[Reader-list] [Announcements] Performing Arts seminar and workshop

[Dean School of Arts and Aesthetics]

Engendering performing arts……
.. interpreting performing arts through gender and sexuality…



The School of Arts and Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi will organize a five day Performing Arts seminar and workshop from February 22nd through February 25th, 2006 . 

This Seminar and Workshop is structured as an introduction for students of Performing Arts to search and engage with unfamiliar vocabulary and ways of looking and interpreting the Performing Arts particularly in the areas of gender and sexuality. 

This interaction between the scholars , artists and the students will serve as an introduction to recent developments in culture studies of theater and dance particularly, and will seek to examine how dance and traditional theater as an embodied practice is a useful medium for analyzing ideologies of gender, class, race, ethnicity, sexuality and national identity. 

We hope the students would be nudged towards the critical approaches in performing arts as informed by feminist theory, post-structural and post-colonial theory, and ethnography. They will also interrogate the relationship between writing and choreography and the ways in which dancers, choreographers and scholars grapple with the task of translating dance and also theater from the performed to the written. The goal is to gain an understanding of theoretical tools used for conceptualizing and writing about dance in a variety of social and historical contexts. 
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Through studies in performing arts we can examine how gender roles are learned and subsequently embodied and how socially marked bodies have been constructed by mass media. We can use this to examine the power of representation. In this seminar/ workshop, we hope to foreground issues of history, technology, movement, gender, race, and class in theater studies. 

These are our many concerns with which we hope to engage with the benefit of  the scholarly contributions at this forthcoming seminar/workshop.


Seminar/ Workshop/ Lecture demonstration Schedule - 22nd to 25th January, 2006:
 
22nd February, Wednesday-
2 PM -3.30 PM---Sadanand Menon (lec) 
Topic: SHEDDING SKIN: Dancing out of the Prisonhouse of the Self

4 PM - 5.30 PM -- Geeta Chandran (Lec-Dem)
Topic:   Imagining Peace- A Dance – Dialogue 

6 PM -7.30 PM ---Urmila Bhidirkar(lec-dem)
Topic: Issues in gender and music: Critical review of present studies


23rd February, Thursday-
2 PM -3.30 PM---Anuradha Kapoor and Kumkum Sangari
Topic: Character / Narrative / Performance: Feminist Trajectories

3.45 PM -4.45 PM--- Shoumyabrata Choudhury
Topic: Antegone and  Anonymity

5.15 PM -7 PM---Maya Krishna Rao (Lec-dem)
Topic: Experiments with performance language


24th February, Friday-
10 AM- 11 AM- Justin McCarthy
Topic: Arguing for the need of plurality of Histories in the field of Bharatnatyam

11.30 AM – 1.30 PM Amal Allana

2.30 PM -4 PM ---Kanak Rele(Lec-dem)

4.30 PM -6.30 PM---Veena Pani Chawla(Lec-dem)
Topic: The case for an Aesthetic of Hybridity


25th February, Saturday-
10 AM - 1.00--- - Navtej (Work Shop)

2.00 PM – 5 PM --- Jayachandran Palazhy (Lec-dem)
Topic:  Interdisciplinary aspect of creating performance work.







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