Crisis and Recovery: Theatre and Performance Before and After the Global Pandemic

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Description

“Crisis and Recovery: Theatre and Performance Before and After the Global Pandemic,” the 2021 online conference of the Canadian Association for Theatre Research (CATR/ACRT) and the Société québécoise d’études théâtrales (SQET).
The conference features panels and roundtables on Indigenous Theatre Practice and Research, Performance and the Climate Crisis, Disability Justice, Black Lives Matter and Performance, COVID-era Digital Theatre, Québécois Theatre, Performing Queerness during COVID, and much more.
This year’s conference features keynote addresses by Harvey Young (author of Embodying Black Experience and the forthcoming collection Theatre After Empire), Kevin Loring (N'lakap’amux from the Lytton First Nation in British Columbia, Artistic Director of Indigenous Theatre at the National Arts Centre of Canada), and Sylvie Chalaye (author of Race et théâtre : un impensé politique).
Period10 Jun 20219 Jul 2021
Event typeConference
LocationOttawa, Canada, British ColumbiaShow on map
Degree of RecognitionInternational

Keywords

  • Zoom platform
  • online learning
  • performance studies
  • performance art
  • space and place studies
  • phenomenological inquiry
  • auto ethnography