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2008 Conference in Denver
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Confronting the Silence: Building Bridges of Engagement
28th Annual Women and Theatre Program Conference
July 30, 2008
El Centro Su Teatro
4725 High Street, Denver, CO 80216
Schedule
| 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM |
Registration |
| 8:30 – 9:50 AM |
Feminist Working Group: Part I, Aesthetics
Sandy Peterson (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) “Power, Identity and Discursive Traditions in Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues”
Amanda Holden (University of Colorado, Boulder) “The Influence of the Subversion of Gender Stereotypes in Reza’s Life X3 on Actors From a Director’s Perspective”
Jennifer Popple and Lisa Hall (University of Colorado, Boulder) “The Practice of Gender Presentation in Casting, Rehearsal and Performance”
Sarah Crockarell (University of Colorado, Boulder) “Gender in the Rehearsal Space” |
| 10:00 – 11:20 AM |
Feminist Working Group: Part II, Pedagogy
Charlene Sanders (Hofstra University) “The Influence of Race and Gender in Teacher and Student Performance at Predominantly White Institutions of Higher Learning”
Alicia Tycer (UC Irvine/ UC San Diego) “Contemporary British Women Playwrights and the Canon”
Brenda Varda (UC Riverside) “The Lack of Choices in Roles for Young Women in Theatre”
Panel: Political Performances
Nina Billone (UC Berkeley), “Little Worlds: The Prison Project at
Intersection for the Arts”
Lindsay Cummings (Cornell), “The Road to One America:
Politics, Poverty and the Performance of National Unity”
Diana Looser (Cornell), “Contested States: Restaging Hawai’i in the Performance Art of Leilani Chan” |
| 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM |
Lunch catered by Organics Delivered
WTP Business Meeting |
| 1:00 - 1:50 PM |
Performance: My Name Is Inanna
Ezzat Goushegir |
| 2:00 – 3:50 PM |
Workshop
“Joan’s Super Duper Quick and Easy Toolkit for Devising Work for Beginners, Advancers and In-Betweeners”
Joan Lipkin, Artistic Director of That Uppity Theatre Company, will share some techniques, to break the ice, generate community, stimulate creativity, and create performance. Our theme will be democracy. We will use existing text as well as create new text, and most importantly we will have fun!
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| 4:00 – 5:20 PM |
Panel: Constructing Gender in Performance
Sandy Peterson (University of Nevada, Las Vegas), “Gender and
Nation in Shakespeare’s Coriolanus”
Heather Barfield Cole (UT Austin), “Transformations in the Flesh: Ritual in Feminist Performance Art”
Emily Klein (Carnegie Mellon) “Tracing a Lineage of Latina Activist Performances: Teatro Luna and Madres de Plaza de Mayo”
Difficult Dialogues Workshop: Performances and Discussion
Handan Ozbilgin (LaGuardia Performing Arts Center)
Marcy Arlin (Immigrants’ Theatre Project)
Funded by a Ford Foundation Grant, In January, 2007, LaGuardia, with students from over 100 countries, created the “Difficult Dialogues” project to address religious and ethnic diversity in Queens, New York, initiating conversations among community leaders to combat religious prejudice and misunderstanding. This workshop features staged readings and discussions of how women express faith and loyalty in an oppressive society. |
| 5:30 – 6:50 PM |
Jane Chambers Award Winning Play Reading |
| 7:00 – 8:30 PM |
Dinner catered by Organics Delivered |
| 8:30 – 10:30 PM |
Su Teatro Performance of Little Hands Hold the Wind
An original play written by Su Teatro resident playwright Anthony J. Garcia and directed by University of Colorado at Denver theater instructor Laura Cuetara
Based loosely on past events in a small South Texas town, Little Hands Hold the Wind is a celebration of voice-particularly those of El Viento (the Wind) and the human storyteller, Tio Lupe, to whom the Wind shares a close kinship. In a community gripped in fear and anger, only one young girl can hear the voices (including her long lost father's) silenced by violence and political racketeering.
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Conference Accommodation
The Red Lion Hotel Denver Central has agreed to give a discounted rate of $109 a night to WTP participants. Please mention that you are with the Women in Theatre Program conference when you make your reservations. The hotel is about three miles from El Centro Su Teatro.
http://redlion.rdln.com/HotelLocator/HotelOverview.aspx?metaID=5
The Red Lion Hotel Denver Central
4040 Quebec Street
Denver, CO 80216
Tel: 303-321-6666
Fax: 303-355-7412
E-mail: denvercentralsales@redlion.com
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