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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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Narges
Hashempour: “New Departures: new Iranian Theatre and Performance Art”
Cultures adapt ‘foreign’ theatre conventions or traditions always in the context of their ‘own’ problems. Talking about processes of theatrical interweaving, it is always important to investigate the links between ‘theatre,’ understood as cultural performances,
and existing power structures in all societies involved in these processes of exchange. In my talk, I want to compare two historical periods of ‘theatrical interweaving’ in Iran’s modern theatre history.
Narges Hashempour
is a scholar, actress, director, writer, curator and dramaturge and has been involved in various international theatre projects and festivals.
1st March 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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