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Concurrent Sessions Friday, August 4, 2006 8:00 AM – 8:45 AM Advocacy Committee Meeting I Focus Group: 36 (ADV) Advocacy Committee Room: Salon 9 - 3rd Floor Chair: Deborah Martin, Berea College Advocacy Committee Business Meeting I This meeting is designed for those current, previous or interested members in the work of the Advocacy Committee. Professional Development Committee Open Forum Focus Group: 26 (PDC) Professional Development Committee Room: Salon 8 - 3rd Floor Chair: Jeannie M. Woods, Winthrop University Participants: Barbara O. Korner, University of Florida Co-Director of the ATHE Leadership Institute Valerie B. Morris, College of Charleston Co-Chair of the Chairs & Dean’s Subcommittee: Andrew Ryder, Seattle Pacific University Co-Chair of the Pedagogy Subcommittee Jenny Spencer, University of Massachusetts Co-Director of the ATHE Writing Mentorship Program James Symons, University of Colorado-Boulder Co-Chair of the Mentorship Subcommittee Christin Yannacci, University of Texas This session will provide an overview of ATHE’s Professional Development Committee, its subcommittees and programs, followed by a discussion of how the committee can serve the needs of ATHE members. Raffle Focus Group: 38 (CC) Conference Committee Room: Upper Exhibit Hall – 4th Floor 8:15 AM – 8:45 AM ATME - Daily Warm Up Session Focus Group: 4 (ATME) Association for Theatre Movement Educators Room: Red Lacquer Foyer – 4th Floor Co-Coodinator/Co-Chair: Golde, Freelance Co-Coordinator/Co-Chair: Ted Morin, Actors Movement Studio Participants: Karin Abromaitis, George Washington University Golde, Freelance Ted Morin, Actors Movement Studio Start the day in a positive way. The Association for Theatre Movement Educators provides movement and vocal warm-ups for general participation each morning. Please join us. Movement attire suggested. 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM 20 Years of Developments in Musical Theatre: Part I Focus Group: 11 (MTD) Music Theatre/Dance Room: Salon 5 – 3rd Floor Chair: Mary Jo Lodge, Lafayette College Participants: William Everett, Conservatory of Music - University of Missouri-- Flying Cars and Umbrella-Carrying Nannies: From Screen to Stage with Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Mary Poppins Bruce Kirle, Central School of Speech and Drama, London Landmarks and Legacies: Les Mis, British Mega-Musicals, and the Margaret Thatcher Years Adam Roberts, The University of Texas at Austin Significant Musics, Narrative Dramatics: The Case of Parade This panel examines trends and developments in musical theatre that have occurred since ATHE’s inception twenty years ago. A Space Shaped by Absence: Performative Drift, Women, Girls and Feminist Embodiment Focus Group: 23 (WTP) Women and Theatre Program Room: PDR 9 – 3rd Floor Chair: Haiping Yan, University of California at Los Angeles Session Coordinator: Gwendolyn Hale, Fisk University The Ghost Girl in Naomi Wallace’s THE TRESTLE AT POPE LICK CREEK 58 Concurrent Sessions Friday, August 4, 2006 (contd.) 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM (continued from previous page) A Space Shaped by Absence: Performative Drift, Women, Girls and Feminist Embodiment Participants: Johanna Frank, University of Windsor Absence and Embodiment in Adrienne Kennedy’s A LESSON IN A DEAD LANGUAGE and Suzan-Lori Parks’ VENUS Sally Shedd, Virginia Weleyan College, THE CHILDREN’S HOUR: Generational Drift and Feminist Performance Three panelists explore ways in which haunting, absence, dislocation and “drift” have shaped embodiment in feminist practice. Making reference to a range of works from 1934 to the present, they look at ways in which silent, unseen, absent or evacuated female figures are used in representations to evoke power as well as limitation; promise as well as erasure. Come Together: Constructing Collaborative Partnerships between Directors and Dramaturgs to Enact Social Change Focus Group: 7 (DR) Dramaturgy Room: PDR 7 – 3rd Floor Session Coordinator: Karen Jean Martinson, University of Minnesota Race Riots and Sex Objects: Staging TWILIGHT and VENUS for the Now Participants: Kamesha Jackson, Chicago State University, The Collaborative Imperative Megan Sanborn Jones, Brigham Young University, Class, Race, Gender and Sex on the Conservative Stage Considering the landscape of institutionalized racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia, this panel will demonstrate how the critical collaborative partnership of socially engaged directors and dramaturgs creates new methodologies for enacting social change. Constructing the “Authentic” on the American Stage Focus Group: 2 (ATDS) American Theatre and Drama Society Room: PDR 16 – 5th Floor Chair: Daniel Gerould, CUNY Graduate Center Session Coordinator: James Cherry, The City University of New York Making History: The Federal Theatre Project and the Production of an American Past Participants: Kevin Byrne, CUNY Graduate Center, Falsifictionority: Appropriation Myths and Nineteenth Century Minstrel Performance Susan Kattwinkel, The College of Charleston, Assimilation and War: The presentation of the Civil War in Vaudeville Edmund Lingan, New York University, Constructed Histories of the Esoteric Theatre Tradition This panel focuses on American theatre spaces that allow for the creation of mythologies of genesis and the positing of “authentic” theatrical roots. Contemporary Black Political Theatre Focus Group: 5 (BTA) Black Theatre Association Room: Salon 11 - 3rd Floor Chair: Harvey Young, Northwestern University Must Black Always Come First?: The Responsibilities of Being a Black Playwright Participants: Faedra Chatard Carpenter, University of Maryland Life by Incarceration: The Captivating Plays of Kia Corthon Sarah Mahurin, Yale University The Topology of a Yng Woman: Ntozake Shange’s Rewriting of the Black Female Body Melinda Wilson, California State University - Sacramento, Race Matters in “The Toilet” This panel looks at black theatre and performance at three different moments in American history: the late 1930s, the 1960s, and the 2000s. Each paper examines the expression of politics in performance. Creative Inspiration Through Impulse Movement and Free Writing Focus Group: 40 (MD) Multidisciplinary Focus, 4 (ATME) Association for Theatre Movement Educators Room: Adams - 6th Floor Session Coordinator: Jonel Langenfeld-Rial, State University of New York at Oswego Creative Inspiration and Release Through Impulse Movement and Free Writing Participants: Brian Heyman, State University of New York at Oswego Megan Meyerov, State University of New York at Oswego Ryan Sprague, State University of New York at Oswego Everyone, at one time or another, feels frustrated by a lack of inspiration. Come have fun, move your body, and learn strategies to free your imagination and creativity through the use of Impulse Movement and Free Writing. 59 Concurrent Sessions Friday, August 4, 2006 (contd.) 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Critical Milestones: Cultural Theory/Performance Praxis Focus Group: 40 (MD) Multidisciplinary Focus: 17 (TC) Theory and Criticism, 18 (TH) Theatre History, 7 (DR) Dramaturgy Room: Salon 9 - 3rd Floor Session Coordinator: Christin Yannacci, University of Texas at Austin Participants: Wendy Armington, Lousiana State University The Epistle as a Female (Per)form(ance): A correspondance between You and Me Roger Bechtel, Miami University, Remembering Marx: Historicizing History in Contemporary American Theatre Katherine Mezur, Mills College, A Different Eros: Ambiguity and Transformativity in the Performance of the Kabuki “Femme Fatale” Oli Mohammadi, Louisiana State University, Performing Diasporic History Part of a five session series examining the place of cultural theory in theatre studies, this panel explores the appropriation and integration of cultural theory in contemporary World performance. Crossroads of Religion, Myth and Theatre Focus Group: 14 (RT) Religion and Theatre Room: Salon 10 - 3rd Floor Co-Coordinator: Jennie S Lake, University of Hawaii Mythological Impetus: A Comparison of The Role of Religion in Theatre Across Cultures Participants: Moira Day, University of Saskatchewan, Plato on the Canadian Prairies Sonja Novak, University of J. J. Strossmayer in Osijek, Croatia, Modern mirrors of ancient history or Mythological elements in modern American drama Ben Saypol, The University of Colorado, Revolting against the Revolutionary Religion has created a basis and encouragement for theatrical expression in many cultures. We will examine the communication between these elements from ancient to modern and across cultural lines. Debut Panel, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Theatre Focus Group: 10 (LGBT) Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Room: PDR 18 – 5th Floor Chair: Mark Zelinsky, Saint Joseph College Session Coordinator: Wendell Stone, University of West Georgia Presenters: Michelle Dvoskin, University of Texas, Austin Singing Our Queer Hearts Out’: Performing Receptions at the Buffy Sing-a-Long Grant Tyler Peterson, Royal Holloway, University of London The Gay Gender Groove: Masculinity and the (Re)Formation of Community on the Dance Floor Respondent: Kim Marra, University of Iowa Emerging Scholars in Performance Studies Focus Group: 13 (PS) Performance Studies Room: Salon 2 - 3rd Floor Chair: Paige McGinley, Brown University Panelists: Nina Mankin, City University of New York, New York City Public Clocks and the Disappearance of Civic Time Elise Morrison, Brown University, BANDAGED SPACES: Remembering the absent body in nuclear warfare Jaclyn Pryor, The University of Texas-Austin Structures of Race, Reception, and Analogic Thinking in Showtime’s “The L Word: A