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Performing the World 4 Announcement and Call for Proposals
Performing the World 4
The Performance of Community and the Community of Performance
Friday, October 12 – Sunday, October 14, 2007
Tarrytown House, Tarrytown, NY
Performing the World 4 recognizes, celebrates and interrogates the growing global performance movement and its relationship to community building—the thousands of innovative performance projects taking place in urban centers, towns and villages the world over, and the researchers, theoreticians and analyzers of what all this ensemble creativity, improvisatory play and “stage-making” might mean for human development, the growth of communities and social change.
The weekend conference will bring together performers, educators, artists, scholars and researchers, psychologists and therapists, health and helping professionals, business professionals, youth workers, social entrepreneurs, activists, and community organizers to showcase innovative practice and scholarship and provide a rich context for learning and performing together.
A sampling of conversational themes, panels, workshops and performances:
- Performance as a Community Building Methodology
- Postmodern Creativity and Performance
- Knowing, Not Knowing and Performing
- Performance as Metaphor
- Performance as a Way of Life
- The Therapeutics of Performance
· The Creativity of the Group, Ensemble and Community
- Theatre and Community
- The Creativity of Improvisation
- Performing, Improvising and Learning
- The Power of Play
- And more
Fields of Interest:
- Education
- Drama in Education
- Psychology and Psychotherapy
- Community Development
- Medicine and Health Care
- Organizational Change, Business
- and Management
· Theatre · Performance Studies · Applied Theatre · Youth Development · Participatory Research and Evaluation · Political and Community Organizing · And more
Proposals
Instructions and forms for submitting proposals, due March 15, 2007, can be viewed and downloaded at www.performingtheworld.org.
Performing the World 4 is sponsored by the East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy, 920 Broadway, 14th floor, New York, NY, 10010.
Tel. 212.941.8906, Fax 212.941.0511, www.eastsideinstitute.org
Convening Committee
Dan Friedman (The Castillo Theatre and Youth OnStage!, NYC)
Lois Holzman (East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy, NYC)
Sheila McNamee (University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH)
Fred Newman (East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy, NYC)
Environment
Performing the World 4 will be held at the Tarrytown House in Tarrytown, New York, 24 miles north of Manhattan. The Tarrytown House is situated amidst wooded bluffs overlooking the Hudson River. Built in the late 1800s as a country estate, it offers all the facilities and amenities of the 21st century. Accommodations include cable TV, phone and Internet access, and use of the fitness center, indoor pool, and tennis courts. The Tarrytown House is surrounded by miles of jogging and walking trails.
Conference activities will run from 5 pm Friday, October 12 until 5 pm Sunday, October 14. Registration and check-in begin at 3 pm on Friday.
Fees
Fees are all-inclusive for the full weekend. Included are conference registration, two nights’ accommodations, all meals from Friday dinner through Sunday lunch, coffee breaks, snacks and a Saturday night party.
Performing the World 4 is best “performed” as a full weekend experience. We can accommodate only a limited number of one-day registrations or conference participants not staying at Tarrytown House. Please contact Melissa Meyer for details at 212.941.8906 or [log in to unmask] <http:[log in to unmask]> . Please note also that there are very few hotels in the area and none has the value of the Tarrytown House rooms, meals and amenities.
For residents of the US, UK, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Japan:
Before July 1, 2007
__Individual rate, double room: $600
__Individual rate, single room: $700
__Institutional rate, double room: $900
__Institutional rate, single room: $1000
After July 1, 2007
__Individual rate, double room: $675
__Individual rate, single room: $775
__Institutional rate, double room: $975
__Institutional rate, single room: $1075
For residents of all other countries:
__ Double room only: $475
A limited number of work/study positions and scholarships are available.
For registration forms: http://www.performingtheworld.org/PTW4regform.pdf
For all inquiries, contact:
Melissa Meyer, Programs Coordinator, East Side Institute
920 Broadway 14th floor
New York, NY 10010
Phone: 212.941.8906 Fax: 212.941.0511
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www.performingtheworld.org