Spring Term events at Central
This coming term we welcome Sean Holmes, artistic director of the Hammersmith Lyric, to the Embassy Theatre.
Central@King’s this term hosts
Professor Emeritus Jacky Bratton (RHUL) and Prof. Gilli Bush-Bailey (Central).
Leverhulme Visiting Professor, Chris Balme (University of Munich), will give seminars at Central and King's College London. Intersections 2017 has keynotes by
Prof Julie Sanders (Newcastle) &
Simon Sladen (V&A), and our spring term
visiting fellow is Prof Patrick Anderson (University of California, San Diego).
We are delighted to be joined by academic, dramaturg and choreographer Dr Kate Elswit (Central). We start the term this week with Prof Bernadette
Cochrane (University of Queensland) and in March close with Prof Ann Heilmann (Cardiff).
Join us and see below for further details.
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Prof.
Bernadette Cochrane: (Re)Mediating The Remainders of Authorship
The dramatic tradition suggests, for the most part, a progressive relationship between author, performer, producer and audience, in which the author/s originates the playtext, the performers develop a production, and the producer presents the outcome to the
public. The arrival of theatrical performance and the fine art exhibition on cinema screens worldwide, the phenomenon of ‘live relay’ or the ‘as live broadcast’ in the arts, challenges this familiar perception of the author/production/audience relationship.
Prof. Bernadette Cochrane is a lecturer, dramaturg and director based in Australia
and the United Kingdom.
18th January 2017
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Intersections
2017
The theme of this year's Intersections in "Practicing Reference(s)/Referencing Practice(s)". Acts of reference are unavoidable in creative and critical practice and in everyday life. Performance and performativity, in language and in art, rely on reference
and upon citation, and necessarily appeal to pre-existing contexts and established authorities in the movement between innovation and convention. Referencing can be a mode of documentation, adaptation and archiving, as well as a means of giving shape to history,
oneself and others. Each reference re-casts the past into a possible future, shifting frames of reference until new knowledge and experience emerge out of the old.
The keynote speakers are Prof. Julie Sanders from Newcastle University and
Simon Sladen from the V&A.
19th & 20th January 2017
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Central@King's: Jacky Bratton (Professor Emeritus, Royal Holloway, University of London) and Gilli Bush-Bailey (The Royal Central School
of Speech and Drama).
Jane Scott, the Lost Amazon of
the Strand
This evening will review Jane Scott’s ironic melodramas, her ground-breaking contemporary comedies, the manic edge of her burlesques, and the way in which her works anticipate and have been waiting
for post-Modern understanding of the pre-Victorian.
No booking required.
23rd January 2017
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Theatre
Workings: Sean Holmes
This event will be a conversation between Sean Holmes, Artistic Director of the Lyric, Hammersmith and Tom Cornford about making theatre in 2017. They will explore the role of the director as a creator of productions and leader of arts organisations, the politics
of making theatre, and will ask how theatres can intervene into contemporary political life.
1st February 2017
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Practices
& Processes: Prof. Patrick Anderson
Prof. Patrick Anderson works at the interstices of performance studies and cultural studies, focusing in particular on the constitutive role of violence, mortality, and pain in the
production and experience of political subjectivity. Anderson serves on the editorial boards of Women and Performance and Cultural Studies.
9th February 2017
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Dr
Kate Elswit: Dancing Across History's Borders: Thoughts on Exile and Otherness By Way of Kurt Jooss
Kurt Jooss is one of the most important, but also one of the most instrumentalized figures in drawing connections between early twentieth century
German dance, sometimes later known as Ausdruckstanz, and the Tanztheater associated with figures such as Pina Bausch. This talk triangulates the complications of German dance history when seen from a national perspective, and offers ways to think of it instead
in a more globally permeable way.
Dr Kate Elswit is an academic, dramaturg, choreographer,
and has recently joined Central as Reader in Theatre and Performance.
14th February 2017
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Leverhulme
Visiting Professor: Prof. Chris Balme
Prof. Chris Balme
currently holds the chair in Theatre Studies at the University of Munich. Born and educated in New Zealand, where he graduated from the University of Otago, he has lived and worked in Germany since 1985 with positions at the universities of Würzburg,
Munich and Mainz. From 2004 to 2006 he held the chair in Theatre Studies at the University of Amsterdam. He has published widely on German theatre, intercultural theatre and theatre and other media. Christopher is a former president of the German Society for
Theatre Research and is president-elect of the IFTR.
21st February 2017
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Prof.
Ann Heilmann: Performance Games With Dr James: Remediating Historical Trans/gender and the case of James Barry
This lecture examines the representational choices made in neo-Victorian life-writing in reconstructing and re-imagining a historical case of transgender:
James Barry, senior colonial medical officer of the British army from 1813 to 1859. It will consider how to refer to an individual’s intermediate gender position in a linguistic system that operates through the principle of binarity and what considerations
and contexts determine the pronoun choices of biographers, novelists and playwrights.
Prof. Ann Heilmann
has been Director of Research at Cardiff University since 2012. She has research interests in Victorian to 21st-century women's writing and gender discourse.
23rd March 2017
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