Conference
Agenda
Saturday, August 24
9:00 - 9:30 Doors open
9:30 - 10:00 Introduction
10:00 - 11:30
10:00 Presentation
11:00 Break out sessions
Leadership as Research with The Birth Play Project
How do our beliefs about leadership shape our wants, needs, and experiences inside of collaborative processes? In this session, Madeline Wall, company director of The Birth Play Project, will share some lessons learned through the incorporation of social science into artistic collaboration, and participants will contribute to collective knowledge-building through both individual and group metacognitive activities. Theatre artists of all disciplines welcome.
11:30 - 12:30 Lunch
12:30 - 2:00
12:00 Presentation
1:00 Break out sessions
Collaboration Beyond the Ensemble with nimbus theatre
nimbus theatre will share the work they have been doing over the last twenty years to explore how to bring ensemble work, playwrighting, and design together into a collaborative model for co-creation of original work.
2:30 - 4:00
2:00 Presentation
3:00 Break out sessions
Masks: the Universal in the Specific - Devising with the body's point of view
Katie Kaufmann will lead this workshop on using masks as a part of devising new theater. Details to come soon.
Sunday, August 25
9:00 - 9:30 Doors open
9:30 - 10:00 Introduction
10:00 - 11:30
10:00 Presentation
11:00 Break out sessions
Devising with Transatlantic Love Affair - a participatory workshop
Transatlantic Love Affair (TLA) is known for its collaboratively created pieces of original physical theater than use no sets, props, or pre-recorded sound. This short workshop will give you a window into our rehearsal process, and how we develop new work based on old stories. Come dressed to move and prepared to play!
11:30 - 12:30 Lunch
12:30 - 2:00
12:30 Presentation
1:30 Break out sessions
Station Work with Sandbox Theatre
Sandbox Theatre will be presenting on one of their core methods for collectively generating material: station work. Sandbox was established in 2004 and has been creating ensemble-built productions ever since that combine dramatic visuals, interdisciplinary explorations, and highly stylized text and physicality.
2:30 - 4:00
2:30 Presentation
3:30 Break out sessions
Circus: The art of Story-Making
Come join professional circus artist Benjamin Domask-Ruh and explore storytelling vs story-making using unfamiliar tools. Participants will begin by finding common ground around their own understanding of the word ‘Circus’ before turning to Circus Dramaturgs of today for a broader understanding.
4:30 - 6:00
4:00 Presentation
5:00 Break out sessions
Panel Discussion 1
A panel discussion, details and panelists to come.
4:30 - 6:00
4:00 Presentation
5:00 Break out sessions
Panel Discussion 2
A panel discussion, details and panelists to come.