PREVIOUS EVENTS (2008-2024)
FALL 2024
October 9, 2024
Generational Wisdom/Ancestral Voices
Fieldwork into Performance ensemble projects
program
November 22, 2024
Interactive Theater-Creation Lab: Exploring Embodied Activation and Reparative Praxis
American Anthropological Association, annual meeting. Tampa, FL
Organizer: Debra Vidali (Emory U)
Co-leads: Jo Abillama (Emory U), Jasmine Blanks Jones (John Hopkins U), David Syring (U San Diego), Debra Vidali (Emory U).
Join us for an interactive theater-creation lab where participants (YOU!) are guided through techniques of embodied theater activation, using original ethnographic material. We welcome anthropologists of all subfields and styles – especially those with no acting experience! Explore potentialities of theater making for reparative praxis (Blanks Jones 2018; Kondo 2018). Experience nonlinear theorizing and the alchemy of collaborative knowledge production through performance modalities (Vidali 2020, 2023). Our creative work will focus on themes of generational knowledge, elder wisdom, and ancestral voices. During the lab, we will generate a mini performance. Please arrive at start time & stay for duration (2 hours).
December 4 and December 9, 2024
