American Dramaturgies for the Twenty-First Century
March 14th-16th, 2018
Conference program
Wednesday, March 14th, 2018 – Fondation des États-Unis (Cité Universitaire)
15 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris (RER Cité Universitaire)
7pm Opening event: Play readings in conversation with Lindsey Ferrentino
Please visit the FEU website for more information and to book your seat (free) : http://fr.feusa.org/lecture-lindsey-ferrentino/
Thursday, March 15th, 2018
Morning – Salle D035, Maison de la recherche
28 rue Serpente, 75006 Paris (métro Odéon)
9-11am Panel I “New Languages, New Choices”
- Avra Sidiropoulou (Cyprus)
“From Gertrude Stein to Richard Maxwell: Language, Performativity and Sensuousness in 21st Century American Dramaturgy”
- Ana Fernandez-Caparro (Valencia)
“In search of grace and transformation: new American dramaturgies of gentleness and proximity in life and death”
- Rachel Anderson-Rabern (Franklin and Marshall)
“American Wolves: Sarah DeLappe and the New Collective”
Valentine Vasak (Sorbonne Université)
“‘Banging in Through the Door of Race’: Color-blind casting the plays of Edward Albee in the twenty-first century”
11-11:15am coffee break
11:15-12:15am Keynote address by Marc Robinson (Yale)
“American Neo-Realism”
12:15-2pm lunch break
Afternoon – Salle des Actes, Sorbonne
17 rue de la Sorbonne, 75005 Paris / other entrance possible via 54 rue Saint-Jacques (métro Cluny-La Sorbonne)
2-3:30pm Panel II “Troubled identities”
- Francisco Costa (East Anglia)
“The Future is Queer: Superheroic Identities and the Dramaturging of Queerness in Brad Fraser’s Poor Super Man”
Katalin Trencsényi (RADA)
“Dramaturgies of the 21st Century American Identity”
Emma Willis (Auckland)
“Catastrophes of the self: multiplied protagonists in YOUARENOWHERE and I’ll Never Love Again”
3:30-4:10 Bertie Ferdman & Peter Eckersall (CUNY)
“Theatre in the white room: How dramaturgy and curatorial practices are intersecting in the contemporary arts”
4:10-4:40pm coffee break
4:40-6:40pm Panel II “Dramaturgy and Music”
- Sarah Sigal (Queen Mary/Goldsmiths)
- Dan Blim (Denison)
“‘Someone Tell the Story’: Historical Narratives and History Musicals in the 21st Century”
Antonia Rigaud (Sorbonne Nouvelle)
“‘The Industry’: Operas for the 21st Century”
Constantine Chatzipapatheodoridis (Thessaloniki)
“In the Great Tradition of the Gay Musical: The Cases of Falsettos (1992) and Kinky Boots (2012)”
Friday, March 16th, 2018 – Salle des Actes, Sorbonne
17 rue de la Sorbonne, 75005 Paris / other entrance possible via 54 rue Saint-Jacques (métro Cluny-La Sorbonne)
9-10:30am Panel IV – “History and Documentation”
- Jimmy Noriega (College of Wooster)
“Jotos and Marimachas on Stage: Queer Latina/o/x Theatre”
Laureano Corces (Fairley Dickinson)
“Spatial representation in the text and performance in selected contemporary American theater”
Analola Santana (Dartmouth)
“Violent intersections between past and present: Migdalia Cruz’s Two Roberts: A Pirate Blues Project”
10:30-10:45am coffee break
10:45-11:25am Mary Anderson, Billicia Hines, Richard Haley (Wayne State)
“‘New Ground on Old Land’: Staging Rebellion in Dominique Morisseau’s Detroit ‘67.”
11:30-12:30am Keynote address by Ilka Saal (Erfürt)
“Theatricality and Affect: Performing Race at the Turn of the Millennium”
12:30-2pm lunch break
2-3:30pm Panel V “Political Consciousness and the Community”
- Pierre-Héli Monot (Munich)
“Democratic Discourse Unstaged: From Deconstruction to Total War”
Donna Soto-Morettini (Edinburgh Napier)
“History on the Cusp of Myth: J.T. Rogers’ Oslo”
Diana Benea (Bucharest)
“Beyond the Form/Function Divide: the Theatrical Vocabulary of Recent US Community-Based Productions”
3:30-4:30pm Panel VI – “The Case of the Wooster Group”
- Johan Callens (Bruxelles)
“The Panel Performance: From Dada to Postdramatic Mediaturgy (and Back)”
Xavier Lemoine (UPEM)
“Wooster Group: From the End of end of Avant-Garde to Renewing Dramaturgies”
4:30-5pm coffee break
5-6:30pm Panel VII – “Institutions and creativity”
- 5-5:30pm Frédéric Maurin (Sorbonne Nouvelle)
- The January New York Festivals, or How to Shape an American Landscape Within or Against the World Theatre”
5:30-6:30pm Roundtable “The Role of Dramaturgs and Dramaturgy”, with Kate Bredeson (Reed), Mary Davies (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham), and Emeline Jouve (Toulouse – chair)
Conference organizers: Marie Pecorari & Julie Vatain-Corfdir (Sorbonne Université)
marie.pecorari@paris-sorbonne.fr ; julie.vatain@paris-sorbonne.fr
To book a seat for the opening event, please visit the FEU website (http://fr.feusa.org/lecture-lindsey-ferrentino/). To attend the conference on March 15th and 16th, please email the organizers. For security reasons, you will need to show a copy of this email and a valid ID at the entrance of the university.
This conference is organized with the support of the American Embassy in Paris, the Fondation des États-Unis, the Institut des Amériques, the DAAD and Sorbonne Université (Fonds d’Intervention pour la Recherche, équipes d’accueil VALE (EA4085) et HDEA (EA4086), PRITEPS, École doctorale IV).