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2020, International Federation for Theatre Research
CALL FOR PAPERS Scenography Working Group, International Federation for Theatre Research IFTR 2020, Galway, Ireland 13th July – 17th July 2020 https://www.iftr.org/conference Theatre Ecologies: Environments, Sustainability, and Politics Deadline for proposals: 31 January 2020
Ecosystems of Theatre and Performance - EASTAP Annual Conference 2024, 2024
EASTAP ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2024 ECOSYSTEMS OF THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE (28 October – 2 November 2024) Abstract submission deadline: 28 February 2024 (at 23.59) We are delighted to announce the EASTAP Annual Conference 2024, hosted by the Institute of the Arts Barcelona (Sitges, Spain), under the theme “Ecosystems of Theatre and Performance”. As host city, Sitges has been a biosphere destination since 2016, and is committed to environmental, economic, and social sustainability. The conference aims to bring together international scholars, practitioners, and researchers, inviting submissions for papers and presentations that delve into various aspects of this theme and offer fresh insights into the dynamic field of theatre and performance. We aim to make productive the terminological shift of the concept of ‘ecology’ to ‘ecosystems’ within the realm of theatre and performance. “Ecosystems of Theatre and Performance” invites proposals that explore the scientific-environmental, figurative, and economical dimensions of these dynamic artistic systems.
As the effects of human action usher in a new ecological era, performance has the opportunity to creatively engage with ecological responses and resilience, requiring new ways of conceiving and theorizing performance. Wendy Arons and Theresa J. May contend that ‘such theorization is urgently needed if the performing arts are to play a role in transforming social values in the face of the ecological challenges of the twenty-first century’ (p. 2).
Contemporary ecological concerns bring with them an opportunity for innovation; to rethink traditional practices and forge new approaches that not only strive for sustainability, but also push intellectual and creative boundaries. Despite this, current notions of sustainability are still dominated by suppositions of creative limitations; the perception that sustainability and theatre do not mix is a common assumption. This paper explores the possibilities of sustainable production practices within the parameters of conventional theatre. Using a practice-led research project, Helicopter (Melbourne Theatre Company, 2012), the investigation examines the designer's journey of integrating creative processes with eco-efficiency, aesthetics, organisational considerations and director's expectations. In this context, the designer considers how sustainable strategies might drive the creative process and aesthetics, given altered constraints, requirements and opportunities. While there are challenges and barriers to implementing sustainable approaches in conventional theatre productions, the paper reveals how thinking about environmental considerations creates exciting new avenues for exploration—including new ways of thinking about how scenographies are designed, constructed and distributed for a sustainable paradigm.
Nordic Theatre Studies, 2020
This article introduces the free online issue of "Theatre and the Anthropocene" in Nordic Theatre Studies
Nordic Theatre Studies, 2020
In this issue of Nordic Theatre Studies, theatre and performance scholars offer a variety of approaches that attest to the importance of the Anthropocene in Nordic and Baltic countries. See https://tidsskrift.dk/nts/issue/view/8763
Theatre Research International, 2015
These four articles are very different in subject, geography, methodology and evidence. Despite these significant divergences, their presence in a single issue is fortuitous. What these articles offer as a single entity is an important reminder of how theatre is always concerned with and emerging from exchange and movement. Sometimes the movement is across global geopolitical boundaries; sometimes it is only across counties in a single nation. Sometimes the movement is the global circulation of ideas, and artists of very different cultures may be approaching similar subjects in similar ways although they have never met. Sometimes those routes may be traced on a map; sometimes they are roots only revealed as pathways through the transformative act of performance. Sometimes, of course, the movement is simply that of the body in representation. In all these essays the routes/roots involve challenges to collaboration and understanding, and results may come from achieving the goal of con...
2020
This book addresses theatre’s contribution to the way we think about ecology, our relationship to the environment and what it means to be human in the context of climate change. It offers a detailed study of the ways in which contemporary performance has critiqued and re-imagined everyday ecological relationships, in more just and equitable ways. The broad spectrum of ecologically-oriented theatre and performance included here, largely from the UK, US, Canada and Europe, have problematised, reframed and upended the pervasive and reductive images of climate change that tend to dominate the ecological imagination. Taking an inclusive approach this book foregrounds marginalised perspectives and the multiple social and political forces that shape climate change and related ecological crises, framing understandings of the earth as home. Recent works by Fevered Sleep, Rimini Protokoll, Violeta Luna, Deke Weaver, Metis Arts, Lucy + Jorge Orta, as well as plays and Indigenous activist movem...
Theatre Research International
This dossier opens up a set of questions about what theatre and performance can do and be in a climate-changed future. Through a series of practice snapshots the authors suggest a diversity of responses to decolonizing and environmental justice issues in and through theatre and performance. These practices include the climate-fiction film The Wandering Earth, which prompts questions about what decolonizing means for China and the impact of climate chaos on the mental well-being of young people; The Living Pavilion, an Australian Indigenous-led project that created a biodiverse event space showcasing Indigenous art making; Dancing Earth Indigenous dance company who use dance as a way to engage Indigenous ecological thinking and Indigenous futurity; water rituals in the Andes of Peru that problematize water policy and ethnic boundaries.
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