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“(Re) Sounding Bodies” A Research Symposium

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The (Re)sounding Bodies symposium aims to unsettle the idea that intercultural performance is ‘resolved’ by knowing about cultural and discursive concepts such as history and  society alone, and to introduce the idea that intercultural performance has to also consider the embodied and somatic particularities of performativity.

Our broader focus is on the performative elements in theatre, dance, music, and performance generally that cluster around the use of breath, movement, rhythm, sound, gesture, speech, and spatial and temporal relations. In this, as a Theatre and Dance department committed to the study of performativity, we are responding to the lack of focus on these elements in intercultural research, and hoping to open discussion in the context of specific performances that will contribute more widely as to the importance of these elements for understanding and communication.

The symposium is built around three performances:

  • “Sounding Bodies:” The Assembly Dance Theatre of Taiwan and David Grenke’s work with them and with students from Theatre and Dance on a piece created by Grenke and Jon D. Rossini, “Low Flying Planes” (May 11-13, Main Theatre)  
  • “Body electric 1.2″ Gretchen Jude and Peiling Kao (electroViolet) (May 18, Della Davidson Performance Studio)
  • “Elements” Peter Lichtenfels directs professional and semiprofessional actors and dancers from the Department of Theatre and Dance BA, MFA and PhD programs, in production of Shogo Ohta’s play (May 18-20, Arena Theatre)

The symposium itself is made up of keynote papers from leading scholars in Japanese, Taiwanese, and Chinese performance modes, and of workshops by practitioners working on intercultural performance modes.

Registration includes meals, receptions, and performances.

 

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Preview of “(Re) Sounding Bodies,” A Research Symposium

Here are some images from the forthcoming “(Re) Sounding Bodies,” A Research Symposium, May 18 through 20 in the Della Davidson Performance Studio.  

 

 

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