Open Panels 1
Thursday, 28th August, 11.00-12.30
Panel B: Experience Beyond Theatre
Venue: FAB 0.20 (Jim Davis Studio)
Chair: Broderick Chow
Amy Lee A World Without Walls: The Potencia of Playback Theatre in the (Hong Kong) Community.
Ronan Hatful ‘Follow your spirit, and upon this charge’: Blending Open-Space Learning with Shakespop Culture Pedagogy.
Alexandra Mackenzie Johns [ONLINE] Thresholds of Belonging: Performance, Religious Memory, and Feminist Devotion.
Panel C: Ecologies, Entanglements, and Institutions
Venue: Oc 1.02
Chair: Nik Wakefield
Gamze Şentürk Tatar Staging the Earth: Ecological Alienation and Ecological Consciousness in Contemporary British Eco-Theatre.
Peter Petkovsek From Elements to Electricity Poles: Human and More-Than-Human Entanglements on the Global North Stage.
Veionella Spaine Yearning for a Commons: En route to negotiating institutional reform.
Panel D: Inclusive Practice, Pedagogy and Power in Performer Training
Venue: FAB 3.26
Chair: Zoë Glen
Dermot Daly Who Does it Makes It.
Zoë Glen Neurodiversity and Intersectionality in the Actor-Training Context.
Klara Hricik Neuroinclusive Feedback Methods in Drama School Training.
Panel E: Place, Play & Pleasure
Venue: Oculus 1.05
Chair: Leah Sidi
Meheshwar Kumar Masked-dance and Audience Reception in the Performing Art Tradition of Purulia Chhau.
Alexander Kelly The Investigations: a story-telling game meets show-in-a-day devising kit.
Kirsty Sedgman "This Beloved Theatre of Ours".
Panel F: AI Futures: Environment, Embodiment, and Care
Venue: Oc 1.09
Chair: Joseph Dunne-Howrie / Bianca Mastrominico
Andy Lavender Looking before, looking after: the intersecting trajectories of Gen AI, Gen Alpha, and concepts of care.
Ester Fuoco & Francesco Bentivegna Voiced and Voiceless AI in Performance.
Bianca Mastrominico & Joseph Dunne-Howrie Performing the Future After COVID on the Transmedial Stage: Reflections from the WG Interim Event 2025.
Heidi Liedke and Caridad Svich CfP Methuen Drama Handbook of Performance and the Digital. [ONLINE]
Panel G: Choreographing Resistance: Absence and Presence in Archival Dance Practices
Venue: Oc 1.01
Chair: Royona Mitra
Bilal Akar Dancing Between Erasure and Revival: Decolonizing the Archive and Reframing the 'Kurdish Princess' Leila Bederkhan.
Debanjali Biswas Histories of Contemporary Dance amidst Hierarchies of Violence.
Priya Raman Celebrating Archival Efforts: The Absence, Presence, and Silence of Indian Dance in Colonial Archives.
Bhawana Jain Rediscovering the Sulur: A Performative Exploration of Dance, Music, and a Dying Craft.
Ranjini Nair Show me the thumka- Hips and exclusionary classification practices in Indian dance.
Panel H: Queering Celebrations
Venue: Oc 1.06
Chair: Philippa Burt
Simon Dodi Queer Ephemera and the Limits of Celebration: Joe Orton, Kenneth Williams, and Archival Traces.
Simon Sladen There is nothing like a Dame? From derision to celebration…
Wenyan Pu End-of-Year Performances (fengxiang xi) in Chinese Traditional Theatre (xiqu): Festivity, Cross-Dressing, and Contemporary Reconstructions.
Panel J: A dialogue on practice in times of crisis and ecological uncertainty
Venue: FAB 2.43
Pat Brunell Wakouwa Environmental Interpreter.
Dee Heddon and Rachel Clive Three words for Forest: Uncertainty in a time of climate crisis.
Holly Luton There among the broken pieces of jar, was Hope: Celebrating the fragility and resilience of theatre-making in crisis.
Panel K: Open Workshop
Venue: FAB 0.19
Jenny Hughes and Rhiannon White DIY: Making political theatre.