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Interest in the performance of black womanhood or black girlhood
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WE ALL HAVE THE SAME DREAM Could we all be having the same dream? The famous psychoanalyst Jung answered yes to this question, describing the collective unconscious as human psychic accumulation. In the years just before World War I broke out, portrayals of apocalypse were common in European ar…
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The central concern of this group is the question of ecological existence: how does one inhabit, consciously, ecological being? How might we engage the unfolding ecological crisis through philosophy and performance in ways that are efficacious, transformative?
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Exploring the intersections between performance making and research and feminist care ethics. Unaffiliated site on care ethics: http://ethicsofcare.org
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For those interested in Buddhist influences in theatre and performance both in terms of critical discourse and performance practice.
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For anyone working on, or interested in philosophy and the technical elements of performance: sound, lighting, scenic design, costume, stage/production management, etc.
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This working Group is based at Northwestern University and was founded in January 2015. It aims to address the relationship between theatre, performance and philosophy through multiple forms. By bringing together students and faculty members from different disciplines and departments, Northwestern …
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Philosophy has been extremely influential within the field of performance studies. Yet, the centrality of embodied practices and the influence of postcolonial studies have forced performance studies to grapple with a double tendency within philosophy: the privileging of archival over embodied knowl…
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We are performance artists and from other disciplines, which through a practice of composition, experimentation, and improvisation in real time, we seek to bring the viewer into a non orthodox sense of "seeing". Our work in improvisation and composition is presented as an event, an atmosphere, an "…
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Science Fiction Studies has relied on performance theory in order to define itself. For instance, the 'father' SF studies, Darko Suvin, relied on Brecht in the development of his definition of SF as the literature of cognitive estrangement. Later, Carl Freedman wrote of the effect that SF perform…
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University of Roehampton staff and students with an interest in Performance Philosophy
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The goal of this group is to qualify the dramatic terms of the affinity between philosophy and performance. By tracing the parallel between the forms that philosophical writing adopted and their corresponding dramatic visions, this group strives to demonstrate how the genre-specific relations betwe…
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VISUAL PHILOSOPHY BASICS? -PERFORMANCE PHILOSOPHY?
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This group is interested in the multiple relationships between music, performance, and philosophy. No particular methodology or intellectual tradition is emphasised: the purpose of the group is to further the understanding of philosophy in, and as music performance, and of music performance as phil…