University of East London
Friday 2 June 10.30 – 4.00 p.m.
The aim of the working group is to research, promote and disseminate contemporary Asian performance and diaspora studies to highlight the historical and contemporary scholarship in the area. We also aim to encourage critical debates on the contemporary artistic practices of Asia and a thorough re-evaluation of the current understanding of its conceptual and practical paradigms of the Asian performance scene and its diaspora in Britain.
- To offer a dedicated platform for presenting Asian performance and diaspora research
- To reflect, critique and debate Asian performance activities in Britain
- To foster better dialogue between the academic work and performance practice in the field.
REGISTRATION:
The Event fee is £10.00 for affiliated academics and there is no charge to non-HEI affiliated practitioners and postgraduate students. (The fee includes refreshments.)
Please make payment on the following link to register for this event:
Please note the event is limited to TAPRA members in good standing.
For those who wish to join TAPRA a discounted fee of £10.00 is available (usually £30.00) if attending the event. Please go to:
The event will take place in the Black Box Studio, US. 3.3.8, University Square Stratford, 1 Salway Road, Stratford, London E15 1 NF.
http://www.universitysquarestratford.ac.uk/find-us.htm
Timetable
10.30 Coffee, welcome and introductions
10.45 Shane Shambhu, Mark James Hamilton (Regent's School of Creative and Liberal Arts) Confessions of a Cockney Temple Dancer and a Yorkshire Temple Dancer
11.30 Sreenath Nair (University of Lincoln) Circle of Attention: Understanding Stanislavsky through Indian Martial Art
12.15 Ashley Thorpe (Royal Holloway) How the many became none: or; Arts Council subsidy and social engineering in British Chinese theatre in the 1990s and early 2000s.
1.00 Lunch
1.30 Matthew Cohen (Royal Holloway) The Practice of Appropriation: Indonesian Puppets as Found Objects
2.15 Margaret Coldiron What is “Cultural Appropriation”? --Can Bulé teach (or perform) traditional Asian Arts?
3.00 Kristine Landon-Smith “Intracultural Approaches to Performance”
3.45 Final plenary and next steps
4.00 p.m. End