Sunday, July 27, 2014 7:15 AM - 7:45 AM ATME Morning Warm Up: Release Into Movement

Sunday, July 27, 2014 7:15 AM - 7:45 AM ATME Morning Warm Up: Release into Movement

Princess F

FOCUS GROUP:

Association of Theatre Movement Educators (ATME)

SESSION COORDINATOR:

Holly Cate, Muhlenberg College

SESSION CHAIR:

Niamh Dowling, Rose Bruford College

Please join us for this conference-wide morning warm up. Get those conference juices flowing!

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM A Dream for Catholicism in American Theatre Part 2: Empowerment through the Art of Playwriting Castile 5 FOCUS GROUP: Religion and Theatre (RT) SESSION COORDINATOR: Roy Brooks, University of Georgia, Athens

SESSION CHAIR:

Alex Iben Cahill, University of Missouri, Columbia PARTICIPANTS: Mimi Gisolfi D’Aponte, Baruch College and City University of New York, Emerita Genesis of a Catholic Performance: Sister Spirit

Charles Gillespie, University of Virginia

Pope(im)mobile Acting: John Paul II, Theatre and Resistance

Rachel Linn, Ohio University

In Search of the Mysterious Body: Liminality in Radio Elephant (Barbara)

This panel is the second part of an examination of Catholicism and theatre, investigating how playwriting can empower twenty- first century American Catholics.

Sunday, July 27, 2014 Cultivating Student-Dreamers in Contemporary Liberal Arts Environments 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM CONT. Sonoran Room Acting Out: Dreaming of Women’s Health in Narratives of FOCUS GROUP: Resistance Theatre as a Liberal Art (TLA) Princess E SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: FOCUS GROUP: Carrie Klypchak, Texas A&M University, Commerce Women and Theatre Program (WTP) Rekindling the Dreamer’s Spark: Challenges and Benefits of SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Teaching Meisner Acting in Liberal Arts Environments Sarah Senff, University of Missouri, Columbia Troubled Telling: Absent Polyphony in Cancer Narratives and PARTICIPANTS: Other Betrayals of the Listener-Teller Contract Ryan Clark, Community College of Baltimore County Dreaming through Obstacles: The Community College Theatre PARTICIPANTS: Student Experience ATHE Gwendolyn Alker, New York University Alison Frost, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi Cancer As Change Maker: Pushing the Boundaries of Drama 2014 Eliminating the Standardized Dream in Acting Class Therapy, Aesthetics and Audience Responsibility Lou Clark, Arizona State University This session explores challenges and successes of educators 40 Shades of Gray: The Health Implications of how Women over teaching acting to contemporary Liberal Arts students who may Forty Perform Self-Image lack experience in dreaming and imagining new possibilities. Kimberly Dark, California State University, San Marcos Devising and Performing as Social Work: the Micro and the The Language of Stress and Causation Macro in Applied Theatre Joan Lipkin, That Uppity Theatre Company Casita 5308 The Real Deal: Real Working Strategies for Making Work with MULTIDISCIPLINARY SESSION - FOCUS GROUPS: Women with Breast Cancer American Theatre and Drama Society (ATDS) This panel explores the counter narratives and strategies women Religion and Theatre (RT) and theatre practitioners use to resist dominant narratives that Theatre and Social Change (TASC) shape women’s experiences of aging, cancer and obesity. SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: 105 Lesley Delmenico, Grinnell College Acting Program (AP) Focus Group Membership Meeting #2 Revising Outcomes: Performing Water Issues as Social Work in Castile 1 the Mumbai Slums FOCUS GROUP: Acting Program (AP) PARTICIPANTS Natalie Goodnow, University of Texas, Austin SESSION COORDINATOR: Courage in Action: An Interactive Performance Residency Siobhan Bremer, University of Minnesota, Morris Sparking Youth Leadership in Schools CHAIR: Meg Greene, University of Texas, Austin Jeanne Leep, Edgewood University Stories from the Homefront: Digital Storytelling with Military Association of Theatre Movement Educators (ATME) Focus Youth Group Membership Meeting #2 Richard Gustin, University of Wisconsin, Fond du Lac Castile 4 The Role of Domestic Violence Training in Theatre Devising FOCUS GROUP: Jodi Jinks, Oklahoma State University Association of Theatre Movement Educators (ATME) Prison Devised Performance as Refuge, Resistance, and SESSION COORDINATOR: Renewal: A New Play by the John Lilley Correctional Center and Holly Cate, Muhlenberg College ArtsAloud- Ohio State University JULY Please join us to find out more about ATME and learn about Elliot Leffler, University of Minnesota 24-27 what we’re up to in this conference and beyond. Interfaith Theatre-Making: What Dialogues can(n’t) it Sustain? Wait, is that theatre or is that social work? Yes. Scholars and practitioners share projects serving social justice. See Prezi AZ to preview. Sunday, July 27, 2014 Dreaming of Refuge and Inviting Resistance: Activist Performance, Critical Pedagogy, and Speaking (Affirming?) 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM CONT. the Dominant Directing Program (DP) Focus Group Membership Meeting #2 Casita 5320 Bourbon 10 MULTIDISCIPLINARY SESSION - FOCUS GROUPS: FOCUS GROUP: Association for Asian Performance (AAP) Directing Program (DP) Black Theatre Association (BTA) SESSION COORDINATOR: Latina/o Focus Group (LFG) Ann Shanahan, Loyola University, Chicago SESSION COORDINATOR: SESSION CHAIR: Esther Terry, University of Pittsburgh Lewis Magruder, Miami University Individuals Do Not Stand Alone: Performance Pedagogy against Don’t Believe What Sensible People Say! Subverting Genre Neo-Liberal Utopias of Individuality; Performance: Xicana Expectations in Musical Theatre Privilege? Passing Only as White By Esther Terry Bourbon 9 SESSION CHAIR: FOCUS GROUP: Kantara Souffrant, Northwestern University Music Theatre/Dance (MT/D) Can the Haitian-American Body Speak?; Performance: AYIBOBO! A Haitian Love-Hate Story: Part Deux By Kantara SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Souffrant Alisa Roost, Hostos Community College Shocking the Community: Race, Community and Murder in PARTICIPANTS: Musicals through West Side Story Kristin Moriah, The Graduate Center, City University of New York PARTICIPANTS: An Anti-Lynching Theatrical Past as Prologue to Racial Profiling Kurt Edwards, East Central University in the Present; Performance: The final monologue from Angelina Cabaret and Non-Traditional Casting Weld-Grimke’s Rachel Barrie Gelles, City University of New York “When You’re Extraordinary, You Gotta Do Extraordinary Patricia Nguyen, Northwestern University Our Stories, Our Lives: Performances of Cultural Memory in a Things”: The Spectacle of Pippin Inside and Outside of the 106 Mural Project with Survivors of Sex Trafficing in Vietnam; Tro Frame, Now and Then Vet | Return Vicki Hoskins “This Cold World Will Remember Us”: Death, Performance, and Kevin Wetmore, Loyola Marymount University As Far as We’ve Come, We Still Have a Long Way to Go: Race and Legacy in Bonnie and Clyde Gender in Asian-American Drama; Musical Theatre has clear genre expectations, and yet those constructs are continually subverted as artists, who don’t PERFORMANCE: believe in sensible rules, craft impossible possibilities. White Manifesto and Other Perfumed Tales of Self- Entitlement, or Got Rice? By Philip Kan Gotanda Dream-a-turgy: New Tools for Translating, Staging, and This roundtable locates minoritarian and under-represented Contextualizing La vida es sueno performances as sites of renewal, revision, and resistance in Bourbon 8 the desert of increasingly neo-liberalized academic, public, and FOCUS GROUP: economic spheres. Dramaturgy Program (DR) Dreams/Nightmares: Black Identity on Stage SESSION COORDINATOR: Princess B Ben Gunter, Florida State University Rehearsal, Refundicion, and Re-Viewing the Dream FOCUS GROUP: Black Theatre Association (BTA) SESSION CHAIR: SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Rick Davis, George Mason University Jonathan Shandell, Arcadia University Translating Calderon for (American University) Production PARTICIPANTS: PARTICIPANTS: Rita Anderson, Texas State University Rachel Katz Carey, Freelance Dramaturg Consequences of Pursuing the American Dream in Dutchman Alejandra Rodriguez-Villar, Duke University and Clybourne Park Directing a Cyberpunk La vida es sueno at Duke C. Francis Blackchild, Miami University Dramaturgs share hands-on experiences with taking Calderon’s An Affirmative Action Fabulation classic off the page, into class, and onto the stage, sparking Kee-Yoon Nahm, Yale School of Drama discussion and challenging rediscoveries. The Litmus Test of Revolution This panel considers plays by Amiri Baraka, Lynne Nottage and Bruce Norris as texts that resist or reflect African American identities refracted through the American Dream. Sunday, July 27, 2014 Let Them Achieve the Impossible Dream: The Business of Acting 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM CONT. Princess A Im/Possible Performance Roundtable Series: Analyzing the MULTIDISCIPLINARY SESSION - FOCUS GROUPS: Dream--Critical Reflections on Performances Acting Program (AP) Princess C Music Theatre/Dance (MT/D) FOCUS GROUP: Theatre as a Liberal Art (TLA) Theory and Criticism (TC) SESSION COORDINATOR: SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Ryan Scrimger, University of San Diego Leah Lowe, Vanderbilt University The Creative Entrepreneur PARTICIPANTS: SESSION CHAIR: Alicja Binder, University of Minnesota Ryan McKinney, City University of New York, Kingsborough Krzysztof Warlikowski’s African Tales After Shakespeare - the ATHE Im/possible Acts of the Polish Contemporary Theatre PARTICIPANT: Amy Fritsche, Kent State University 2014 Dan Ciba, Tufts University Tools of the Trade Dreaming of Unicorns Ben Phelan, Louisiana State University How educators can help enrich the theatre major’s training with I Dreamed a Dream: Automata and Ideology in The New Spirit entrepreneurial tools and business etiquette to navigate the Nicole Tabor, Moravian College often-unmapped desert of employment in the arts. Dreaming Locales: Setting as Foucauldian Panopticon in Pedro Performance Studies (PSFG) Focus Group Membership Calderon de la Barca’s Life is a Dream Meeting #2 Stephanie Vella, The Graduate Center, City University of New Casita 5232 York FOCUS GROUP: Hysteria in the Mirror: Andre de Lorde’s Asylum Plays for the Performance Studies Focus Group (PSFG) Grand Guignol SESSION COORDINATOR: Catherine Young, The Graduate Center, City University of Joseph Cermatori, Columbia University New York SESSION CHAIR: 107 Without the Least Urging’: Exploring the Possibility of Consent Megan Shea, New York University in Interspecies Performance Please join us for the second part of our annual meeting! We’ll Participants explore the power dynamics of dream acts on be discussing the PSFG’s current work and holding elections for stage in analyses of various performances, from Broadway to the group’s leadership. propaganda films to vaudeville. Theatre Beyond the Proscenium: Using Drama as a Teaching Latina/o (LFG) Focus Group Membership Meeting Tool in Prison Casita 5400 Princess G FOCUS GROUP: FOCUS GROUP: Latina/o Focus Group (LFG) Theatre and Social Change (TASC) SESSION COORDINATOR: SESSION COORDINATOR: Jimmy Noriega, The College of Wooster LaVonne Canfield, Kansas State University Annual membership meeting for all ATHE members SESSION CHAIR: participating within or interested in Latina/o, Latin American, Janet Raskin, Miami Dade College or Indigenous theater. This lecture/discussion, performance and interactive workshop reveals the power of creating theatre in maximum-security JULY prisons and with at risk individuals in the community. 24-27 Two-Year College Program (TYCP) Focus Group Membership Meeting Casita 5130 AZ FOCUS GROUP: Two-Year College Program (TYCP) SESSION COORDINATOR: R. Scott Hengen, Montgomery College, Rockville SESSION CHAIR: Bill Gillett, Carrol Community College Meeting is open to all who are interested in the Two-Year college issues and perspectives. Sunday, July 27, 2014 SCENOGRAPHERS: Melpomene Katakalos, Lehigh University 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM CONT. Sarah Martin, Trinity University New Play Development Workshop: Showcase of New Plays Kiara Pipino, Grand Valley State University Princess D Juliet Wunsch, West Chester University MULTIDISCIPLINARY SESSION - FOCUS GROUPS: ACTORS: Playwrights and Creative Teams (PACT) Sean William Dupont, Eastern Arizona College Acting Program (AP) Steve Earnest, Coastal Carolina University Design, Technology and Management (DTM) Sheila Hickey Garvey, Southern Connecticut State University CO-CHAIRS AND PROGRAM COORDINATORS: PeggyRae Johnson, Keene State College Judith Royer, Loyola Marymount University Kari Hatfield, Abilene Christian University Rodger Sorensen, Brigham Young University Baron Kelly, Feng Chia University, Taiwan Charlene A. Donaghy, Provincetown Tennessee Williams Wil Kilroy, University of Southern Maine Theatre Festival Alison Marshall, Lesley University, Cambridge PRODUCTION MANAGERS/ON-SITE COORDINATORS: Alma Martinez, Freelance Jeffrey Fischer-Smith, Spalding University Elizabeth May, Arizona State University Chelsea S. Kauffman, Brigham Young University Charlie Mitchell, University of Florida, Gainesville SHOWCASE RESPONDENTS: George Nelson, Brigham Young University Robert Fieldsteel, Freelance John E. O’Connor, Fairmont State University Jan Lewis, Wesleyan College Daniel L. Patterson, Keene State College Elaine Moe, The MEGAW Theatre and Scottsdale Community Ariel Roes, Northland Pioneer College College Carin Silkaitis, North Central College Verity Stansall, Freelance PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS: Eric Thibodeaux-Thompson, University of Illinois Springfield Bodega, by Adam Seidel, Collarboraction Theatre, Chicago. Bread, by Michael Yichao, Freelance 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM Haboob, by Norman A. Bert, Texas Tech University 2015 Conference Planners’ Meeting 2 Johnny Did Not Come Marching Home, by Sharon Andrews, 108 Castile 1 Wake Forest University The Last Parnassus, by Fonzie Geary, Lyon College FOCUS GROUP: Conference Committee (CC) Mi Princesa Perfecta, by Marco A. Pina, Scottsdale Community College SESSION COORDINATOR: Praying for a Hurricane, by Cynthia “Andy” Landis, Freelance Lionel Walsh, University of Windsor She Begs to Differ, by Denise Hinson, University of New A Politic Dreamt, A Policy Staged: Performance and Policy in Mexico, Albuquerque the 21st Century ALTERNATES: Princess A Exit Caesar Chavez by Steven Young, Texas Woman’s FOCUS GROUP: University, Denton Performance Studies Focus Group (PSFG) Reservations by Jeffrey Fischer-Smith, Spalding University SESSION COORDINATOR: DIRECTORS: Patrick McKelvey, Brown University C. David Frankel, University of South Florida Enabling Austerity: Disability Performance and U.S. Social Andrew Christopher Gaupp, University of Texas, Arlington Policy Sue Klemp, South Dakota State University William Partlan, Arizona State University SESSION CHAIR: Pam Pepper, Lehigh University Judith Hamera, Texas A&M University Becky Prophet, Alfred University PARTICIPANTS: Fred Rubeck, Elon University Clare Croft, University of Michigan Janeve West, Cornell College Funding Footprints DRAMATURGS: Kelly Howe, North Central College Linda Bannister, Loyola Marymount University “They didn’t Think We were Serious”: Satirical (?) Protest Patrick Elkins-Zeglarski, Denver Athena Project Legislation and Performative Estrangements of the War on for the Edge Theatre Women Robert Fieldsteel, Freelance Anusha Kedhar, Colorado College Wade Hollingshaus, Brigham Young University How the Arts Council of England Has Shaped British Asian Diane Merchant, Cedarville University Dance through Diversity and Innovation Pam Monteleone, University of North Florida This panel foregrounds policy as a site of inquiry for Jennie Pardoe, University of Missouri, Columbia performance studies, and examines how dreams are deferred, Janna Segal, Mary Baldwin College depleted, and discovered through enactments of policy. Sunday, July 27, 2014 Dreamlandia: The Space and Politics of Latina/o and Latin American Landscapes 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM CONT. Princess G Cultivating Refuge, Collaboration and Renewal in the FOCUS GROUP: Theater Movement Community Latina/o Focus Group (LFG) Castile 6 SESSION COORDINATOR: FOCUS GROUP: Claudia Villegas-Silva, Arizona State University Association of Theatre Movement Educators (ATME) SESSION CHAIR: SESSION COORDINATOR: Trevor Boffone, University of Houston Erika Berland, Naropa University Desert Desolation: (Re)locating the Chicana Experience in SESSION CHAIR: Josefina López’sDetained in the Desert Judith Chafee, Boston University PARTICIPANTS: PARTICIPANTS: Andrew Gibb, Texas Tech University ATHE Wendell Beavers, Naropa University Los Tejanos: Memory of Conquest in New Mexican Folk Drama 2014 Tom Casciero, Towson University Sara Romersberger, Southern Methodist University Jason Ramírez, Suffolk County Community College, State University of New York MERGE (Movement Educator’s Research Group) will discuss Staging Latinidad with a Bronx Groove the work they accomplished over four retreats, offering the ATHE community a possible model for collaboration among Examining the U.S./Mexican desert, the Bronx, 1841 New colleagues. Mexico, and Chile’s 2011 student protests, panelists interrogate plays/performances that center space as a primary concern. Dare to Dream: Experiencing the Superconscious through Active Analysis Dreams Into Nightmares: The Gothic in Contemporary Casita 5320 Drama Princess B MULTIDISCIPLINARY SESSION - FOCUS GROUPS: Acting Program (AP) MULTIDISCIPLINARY SESSION - FOCUS GROUPS: Association of Theatre Movement Educators (ATME) Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) Directing Program (DP) Theory and Criticism (TC) 109 Women and Theatre Program (WTP) SESSION COORDINATOR: Stephanie Daventry French, East Stroudsburg University SESSION COORDINATOR: Liberating the Compositional Shape of an Event Through Frank Miller, Georgia State University Dynamic Interplay The Shattered Eye (I) -- The Gothic Landscape of Brad Fraser SESSION CHAIR: SESSION CHAIR: Philip G. Bennett, The Bennett Theatre Lab and Conservatory Wes Pearce, University of Regina Exploring Characters and Relationships in Active Etudes “Leave My Body, Embryo of Hope”: Queer(ed) Canadian Gothic Grant Bashore, International Mime and SAG-AFTRA in Michel Marc Bouchard’s The Madonna Painter Performing Artist PARTICIPANTS: The Imaginative and Emotional Force of Physically Sculpted Bud Coleman, University of Colorado, Boulder Ensemble Tableau “You Look Great in Black” -- Theorizing the Gothic Explore A Midsummer Night’s Dream through Stanislavsky’s Aoise Stratford, Cornell University Active Analysis through Psychophysical Actions. Develop One of Us, One of Them: Colonization and Queer Vampires in visceral, physical and imaginative connections- a conscious path Contemporary Gothic Theatre to the superconscious. Panelists examine contemporary manifestations of the gothic, particularly as related to queer theory, feminist theory and JULY postcolonial theory. 24-27 AZ Sunday, July 27, 2014 Performing Freedom Dreams from Slavery to Civil Rights: Then and Today 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM CONT. Casita 5130 Fantasy Feminisms: Dreaming of the Perfect Syllabus FOCUS GROUP: Princess F Black Theatre Association (BTA) FOCUS GROUP: SESSION COORDINATOR: Women and Theatre Program (WTP) Douglas Jones, Rutgers University, New Brunswick SESSION COORDINATOR: Frederick Douglass: Performance Theorist/Political Theorist Jessica Del Vecchio, Graduate Center, City University of New York SESSION CHAIR: Session Chair: Brandi Catanese, University of California, Berkeley S. Randolph Edmonds’ Earth and Stars and the Drama of the Catherine Young, Graduate Center, City University of New York Civil Rights Movement PARTICPANTS: Gwendolyn Alker, New York University PARTICIPANT: Feminism and Theatre: Making Gender Relevant for the Soyica Colbert, Georgetown University Undergraduate Acting Major Making History: Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained and Spike Lee’s Four Little Girls Jessica Brater, Barnard College History of Directing: Carolina Neuber and Goethe to Romeo This session explores performances of freedom and citizenship Castellucci and JoAnne Akalaitis during the slavery and Civil Rights eras, as well as the politics of Talya Kingston, Hampshire College reimagining such performances today. Uncoursing Feminist Theatre Practices Publishing Articles about Actor Training: How to Write Elizabeth Cruz Petersen, Independent Scholar about the Teaching of Acting Building a Character: The Early Modern Spanish Actress Castile 3 This roundtable provides an opportunity for collaborative FOCUS GROUP: exploration of what it means to facilitate a feminist theatre Acting Program (AP) classroom, both in terms of curricula and pedagogical practices. 110 SESSION COORDINATOR: Living within Rhythms of the Living Archive: Immersion Charles Grimes, University of North Carolina, Wilmington Experiences in Culture, Language and Global Spaces Editors and writers for the peer-reviewed new journal Casita 5308 METHODs will answer questions about how to publish articles FOCUS GROUP: on what you teach in your acting classrooms. Theatre and Social Change (TASC) Rediscovering the Dream: New Resources for Teaching La SESSION COORDINATOR: vida es sueno Susan Finque, University of Washington Bourbon 8 The Living, Breathing Archive: Repertory Fills the Streets, Andean FOCUS GROUP: Performance Culture and the Responsibility in Encounter Theatre as a Liberal Art (TLA) SESSION CHAIR: SESSION COORDINATOR: Tawnya Pettiford-Wates, Virginia Commonwealth University Ben Gunter, Florida State University The Use of Ritual Poetic Drama within the African Continuum Rediscovering the Dream through Rehearsal and Refundicion PARTICIPANTS: SESSION CHAIR: Ram Bhagat, Virginia State University Alejandra Rodriguez-Villar, Duke University Voices in the Wilderness: Urgent Needs in our Schools and the Lessons from a Class-Project, Cyberpunk Dream at Duke Power of Performing Arts in Science Curriculum PARTICIPANTS: Liz Canfield, Virginia Commonwealth University Rick Davis, George Mason University Bodies in Space/Politics of Place: Resisting the PIC through Teaching the Dream through Translation and Production Community-Based Art-Making Practice in the Richmond City Jail Rachel Katz, Independent Dramaturg Sarah BlueStar dAngelo (Mohawk), Oklahoma City University Susan Paun de García Acts of Survivance and Tribalography: Native Theatre on the Rez Dream Re-Dreamed: Calderón’s Auto as a Resource for Practitioners/scholars share experiences in sub-Saharan Africa, Enriching Pedagogy South America, and within U.S. prisons and Reservations. Our It’s the most famous play from the Spanish Golden Age. How art, pedagogy and souls have been transformed. can hands-on experiences from the stage make it more dynamic in class? Sunday, July 27, 2014 Theatrical Opportunities for Older Actors Bourbon 9 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM CONT. FOCUS GROUP: Research Dream Projects: Present Plans, Future Aspirations Senior Theatre Research and Performance (STRP) Castile 4 SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: FOCUS GROUP: Barbara Parisi, Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus Research and Publications Committee (RPC) Older Male Actors SESSION COORDINATOR: Alan Sikes, Louisiana State University PARTICIPANTS: Peggy Burgess, Freedom Plaza Senior Living Community SESSION CHAIR: Retirement Communities Robert Schanke, Emeritus, Central College Penny Peterson, Sun Lakes Community Theatre Distinguished scholars will discuss their latest research Community Theatre projects, focusing on their present state and aspirations for their ATHE future development. After retirement, many older adults are turning/returning to their dream of the stage. Discover the many ways to create 2014 Shuo Meng Hua (Talking in my Dreams): Using Drama for opportunities for older performers. English and Chinese Language Learning Sonoran Room Theory and Criticism (TC) Focus Group Membership Meeting FOCUS GROUP: Casita 5232 Association for Asian Performance (AAP) FOCUS GROUP: SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Theory and Criticism (TC) Janet Raskin, Miami Dade College SESSION COORDINATOR: PARTICIPANTS: Leah Lowe, Vanderbilt University Whit Emerson, University of Central Florida Cynthia Henderson, Ithaca College SESSION CHAIR: John Weinstein, Bard High School Early College, Newark Jane Barnette, University of Kansas Four teachers describe their experience using drama to teach Come join us for our annual meeting to discuss past, present, 111 English in China and Chinese in the U.S. through improvisation, and future business and to plan next year’s conference. All are self-scripted work, and performance of published plays. welcome!

The Family Dream House 3: Ritual Space and Family You’ve Got to be Carefully Taught: Musical Theatre Identity Education in Postcolonial Asia Princess E Princess C FOCUS GROUP: MULTIDISCIPLINARY SESSION - FOCUS GROUPS: Religion and Theatre (RT) Association for Asian Performance (AAP) Music Theatre/Dance (MT/D) SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA) Jill Stevenson, Marymount Manhattan College SESSION COORDINATOR: PARTICIPANTS: Ji Hyon Yuh, City University of New York Lynn M. Deboeck, University of Kansas Social Justice and Musical Theatre: Extracurricular Musical Hidden Birth Rooms: Birthing Identities Formed in Absence Theatre Programs for K-12 Students in Korea Kurt Edwards, East Central University A Chapel in the Home: Renewing Sacred Space through Family SESSION CHAIR: History Caleb Goh, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts The New Frontier: Musical Theatre Education in Singapore This panel is part of a three-session series that explores how the JULY family house has been re-dreamed on stage, through ritual, and PARTICIPANT: 24-27 using collaborative performances. Sissi Liu, City University of New York Dream Deferred: Predicaments in the Search for a Chinese National Musical Theatre AZ This panel will discuss what musical theatre means in postcolonial Asia and unearth the underlying dreams and desires of various postcolonial subjects. Sunday, July 27, 2014 Dreaming of the Future: Mixed-Media, Digital Performance, and Subjectivity 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM CONT. Princess G Body, Mind and Energy: Resources and Techniques for the FOCUS GROUP: Performer Performance Studies Focus Group (PSFG) Casita 5400 SESSION COORDINATOR: FOCUS GROUP: Kevin Brown, University of Missouri Acting Program (AP) The Dream Medium: Robert Edmond Jones’ Theatre of the SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Future Tom Whitaker, University of California, Santa Barbara PARTICIPANTS: Exploration of the three concurrent levels of physicality, sensory Christine Evans, Georgetown University work, and subtle energy work. Suitable for a wide variety of Areum Jeong, University of California, Los Angeles genres and styles. Performing Gendered Intermediality Dreaming in Cuban: Interpretations of the Body in Dance, Judith Sloan, New York University Theatre, Ritual, and Performance From Crossing the BLVD to YO MISS! Teaching Inside the Princess B Cultural Divide FOCUS GROUP: This panel explores the formation of subjectivity within living Latina/o Focus Group (LFG) and mediated performances. SESSION COORDINATOR: (En)Gendering Dialogues about Military Service and Kimberly Ramírez, LaGuardia City University of New York Veterans’ Issues: War Performances as Resistance and Miraculous Sites of Refuge, Resistance, and Renewal in Nilo Political Action Cruz’s Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams Castile 3 SESSION CHAIR: FOCUS GROUP: Eric Mayer-García, Louisiana State University Women and Theatre Program (WTP) Undoing Biopolitics in Teatro Prometeo’s production of PERSECUCIÓN by Reinaldo Arenas SESSION COORDINATOR: 112 Maria Beach, Oklahoma State University PARTICIPANTS: Engendering Dialogues about Military Service: Two World War Micha Espinosa, Arizona State University I Conscription Dramas by Female Dramatists Teaching in Cuba: A Voice Teacher’s Perceptions of Two Contrasting Learning Environments and the Effects of SESSION CHAIR: Commodificaion Jacqueline Viskup, University of California, Santa Barbara Resisting Normative Reintegration Strategies in Welcome Home, Jadele McPherson, Lukumi Arts Jenny Sutter La Nueva Mujer: Akpon, Rumbera and Batalera Steven De Loose, Oklahoma State University Laurie Frederik Meer, University of Maryland (Don’t) Tell it to the Marines: A Gay Veteran’s Public Coming New Cuban Stories: Contemporary Theater and Performance on Out and Anti-War Resistance the Island Jorge Luis Morejon, The University of the West Indies War is traditionally constructed as a hypermasculine, Teatro Cubano Exiliado: Nueva Técnica Teatral [Exiled Cuban heteronormative sphere. This panel interrogates these Theatre: New Theatrical Technique] preconceptions by analyzing war performance texts by women and gay men. Solimar Otero, Louisiana State University Re-possessing Afrolatina/o Performance in Ritual This panel questions how the body of the actor/performer manifests Cuban dreamscapes in diverse sites of performance-- from Afro-Cuban religious practice to Miami’s theatre scene. Sunday, July 27, 2014 Moving From Floating Islands to Archipelagos: Intercultural 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM CONT. Practices in Pedagogy, Training, and Performance Princess F Impossible Things Are Happening Everyday: Surprise in Musical Theater Spectacle FOCUS GROUP: Princess C Association of Theatre Movement Educators (ATME) FOCUS GROUP: SESSION COORDINATOR: Music Theatre/Dance (MT/D) Elizabeth Parks, Texas Tech University The Barter As Deliverance from the Desert SESSION COORDINATOR: Douglas Reside, New York Public Library SESSION CHAIR: “Let’s Make it Bigger, Tonight it’s Bigger”: The Technology of Julie Rada, Arizona State University Musical Theater Spectacle from 1866-1930 Notes from the Waters: Sailing with Barba’s Paper Canoe - An Examination of Daily Training in the Craft of Making PARTICIPANTS: Performance ATHE Daniel Dinero, New York University Hey Miss Lady: Flying and Feminism in Bring It On PARTICIPANTS: 2014 Emily Jones, Lindenwood University CarlosAlexis Cruz, University of North Carolina, Charlotte “One can hardly Move for Beauty and Brilliance these Days.”: Voices from Exile: Movement Traditions from Latin America The Surprising Spectacle of Matilda Laura Rikard, Stephen F. Austin State University Laura MacDonald, University of Portsmouth The Odin Tradition and Undergraduate Training in the United Flying, Fighting and Dying Bodies: How the Body’s Capacity States Surprises on the Musical Theatre Stage This panel explores how dreams of community and renewal are This panel examines the function of surprise in musical theater fulfilled through movement practices and traditions from the spectacle. How does the spectacular use of both technology and Odin Teatret and Latin America. the human body in musical theater challenge assumptions about “Send these, the Homeless, Tempest-tost to Me”: Staging what is possible? Stories of Immigration to the U.S.A. More than a Piece of Paper: Professionalizing Princess A Undergraduates for Careers in Theatre and Performance MULTIDISCIPLINARY SESSION - FOCUS GROUPS: 113 Studies American Theatre and Drama Society (ATDS) Casita 5320 Music Theatre/Dance (MT/D) MULTIDISCIPLINARY SESSION - FOCUS GROUPS: Theatre History (TH) American Theatre and Drama Society (ATDS) SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Theatre and Social Change (TASC) Barrie Gelles, The Graduate Center, City University of New York Theatre as a Liberal Art (TLA) Passing as Citizens: Jewish Immigration and Acculturation in SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*AN, Rags, and Ragtime Jocelyn Buckner, Chapman University PARTICIPANTS: Teaching the Im/Possible Dream: Guiding Students into the Amanda Boyle, University of Kansas Profession through Senior Seminar The Adding Machine: The Musical PARTICIPANTS: Anne Healy, University of Texas, Arlington Drew Chappell, California State University, Fullerton Staged Assimilation as Seen in The Immigrant, Haven, and The Community Embeddedness in the Theatre Management Immigration and Musical Theatre: Dramatized Orchestral Work Curriculum Ellis Island: The Dream of America Matt Omasta, Utah State University Stuart Hecht, Boston University Not Teaching High School: Practical Opportunities for Melting Pots, Salad Bowls, and Soup: Hull-House Theatre and JULY Educational Drama and Applied Theatre Students beyond the Americanization 24-27 Secondary School Classroom Geraldine Maschio, University of Kentucky Participants will share strategies to help undergraduate Falling Flat on My Face: Immigrant Character on the Vaudeville students secure professional employment, ensuring that their Stage AZ dreams of engaging in theatre and performance upon graduation Participants will investigate plays and musicals that feature are more than mirages. stories of immigration to the United States of America and discuss their importance and relevance. Sunday, July 27, 2014 The Role of Performance in Black Women’s Community 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM CONT. Organizing -- U.S., Suriname and South Africa Sonoran Room Taking Theatre on the Road Bourbon 9 FOCUS GROUP: Black Theatre Association (BTA) FOCUS GROUP: Senior Theatre Research and Performance (STRP) SESSION COORDINATOR: Lisa Biggs, Michigan State University SESSION COORDINATOR: Awuleth umshini wami (Bring me my machine gun): Theatre for Bonnie L. Vorenberg, ArtAge Senior Theatre Resource Center Incarcerated Women in South Africa SESSION CHAIR: Penny Petersen, Sun Lakes Community Theatre SESSION CHAIR: Kathryn Bentley, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville PARTICIPANTS; Code, Ritual and Resistance in the Du Theatre of the Afro- Ernest Giglio, Prescott Center for the Arts Surinamese How to Develop and Sustain a Readers’ Theatre LaDonna Forsgren, University of Oregon Mary Timpany, Prescott Center for the Arts Set Your Blackness Free: Barbara Ann Teer’s Ritualistic Revivals Performance of Getting Lucky Three case studies investigate how Black women artists use Learn how to set up a performing group that tours to senior performance to engage communities and enact revolutionary audiences. Learn about organization, programming, and tips and visions of more inclusive societies. tricks to make it successful. Utopic Dreams and Nightmare Visions 2: Re-thinking and The Ethics of Performance Ethnography in Religious Re-imagining Angels in America in the New Millennium Research Bourbon 8 Casita 5308 MULTIDISCIPLINARY SESSION - FOCUS GROUPS: FOCUS GROUP: American Theatre and Drama Society (ATDS) Religion and Theatre (RT) Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) SESSION COORDINATOR: Theatre History (TH) Claire Maria Chambers, Sogang University 114 SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Solidarity and the (Stained) Glass Ceiling: Researching Wes Pearce, University of Regina Women’s Ordination in the Roman Catholic Church PARTICIPANTS: SESSION CHAIR: Vanessa Campagna, University of Missouri Lance Gharavi, Arizona State University More Life: A Prophet’s Dream...Turned Nightmare? PARTICIPANTS: Vanessa Cianconi, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro Eric C Heaps, Indiana University Only in America: Roy Cohn and the Ghost of Ethel Rosenberg Don’t Triple Check Your Ethics at the Door: The Western Use of Liam Monaghan, University of Lethbridge Guarani Cannibalism throughout History (Does X = Y?) Transcending Perspectives: A Bi-Generational Ben Phelan, Louisiana State University Reaction to Angels in America from within a New Millennium Digital Conversion: Collisions and Reconciliations between the Jay Whitehead, University of Lethbridge Digital and the Spiritual in the Twenty-First Century (Does X = Y?) Transcending Perspectives: A Bi-Generational Laurelann Porter, Arizona State University Reaction to Angels in America from within a New Millennium Asking Delicate Questions: Reflections on Ethics and Methods Utilized in Dissertation Research Juxtaposing history, nostalgia and futurity, this panel re- interrogates Angels in America proposing provocative new Performance ethnographers wrestle with the ethics of their own readings and interpretations of Kushner’s opus. assumptions, attitudes, and personal involvement when belief and spiritual practice inform research in religion. Wanted! Freedom: Dead or Alive Casita 5130 MULTIDISCIPLINARY SESSION - FOCUS GROUPS: Association of Theatre Movement Educators (ATME) Black Theatre Association (BTA) Theatre and Social Change (TASC) SESSION COORDINATOR: Daryl Harris, Northern Kentucky University SESSION CHAIR: Aretta Baumgartner, Center for Puppetry, Atlanta Through Negro Spirituals, chants, poetry, and archival Runaway Slave Ads, this ritual theatre-styled performance celebrates those who pursued freedom’s dream by any means necessary. Sunday, July 27, 2014 2:00 PM – 11:00 PM Black Theatre Association (BTA) Focus Group master of arts program in Post-Conference 1 -- Dialogues in the Desert theater and performance studies Castile 2, Castile 3, and Sonoran Room FOCUS GROUP: This two-year master’s program integrates multidisciplinary approaches to Black Theatre Association (BTA) performance into an intense study of theater grounded in cultural history, critical theory, and applied practice. In the Performing Arts Department at SESSION COORDINATOR: Washington University in St. Louis, students can: Jonathan Shandell, Arcadia University • Prepare for competitive PhD programs in theater and performance studies by The BTA Post-Conference begins in Castile 3. working with leading faculty in performing arts, as well as art, anthropology, classics, dance, film and media studies, English, non-Anglophone languages Monday, July 28, 2014 and literatures, music, and women, gender and sexuality studies. • ATHE 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM Integrate theory and practice both in coursework and by working on productions with our creative team of directors, designers and choreographers. Black Theatre Association (BTA) Focus Group 2014 • Attend symposia focused on debates in contemporary scholarship. Post-Conference 2 -- Dialogues in the Desert • Access holdings in the university’s archives and special collections, including Hacienda North drafts of Samuel Beckett’s Play (1963), early writings by Tennessee FOCUS GROUP: Williams, and unedited documentary footage from Eyes on the Prize (1987; 1990). Black Theatre Association (BTA) SESSION COORDINATOR: Washington University is located in St. Louis, an accessible Midwestern city that boasts cultural Jonathan Shandell, Arcadia University amenities such as a world-class symphony, several world-class art museums, historical archives, a vibrant independent theater and music scene, and many other attractions. For more information please visit pad.artsci. wustl.edu/graduate. Please recommend our program to your most promising students! Application deadline is January 15th 115

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