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<div dir="ltr"><div class=""><div class="">        <div class=""> <p><b>Friday 1 November 2013, 10:00-17:00</b></p><p><b>Venue: Centre for Creative Collaboration, London, UK</b></p><p><b><i>Woman/en in Puppet Theatre</i></b>
 is an interdisciplinary symposium organised by the Centre for Research 
into Objects and Puppets in Performance at the Royal Central School of 
Speech and Drama, as part of the Little Angel’s bi-annual adult puppetry
 festival <i>Suspense</i>. In 2013 the festival takes place between 25 October and 3 November.</p><p>This
 one-day symposium is an opportunity to discuss and investigate both the
 work and practice of women puppeteers past and present, and female 
representation within puppet theatre. Related areas may include gender 
politics, performativity, and the relationship between puppets and 
puppeteers both from a historical perspective and in light of 
contemporary feminist discourses in performance and cultural theory.  In
 addition to placing particular focus on female practices within the 
wider remit of object and visual theatre, the symposium aims to explore 
questions related to the female gaze and animation, the aesthetics of 
dissent and activism in relation to the concept of the feminine and 
female in puppetry, and questions of gender representation and 
subversion.</p><p>Placing practice and its discourse in context and 
dialogue, this one-day symposium aims to take a playful and 
investigative approach to charting this under-explored cultural 
landscape.</p><p>We welcome proposals for papers, provocations, 
screenings, discussions and short performances from artists, 
practitioners, academics and theorists engaged with or interested in 
puppetry, object manipulation, live and performance art, visual and 
physical theatre, intermedial performance, scenography and related 
disciplines. Proposals may include, but are not limited to:</p><ul><li>the history of women in puppetry and object theatre</li><li>gender politics and performativity in puppetry and object theatre</li><li>cultural nuances in the role, position and practice of women in puppet theatre</li>

<li>the female gaze in puppetry/ spectatorship</li><li>portraits of key female theatre practitioners</li><li>the construction, performance and representation of female puppets/female figures in puppetry</li><li>feminism in puppetry and its cultural discourse</li>

<li>object theatre, feminism, activism</li><li>the puppet and the puppeteer: dissections of gender politics</li><li>constructs of the feminine within puppetry practice</li><li>the aesthetics of dissent, subversion and activism and their potential in female/feminist puppetry.</li>

</ul><p>Please send a 250-word abstract with a brief biography and, if relevant, links to your work to: <a href="mailto:[log in to unmask]"><a href="/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?LOGON=A3%3Dind1309%26L%3DDRAMAHE%26E%3Dquoted-printable%26P%3D695060%26B%3D--001a11c262ce08e61504e5b4aad8%26T%3Dtext%252Fhtml%3B%2520charset%3Dwindows-1252%26pending%3D" target="_parent" >[log in to unmask]</a></a> by <b>20th September 2013</b>.</p><p>The
 symposium will also be accompanied by a workshop on 31 October that 
will provide an opportunity to explore the practice of a leading 
international female puppetry/object theatre practitioner, with 
particular emphasis on the poetics of materials and the female gaze 
within puppetry. Additionally, on the <b>2 November,</b> 
Joanna Parker (CROPP/RCSSD) will lead an additional workshop exploring 
the use of group spatial improvisation, looking at the relationship 
between silence and sound. For further information on the symposium and 
associated activities please email Diana Damian: <a href="mailto:[log in to unmask]"><a href="/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?LOGON=A3%3Dind1309%26L%3DDRAMAHE%26E%3Dquoted-printable%26P%3D695060%26B%3D--001a11c262ce08e61504e5b4aad8%26T%3Dtext%252Fhtml%3B%2520charset%3Dwindows-1252%26pending%3D" target="_parent" >[log in to unmask]</a></a>, or check the CROPP website on <a href="http://www.cropp.org.uk/">http://www.cropp.org.uk/</a> For more information on all <i>Suspense </i>events, please visit <a href="http://www.suspensefestival.com/content/about">http://www.suspensefestival.com/content/about</a></p>

 </div>  </div><div class="">          </div><div class="">        <span class=""><br></span>  </div></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Diana Damian<br></div><div>Visiting Lecturer<br></div><div dir="ltr"><div>

BA (Hons) Theatre Practice<br></div><div>Royal Central School of Speech and Drama<br></div><div>University of London <br></div><div><br></div><div>Guest Editor, <i>Platform</i></div><div><i><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-style:normal"><div>

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