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CFP: The S-Word: STAND IN PLACE / STANISLAVSKY AND PLACE

Date

The S-Word: STAND IN PLACE / STANISLAVSKY AND PLACE

4-6 APRIL 2024

WAAPA, EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY

PERTH/BOORLOO, WESTERN AUSTRALIA

For the forthcoming Stanislavsky and Place symposium, we call for submissions for academic papers, artist presentations, and panels, which consider the places of theatre arising from or existing alongside Stanislavskian performance and acting praxis. We invite you to Stand in Place with us, on Whadjuk Noongar Boodja/Country, here at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University, Perth/Boorloo, and interact with this place, as you tell us about your places.

Papers will be 20 minutes in length, workshop/artistic presentations 40 minutes and panels a combined total of 60 minutes in length.

Selected papers will be considered for publication in our journal, Stanislavski Studies, and material generated by this event will form the basis of a title in the book series, Stanislavsky And... (published by Routledge, Taylor & Francis).

Topic areas could include (but are not limited to):

  1. Performance and theatre in relation to ideas of being in place and being out of place
  2. Stanislavskian performance in your place (what changes with/in it?)
  3. Placemaking and theatre making
  4. Futures of Eco dramaturgy and theatre form
  5. Decolonisation strategies and First Nation knowledge of place and performance
  6. Beyond Stanislavski, extending his ideas in concepts of place/space
  7. Training in relation to ideas of place including but not limited to intercultural/transcultural form and practice
  8. Site specific and place specific performance modes in relationship to realism, Stanislavsky and actor and audience relationship
  9. Movement, body weather and other performance modalities and training methodologies

We are very excited to announce that Professor Jonathan Pitches from the University of Leeds (UK) will be a keynote speaker presenting on mountainous opportunities: interrogating place in ritual, theatre, and performance training. More announcements on additional keynote presenters to follow

Please send an abstract of no more than 250 words, with presentation type, to s-word2024@ecu.edu.au by 15th September, 2023.

Notification of acceptance will be in late October.

Early bird registration will be in December 2023 and follow up registration in January 2024.

All enquiries to Renee Newman r.newman@ecu.edu.au or Jonathan W Marshall jonathan.marshall@ecu.edu.au