Date & time
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
5 p.m. – 6 p.m.
5 p.m. – 6 p.m.
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Performance and Conflict II: Listening, Performance, and Conflict with Jonathan Fox
Speaker(s)
JONATHAN FOX
Cost
This event is free.
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Contact
Acts of Listening Lab
514-848-2424, ext. 5465
Where
John Molson Building
1450 Guy
Concordia Conference Centre, 9th Floor
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We are very pleased to present Jonathan Fox one of the Keynote Speaker of the Symposium.
Jonathan Fox
Co-Founder of Playback Theatre
The Knowing Listener: Performer Readiness using Playback Theatre in Regions of Conflict
Jonathan is the co-founder of Playback Theatre, the author of Acts of Service: Spontaneity, Commitment, Tradition in the Nonscripted Theatre, and the founder of the Centre for Playback Theatre, an international training organization. He holds a PhD (Honoris Causa) from the University of Kassel, Germany. Playback Theatre is a form of improvisational theatre in which audience members tell personal stories and watch them enacted on the spot by a group of performers.
In this keynote address, he will be citing experiences in Burundi and Nepal, as well as pointing the way to the work of some other playback practitioners in regions of conflict such as El Salvador, Lebanon, Egypt, and South Africa.
The Acts of Listening Lab (ALLab)
is a hub for research-creation on the transformative power of listening in the context of oral history performance. It brings together artists-researchers, communities, and activists from across disciplines and cultures interested in exploring alternative and creative ways of making life stories matter in the public sphere. We investigate listening as a live act in the context of oral history-informed performance for social change, verbatim theatre, documentary dance, music, performance, sound art, activist performance, and public history.
Our mandate is to engage audiences as listener-participants of personal narratives that raise issues of shared concern. We accomplish this by using a range of strategies and sound technologies; we gather data on such listening experiences and analyse them through the lens of research-creation and critical frameworks. By using a range of sound, video, translation, and playback technologies, listening events are prepared and documented. Using focused group discussions and other methodologies, reflection on listening is encouraged, documented and analyzed.
www.concordia.ca/allab