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Remapping Performance: Common Ground, Uncommon Partners


Date & time
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Speaker(s)

Jan Cohen-Cruz, Syracuse University

Cost

This event is free

Contact

David Howes
514-848-2424, ext. 2852

Where

Henry F. Hall Building
1455 De Maisonneuve W.
Room H-1120

Wheel chair accessible

Yes

Uncommon partnerships between people from performance and other fields -- – community development, environmental remediation, gerontology, etc. -- emerge when neither collaborator’s goals are attainable by their expertise alone. Such projects may or may not include the creation of shows, take place on a stage, direct themselves to established audiences, or be recognizable as performance, but do rely deeply on aesthetic training, methodologies, and mindsets. The context of such work is not art but a social frame. Looked at as a whole, the preponderance of uncommon partners points to a need to remap performance; this phenomenon is not so much new as unintegrated in the map most of us carry of where performance takes place.


Jan Cohen-Cruz is a professor of Drama in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracus University, New York. She edits Public, the Journal of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life, an organization she previously directed. Jan was a professor at NYU Tisch School of the Arts for over 25 years, co-founding its Art and Public Policy initiative and Drama’s Applied Theater minor. She wrote Local Acts, Engaging Performance, Remapping Performance: Common Ground, Uncommon Partners, edited Radical Street Performance, and co-edited Playing Boal and A Boal Companion with Mady Schutzman.


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