Goucher College/US) ..,; "Performative Re-Reading and the 'Stages' ·of Nomadism" g. "Presence in Igbo Performance" ~ Christopher Balme (Institut fUr Theaterwissenschaft, Universitat Case Study C4 Lecture Theatre E MainzlD) RESEARCHING PERFORMANCE I ~ 'Theatricality and Performative Encounters in the Pacific" Moderator: Maria Shevtsova (Theatre Studies, Lancaster University/UK) ..,; Keith Hollinshead (The Luton Business School, University of Doris Kolesch (Institut fUr Theaterwissenschaft, FU BerlinlD) and Luton/UK) Annette Jael Lehmann (Institut fUr Theaterwissenschaft, FU Berlin/D) "Tourism and the Play of Restless Populations: the Performances of "Kulturen des Performativen/ Performative Cultures - a trans-disciplinary Bhabha's Third Space' Peoples" research project" Stuart Andrews (Theatre Studies, Lancaster University /UK) Dragan Klaic (Netherlands Theatre Institute/NL) "Performing Disney in the New Arcades of Paris" "From Cultural Machine to Futuristics: The Case of Theatre Instituut Nederland - a Research Resource, a Thinktank, and a Networking Machine" Panel C22 Lecture Theatre Jean-Marie Pradier (Laboratoire d' Ethnoscenologie, Universite de 'WHISPERING IN THE ARCHIVE': Paris/F) PERFORMANCE, WRITING AND DOCUMENTATION "Ethnoscenology - A New Field in Cognitive Anthropology" Moderator: John Hall (Dartington College of Arts/UK) Peggy Phelan (Performance Studies, New York University/US) "Desire and the Document: or, Andy Warhol Live" Gavin Butt (Historical and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College University of London/UK) "Whispering in the Archive: Furtive Encounters, the Body Imaged and Art History" Joe Kelleher (Drama, Roehampton Institute London/UK) "Eurydice in the Underworld: Kathy Acker's Future Map"

6.00 - 7.00 pn DINNER, Branwen's Restaurant, Penbryn Hall Panel C4 Lecture Theatre DISCIPLINE AND 7.30pm PERFORMANCES* PERFORMANCE Moderator: Cynthia Wimmer 9.30pm PERFORMANCE (University of Maryland/US) Jon McKenzie (StudioLab, New York/US) *[for more information on the evening performance programme, please refer to page 17] "The Age of Global Performance" John E McGrath (Performance Studies, 7.00 pm - 2 am BAR, Student Union New York University/US) "Exposed to Death: Performativity and the Installation/Performance Borders of Surveillance" Foyer, Hugh Owen Building James Thompson (Centre for Applied throughout Debbi Sutton (Pratt Institute New York/US) Theatre Research/UK) "Performing Crime/Performing Punishment" "Family Members" Family Members is an installation and performonce, which Patricia Behrendt (Theatre Arts, takes the form of informal story telling. The artist combines University of Nebraska/US) the role of docent and friend interacting with the audience as "Scene of the Crime: Performance she serves tea. She 'chats' leading them through her Metaphors in Criminal Forensic Narratives" installation based on three generations of her extended family. Each performance is unique, a loosely structured improvisation. SATURDAY 10 APRIL 1999 SATURDAY 10 APRIL 1999

8.00 - 9.00 am BREAKFAST, Branwen's Restaurant, Penbryn Hall Panel C4 Lecture Theatre MAPPING CRITICISM BREAKFAST WITH THE ARTISTS, Moderator: Shannon Jackson (Dramatic Arts, University of Senior Common Room, Greenwood Corridor Suite California, Berkeley/US) Elan Wales P A Skantze (English, University of Michigan/US) Gardzienice Theatre Association, Poland 'The Choreography of Cartography" Robin Nelson (Contemporary Arts, Manchester Metropolitan 11 .00am - 2pm BOOKFAIR, Granwood Corridor Suite, Penbryn Hall University/UK) 4.00 - 7.00 pm & INFOFAIR, Granwood Corridor Suite, Penbryn Hall "Set Map Slip = Palimpsest" Susan Melrose (Graduate Studies, Rose Bruford College, London/UK) 8.30 am - 2 pm REGISTRATION, Granwood Corridor Suite, Penbryn "A Theory Too Far?" Tomasz Kubikowski (Theatre Studies, Aleksander Zelwerowicz State Theatre Academy, Warszawa/Poland) 'The Dragon of Receptiveness: Performance Studies and Phenomenology" Panel DS Lecture Theatre IMPRESSIONS OF THE CITY/IMPRESSING THE CITY SanSan Kwan (Performance Studies, New York University/US) "Choreographing Hong Kong: Movement, Space, and the Production of Cultural Identity" Ari Kelman (American Studies, New York University/US) 'The Sounds of the Civic: Noise and Urban Identities at the New York Public Ubrary" Blagovesta Momchedjikova (Performance Studies, New York University/US) El an Niels Dachler (Film, New York University/US) 9.00 - 1 1.00 am BREAKOUT SESSIONS 2 THE DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE, "Screams Under Bridges" Ben Stewart (Performance Studies, New York University/US) BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY Panel A 14 Lecture Theatre "Delivering Contradictions: A Bicycle Messenger's Topography of the City" PERFORMING NATIONHOOD Panel C 164 Seminar Room Moderator: Ian Watson (Visual and Performing Arts, Rutgers <:>g University-Newark/US) ~ FRACTURED GEOGRAPHIES/LOCAL IDENTITIES: Ian Watson (Visual and Performing Arts, Rutgers Un iversity­ PERFORMING DIASPORA I For program and admission information Newark/US) g (Double Panel, Part II scheduled for Saturday, IJO-3JOpm) <:> (BA, BAC, MA,and PhD degree programs), "The 'Idea' of America" ~ Moderator: May Joseph (Performance Studies, New York please contact: Jennifer Jones (Theatre, University of Denver/US) University/US) "The Tenors were Sharp: Welsh Culture and Community in the United May Joseph (Performance Studies, New York University/US) States" "East African Asians and Nomadic Citizenship" Ronald E. Shields Ivy I-chu Chang (Foreign Language Research Centre, National Monica Edelstein (Tulane University/US) Professor and Chair Chiao Tung UniversitylTaiwan ROC) "The Ethiopian Coffee Ceremony in Israel: Grounding Spirits and the "Masquerading National Identities in Taiwan: Theatrical Politics and Home in the Promised Land" Democratisation" or Peter Sutherland (International Studies/Philosophy and Religious g Yuichiro Takahashi (Senshu University Tokyo/J) Studies, Louisiana State University/US) g "Performing the Nation: Geisha Girl Who Became a National Icon " "Recognizing Slavery/Reversing the Middle Passage: Views from the Road Lisa Wolford of an Afrocentric-Buddhist Pilgrimage of Millennial Healing" E Panel C22 Lecture Theatre Graduate Coordinator Panel C43 Lecture Theatre g CARTOGRAPHIES OF POWER 0.: OFFENSIVE FORMATIONS Moderato r: Diana Taylor (Performance Studies, New York Department of Theatre University/US) Moderator: Sally Banes (Theatre and Drama, University of Wisconsin - Madison/US) 338 South Hall Kimberley DaCosta Holton (Theatre, Wesleyan University/US) Bowling Green State University "Spectacular Mappings: Fascism and Cultural Cartography in 1930s Anita Gonzalez (Dance, Connecticut College/US) Portugal" "Putting on the Cork: Race Performance and Embracing Stereotypes" Bowling Green, Ohio 43403 Margaret Werry (Performance Studies, Northwestern James Frieze (Liverpool John Moores University/UK) USA University/US) "Self-Possession and Standing In: Performative 1m-Personations" "The place of the native in the space of the nation: the cartographic Catherine MacGregor (School of Humanities and Social Sciences, imaginary in New Zealand, 1889-1900" University of Wolverhampton/UK) Lesley Delmenico (Theatre Studies, Northwestern University/US) "Abject Speculation: Refiguring the Female Body in the Performance "The Tyranny and the Opportunity of Distance': Geography and Identity Work of Cosey Fanni Tutti" in the Northern Territory" Oliver Double (comedian; Liverpool John Moores University/UK) Lucia Vieira Sander (Brasilia/Brazil) "Who was offending who in early alternative comedy?" "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forest the Conquest of the West in the US and Brazil as Performed in Susan Glaspell's and Antonio Vieira's Biographical Writings OR Here Be Mixture!"

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Case Study A 12 Lecture Theatre 1. 15 - 3. ISpm BREAKOUT SESSIONS 3 PERFORMANCE AND MULTIMEDIA Moderator: Scott deLahunta (Writing Research Associates/NL) P a~e l A 14 Lecture Theatre Leslie Hill (Curious.com/Arizona State University/US) and TAKEN TO EXTREMES: Helen Paris (Curious.com/UK) BEYOND AND BENEATH THE SURFACE OF BODIES "RAM & BULL: Technology in Performance" Ramsay Burt (De Montfort University/UK) Lizbeth Goodman (Institute for New Media Performance Research, 'The Intimate Fluidity of Embodiment: Blurring Inside and Outside in University of Surrey/UK) and E Recent Performance" Richard Loveless (Institute for Studies in the Arts, Arizona State ~ Lisa Wolford (Bowling Green State University/US) Un iversity/US) 'Three Cruciflctions and No Redemption: Pocha Nostra 's Apocalyptic "Human Performance and Digital Presence" E Landscape" A William Smith (Advanced Computing Center for The Arts and ~ Katherine Mezur (Freelance Director and Choreographer; Arts, Design; Dance, Ohio State University/US) ..: Music &Theatre, Georgetown University, US) "Aesthetics of Simultaneity: Virtual Bodies and Cultural Layering" "Cultural (Borders/Limits) of Viewing: the Body as a Frontier Culture in Adrianne Wortzel (artist; Advertising Design and Graphic Arts, Traditional and Contemporary Japanese Performance" New York City Technical College, CUNY/US) Janet O 'Shea (Dance, University of California Riverside/US) "Globe Theater: Sayonara Diorama" "From Temple to Battlefield: Bharata Natyam and Tamil Nationalism among Sri Lankan Emigrants" Roundtable C 165 Seminar Room Sara-Jane Bailes (Performance Studies, New York University/US) WRITING PERFORMANCE· JOURNALS IN "Carving Through Thin Air: Anorexia as Resistance" PERFORMANCE STUDIES ~ Chairs: Judith Jerome (M anaging Editor, Women & ~ Performance/US) and Claire McDonald (Editor, Performance Research/UK) E Emil Hrvatin (Maska/Slovenia), 1:1 g Anjum Katyall (Seagull Theatre Quarterly/India) , 0: TDR-The Drama Review/US, Judith Hamera (Text and Performance Quarterly/US) , Loren Kruger (Theater Journal/US), Nathan Stucky (Theatre Annual: a Journal of Performance Studies/US), Panel C22 Lecture Theatre Leslie Satin (Women & Performance/US). PERFORMANCE STUDIES GENEALOGIES Moderator: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (Performance Studies, Dance Studio, Sport Centre Campus, New York University/US) (Meeting Point Registration Office 8.45 am) Stephen J. Bottoms (Theatre, Film & Television Studies, University WORKSHOP of Glasgow/UK) Barry Edwards "Airing out the Performance Studies Closet" (Optik, Performing Arts, Brunei University/UK) Kate Hammer (Drama, Roehampton Institute London/UK) "Human Experience and the Physical Performance Process" "Schechner's Performance Paradigm: Catalyst or Compromiser The workshop concerns itself with the interface between performance making Avanthi Meduri (Performance Studies, Northwestern and certain aspects of contemporary scientific knowledge, focussing on the University/US) possible transformations of performance making from linear, uni-vocal, meaning "Eyes in Performance Studies: A View from the Margins " driven methodologies towards approaches that inter-act with complexity, non­ linearity, scale and ultimately with life-experience. The consequence is the development of new kinds of technique, new kinds of skills, for the performer, the Panel Great Hall. Aberyscwyth Arts Centre maker/director and the audience that challenge traditional notions of expressivity ...; PERIODIZING THE SEVENTIES in the performing arts. t Philip Auslander (School of Literature. Communication and No special requirements for participants. : Culture. Georgia Institute of Technology/US) "Did Punk Kill Rock or Save It? Periodizations of Rock in the 70s" Sally Banes (Theatre and Drama. University of Wisconsin-Madison/US) "Soho 1976"

II .OOam COFFEE, TEA, REFRESHMENTS Panel C4 Lecture Theatre Great Hall, Aberystwyth Arts Centre COMMUNITIES: PERFORMING AT THE EDGE Carol Martin (Drama, New York University/US) Plenary, Great Hall . Aberyscwyth Arts Centre "Drug Scenes" II.ISam- Richard Schechner (Performance Studies, Sharon Mazer (Theatre and Film Studies, University of 12.ISpm New York University/US) Canterbury/NZ) "Fundamentals" "Sacred Cows/Scapegoats: the Theatrical Commodification of the Holocaust in Christchurch, New Zealand" 12. 15 -1 . ISpm LUNCH, Branwen's Restaurant, Penbryn Hall Loren Kruger (Theatre Journal. University of Chicago/US) Registered as a Charity No . 900054 'Theatre for Development and TV Nation"

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Panel DS Lecture Theatre Case Study A 12 Lecture Theatre GHOST NOTES: HAUNTOLOGIES OF PERFORMANCE ARCHIVING PERFORMANCE Moderator: Diana Taylor (Performing Studies. New York Moderators: Richard Loveless (Institute for Studies in the Arts. University/US) Arizona State University/US) and a. Tim Raphael (Theatre. Wesleyan University/US) Chris Mills (Theatre. Film and Dance. Cornell University/US) ." "Remembering to Forget: Ronald Reagan and the Hauntology of Bitburg" ..; Barry Smith (Visual and Performing Arts. The Nottingham Trent Derek Goldman (Northwestern University/US) University/UK) a. "What was that Unforgettable Line? Hauntologies, Loss and Memory Play" "On-line Digital Archives: Live Art and Digital Performance" ." ..: Sonja Kuftinec (Theatre Arts and Dance, University of Steve Dixon (Media and Performance. University of Salford/UK) Minnesota/US) "Digits and Dragons: Remapping Performance Through Hypermedia" "Haunted City/Ghost Town: Performing Culture in Mostar, Bosnia­ Thomas J Taylor (English. Kent State University/US) Herzegovina" "Archiving the Postscriptive '60s: an Invitation" Toby Oakes (British Library National Sound Archive, London/UK) Panel C 164 Seminar Room "Random Harvest" FRACTURED Sergey L Shternin (Centre of the Informational Technologies for GEOGRAPHIES/LOCAL the Theatres of Russia; St Petersburg State Theatre Arts IDENTITIES: PERFORMING Academy/Russia) and DIASPORA II Irina Khijinskia (St Petersburg State Theatre Arts Academy/Russia) (Double Panel. Part I scheduled for Saturday. "Representation of Russian Theatres in the Internet" 9.00-1 1.00 am)

Moderator: Jean Rahier (African-New Performance Platform Old College Aberystwyth World Studies. Florida International 1. ISpm Bus pick-up point Porter's Lodge. Campus University/US) Jean Rahier (African-New World a. 1.30 pm Writing as Performance/Performance as Writing ." Studies. Florida International (This performance programme accompanies the panel on "Writing as University/US) Performance /Performance as Writing" scheduled for Sunday, 9.00 am.) E "Re-Imaginations of the National Q. Racial/Spatial Order in the Miami ." ..: Rhonda Blair (Division of Theatre, Southern Methodist Ecuadorian Diaspora: the End of Year University/US) Celebrations" "American jesus" Gail Sutherland (Philosophy and American Jesus is a comic solo piece about religious fundamentalism, the body, Religious Studies. Louisiana State sex, gender, misogyny and language. It explores the idea of the Word made Flesh, University) and of the Word determining flesh, how fundamental(ist) 'writings' enter into us "Performing Unity and Asserting Difference: and become part of us, the danger of underestimating the power af The janmashtami Celebration in Houston" fundamentalist Christianity, and the impact of their words and actions on all af us. Percy C Hintzen (African American Studies. University of California Fred McVittie (Live Arts, Manchester Metropolitan Berkeley/US) University/UK) "Performance and Meaning in West Indian "Drawing a line around Big Love" Migrant Identity: West Indians in the San "In 1990 I fell in love more deeply than I have ever done before or will again. I Francisco Bay Area" tried ta classify and index the experience in words, to map the tumultuous terrain of hormones and blood onto the easy landscape of language. Looking at this writing now, I am struck how inadequately the language holds the feeling, and yet in its Panel C43 Lecture Theatre very inadequacy, in the vagaries and excesses that spill their incontinent passion PERFORMING IRREVERENCE beyond the bounds of any hard hypothesis, there is something of our love there". Moderator: Jon Erickson (English. Ohio State University/US) Galinsky (New York/US) Carol Burbank Oohn D and Catherine T McArthur Foundation. 'The Bench - a Four Bum One Whore Show" Northwestern University/US) The Bench is about four homeless men who have their hearts broken over the 'The Fine Art of Giving Offense: The Uses and Abuses of Irreverence in same woman, and about how they deal with the ensuing rumours of AIDS. Th e Comic Activism" E audience gets insight into the daily efforts of survival that these men go through. Q. ." Linda Kintz (English. University of Oregon/US) Homeless 'bums' and 'whores' can love and can get their hearts broken - like "Traditional Women and UPPity Blondes" anybody else. E Theresa Krystyna Smalec (Performance Studies, New York ~ University/US) 3.15pm COFFEE, TEA, REFRESHMENTS, ..: "Performing Hypocrisy in the Public Sphere: the Art Space as a Great Hall, Aberystwyth Arts Centre Sanctioned Zone for Illicit Sexual Economies" Gilad Melzer (Performance Studies, New York University/US) ! 3.30 - 5. 15 pm PLENARY. Great Hall, Aberystwyth Arts Centre "Past Impossible: the Scandals of Holocaust Representation in :::; Bernice Johnson Reagon (US) Contemporary Israel" "Songs of Struggle: The Vocal Power of the Civil Rights Katya Bargna (Germanic Studies. Sheffield University/UK) Movement." "Frank Castorf and the Survival of Political Theatre in the Postmodern Age" Wlodzimierz Staniewski (Gardzienice Theatre Association, Poland) "Transition of Ancient Cultures to Indigenous Cultures"

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Performance Platform Old College Aberystwyth S.30-6.00pm DAILY WRAP-UP, AI2, A14, C22 Lecture Theatres 3. 15 Bus pick-up point Porter's Lodge, Campus 6.00 -7.00pm DINNER, Branwen's Restauraflt, Penbryn Hall Coffee, Tea, Refreshments will be available LAN CASTE R J l 6.00-12.00pm PERFORMANCE INSTALLATION* 3.30pm U N I V ERSITY/) ~ Sophia Lycouris (KUNSTWERK-BLEND, London/UK and PERFORMANCES* Nottingham Trent University/UK) with Adam Kossoff 7.30pm (film/video) and Phil Durrant (composition) "Borderlander" 9.30pm PERFORMANCES/CONCERT* Border/onder explores connections between live performance, video installation *[for more information on the evening performance and kinetic art in order to map notions of 'borderland' through the use of images programme, please refer to page 17] of the human body. A female dancer shares the space with a translucent Deyartment Of Theatre studies projection screen in constant motion onto which a looped video is projected. The sound crosses the space repeatedly, re-framing the ever-changing relationship Walking and Talking between the moving image and the moving body. The Quad, Old College, Aberystwyth E This energetic and expanding department is unique in the Q. 11 .00pm­ "CYNULLlAD" <:> dawn Lisa Lewis (Theatre, Film and TV Studies, flexibility of its approach towards research in Performance and ::; 4. ISpm University of Wales, Aberystwyth/UK) E Alice Stefania (Corpos Informaticos, University of Theatre Studies. We offer the opportunity to study a broad Roger Owen (Theatre, Film and TV Studies, g. Brasilia/Brazil) range of practices through traditional research methodologies ,.,., University of Wales, Aberystwyth/UK) '" 'Telepresence" and innovative, subject-related approaches. Mike Pearson (Theatre, Film and TV Studies, Alice Stefania performs alternately in two spaces watched by one part of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth/UK) audience while the other half watches her performance on screen. Thus , the The Department's practical facilities are amongst the best in performer's body dematerializes, the action transmitted by video takes a different Eddie Ladd (Brith Gof, Wales/UK) British higher education. It has a high research rating of 4 and a physicality and transports itself, in real time, by means of technologies, to reach spread spaces and spectators. flourishing and varied research programme. 7.00 pm - 2 am BAR, Student Union

S.OOpm 11 .30pm Canton Opera Company Staff Research Interests include - Helen Paris (curious.com multimedia performance company/UK) Feminism and Sexual Politics in Performance 'The Day Don Came With the Fish" Contemporary Experimental Performance "The Day Don Came With the Fish " is an exploration of the limits and potentials of the body. The work revolves around themes of mortality and immortality by Theatre Anthropology examining pivotal moments in life - in particular "the moment just before ... ". British and European Contemporary Playwrights The piece deals with the same issues in form as in content, leading to the performance/film/digital hybrid. Interculturism, Multiculturism, Cross-culturism and Performance 19th Century Popular Theatre Dance and Physical Theatre Performance and Contemporary Critical Theory

For further details of Research Degrees (MPhil/PhD full- or part-time), or the MA in Contemporary Theatre Practice (full-time), please contact - Dr Andrew Quick, Department of Theatre Studies, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA 1 4YW, UK.

Tel: +44 (0)1524 594156 La Pocha Nostra Fax: +44 (0)1524 39021 E-mail: [email protected] EVENING PERFORMANCE PROGRAMME

The 5th PERFORMANCE STUDIES conference in Wales FRI 9th, SAT 10th & MaN 12th 1999 will be accompanied by a performance festival, APRIL 7.30 pm (Venue to be announced) presented in co-operation with the Centre for Performance Research and its 'Giving Voice' festival. Tickets for the GARDZIENICE THEATRE performance festival are not included in the conference ASSOCIATION (Poland): registration fee, but delegates to the conference can book Metamorphoses £8 performance tickets at a reduced price. Metamorphoses is the latest See map at back for venue locations. extraordinary production by one of the most original and innovative SAT 10th APRIL 9.00 pm theatre companies in the world, THU 8th APRIL 7.30 pm 1 (ABERYSTWYTH ARTS CENTRE) acclaimed for its virtuoso (CAPEL Y MaRFA, performances, exquisitely 1 THE SHOUT (UK) £6 Portland Street, Aberystwyth) interweaving movement and sound. ~ Hot new vocal ensemble led by the composer Orlando Gough and composer VIRGINIA KEROVPYAN and singer Richard Chew. Acclaimed for its 'expressive use of variety of (France): vocal timbres from full-blown "operatic" vowels, through natural singing, to FRI 9th APRIL & SAT 10th APRIL 7.30 (THEATR Y CASTELL) Armenian Liturgical Chant more earthy sounds ... A huge success' (The Independent) £4 THEATREWORKS (Singapore): Listening to the subtleties of this beautiful Eat Me & Ticket Office: Foyer Aberystwyth Arts Centre. Tel: (01970) 623232 vocal tradition is an enchanting and MAYA ROA (India): inspirational experience. Influences on Virginia Kerovpyan's singing include her Khol Do £4 American roots, her Parisian home, the At the forefront of Singapore's intercultural Armenian culture that she married into and interdisciplinary performance, and her extensive experience with early Theatreworks has created a populist theotre music ensembles. of recognition and celebration of Singaporean Virginia Kerovpya n identity. THU 8th APRIL 9.00 pm Maya Roa is one of the most exciting (ABERYSTWYTH ARTS CENTRE) performers in India today. In her solo piece, FRI 9th, SAT 10th, SUN I Ith & MaN 12th APRIL, 7.30 pm based on Saadat Hasan Manto's tale of a (Venue to be announced) A FILETTA (Corsica): father's search for his daughter in the BRITH GOF (Wales): Sacred Polyphony from Corsica £6 modness of the partition riots, she creates a One of the highlights of GIVING VOICE in 1997, A Fi/etta have pioneered highly distinctive physical language inspired by LI'ath (Gwynfyd) £4 the revival of this beautiful and haunting traditional form which is the Kathakali. One of Wales' most respected experimental theatre companies present the product of cultural diversity ond great inventiveness. second of a suite of thirteen works rooted in rural West Wales and inspired FRI 9th APRIL 9.30 pm by local histories. Performed by Eddie Ladd. THU 8th 9.00 pm, FRI 9th 7.30 pm & SAT 10th APRIL 9.30 pm (ABERYSTWYTH ARTS CENTRE) (THE QUAD, OLD COLLEGE) SAT 10th, SUN II th & MaN 12th APRIL 7.30 pm BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON ELAN WALES (Wales): (ABERYSTWYTH ARTS CENTRE) (US): The Cloud of Unknowing £4 LA POCHA NOSTRA (Mexico/US): The Power of Communal Song £6 Led by Firenza Guidi and the ELAN team of singers/ performers, working Borderscape 2000 £8 Composer, singer, activist, scholar, and alongside a small group of local artists, the project takes the form of a performer and founder of the world- renowned The world-renowned Chicano experimentalists Guillermo G6mez-Peiia and week-long intensive investigation leading to a public performance/montage of a capella ensemble, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Roberto Sifuentes return to Wales for the UK premiere of their new high­ highly physical and vocal impact. Bernice Johnson Reagon will perform and lead tech Aztec Lounge Operetta of kitsch, cyborgs and shamanism at the end of a mass workshop of inspiring and uplifting the century. African-American spirituals from the American Civil Rights Movement. SAT 10th APRIL Open 6.00 pm - 12 midnight (BANDSTAND, NORTH BEACH, MARINE TERRACE) FORCED ENTERTAINMENT (UK): Q uizoola! £2 One of the UK's most respected innovative theatre ensembles performs a strange yet structured game of questions and answers that has got badly out of hand. The audience is invited to arrive, leave, and return at any point during this 6 hour performance.

SAT 10th APRIL & SUN II th APRIL 7.30 pm (DRILL HALL, Glyndwr Road , off Park Avenue) GOAT ISLAND (US): The Sea & Poison £6 Chicago's collaborative performance company returns to Wales to perform their latest work. The piece is constructed of 'impossible dances' which challenge the limits of human ability, dances which hover somewhere between musical composition and the clumsy marathon dance competitions of American depression years. SUNDAY II APRIL 1999 SUNDAY I I APRIL 1999

8.00-9.00 am BREAKFAST, Branwen Restaurant, Penbryn Hall Panel C22 Lecture Theatre PERFORMANCE TRAINING BREAKFAST WITH THE ARTISTS Moderator: Mike Pearson (Theatre, Film and lV Studies, University Senior Common Room, of Wales Aberystwyth/UK) Granwood Corridor Suite, Pen bryn Hall Paul Allain (Drama, Goldsmiths College, University of London/UK) Forced Entertainment ''The Phenomenology of Training and the Suzuki Method" Goat Island Kermit Dunkelberg (Performance Studies, New York University/US) 11.00am-2 pm BOOKFAIR, Granwood Corridor Suite, Pen bryn Hall "Globality and the 60s Avant-Garde: Grotowski - Schechner - Sircar" 4.00pm-7pm & INFOFAIR, Granwood Corridor Suite, Penbryn Hall Liz Tomlin (Contemporary Arts, Open Performance Centre, Manchester Metropolitan University/UK) 9.00-11.00am BREAKOUT SESSIONS 4 "Beyond the Boundaries of Excellence" Christopher Newton (Theatre Studies, National University of Panel A 12 Lecture Theatre Singapore/Singapore) WRITING AS PERFORMANCE/PERFORMANCE AS "Readiness or Rojak: Strategies for Preparing Singapore Performers for the WRITING Next Century" (Please note that the performance programme accompanying this session is scheduled for Saturday, 1.30 pm) Panel C4 Lecture Room Moderator: Fred McYittie (Live Arts, Manchester Metropolitan PERFORMANCE STUDIES GEOGRAPHIES University/UK) Moderator: Maria Shevtsova (Theatre Studies, Lancaster Frank Camilleri (English and Theatre Studies, University of University/UK) Malta/Malta) Lada Cale Feldman (Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, "More Than Just A Name Game: Performance as Writing" Zagreb/Croatia) Nancy Reilly-McYittie (Contemporary Arts, Manchester "Performance Studies in Croatia" Metropolitan University/UK) Faye Chunfang Fei (Macalester College/US, Lingnan "Writing for the Cyborg Who Prepares/A Cyborg Prepares (part one)" Coliege/HongKong) Gary Maciag (Theatre Studies, Siena College/US) "Chinese Theories of Theatre & Performance" "Ont-and Techne-: Words about Studying Online Chat" Joao Gabriel L C Teixeira (TRANSE Performance Studies Research Toni Sant (Performance Studies, New York University/US) E Group, University of Brasilia/Brazil) "Real Performance on the Pseudo Network: an Introduction" .g ''The PS Experience in Brazil: a case study on the vicissitudes of <:> transdisciplinarity" Marina Litavrina (Russian Academy of Theatre, Moscow/Russia) ~ "Russian Debates on Performance Analysis" <:> : Yvette Hutchison (School of Performing Arts, King Alfred's College E Winchester/UK) tl <:> o ''These Dragons are Real: Performance Studies and the (Re)Writing of South African Theatre History"

Panel D5 Lecture Theatre GETTING RELIGION: INTERSECTIONS OF RELIGION, NATIONALITY, ETHNICITY AND PERFORMANCE Moderator: Barbara Browning (Performance Studies, New York University/US) Janet R Jakobsen (Women's Studies and Religious Studies, Panel A 14 Lecture Theatre University of Arizona/US) and RACE/GENDER/NATION· Ann Pellegrini (English and American Literature and Language, PERFORMING IDENTITY I Harvard University/US) (Double Panel, Part II scheduled for Sunday, 1.30-3.30 pm) "Getting Religion" Moderator: Amanda Barrett (Performance Studies, New York Miriam Peskowitz (University of Florida/US) University/US) "Moses's Tabernacle in the Wilderness" Annemarie Bean (Theatre, Williams College, Williamstown/US) Diana Taylor (Performance Studies, New York University/US) "Interculturalism and Binarism on the American Stage" "All we want is your soul: Latino Community Politics and Religion" Myron M Beasley (School of Interpersonal Communication, Ohio Jose Esteban Munoz (Performance Studies, New York University/US) University/US) Performance as Liberation: Ritual, Transgression, and African American "Latino Rapture: Performance and the Politics of Affect" 'Same Genderloving' Men" Sikivu Hutchinson (Performance Studies, New York/US) "Downshifted: Driving Subjects/Urban Space/LA." Shannon L Cate (George Washington University/US) and Deonna D Neal (The US Air Force Honor Guard, Washington/US) "Traubling Bodies Among 'Our Boys in Uniform': Performances of Gender, Sexuality and Nation in the US Air Force Honor Guard"

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Panel C 164 Sem inar Room W orkshop D ance Studio, Spor t Centre Campus PERFORMANCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Meeting Point Registration Office 8.45 am) Moderator: Barry Smith (Visual & Performing Arts. The Leslie Bentley (Theatre Studies. Bowling Green State Nottingham Trent University/UK) University/US) and Larry Bogad (Performance Studies. Northwestern University/US) Geraldine Harris (Theatre Studies. University of Lancaster/UK) E Q "Devising Dialogue: Demonstration and Discussion of Performative "The Dying of the Liveness?" Q Q Techniques in Generating Theatre and Fuelling Student Dialogues around Johan Callens (English. Free University of Brussels/B) Cultural and Community Issues" "Faust's Techno-Offspring Screened" E The workshop will concern itself with the distinct ways in which Augusto Boal's Q Q of to Matthew Causey (Samuel Beckett Centre. Trinity College. Q Th eatre the Oppressed and other interactive techniques contribute Leslie Dublin/IRE) 0: Bentley and Larry Bogad's work as directors, teachers, and community activists: "Screen Test of the Double: the Uncanny Performer in the Space of (lrst, in the devising of community theatre projects; second. in enriching traditional theatrical script and stagings; and third, in the cultural diversity classroom. The Technology" work will be actively demonstrated, and participants are invited to engage in the Maria Beatriz de Medeiros (Corpos Informaticos Research Group. activities in the interest of dialogue, critique and mutual learning. University of Brasilia/Brazil) No special requirements for participants. "Rarefied Boundaries of the Performance Art Language - Their Possibility in Technological Means"

http://art.ntu.ac.ukllivemag! II .OOam COFFEE, TEA, REFRESHMENTS [email protected] Branwen's Restaurant, Pen bryn Hall

Sub-Plenary I, A 12 Lecture Theatre 11.ISam- "The Artist Speaks Back" - Panel 12. ISpm

Sub-Plenary II . A 14 Lecture Theatre I 1.1 S am- Hanne Seitz (Fachhochschule Potsdam/D) Stelarc Panel C43 Lecture Room 12. ISpm "Random Walk - In the Labyrinth of Time " Research consultant to DRU Digital Research Unit E MAPPING THE MILLENNIUM - PERFORMING http://www.stelarc.va.com.au live art archiv Q Q Sub-Plenary III . C22 Lecture Theatre http I/art.ntu.ac Uk/lIVeattl Q NOSTALGIA Moderator: Andrea Phillips (Arts Council of England and The Slade 11.1 Sam- Phillip B Zarrilli (School of Performing Arts, E School of Fine Art. University College London/UK) 12. ISpm University of Surrey/UK) Q Q Michael Schurter (Theatre Arts and Dance. University of "'Negotiating' Performance Epistemologies: Knowledges Q 0: Minnesota/US) and 'about', lin ', and '(or'" Megan Lewis (Theatre Arts and Dance. University of Minnesota/US) "Mapping the Millennium: Performing Nostalgia and Anxiety under the Spectre of Y2K" Performance Platform Old College Aberystwyth Gwendolyn Alker (Performance Studies. New York University/US) I 1.00 am Bus pick-up point Porter's Lodge. Campus. E Coffee, Tea. Refreshments will be available "Performance (Studies) Anxiety: Listening to Silence" Q Sarah Gorman (Theatre Studies. Lancaster University/UK) 1I.15am ..:'" "Apocalypse Now: Fin de Siecle Malaise depicted through a Nostalgia Amy Guggenheim (Pratt Institute New York/US) for Narrative in the Work of Forced Entertainment, Rose English and "In a Person is a City" Insomniac Productions" In a Person is a City is a story Peter Billingham (Bretton Hall College. University of Leeds/UK) told in photagraphic scenes about "'Dreaming of Elvis' - Strategies and Motifs of Post-Romantic Spirituality the questions raised by a case of http://www.frank.ndirect.co.uklmilieuxl in the Work of Forced Entertainment" mistaken identity. Text, slide images and sound depict a Roundtable C 165 Seminar Room sensorial experience of the city that reflects the confusion TEACHING PERFORMANCE STUDIES between the real and the Chair: Henry Bial (Drama. New York University/US) imagined in everyday life. DIGITAL RESEARCH UNIT Through a heightened VICTORIA STUDIOS Nicholas Arnold (Performance Studies. De Montfort University/UK) "Everywoman ". the audience is THE NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY Jane Barnette (Theatre and Dance. University of Texas at hybri"d invited to identify deep needs in e-Zlne. BURTON STREET Austin/US) ourselves and the varied impulses NOTTINGHAM Cindy Brizzell (Yale School of Drama/US) that we have in order to satisfy NG14BU James Frieze (Liverpool John Moores University/UK) them. PHONE/FAX: (0)1159486831 Sally Harrison-Pepper (School of Interdisciplinary Studies. http://a rt. ntu .ac. uklthezi ne/ EMAIl: [email protected] WEB: http://art.ntu.ac.uklliveart University of New Mexico and University of Miami/US) Sonja Kuftinec (Theatre and Dance. University of Minnesota/US) 12.IS-I.ISpm LUNCH. Tim Raphael (Theater. Wesleyan University/US) Branwen's Richard Schechner (Performance Studies. New York University/US) Restaurant Penbryn SUNDAY II APRIL 1999 SUNDAY II APRIL 1999 1

Roehampton Institute London Panel D5 Lecture Theatre 1.15 - 3.15 pm BREAKOUT SESSIONS 5 RITUAL AND POLITICS: Panel A 12 Lecture Theatre THEATRICALIZING IDENTITY Department of Drama: Theatre, Film and Television NOT SOLO PERFORMANCE Nathan Stucky (Speech Communication, Southern Illinois Laurie Beth Clark (Art, Unive rsity of Wiscon sin/US) Unive rsity/US) Lin Hixson (GOAT ISLAND, Chicago/US) "Identity Politics and the Assertion of Local Powe r: The Hegemony of a place for performance Firenza Guidi (ELAN, W ales/UK) Homecoming Rituals" Michelle Iliuminato (STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, Carnegie Mellon jerrilyn McGregory (Engli sh, Florida State University/US) Come University/US) "'When the Saints Marching In': African American Burial Leagues in a Region of th e South" Michael Peterson (Theatre an d Dance, Millikin Unive rsi ty/US) Kristina Sch river (Florida State Unive rsity Chico/US), Donna Marie Nudd (Communication, Florida State University/US) and Pane l A 14 Lectu re Theatre Terry Gal loway (Alternative Theatres Everywhere/US & UK) RACE/GENDER/NATION - PERFORMING IDENTITY II "Raining on their Parade: Finding Performance Strategies that make the (Doubl e Pane l, Part I scheduled for Su nday, 9.00-1 1.00 am) Exclu sive, Inclusive" Moderator: Amanda Barrett (Performance Studies, New York john P McCarthy (G reenhorne's O 'Mara, Inc.lUS) University/US) "Material Manifestations of th e Performance of Sociocultural Identity in Antebellum Philadelphia" Pamela Cobrin (Performance Studies, New Yo rk University/US) "Reading Between th e Lines: Feminized Representation in 16th and Panel C 164 Se minar Roo m 17th Century English Court Queen 's Masqu es" CRITICAL THEORY AND DANCE STUDIES Lisa Merrill (Communication and Rhetorical Studi es, Hofstra Mark Franko (Performing Arts, University of California Santa Cruz/US) University/US) "Figural In versions of Louis XIV's Dancing Body" "Charlotte Cushman and the Performance of Nationality, Sexuality, and Andre Lepecki (Performance Studies, New York University/US) Gender" "Dance's Other: Stillness and the Microscopy of Perception" Froebel College. one of the four colleges that make up the lnstitute's West Lo ndon ca mpus and currently Anjum Katyal (Seagull Foundation for the Arts, Calcutta/India) and Taze Yanick (SUNY, Binghamton/US) the location for a s ix month site-specific event by Forster and Hei ghes exploring the ethics of bu ildin g. Naveen Kishore (Seagull Foundation for the Arts, Calcutta/India) "Performing the Goddess" "Movement, Interruption, Community" Inih A Ebong (Theatre Arts, University of Uyo/Nigeria) Rachel Chamberlain Duerden (Contemporary Arts, Manchester a space for theatre thinking E 'Juvenile Gods and Ancestors in Africa: an Exploration of Children's E Metropolitan University/UK) ~ Performance Frontiers among the Ibibio of Southeastern Nigeria " ~ "Th e Mis-shapen Pearl: Morris, Handel, and the Baroque Subjedivity" ,.; Professor Alan Read: "Actor-Animal: The Nature of the Anomalous" Panel C43 Lecture Room Pane l C 22 Lecture Theatre Friday 9 April4.15 - 6.00 pm Panel 'Performance Ecologies', A 12 Lecture Theatre E t THEATRICALITY/PERFORMATIVITY ~ INTERSPECIES RELATIONS '"....: Moderator: Lisa Wolford (Theatre Labyrinth, Bowling Green State Dr Joe Kelleher "Eurydice in the Underworld: Kathy Acker's Future Map" Moderator: Alan Read (Drama, Roehampton Institute London/UK) University/US) Friday 9 April 4.15-6.00 pm Panel '''Whispering in the Archive": David Williams (Dartington College of Arts/UK) Performance, Writing and Documentation', C22 Lecture Theatre jon Erickson (English, Ohio State University/US) "Animal Acts" "Truth and Theatre: Defining the Political in Performance" judith Hamera (Communication Studies, California State University, Dr Kate Hammer "Schechner's Performance Paradigm: Catalyst or Compromise?" Yvonne M Gaudelius (Art Education and Women's Studies, Saturday 10 April 1.15-3.15 pm Panel 'Performance Studies Genealogies', C22 Lecture Theatre Los Angeles/US) Pennsylvania State University/US) ''The Romance of Monsters: Theorizing the Virtuoso Body" "The Role of Subjedivity in Theatrical and Performative Strudures" Romy Sara Shiller (Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, Professor Alan Read Dr Joe Kelleher Dr Kate Hammer Kirsten Shepherd-Barr (English, North Carolina State University/US) University of Toronto/CAN) Two current members and an associate of the Department (chair of research. senior lecturer and visiting lectu rer) presenting papers at PS5 "Interdisciplinary Theatricality: Th eatre as a Model for Consciousness" "Entangled Gender Identities and Camp Cyborg Territories" Daniel Meyer-Dinkgrafe (Theatre, Film and TV Studies, University of W ales Aberystvvyth/UK) Panel C4 Lecture Theatre a location in London for research and writing "Beauty and Performance" PERFORMANCE IN THE ARAB WORLD: TOWARDS A NEW HISTORY Case Study C 165 Seminar Room Shakespeare and Performance Moderator: Margaret Majumdar (Glamorgan International Festival, Performance and Theoretical Thinking RESEARCHING PERFORMANCE II University of Glamorgan/UK) Childhood through Performance Moderator: john Anderson (Emerson College/US) Writing as Performance Practice Lamice EI-Amari (UTOPIA 93, BerlinlD) Melissa Frances Trimingham (Bretton Hall College, University of Space Place and Ethics "Mapping Performance in Dragon'S Land" Leeds/UK) Cultural Production and Representation Abuelgassim Gor (Criticism and Theatre Studies, University of "Research Demands: Creative Minds " Sudan, Khartoum/Sudan) Pamela C Carter (SUSPECT CULTURE, Glasgow/UK) "African Ritual exploring Sudanese Ceremony of Ruth EI Shulok" Taught MA. MPhil and PHD research in these interdisciplinary areas offering University of Surrey degrees "Speaking out of Turn " with some of the most flexible and innovative practice as research parameters in the UK. Farouk Ohan (Windsor/Ontario/CAN) Diane Howard (Performance Studies, Communication, University "AT-TA'AZI & Good Friday: A comparative approach to Christian and of Mary Hardin-Baylor/US) For further information contact: Islamic Rituals" "Pioneer Performances, On Site and Long Distance" Enquiries Office, Roehampton Institute, London Glenn D'Cruz (English and Cultural Studies, University of Whitelands College. West Hill. London. SW15 Melbourne/Australia) Tel: (44) (0) 181 392 3232 Fax (44 (0) 181 3923148 "Performing Theory" jacques Arpin (Psychiatrist, Transcultural Consulting, Geneva/CH) email [email protected] "At the Crossroads of Migration, Health and Performing Arts"

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Performance Platform Old College Aberystwyth Panel A 14 Lecture Theatre 1.15 Bus pick-up point Porter's Lodge , Campus. THEATRES OF ROOTS: Th School of Li erature, Coffee, Tea, Refreshments will be availa ble USING TRADITIONAL PERFORMANCE IN POST­ COLONIAL CONTEMPORARY THEATRE (INDIA, 1.30 pm Communication, and Culture NIGERIA, INDONESIA) Henry Daniels (King Alfred's College, Winchester/UK) Moderator: Diana Taylor (Performance Studies, New York "Cave Mysteries" and "Shango meets Ogun" University/US) "Cave Mysteries" is an exploration of severol thematic concepts that have their origin in choreographic experiments, using new media technologies as an integral Erin B Mee (Performance Studies, New York University/US) Science, Technology, Center for New Media part of the performance ideology. Th ey are concerned with relations between the "Establishing 'Our Own' Identity through 'Our Own' (National) Theatre: and Culture (ST AC) Education & Research notions of the 'primitive' and the 'civilised', the 'o rganic' and the 'inorganic', the the Theatre of Roots Movement in India" 'conscious' and the 'unconscious', the 'intentional' and the 'mechanical'. "Shango Bode Sowande (Odu Themes Meridian/Nigeria) meets Ogun", a work that addresses a specific aspect of "Cave Mysteries", uses "Dramatic Stories Re-telling Themeselves in the Yorubanglish Work of a loose framework built around the West African tradition of the Orishas, the Amos Tutuola" Information Design Minor in Women, emissaries of Olodumare, God Almighty - still a powerful psychic force in the descendants of African people aI/ over the world. "Shango meets Ogun" examines Roselyn Costantino (Spanish and Women's Studies, Pennsylvania and Technology (lOT) Science, & Technology cultural and ideological shifts using the icon-generating potential of today's State University/US) technology. "Cultural Contestation with a Song and a Dance: Women's Performance E 0- Art in Mexico" Wl 2.1 0 pm ...; Minor in . Jason Winslade Panel C22 Lecture Theatre Performance Studies a. (Performance Studies, Northwestern University/US) CARTOGRAPHIES OF LOSS AND MEMORY : "Pilgrimages and Path workings: the Dream Landscapes of Travel and Moderator: Nadine George (Yale University/US) Language" Judy Durey (Sc hool of Arts, Murdoch UniverSity/Australia) This performance is a retelling of the Celtic myth of the Voyage of Bran, together "Cartographies of Loss and (Re)stor(y)ing" Contact information: with personal travel narratives, and inspired by the performer's practice of earth School of Literature, Communica 'on, and Culture 404.894.2730 religions and ethnography. The audience is invited to fol/ow the performer to Christopher William Stahl (Performance Studies, New York/US) various stops on his pilgrimage. "Angel's Flight: Desire, Suspense, Disappearance" Georgia Institute of Technology ww.lcc.gatech.edu E Fiona Buckland (Performance Studies, New York/US) Atlanta Georgia 30332-0165 [email protected] 2.40 pm 8- "Theatres of Memory as Queer Worldmaking" USA John Troyer (Praxis Group, ""vi Michelle Erickson (French, New York University/US) Minneapolis/US) (left) E "Displaying the Fragmented Self: Considering Performativity in "Grave Marker" 8- Videotaped Holocaust Testimony" "Unknown Acres" is the name of the final ""...; Audrey Colby (Performance Studies, Northwestern University/US) resting-place for performance artists killed by "Displaced Memories/Compensations: Reflections on the Performances th eir own art Centred around this location and at a Holocaust Memorial Celebration Created 50 Years after the set up as some kind of business seminar, Concentration Camp Killings" "Grave Marker" explores topiCS such as the commodification of death as a vehicle for Panel C4 Lecture Theatre artistic performance, the commemoration of the deod, and virtual reincarnation. RHETORIC, REMEMBERMENT, AND RUPTURE Moderator: Richard Schechner (Performance Studies, New York University/US) 3. ISpm COFFEE, TEA, REFRESHMENTS, Della Pollock (Communication Studies, University of North Branwen's Restaurant, Penbryn Hall Carolina/US) "Writing Rupture" Rebecca Schneider (Theatre, Film and Dance, Cornell University/US) 3.30 - 5.30 pm BREAKOUT SESSIONS 6 "Performing Remains" Panel A 12 Lecture Theatre Shannon Jackson (Dramatic Arts, University of California Berkeley/US) "Professing Performance: DiSCiplinary Genealogies" THE PERFORMANCE OF DISABILITY Moderator: Philip Auslander (School of Literature, Communication Panel DS Lecture Theatre ARTS DEGREE: and Culture, Georgia Institute of Technology/US) BODIES IN SPACE: PLACING PERFORMANCE I Petra Kuppers (Contemporary Arts, Manchester Metropolitan Moderator: Andrea Phillips (Arts Council of England and The Slade E University/UK) School of Fine Art, University College London/UK) 8- 'The Performance of Disability" Mick Wallis (English and Drama, Loughborough University/UK) :;; Ju Gosling (Bodicea, London/UK) "Mapping Civial Embodiment: A Walk around Geoaesthetics, E "My Not-So-Secret Life as a Cyborg" Performance Theory and Historiography" 8- Gretchen A Case (Communication Studies, University of North Patrick Anderson (UniverSity of North Carolina-Chapel Hill/US) ::; Carolina-Chapel Hill/US) "Coronations: Performing Travel, P",rforming Identity" "X-Rays and Catholic Schoolgirls: Performing Andrew Quick (Theatre Studies, Lancaster/UK) MMUNICATION Medical and Personal History" "Strange Cities - Strange Bodies: Performing Displacement" Anna-Marie Taylor (Adult Continuing Katherine Cockin (English, University of Hull/UK) Education, University of Wales "A Journey through 'Place' and 'Placelessness': Literary Swansea/UK) Conventions and Writing on the Web" "Invalid Responses? Narrative Patterns of UNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR Illness" General Editor ..c:. Richard Gough, Centre for Performance Research and University of Wales, SUNDAY II APRIL 1999 SUNDAY II APRIL 1999 u Aberystwyth UK Panel C 164 Seminar Room 5.30 - 6.00 pm DAILY WRAP-UP, A 12, A 14, C22 Lecture Theatres Joint Editors ro JAPANESE PERFORMANCE PRACTICES TODAY Claire MacDonald, Freelance Writer & Editor, Washington D.C. , USA QJ 6.00 - 7.00 pm RECEPTION, Upper Dining RoOm, Penbryn Hall Ric Allsopp, Dartington College of Arts, Totnes, UK Kei Hibino (Seikei University, Tokyo/J) VI "Post-Angura/Post-Butoh: japanese Perfarmances in the 90s and Thereafter" Wine and Welsh Cheeses QJ a: Mao Naito (New York University/US) Courtesy of the Vice-Chancellor, University of Wales "Koike Hiroshi and Pappa Tarahumara" Aberystwyth, The Centre for Performance Research and Performance Research brings together informed'critical writing with the work of local food producers QJ Sara Jansen (Performance Studies, New York University/US) u new and established artists within an exciting exchange of ideas, images and "Contemporary Interpretations of Tatsumi Hijikata's Butoh" c:: analysis. The innovative and flexible format charts the often difficult and unstable 7.30-9.00pm PSi MEMBERSHIP ASSEMBLY, AI2 Peter Eckersall (Victorian College of Arts, University of ro field of contemporary art and performance. The journal is international in scope Melbourne/Australia) (For members only) E with an emphasis on contemporary European performance in both old and new "The Performance of Politics and the Return of the Radical in 1990s media. 7.30pm PERFORMANCES* o Theatre Culture in japan"

~ * [for more information on the evening performance Panel C43 Lecture Theatre '- "fulfills a genuine need ... the journal's most convincing writing captures, through an programme, please refer to page 17] QJ interdisciplinary approach, the essence of contemporary performances ... Such well­ MONSTER (FUTURE) MEMORY (PAST) 0... Matthew Goulish (GOAT ISLAND Performance Company, Chicago/US) written, informative and stimulating articles give performance art credibility." 9.00pm BANQUET DINNER, Ian Mitchell, The Times Higher "A Short Treatise on Monsterness" Great Hall, Aberystwyth Arts Centre Adrian Heathfield (Theatre and Performance, Warwick Performance Research features documents, original art and text works, new scholarship Canton Opera Company, Wales/UK University/UK) and criticism, profiles of individual artists and companies as well as book, archive and "Lost Since Now Sensed" Kolomeyka, Wales/UK performance reviews. Carol Becker (School of the Art Institute of Chicago/US) "Memory and Monstrosity" 9.00-12.00pm CLUB, Student Union "S-SIDE" For further information on Performance Research or to request an inspection copy contact: Case Study C 165 Seminar Room A club night to get down and physical with DJs mixing Hip Routledge, Tay/or & Francis Ltd, Rankine Road, Basingstoke, Hants RG24 8PR, UK TEACHING PRACTICE(S) Hop, Break Beat and other phat sounds. Live Welsh MCs, Tystion, Aberystwyth's own rude boyz, The Mighty FUOD, Tel: +44 (0)1256813000 Fax: +44 (0)1256330245 E-mail: [email protected] Chair: Baz Kershaw (Drama, University of Bristol/UK) and guest appearances from the Performance Studies Visit the Rout/edge Home Page at http://www.jouma/s.rout/edge.com Nicholas A r nold (Performance, De Montfort University/UK) Conference Festival stars. Geraldine Harris (Theatre Studies, University of Lancaster/UK) E Marijke Hoogenboom (DasArts De Amsterdamse School - throughout Gill Goddard (Dartington/UK) ...,g. Advanced Research in Theatre and Dance Studies, Amsterdam/NL) "A Short Film of Sweat" .,; Mark Minchinton (Performance Studies, Victoria University/Australia) "A Short Film of Sweat" is a performance installation drawing V'"\:L£6 on the theory of the photographer's darkroom as a place o?~c;;, Routledge a. Phillip B Zarrilli (School of Performing Arts, University of Surrey/UK) where images appear and disappear. The visitors are sent ...,Q inside a darkroom installation equipped with a sheet of ~,~,,; pro u d I y s p 0 n S 0 r i n g PS5 ...; photographic paper. There in the dark, the photograph ~ , " ,,,,, Performance Platform Old College Aberystwyth develops over a period of 60 seconds: one minute in which to 3. 15pm Bus pick-up point Porter 's Lodge, Campus. decide - temporary or permanent? CERTAIN BEN JONSON AND NEW SITES FOR Coffee, Tea, Refreshments will be available I ~FN J nN~()N FRAGMENTS THEATRE TH~' Ar Rr SHAKESPEARE 3.30 pm TEXTS AND W RITINGS PERFORMANCE, PRACTICE TH EATRE, THE AUDIENCE, Luba Agonistas Performance Group (Monterrey/Mexico) ON PERFORMANCE AND THEORY AND ASIA "Angel Nuestro de la jiribilla/Our Angel of the jiribilla" Luba Agonistas uses a poem ofJose Lezama Lima to present a work about the Tim Etchells, Edited by Richard Cave, John Russell Brown excess, the overabundance, and the violent struggle th at lives and sustains Elizabeth Schafer and Forced Entertainment December 1998: contemporary Latin America. Th e Angel of the Jiribilla, a hybrid angel who is a Brian Woolland Theatre Company 234x156: 224pp resurrected serpent, appears into the world, asking: "Where is the time of this illus. 20 b+w photos With a foreword by January 1999: 156x234: 240pp:illus.10 b+w photos continent? Where does all the blood go that is shed every day? What pain is it Hb: 0·415·19449·0: £40.00 Hb : 0-415·17980·7: £45.00 Peggy Phelan Pb: 0-415·19450·4: £12.99 that makes us sing at night?" Pb: 0·415-17981·5: £14.99 An extraordinary exploration of what li es at 4.30 pm the heart of contemporary theatre, written by FEMINIST THEATRE PRACTICE: the artistic director of Forced Entertainment, 1956 AND ALL THAT Woestijn '93 (BorgerhoutlBelgium) Certain Fragments makes available for the A HANDBOOK THE M AKING OF MODERN BRITI SH DRAMA Zero Hours - Bedouin tales in contemporary context" first time four of Etchells' Forced Elaine Aston Zero Hours is an experiment which introduces Arabic mythical tales to modern Entertainment texts. It is an exciting and Dan Rebellato European audiences. Th e simple structure of traditional oral storytelling is radical fusion of story-telling and criticism . March 1999: 216x138: 232pp February 1999: 138x216: 280pp Hb: 0-415·13924·4: £40.00 amplified by poetic dream imagery - a mixture of surrealism and realism, in which April 1999: 234x156: 232pp:ill us.20 b+w photos Hb: 0·415·18938-1: £40.00 Pb : 0·415·13925-2: £12.99 characters from the underworld interoct with earthly beings from this century. Hb: 0·415·17382·5: £45.00 Pb: 0·415-18939·X , £12.99 Pb : 0·415·17383·3: £14.99 5. 15 pm LIVENESS THE ROUTLEDGE READER IN GENDER AND PERFORMANCE Hui-Wen Chen / U-Man Zoo Theatre (Aberystwyth/UK) THE RADICAL IN PERFORMANCE PERFORMANCE IN A MEDIATIZED CULTURE "Islanders" Edited by Lizbeth Goodman BETWEEN BR ECHT AND BAUDRILLARD Philip Auslander and Jane de Gay Islanders attempts to create a site on which Welshness and Taiwaneseness Baz Kershaw April 1999: 216x138: 192pp With a foreword by Fiona Shaw emerge and intersect This work will deal with the comparison and synthesis of Hb : 0-415·19689·2: £40.00 theatrical traditions through an investigation of the physicality of language, song June 1999: 216x 138: 240pp September 1998: 234x 156: 360pp Pb : 0·415·19690·6: £12.99 and music. Located in three sites - Penbryn Cafe, Castle Th eatre and the beach, Hb: 0·415·18667·6: £45.00 Hb: 0-415·16582·2: £50.00 with 4-hours interval, this work will also examine the textuality of Pb: 0·415·18668-4: £14.99 Pb: 0-415·16583·0: £15.99 performer/spectator.. Come to the Routledge bookstand for these and other exciting titles & order your copy of the 1999 Performance Studies catalogue MONDAY 12 APRIL 1999 MONDAY 12 APRIL 1999

I 1.00 am - 2pm BOOKFAI R, Granwood Corridor Suite, Pen bryn Hall & INFOFAIR, Granwood Corridor Suite, Penbryn Hall

8.00 - 9.00 am BREAKFAST, Branwen Restaurant, Penbryn Hall

BREAKFAST WITH THE ARTISTS Senior Common Room, Granwood Corridor Suite, Pen bryn Hall Brith Gof (Wales) (left) La Pocha Nostra (Mexico/US)

9.00 - 11.00 am BREAKOUT SESSIONS 7

Panel A 12 Lecture Theat re PERFORMING ITINERARIES, ITINERANT PERFORMANCES: PLACING PERFORMANCE II Jennifer Chan (Performance Studies, New York University/US) and Ursula Neuerburg (artists, New York/US) 'The Intercultural Subway" Roddy Hunter (Visual Performance, Dartington College of Arts/UK) 'The milieu of anteriority: the unknown domain" Panel C4 Lecture Theatre Julie Bacon (Co-Consule of the Nomad Territories for England/UK) MAPPING THE BODY IN PERFORMANCE "a 7th itinerant" Moderator: Ron Shields (Bowling Green State University/US) Ute Ritschel (Universitat Frankfurt/D) Simon Shepherd (Drama, Goldsmiths College University of London/UK) "Gardens. Art and Voyeurism - Bringing Art and Performance into a "Mapping the Body" Neighbourhood" Natalie McGrath (Southampton University/UK) "Bruising the Flesh to Expose the Silences we Keep: Desire, Panel A 14 Lecture Theatre ~ Performativity and S/M" Q UNECONOMIC PERFORMANCE ~ Luk van den Dries (Theatre Studies, University of Antwerp/Belgium) Christian Herold (Drama/Performance Studies, New York 'The Sublime Body" University/US) ~ Peter M Boenisch (Theatre Studies, University of Mun ich/D) "Radio (kKkKkKk) Descartes" g 'The Body and Beyond: Theatre Semiotics in the Age of Virtual Realities" Tom Lavazzi (TEZ. Savannah State University/US), Zoe Randall and 0.: ~ Ellen La Forge (TEZ) Panel DS Lecture Theatre g "'Never Work': Guy Debord, Detournement, and the Techno SITE-SPECIFICITY: PLACING PERFORMANCE III Eschatological Zippers" Moderator: Mike Pearson (Theatre, Film and TV Studies, University E Michael LeCompte (Musician, New York/US) of Wales Aberystwyth/UK) c8 "Why do I feel uneasy when the economy is performing?" Q David Wiles (Drama, Theatre and Media Arts, Royal Holloway 0.: College London/UK) Panel C22 Lecture Theatre "Researching the History of (Western) Space" PERFORMANCE ART Vicki Ann Cremona (Theatre Studies, University of Malta/Malta) Moderator: Rebecca Schneider (Theatre, Film and Dance, Cornell "Should we make Ancient Sites come to Life?" University/US) Mike Pearson (Theatre, Film and TV Studies, University of Wales Robert Ayers (Contemporary Arts, Nottingham Trent Aberystwyth/UK) University/UK) "Performing a Visit: Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past" "What is Performance Art for?" Johannes Lothar Schroeder (Performatrix, Hamburg/D) Panel C 164 Seminar Room "Dissidents of the West & Performances" STREET THEATRE- Misha Myers (Theatre, Film and Television Studies, University of PERFORMANCE AND POLITICS IN EASTERN EUROPE Aberystwyth/UK) Moderator: Noel Witts (CONCEPTS, Visual and Performing Arts, "Notations of a Fall: (Dis)orientations in the Vertiginous Zone of De Montfort University/UK) Performance" Aleksandra Jovicevic (School of Drama, University of Arts, Charles R Garoian (School of Visual Arts, Pennsylvania State Belgrade/YU) University/US) 'They all Laughed: Between Theatre and Carnival - Civil and Student "Performance Art as Critical Pedagogy" Protest in Serbia, Winter 1996/97" Iveta Todorova-Pirgova (Institute of Folklore, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Sofia/Bulgaria) "Secret Knowledge, Magic Power, and Political Events" Maria Naimark (Montplaisir Theatre and St. Petersburg State Theatre Academy/Russia) "What is Freedom for the New Non-State Theatres in Russia?" MONDAY 12 APRIL 1999 SERVICES FOR DELEGATES

Panel C43 Lecture Theatre (UN)DISCIPLINED: PS5 BOOKFAIR TEXTING THE LIMITS OF PERFORMANCE Gran wood Corridor Suite, Penbryn Moderator: Peggy Phelan (Performance Studies, New York Coordinator: Adam Hayward University/US) Opening Times: Jessica Adams (English, Tulane University/US) Friday 9th Il am-3pm & 4pm-7pm Liz Claire (Performance Studies, New York University/US) Saturday 10th Il am-2pm & 4pm-7pm Sunday I I th I I am-2pm & 4pm-7pm Dan Froot (World Arts and Cultures, University of California, Los Monday 12th I I am-2pm ~ Angeles/US) Q Q Workshop Dance Studio, Spo rt Centre Campus E (Meeting Point Registration Office 8.45 am) t:I PS5 INFOFAIR g Raymond V Louter (Theatre Arts and Communication, Redeemer Granwood Corridor Suite, Penbryn 0: College/Canada) Coordinator: Myfanwy Williams "Performance Geography: In the Space - Of the Space" Visceral ~ Virtual A view of environment as strictly visual and external do es not communicate a rich Opening Times: and nuanced sense of place to a theatre audience. My environment does not stop Friday 9th Ilam-3pm & 4pm-7pm at my skin. It penetrates my whole being, affecting how I think, speak, move and Saturday 10th Ilam-2pm & 4pm-7pm dream. Utilizing an improvisational 'inside-out' approach to stage space based on Sunday 11th Ilam-2pm & 4pm-7pm intimate knowledge of and experience of environment (and/or setting geography), Monday 12th II am-2pm the workshop will examine ways in which we may be both in the space and of the March 9-12, 2000 We invite artists, scholars and technologists from a space. This workshop will require full-bodied participation. Participants should PSi PERFORMANCE STUDIES international membership info diverse range of backgrounds who are engaged in dress accordingly. Message Board Arizona State University current practice and debate on performance. Proposals Marketplace - display area for brochures, leaflets, flyers available are welcomed for a variety of presentation formats, 11 .00am COFFEE, TEA, REFRESHMENTS, Multistandard Video+monitor available. including: performances, workshops, installations, Great Hall, Aberystwyth Arts Centre Performance Studies International exhibitions, site specific and/or durational work, video, film , performance photography, CD-ROM demos, web and 11 . 15 am - I pm FINAL PLENARY, Arizona State University cafe, interactive media, roundtable dialogues, Great Hall, Aberystwyth Arts Centre PS5 REGISTRATION demonstrations and presentations. We encourage Granwood Corridor Suite, Penbryn Departments of: participants to take a creative approach to their Personal Conference Itineraries Coordinator: Rachel Rogers • Communication conference presentations with the aim of producing a Lisa Lewis, Roger Owen, Mike Pearson Opening Times: • Interdisciplinary Arts and Performance, ASU West performative performance conference. Theatre, Film and TV Studies, University of Wales Thursday, 8th April 4pm-6 pm. • Theatre, and Aberystwyth/UK Friday, 9th April II am-7 pm • Institute for Studies in the Arts (ISA) For further information, please contact: Saturday, 10th April 8.30 am-2 pm Registration Info, Accommodation Info, Conference Packs, PSi membership, FUTURE PERFORMANCE STUDIES CONFERENCES: are pleased to announce the 6th annual PSi conference. Leslie Hill c/olnstitute for Studies in the Arts Computer Logins, General Enquiries Arizona State Un iversity ARIZONA 2000 The 6th annual Performance Studies Conference will PO Box 873302, Tempe, AZ 85287-3302 Chair: Kristin B. Valentine (Arizona State University/US) focus on exploring the visceral and virtual in performance. fax: 602 .965.9438 phone: 602.965.3447 Chair: Frederick Corey (Arizona State University/US) As we attempt to take a millennial pulse of the past email :lhill @asu.edu http://www.nyu.edu/pages/psi PS5 COMPUTER ACCESS FOR DELEGATES present and future of performance, conference Bonnie Eckard (Arizona State University/US) participants are invited to explore issues touching on one Leslie Hill (Arizona State University/US) PS5 Delegates have access to the computer network of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth to check email, type documents etc. or more of the following areas: Arthur Sabatini (Arizona State University/US) Please obtain your log-in name and password at the registration desk. • the body in performance; COMPUTER ROOMS: GERMANY 200 I • performance and technology; Ute Ritschel (Universitat Frankfurt/D) ROOM I: Penbryn: Davies Bryan Hall • the ephemerality of live work and the changing Opening times: 8am - 8pm nature of documentation; Facilities: IBM compatible PCs, each with 486 DX/66 processors, 32MB FAREWELL • performance venues, 'real ' and 'virtual '; RAM, SVGA monitor and a 3.5" HD floppy drive; one CD with CD-ROM • interactive performance and the evolution of Richard Gough, drive and sound card. performer/audience relationships; Centre for Performance Research, Conference Director ROOM 2: Hugh Owen Building: Room C66 (2nd floor Hugh Owen extension) • performative writing, from poetry to hypertext, Heike Roms, Opening times: 9am - 6 pm and PSi PERFORMANCE STUDIES international, Facilities: IBM compatible PCs, each with P233 processors, 32MB RAM , an • performance studies in the flesh and online. SVGA monitor and a 3.5" HD floppy drive, CD-ROM drives and sound cards. Assistant Conference Director Earphones for use of sound-card available at the PS5 registration desk. 1.00- 2.00 LUNCH, Branwen's Restaurant, Penbryn Hall For assistance please contact registration office. Institute for Studies in the Arts COLLE GE O F FIN E ART S DEPARTURES ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY .' PERffiRPlHnrE 7.30 pm PERFORMANCES* PO Box 873302, Tempe, AZ 85287-3302 mntml ARIZONA STATE 6 02 9659438 Q! SlUDIES UNIVERSITY *[for more information on the evening performance programme, please refer to page 17]

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THURSDAY 8 APRil 1999 6.00 - 12.00 pn PERFORMANCE INSTALLATION Bandstand 4.00 - 6.00 pm REGISTRATION Granwood, Penbryn 7.30 pn PERFORMANCES I 7.30pm PERFORMANCE I Capel Y Morfa Old College; Theatr Y Castell, Drill Hall 9.00 pm PERFORMANCE II Arts Centre; Old College 9.00pn PERFORMANCE II Arts Centre from 5.00 pm DINNER available at Arts Centre Cafe 7.00 pm - 2.00 am BAR Student Union BAR Arts Centre 11.00pm- PRESENTATION/DISCUSSION Old College open end

FRIDAY 9 APRil 1999 SUNDAY II APRil 1999 8.00 - 9.00 am BREAKFAST Branwen's 10.30;m- 12.30 pm PRESENTATION Museum, Terrace Road 8.00 - 9.00 am BREAKFAST Bronwen's PENYOAA!G I 1.00 am - lOOpm 9.00-11 .00am BREAKOUT SESSION 4 & 4.00-7.00pm BOOKFAIR, INFOFAIR Granwood, Penbryn Hugh Owen Building and Dance Studio Sports Centre I 1.00 am - 7.00 pm REGISTRATION Granwood, Penbryn 11 .00 am - 2.00pm 12.30 - 1.30 pm LUNCH Branwen's & 4.00 - 7.00pm BOOKFAIR, INFOFAIR Gran wood, Penbryn Arts Centre Cafe open I 1.00 - I 1.15 am COFFEE, TEA, REFRESHMENTS Bronwen's 2.00 pm COFFEE, TEA, REFRESHMENTS Arts Centre Lobby 11 . lsam - 12. 15 pm PLENARIES Hugh Owen Building 3.00pm WELCOME Great Hall Arts Centre PERFORMANCE PLATFORM North Beach 3.30 - 4.00 pm PLENARY Great Hall Arts Centre Old College; Theatr Y Castell 4.00-4.lspm COFFEE, TEA, REFRESHMENTS Arts Centre Lobby 12. I 5 - I. 15 pm LUNCH Branwen's 4. 15 - 6.00 pm BREAKOUT SESSION I Hugh Owen Building 1.15 - 3.15 pm BREAKOUT SESSION 5 Hugh Owen Building 6.00 - 7.00 pm DINNER Branwen's PERFORMANCE PLATFORM South Beach Arts Centre Cafe open Old College; Theatr Y Castell 7.30pm PERFORMANCES I Old College, Theatr Y Castell, 3.15 - 3.30 pm COFFEE, TEA, REFRESHMENTS Branwen's Arts Centre 3.30 - 5.30 pm BREAKOUT SESSION 6 Hugh Owen Building 9.30pm PERFORMANCES II Arts Centre Aberystwyth PERFORMANCE PLATFORM 7.00 pm - 2.00 am BAR Student Union Old College; Theatr Y Castell KEY DAILY WRAP-UP Hugh Owen Building 5.30 - 6.00 pm I Granwood, Pen bryn 6.00 - 7.00 pm RECEPTION Upper Dining Room, Penbryn 2 Branwen's SATURDAY 10 APRil 1999 7.30 - 9.00 pm PSi MEMBERSHIP ASSEMBLY Hugh Owen Building 3 Hugh Owen Building 8.00 - 9.00 am BREAKFAST Branwen's 7.30pm PERFORMANCES Drill Hall, Arts Centre (Main Conference Site) 8.30am - 2.00 pm REGISTRATION Granwood, Penbryn 9.00 pm BANQUET Greal Hall Arts Centre 4 Aberystwyth Arts Centre 9.00 - I 1.00 am BREAKOUT SESSION 2 9.00 - 12.00 pm CLUB Student Union 5 Dance Studio, Sports Centre Hugh Owen Building and Dance Studio Sports Centre 6 Porter's Lodge 11 .00 am - 2.00pm 7 Penbryn Hall & 4.00 - 7.00pm BOOKFAIR,INFOFAIR Granwood, Penbryn MONDAY I I APRil 1999 8 Rosser Hall I I .00 - I 1.1 5 am COFFEE, TEA, REFRESHMENTS 9 Student Union Arts Centre Lobby 8.00 - 9.00 am BREAKFAST Bronwen's 10 Old College I 1. lsam - 12.15 pm PLENARY Great Hall Arts Centre 9.00 - 11.00 am BREAKOUT SESSION 7 II 12. 15 - 1.15 pm LUNCH Branwen's Hugh Owen Building and Dance Studio Sports Centre Theatr Y Castell Arts Centre Cafe open 11 .00am - 2pm BOOKFAIR, INFOFAIR Granwood, Penbryn 12 Band Stand, North Beach 1.15 - 3. 15 pm BREAKOUT SESSION 3 I 1.00-1 I.lsam COFFEE, TEA, REFRESHMENTS Branwen's 13 Drill Hall Hugh Owen Building and Great Hall, Arts Centre I I. Isam - 1.00 pm FAREWELL PLENARY SESSION 14 Capel Y Morfa PERFORMANCE PLATFORM Great Hall Arts Centre 15 Ceredigion Museum Old College; Theatr Y Castell I .00 - 2.00 pm LUNCH Branwen's 16 Police Station 3. 15 - 3.30 pm COFFEE, TEA, REFRESHMENTS Arts Centre Cafe open 17 National Library Arts Centre Lobby afternoon PSi COMMITTEE MEETINGS 18 Town Hall 3.30 - 5. 15 pm PLENARY Great Hall, Arts Centre Hugh Owen Building 5.30 - 6.00 pm DAILY WRAP-UP Hugh Owen Building 19 Tourism & Information Office 7.30pm PERFORMANCES Arts Centre • PERFOR(IlAnrE 6.00 - 7.00 pn DINNER Branwen's 20 Castle Arts Centre Cafe open 21 Leisure Centre/Gym !' ! SllJOIES inntim 22 Bronglais Hospital

, 5TH PERFORMANCE STUDIES CONFERENCE, ABERYSTWYTH , WALES, 1999