WORKING SESSIONS: No - On Pe: WORKING SESSIONS Nothing Changes if Nothing Changes: Perseverance Emily Roxworthy, University of California, San Diego Ariel Nereson, University at Buffalo, SUNY Lisa Moravec, Royal Holloway, University of London and Perseveration in Activist Performance The Persistence of Activist Performance in Zoomtopia? Staging Choreographed Crossings, 1954: Louis Johnson and Ilona The Performance of Dressage: Nature Strikes Back! Convenors: Interactive Diversity Theatre during COVID-19 Murai Navigate Broadway Sonja Kuftinec, University of Minnesota Jennifer Parker-Starbuck, Royal Holloway, University of London John Fletcher, Louisiana State University Dani Snyder-Young, Northeastern University Kirsten Pullen, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign Under the Sea: Machinic Crustaceans and Ecological Promises Everything has Changed, Nothing is Different: Digital Mandy Moore’s Extraordinary Choreography: Re-citing and Participants: Performances, Amplified Inequalities, and the Performativity of Repeating Lyrical Dance in Broadcast TV Sarah Standing, New York City College of Technology Virginia Anderson, Connecticut College Socially Distanced Spectatorship The Specter of Animals in Natural Disaster Capitalism Aging with the AIDS Epidemic on Broadway: The Perils of Amy Rodgers, Mt. Holyoke University Nostalgic Performance Bretton White, Colby College Bring Up The Bodies: Dance as Revenant History and Clara Wilch, University of California, Los Angeles Excessive Repetition: Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, Biennal #00 Performance Archive Freeze/Melt: Disruptive Narratives of Climate Change and Chris Bell, University of Minnesota and Activism in Cuba Conservation in Nunavut Worlding for Social Change: Disrupting Cycles of Anna Waller, Columbia University Institutional Collaboration Once More, in a Lifetime: Renewing Dance Studies at Unity, Repetition, Precision: The Rockettes as Institution and ASTR Interchangeable Parts Performance in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism Jill Carter, University of Toronto Convenors: Convenors: Persistence of Violent Delights: “It’s All the Same Bullshit Again” Evleen Nasir, Texas A & M Health Science Center Kevin Byrne, University of Arizona Kirsten Pullen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Performance and the Cyclical Spectacle of Disaster: Ana Martínez, Texas State University Tracy C. Davis, Northwestern University Animals, Ecosystems, and Swamplands Pretty Pictures Participants: Convenors: Participants: Telory D. Arendell, Missouri State University Kim Marra, University of Iowa Devon Baur, University of California, Los Angeles Allison Gibbes, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Goat Island’s Repetitive Reproducibility of Pina Bausch’s Jen Parker-Starbuck, Royal Holloway, University of London The Value of Privacy and the Performance of the Surveilled Performance and Trollmanship: Repetition and Disruption in Gesture: Staging a Post-Repetitive Stutter Social Media Activism Participants: Greta Gebhard, University of Minnesota Deniz Başar, Concordia University Nazli Akhtari, University of Toronto Performing Cyborgism and Surveillance: An Examination into Macy Jones, University of Arkansas, Fort Smith From Edward Watson to Gregor Samsa: Disidentifications Pre-Internet Cats: Performing Interspecies Histories Rimini Protokoll’s Remote Mitte Acting Up Again: Activist Erasure in the Federal Dance Project from/of the Ideal Dominic Dongilli, University of Iowa Matt Jones, University of Toronto Laura Lodewyck, North Central College Margarita Delcheva, University of California, Santa Barbara Amber Doll > TILIKUM: Amber Hawk Swanson’s Disaster Art & Hiding in Plain Sight: Race, Camouflage, and Surveillance Repetition in ‘Unprecedented’ Times: Memory, Erasure, and the Construction and the Score’s Again: Re-enacting Dance in the the Plasticity of Interspecies Encounter Theatrical Witness Work of Christopher-Rasheem McMillan and Trisha Brown Maggie Oates, Carnegie Mellon University Amy E. Hughes, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Privacy and Cybersecurity in Performance and Arts Institutions Gary Luter, University of Tampa Adrianna DiRisio, University at Buffalo - SUNY Our Animals, Ourselves Ignite, Extinguish, Repeat: Frisch’s Biedermann and the Fire Dance in Times of Crisis: The Shanghai International Dance Madeline Pages, Yale University Bugs Then and Now Center Theater’s Response to COVID-19 Narae Kwon, SUNY-Buffalo Avant-Garde Visions of Tomorrow: The Artist in the Saving the Life-Saving Resilience in Art after Hurricane Katrina New Space Era Rashna Nicholson, The University of Hong Kong Victoria Fortuna, Reed College Colonial Theatre Buildings in Hong Kong and a Theory Miriam Winslow, Universalism, and Modern Dance in Argentina Kim Marra, University of Iowa Anel Rakhimzanova, New York University of Spectrality Performance, Stillness, and Accessibility: Exhibiting Human- Performing Data Disidentification Evleen Nasir, Simulation Coordinator, Texas A&M University Horse History in the Time of COVID Jonathan Rizzardi, University of Washington Health The Canterbury Female Boarding School: Motivating and No Account For Taste: Sean Spicer and Political Nepotism on Performing Nineteenth-Century Anti-Integration Protest Dancing with the Stars page 22 American Society for Theatre Research 2020 Conference Participants American Society for Theatre Research 2020 Conference Participants page 23 WORKING SESSIONS: Pe Pe - Pre: WORKING SESSIONS “Performance Literacy” and Public Writing Lily Haje, Yale School of Drama Perverse Speculations and the Queer Sensorium Convenors: Rehearsing Radicalism, Staging Suicide: The Jonestown Convenors: Pre-Gutenberg Performance: Orality as Repetition & Christopher Grobe, Amherst College Massacre as Mass Performance Jayna Brown, Pratt Institute Beyond Brian Herrera, Princeton University Eng-Beng Lim, Dartmouth University Convenors: Rebecca Kastleman, Southern Methodist University Tavia Nyong’o, Yale University Andrew Walker White, George Mason University Participants: From Wine Lees to Burnt Cork: Religion, Race, and Evolutionary Allison Hedges, University of Maryland, College Park Marc Arthur, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Theories of the Theater Partcipants: What Is To Be Done? Julia Havard, University of California, Berkeley Participants: Elliot Leffler, University of Toronto Crip Glam: the Sparkling Sensorium of “Disability as Emily Goodell, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Christin Essin, Vanderbilt University The Politics and Poetics of Interfaith Bibliodrama Methodology” in Queer Crip Burlesque Wax, Women, and Wau’waan Reading Labor Kristin O’Malley, Oakcrest School Marlon Jiménez Oviedo, Brown University Alison Hedges, University of Maryland, College Park Kyle Frisina, College of the Holy Cross Holy Mary, Mother of All: Negotiating Identity through the Global But Not Always Mainstream: the Movements of Voguing Orality and Performativity in Ancient Egyptian Drama: A Theatrical Ethics of Attention Performance of Mary in Colonial Latin America in Neoliberalism A Case Study Daniel Larlham, Saint Mary’s College of California James Peck, Muhlenberg College Erin Rachel Kaplan, University of Colorado at Boulder Alan Sikes, Louisiana State University Heroism in the Time of COVID-19 Historical and Sacred Time in Peter Sellars’ Staging of Bach’s The Formation of a Subjectless Performative in Queer and Medieval Romance and the Performativity of Chivalry St. Matthew Passion Feminist Performance Laura Levin, York University Andrew Walker White, George Mason University Performing Moistly Dana Tanner-Kennedy, University of Alberta Ali-Reza Mirsajadi, DePaul University Pre-Gutenberg Orality through Post-Gutenberg Eyes: Epic Tales, High Priestess of the Crossroads: Black Occulture and The Anonym as Queer Praxis: Identity, Authorship, and Oral Traditions and Their Texts Afromysticism in Daniel Alexander Jones’s Black Light MENA Sexuality Performing the Parish Calendar: Ritual Enactment Beyond Repetition Alex Vermillion, Yale School of Drama Heath Pennington, University of California, Santa Barbara Convenors: Performing Satanism: The Satanic Temple, Political Activism, Queer Leather Intimacies Puppetry and Material Performance Working Group Kimberly Jannarone, Yale School of Drama and Ritual Performance Convenors: Rebecca Kastleman, University of Virginia Dana Tanner-Kennedy, University of Alberta Participants: Joseph D’Ambrosi, Valencia College God’s Work on the Devil’s Stage: Evangelism Through Performance in Contemporary Christian Theatre Companies page 24 American Society for Theatre Research 2020 Conference Participants American Society for Theatre Research 2020 Conference Participants page 25 WORKING SESSIONS: Pu Qu - Rec: WORKING SESSIONS Alissa Mello, Independent Scholar Deus ex Machina, New Hamletian Machines Convenors: Claudia Orenstein, Hunter College/The Graduate Center, CUNY Jane Taylor, University of Western Cape Debra Caplan, Baruch College, CUNY Dassia N. Posner, Northwestern University Emmy Kreilkamp, Centralia College Pan Troglodyte: Performing Consciousness in the Puppet Kalle Westerling, The Graduate Center, CUNY Lawrence Switzky, University of Toronto Don’t Cut Off My Wings: Performances of Hope in Nazi Labor Camps Chee-Hann Wu, University of California, Irvine Participants: Participants: When I Become You - I Am Another Yourself Shiraz Biggie, The Graduate Center, CUNY Felice Amato, Boston University Carlos Ortiz, University of Wisconsin, Madison Folklore Performance Forum Thinking Through Puppets: Material Performance as Listening to the Past