Body, Space and Technology in Performance
15 & 16 January 2010, Thrissur, Kerala (India)
Conference Schedule
Time Program—January 15, 2010
Venue: Ashoka Inn
8:30-9:30 Conference Registration (registration will remain open)
9:20-9:30 Opening Ceremony [Assembly hall]
9:30-9:40
9:40-9:50 Welcome Address Dr. C.S. Biju, Director; C PRACSIS
Felicitations by Dr. K.G. Paulose, Hon’ble Vice Chancellor , Kerala Kalamandalam
9:50-10:30 Inaugural Address & Keynote by Sri. G.P. Deshpande
10:30-11:00 Coffee/Tea Break
11:00-12:30 Panel 7 – Mediated/Mediatized Performance [Assembly hall] Panel 8 – Considering Performer/Actor’s Work
[Dewdrops Hall]
Poster presentation: Kesavan Namboothiri
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:30 Extended Panel 1– Second Life and Cyber performance [Assembly hall] Extended Panel 2 – Indian Theatre Case Studies: Traditions of Performance [Dewdrops Hall]
15:30-16:00 Coffee/Tea Break
16:00-17:30 Panel 1 – Theatre and Performance Beyond the Proscenium Theatre [Assembly hall] Panel 2 – Performance in Contexts
[Dewdrops Hall]
17:30-17:40 An Introduction to Teyyam – Dr. Jayarajan V. [Assembly hall]
17:40- 19:00 Moving to St. Thomas Campus
19:00-22:00 AAP sponsored cultural programs at the quadrangle of the monumental Arts Block, St. Thomas’ College.
• Teyyam performance by Jayarajan V.
• Dinner
• Puppetry performance by Ramachandran Pulaivar
Time Program— January 16, 2010
8:00-9:30 Panel 3 – Devotional/ Transcendental Performance [Assembly hall] Panel 4 – Dance, Body and Technology [Dewdrops Hall]
9:30-9:50 Coffee/Tea Break
9:50-11:20 Panel 5 – “Other” Identities
[Assembly hall] Panel 6– Theatre and Pedagogy
[Dewdrops Hall]
11:20-11:30 Short break for the keynote
11:30-12:00 Keynote Address, Claudia Orenstein [Assembly hall]
12:00-12:30 Keynote Address, Sri. Sadanand Menon [Assembly hall]
12:30-13:00 Lunch
13:00-13:30 Social Break. Visit book exhibit. Poster presentation.
13:30-14:00 AAP/ATJ (Asian Theatre Journal) Informative Panel (Claudia & Boris) [Assembly hall]
14:00-16:00 Extended Panel 3 – Reconsidering Conceptual Frames [ Senate Hall ,II Floor] Extended Panel 4 – Feminist and Activist Theatre in India [Dewdrops Hall]
16:00-16:30 Coffee/Tea Break
16:30-18:00 Panel 9 – Conceptualizing the Body
[ Senate Hall ,II Floor] Panel 10 – Actorless Performances [Dewdrops Hall]
18:00-19:00 Move to tonight’s performance site; The Open Theatre, inner courtyard of St. Thomas’ College.
19:00-20:00 Solo Performance by Ronald Rand: Let It Be Art!: Harold Clurman’s Life of Passion
20:00-20:15 Short break between performances
20:15-21:15 Best of Kolkata Campus Theatre’s Necropolis: Rehearsing Koltes in such times
List of Concurrent Panels
1. Panel 1 – Theatre and Performance Beyond the Proscenium Theatre; panel Chair G. P. Deshpande
2. Panel 2 – Perspectives on Performing Bodies; panel Chair : Boris
3. Panel 3 – Devotional/Transcendental Performance; panel Chair Tsu-Chung Su
4. Panel 4 – Dance, Body and Technology; panel Chair Sadanand Menon
5. Panel 5 – “Other” Identities; panel Chair Linda Dittmar
6. Panel 6 – Theatre and Pedagogy; panel Chair C. R. Rajagopalan
7. Panel 7 – Mediated/Mediatized Performance; panel Chair Lisa Reinke
8. Panel 8 – Considering Performer/Actor’s Work; panel Chair Ivy Yu-Shian Lin
9. Panel 9 – Conceptualizing the Body; panel Chair Prof. M. Dasan
10. Panel 10 – Actorless Performance; panel Chair Kavitha Balakrishnan
11. Extended Panel 1 – Second Life and Cyberperformance; panel Chair Richard Tremblay
12. Extended Panel 2 – Indian Theatre Case Studies: Traditions of Performance; panel Chair: Kaladharan
13. Extended Panel 3 – Reconsidering Conceptual Frames; panel Chair Vayala Vasudevan Pillai
14. Extended Panel 4 – Feminist and Activist Theatre in India; panel Chair Claudia Orenstein
Detailed List of Panel Participants and Paper Titles
Panel 1 – Theatre and Performance Beyond the Proscenium Theatre
Nirban Manna: “Fetishism Towards Spatiotemporal Liberty: A Study of Alternative Theatre of Badal Sircar”
Max Shulman: “Lost in Space: Sense Deprivation in a Willing Audience”
Spencer J. LaFrandré: “Dr. Megavolt and Burning Man: Popular Science and Entertainment within an Alternative Arts Festival”
Panel 2 – Performance in Contexts
Ronald Rand: “What Harold Clurman Means For us Today”
Smitha V [Verghese]: “The Youngers, The Brusteins et al, Madame Neilsen, Tshembe Matoseh, Rissa, Hannibal, The Hermit—‘Bodies’ in Performance in Lorraine’s Hansberry’s Work”
Sunil Kumar S.: “Performing Body in Community Theatre-Resistance from Folk to Contemporary Politics”
Satish Pawade: “Body, Space and Technology in Performance with special reference to Anamika Haksar’s ‘Uchakka’”
Panel 3 – Devotional/Transcendental Performance
Debra Hilborn: “Elisabeth of Spalbeek: A Performing (with) Object”
Ivy Yu-Shian Lin: “Hijikata and Ohono’s Essential Dance of Utter Darkness: A Samsara-Bound Body-Soul Performing Transcendental Metamorphoses in Quest for the Empty Absolute”
Vinod V. Narayanan: “ ‘Father, Son and the Holy Body’: Transformation of the Body, Space and Technology in Theyyam Performance”
Panel 4 – Dance, Body and Technology
Pinak Sankar Bhattacharya: “Scripting a Movement through Body: A Study of Ratan Thiyam’s Chakravyuha”
Jayant Shevtekar: “Body, Space and Technology in Performance”
R Prasanna Venkatesan &
Geetha Krishnan: “Sabha, Sabhapathi and Natya Arangam: Dance, Dance Space and Technology”
Panel 5 – “Other” Identities
Miguel Suero: “Technologies of Self in Dominicanish”
Julian Vigo: “The Somatic and Technological Natures of Michael Jackson”
Boris Daussà-Pastor: “Otherizing ‘the Other’: New York Chinese Opera Society and its production of The Story of Ruth”
Panel 6 –Theatre and Pedagogy
Padmini Rangarajan: “Puppetry: A Child Play than Serious Art Form”
Najumul Shahi A: “Inhibitions of Adolescent Girl Child in Children’s Theatre in the Context of Kerala Society”
Annie Kuriachan: “Drama Praxis in the Classroom”
Panel 7 – Mediated/Mediatized Performance
Katarzyna Bester: “Latest Technologies as New Opportunities in Modern Japanese Theatre”
Shari Perkins: “Technology and Truth in Playing the Victim”
Priyanka Basu: “Bollywood Item Number: A Carnival Out of Everyday”
Panel 8 – Considering Performer/Actor’s Work (15 minute papers)
Praveen Bhole: “The Presence of an Actor in Marathi Narrative Traditional Theatre”
K. C. Manavendranath: “As Inside, So Outside-As Outside, So Inside: Performer-Performance Concept, Design, Practice and Realization”
V. Kaladharan: “Acting Techniques & Treatment of Space in Kathakali”
Sanyukta S. Thorat: “Body, Space and Technology in Performer’s Performance”
Panel 9 – Conceptualizing the Body
Srinivas Aditya Mopidevi: “Reconfiguring the Body: Temporal Articulations”
Tsu-Chung Su: “The Body at (the) Stake: From the Body without Organs to the Dilated Body”
Mashrur Shahid Hossain: “ ‘Nirakritir Vishya Samudra’r Mukehy’: The Disembodied, the Unembodied and Anti-body in Selim Al Deen’s Horgoj”
Panel 10 – Actorless Performance
Deepan Sivaraman: “Challenging the Hegemony of Word in Theatre Through Scenography”
T. Balasaravanan: “Illuminated Performance or Performing through Illumination”
Bhausaheb Biradar: “Emotions and their Enactments in Performance”
Extended Panel 1 – Second Life and Cyberperformance
Holly Hepp-Galván: “Frp, 3-D to 2-D and Back Again: Acting Techniques and Computer Animation”
Lisa Reinke: “Recreation of Theatre in the Video Game Second Life”
Maeva Veerapen: “(Re)discovering the Lost Bodies in Suspension between the Physical and Virtual Realities”
Shreelina Ghosh: “Dance in Digital Space: Pedagogy, Praxis and Preservation of Odissi Dance in Second Life”
Extended Panel 2 – Indian Theatre Case Studies: Traditions of Performance
Joly Puthusserry: “Devising Theatre Techniques for Survival: A Case Study of Surabhi Theatres in Andhra Pradesh”
Amit Rauth: “The Performative World of the Methors of Jalpaiguri”
Vijaya Raghava T.: “Body as a Medium of Expression in Ritual Performances: A Special Focus on Naga Mandala, a Community Ritualistic Art Form of South Karnataka”
Madan M Sarma: “Performing Bodies, Performance Spaces and Technologies: Interrelationships and Autonomy”
Extended Panel 3 – Reconsidering Conceptual Frames
José Francisco Lumango: “Traditional Theatre and New Technology in Africa: Case of Angola”
Edward Eaton: “Divide and Conquer: The Parts of The Memoirs of the Decorators: A New Analysis”
Liu Si: “(Mis)interpretations of Brechtian Verfremdungseffekt in Chinese Theatre from the 1950s to the 1990s”
Sudipto Mukhopadhyay: “Stones really Talk!:A Visual Ethnographic Study of the Rituals in Yellemma Festival”
Extended Panel 4 – Feminist and Activist Theatre in India
Anindita Majumdar: “Mahaul Badaina Hain: Message to Contemporary India”
Sajitha Madathil: “Theatre and Me”
Priya V.: “Playing Woman: Devadasi and Her Dance”
Anita Singh &
Shreyasee Datta “Gestic Feminist Dramaturgy: A Study of Contemporary Indian Feminist Plays”