Saturday, July 26, 2014 7:45 AM - 8:15 AM Association of Theatre Movement Educators (ATME) Morning Warm Up: Dynamic Presence Training Princess C FOCUS GROUP: Association of Theatre Movement Educators (ATME) SESSION COORDINATOR: Holly Cate, Muhlenberg College SESSION CHAIR: Adam Noble, University of Houston PARTICIPANT: ATHE Melissa Noble, Rose Bruford College, UK 2014 Please join us for this eclectic conference-wide warm up - something for every BODY to get up and moving. 8:15 AM - 9:45 AM Black Theatre Network Alliance Meeting President’s Suite FOCUS GROUP: Conference Committee (CC) SESSION COORDINATOR: Henry Bial, University of Kansas Cornering Your Market: How to Foster your Marketing Savvy for a Thriving Career as an Actor Casita 5320 85 FOCUS GROUP: Acting Program (AP) SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Suzanne Hunt Jenner, Pasadena City College and American Academy of Dramatic Arts PARTICIPANTS: Linda Brennan, American Academy of Dramatic Arts Theresa Hayes, American Academy of Dramatic Arts Leigh Kennicott, California State University, Northridge Kevin Wetmore, Loyola Marymount University Actors learn the strategies needed to maximize their opportunities and set a marketing plan in motion for a fulfilling and thriving career in all mediums. JULY 24-27 AZ Saturday, July 26, 2014 DREAMSCAPE Casita 5332 8:15 AM - 9:45 AM CONT. MULTIDISCIPLINARY SESSION - FOCUS GROUPS: Directing Dreams into Action: Researching Directors and Theatre and Social Change (TASC) Directorial Practice Black Theatre Association (BTA) Casita 5232 Women and Theatre Program (WTP) FOCUS GROUP: SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Directing Program (DP) Rickerby Hinds, University of California, Riverside SESSION COORDINATOR: PARTICIPANTS: Emily Rollie, Monmouth College Daniel Banks, City University of New York Women of the Northern Stage: Canadian Women Directors in Kathy Ervin, California State University, San Bernardino Rehearsal Dreamscape depicts the death and inner life of a young woman, SESSION CHAIR: ATHE Myeisha Mills, who dreams through the impact of the twelve Ann Shanahan, Loyola University, Chicago 2014 police bullets that kill her. PARTICIPANTS: Anne Fliotsos, Purdue University Enacting Diaspora: Transcultural Encounters, Collective International Women Stage Directors at Work Creation, and the Theatre of Repair Boone Hopkins, Converse College Casita 5308 “I have no Ambition to See a Goodlier Man:” Directing Gender FOCUS GROUP: Performativity Theatre History (TH) How does a director’s dream make its way to the stage? This SESSION COORDINATOR: panel considers international women directors’ work, offering Scott Proudfit, Elon University strategies for documenting artistic process. Collective Creation at Hull House: Southern and Eastern European Diaspora, Progressive Education, and Improvisational Dream Acts of Dramaturgy: Translation Stage Reading Theatre Rehearsal #2 Casita 5400 SESSION CHAIR: 86 Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva, Bowdoin College FOCUS GROUP: The Non-Stop Touring Gypsy-Punk Band: Gogol Bordello’s Dramaturgy Program (DR) Collective Performance of Diaspora and Deracination SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: PARTICIPANTS: Carrie J. Cole, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Thomas Riccio, Founding Artistic Director, Dead White An open rehearsal for the staged reading of a newly translated Zombies; University of Texas, Dallas play curated by the Dramaturgy Focus Group. Celia Herrera Rodríguez, University of California, Berkeley New Fire Ceremony - Ceremonial Traveling among and between Dreamed-Up Histories: Ruptured Realities and Invented Chicana/o and Northern Native Communities Performance Bourbon 11 Kris Salata, Florida State University The WorkCenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards: FOCUS GROUP: Grotowski’s Transcultural Legacy in the 21st Century Performance Studies Focus Group (PSFG) Jose Luis Valenzuela , Latino Theatre Company (now the Los SESSION COORDINATOR: Angeles Theatre Center); UCLA School of Theatre, Film and Nelson Barre, National University of Ireland, Galway Television Remembering What Never Happened: Child’s Play, Dreams, and Nia Witherspoon, Florida State University, Tallahassee Memories in Enda Walsh’s Disco Pigs JULY Ceremonies of Collective Creation: Performance, Spirit, and PARTICIPANTS: Women of Color 24-27 Jessica Hinds-Bond, Northwestern University This panel investigates transcultural collective encounters. A Grain of Salt: The Genesis of Ivan Vyrypaev’s Genesis 2 Keeping in mind distinctions between projects of Jeff Paden, Florida State University “remembering” and of “borrowing,” we aim to facilitate dialogue AZ To Look is to Love: Towards an Ethic for Representing and between differently situated constituencies. Witnessing the Body in Pain What constitutes an appropriately constructed version of history? Panelists examine contemporary playwrights who break down notions of identity performance and world-creation. Saturday, July 26, 2014 Membership and Marketing (MM) Committee Meeting Bourbon 8 8:15 AM - 9:45 AM CONT. FOCUS GROUP: Inviting Devised Work to the Table: Including Devised Work Membership and Marketing Committee (MM) in a Department’s Production Season Princess F SESSION COORDINATOR: David Kaye, University of New Hampshire FOCUS GROUP: American Theatre and Drama Society (ATDS) New Play Development Workshop: Rehearsal Part 2 SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Castile 3 Bud Coleman, University of Colorado, Boulder MULTIDISCIPLINARY SESSION - FOCUS GROUPS: PARTICIPANTS: Playwrights and Creative Teams (PACT) Dennis Elkins, Fort Lewis College Acting Program (AP) Cynthia Gendrich, Wake Forest University Design, Technology and Management (DTM) ATHE Edward Kahn, Ohio Wesleyan University CO-CHAIRS: 2014 Tim Miller, Freelance Artist Charlene A. Donaghy, Provincetown Tennessee Williams While universities have long included original, devised work Theatre Festival within their training programs and pedagogy, recently devised Judith Royer, Loyola Marymount University theater practice has mainstreamed onto the main stage. Rodger Sorensen, Brigham Young University Is There Value in a Theatre Arts and Humanities’ PRESENTERS: Education? Jeffrey Fischer-Smith, Spalding University Princess G Chelsea S. Kauffman, Brigham Young University FOCUS GROUP: Rehearsal for the first half of the plays selected for the New Play Theatre as a Liberal Art (TLA) Development Workshop and Showcase series. SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Night Dreaming, Day Dreaming, and the Desert of the Real: Nadja Masura, Women’s Global Leadership Initiative Imagination and Its Sources Wieseltierås Defense of the Humanities Applied to Creating a Castile 5 87 Defense of Theatre Arts FOCUS GROUP: PARTICIPANTS: Theory and Criticism (TC) Rachel Bauer, University of Missouri, Columbia, SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Theatre, Performance, and Art-Making: Keys to the Human David Marcia, Beloit College Spirit Nightmare or Reverie: How the Dream Ballet Shaped the Use Amy Brady, Kean University of Dance in Musical Theatre Theatre Performance Techniques Applied to the Humanities: Castile 4 Student Values Examined through Theatre Games FOCUS GROUP: Shawna Mefferd Carroll, State University of New York, Music Theatre/Dance (MT/D) Plattsburg The Value of Theatre Education! SESSION COORDINATOR: Brook Davis, Wake Forest University Rene Pulliam, University of Mississippi Saving Face Onstage: How U.S. Theatre Students Prepare To Dream or Not to Dream: Jerome Robbins’ Use of Dance Chinese High Schoolers for Study in the States Reverie in West Side Story and Fiddler on the Roof Marjorie Gaines, California State University, Northridge SESSION CHAIR: Theatre Arts as an Educational Paradigm: Teaching Theatre as a Mary Jo Lodge, Lafayette College Common Core Thinking Tool PARTICIPANTS: JULY Peggy Rae Johnson, Keene State College Dustyn Martincich, Bucknell University 24-27 Why Teach Theatre and the Humanities? Dancing the Fantasy: Dream Ballets Confronting the Travis Malone, Wesleyan College Conventional and Tickling the Taboo in Company, Pippin, and Theatre in the Humanities: The “Original” Pre-Professional The Mystery of Edwin Drood AZ Program Ryan McKinney, City University of New York, Kingsborough Michelle Salerno, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Community College Labor Organizing as a Site of Resistance to Neoliberal Policies in Love and Money: George Balanchine’s Use of Dream Ballets in Higher Education Babes in Arms and I Married an Angel In an era of global change, the Arts and Humanities are at a The dream ballet in musical theatre has engaged the audience critical juncture. It’s time to value the skills a theatre education with a look into the psychological journeys of the characters, as offers. fantasy, vision, dream and nightmare. Saturday, July 26, 2014 Spotlight on New Works: Discussion of Newly Published Works in the Fields of American Theatre, African-American 8:15 AM - 9:45 AM CONT. Theatre, and Latino/a Theatre Queer Dreams and Homonationalist Nightmares: Castile 1 Performing and Critiquing Queer Belonging MULTIDISCIPLINARY SESSION - FOCUS GROUPS: Sonoran Room American Theatre and Drama Society (ATDS) FOCUS GROUP: Black Theatre Association (BTA) Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) Latina/o Focus Group (LFG) SESSION COORDINATOR: SESSION COORDINATORS: Nicole Eschen, California State University, Northridge Amy E. Hughes, Brooklyn College, City University of New York The Lavender Nightmare: The Curious Performative Jimmy A. Noriega, College of Wooster Persistence of McCarthyism Jonathan Shandell, Arcadia University ATHE PARTICIPANTS: SESSION