{"title":"Thinking through Moving Together","authors":"Mary A. Meindl","doi":"10.3138/ctr.190.015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ctr.190.015","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Moving Together: Dance and Pluralism in Canada ventures into fraught issues of culture and identity to show how dance, and dance scholarship, can contribute to the evolution of cultural pluralism in Canada. The book explores the history of policies surrounding multiculturalism before talking about how dance may enrich the discussion. It goes on to a series of case studies that touch on Indigenous dance and dance in Quebec and in various diasporic dance communities. Some studies discussthe mixing and encounter of different cultures in dance. My review explores a selection of the book’s chapters that highlight important themes: the essentializing of non-dominant cultures, the issue of cultural appropriation, and the transformative possibilities of dance. Sharing concerns about my own self-congratulatory tendency when it comes to narratives about Canada, I critique the book’s overly optimistic view and its shortage of BIPOC authors. Despite these concerns, Moving Together offers a well-considered sounding of current practices, discourses, and debates.","PeriodicalId":42646,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN THEATRE REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45706833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Cost of Entry Is a Heartbeat","authors":"Ana Amorós López, Salima Punjani","doi":"10.3138/ctr.190.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ctr.190.006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42646,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN THEATRE REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42071958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Crip, Arts: Community Trajectories and Agendas","authors":"Seeley Quest","doi":"10.3138/ctr.190.013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ctr.190.013","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The author reflects on hir coming to identify as physically and cognitively disabled, making performance work concerning these identities and communities, the influence of Sins Invalid’s projects, challenges of securing arts funding while immigrating to Canada, and the activisms of developing disability-centred arts in smaller cities, of bridging ‘professional’ and ‘community arts,’ of increased training for disabled theatremakers onstage and offstage, and of amplifying improvements in working conditions industry-wide. Sie also discusses challenging paradigms of disabled relationships to desire and consent, of simplified narratives and conventional modes of staging our theatre, and hir goals for prioritizing work co-developed in local communities that experiments and explores.","PeriodicalId":42646,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN THEATRE REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45504471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Disability Theatre in Canada: Working Together and Closing the Gaps in the East","authors":"J. Boulay","doi":"10.3138/ctr.190.010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ctr.190.010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42646,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN THEATRE REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47408659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Benjamin Gillespie, Signy Lynch, Hannah Rackow, Featuring Lisa Aikman, S. Bennett, David Owen, Marlis Schweitzer, Kim Solga
{"title":"A Round Table Conversation on the State of Hiring and Labour in Theatre and Performance Studies in Canada","authors":"Benjamin Gillespie, Signy Lynch, Hannah Rackow, Featuring Lisa Aikman, S. Bennett, David Owen, Marlis Schweitzer, Kim Solga","doi":"10.3138/ctr.190.018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ctr.190.018","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article summarizes a round table on the state of hiring and labour in the field that was conducted at the 2021 Canadian Association for Theatre Research (CATR) conference. Prompted by the results of a survey conducted by CATR’s Emerging Scholars Task Force, the round table addresses the difficult job prospects that emerging scholars in theatre and performance studies face, and opportunities that lie beyond the field and the academy. The round table panellists—Lisa Aikman, Susan Bennett, David Owen, Marlis Schweitzer, and Kim Solga—offer advice, suggestions, and provocations for graduate students as well as those recently graduated, their supervisors, and graduate departments, as well as departments conducting job searches.","PeriodicalId":42646,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN THEATRE REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48169077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interview with Natasha Bacchus, aka Courage (ASL-English Transcript)","authors":"Ashley McAskill, Natasha A. Bacchus","doi":"10.3138/ctr.190.011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ctr.190.011","url":null,"abstract":"The following is a textual transcript of an interview with Black Deaf artist Natasha Bacchus, a.k.a. Courage. The interview was done by Ash McAskill over Zoom, with ASL-English interpretation by Christopher Desloges. Courage speaks about her entry into Canadian theatre and her experience as a Deaf artist of colour. She makes recommendations on how to better include Deaf artists and Black artists alike. You can see the original recording of the interview in ASL and closed-captioned on the CTR website. We would like to thank Christopher Desloges for his ASL-English interpretation service and for editing the final piece in collaboration with Courage.","PeriodicalId":42646,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN THEATRE REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42223082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shalon T. Webber-Heffernan, Golboo Amani, Dainty Smith
{"title":"Who’s Afraid of Cabaret? A Conversation with Dainty Smith and Golboo Amani","authors":"Shalon T. Webber-Heffernan, Golboo Amani, Dainty Smith","doi":"10.3138/ctr.190.017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ctr.190.017","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:A conversation with Dainty Smith and Golboo Amani, the curators of PUSH.PULL: Intersections of QTBIPOC Cabaret and Performance Art, a six-month online series of interdisciplinary events examining emergent and intersectional developments in performance art and QTBIPOC cabaret. As the cabaret stage has traditionally held space for queer bodies to negotiate corporeal boundaries, queer performance has historically taken place on the fringes of popular culture. PUSH.PULL questioned what is considered legitimate art and what is seen as entertainment, by highlighting QTBIPOC cabaret performers as artists at the intersections of live stage performance and radical political performativity. This interview sought to address the question: what is capital P performance art afraid of? What delineates ‘fine’ art from ‘low’ art and those who have been kept at arm’s length from contemporary art?","PeriodicalId":42646,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN THEATRE REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44900064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Developmentally, Cognitively, and Intellectually Disabled People Are Artists, Not Pet Projects","authors":"Riki Entz","doi":"10.3138/ctr.190.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ctr.190.007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In this autoethnographic piece, Riki Entz writes from their lived experience of Disability in the Canadian theatre industry and clearly outlines the ableism they have experienced as a multiply Disabled person. By providing honest examples of ableism, while also searching for ways that they can fit into this industry, Entz offers grounds for reflecting on ableism and the arts while remaining hopeful for the future.","PeriodicalId":42646,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN THEATRE REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42851876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Julia Henderson, C. Reid, B. Devereux, Chad Hershler, Sadie Watt
{"title":"Performing the Lived Experience of Dementia: Revealing Humanity through Evidence-Based Collaborative Creation","authors":"Julia Henderson, C. Reid, B. Devereux, Chad Hershler, Sadie Watt","doi":"10.3138/ctr.190.012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ctr.190.012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Raising the Curtain on the Lived Experience of Dementia (RTC) is a five-year collaboration between education, arts, and health care that uses community-based, arts-engaged, participatory research approaches, including theatre, to work with participants with the lived experience of dementia. This article is based on interviews with the three project leads as well as one project participant, and details RTC’s key elements of creative practice, its core values that influence collaborative creation processes, and the ways RTC differs from common models of working with people living with dementia. Examples of the project’s theatre and performance activities and practices are woven throughout.","PeriodicalId":42646,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN THEATRE REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44257913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“It Comes with Practice”: Pierogi-Making as Preserving and Imagining Polonia","authors":"Wiktor Kulinski","doi":"10.3138/ctr.189.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ctr.189.003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Pierogi-making is an everyday performance that is both an act of preservation and an active force that shapes the very heritage from which it draws. During participant observation that I engaged in with members of the Women’s Circle at a Polish Canadian cultural centre in Brantford, Ontario—referred to by its members as “the Hall”—in the summer of 2016, I was taught, through apprenticeship, how to make pierogi. The women under whom I apprenticed imagine the pierogi they make as being traditional in that they believe the recipe is drawn from an archive formed collectively by Polish Canadians. However, pierogi-makers also incorporate their own imaginings of what constitutes a traditional pierogi based on their individual experiences, lived realities, and desires for the future. While there is a passing down of what members of the Women’s Circle imagine as being the heritage of Polonia, those images are also rearticulated through an everyday performance that both conforms to and defies an imagined heritage that, like the act of making pierogi, “comes with practice.” Polish Canadians embody a quintessential migrant reality that exists between past, present, and future, between there and here, as formed by the experiences, performances, and imagination of its members. If Polonia is an imaginary, then pierogi are a punctum from which people of Polish descent draw their heritage. I argue that pierogi function as a kind of imagistic landscape on and through which the nation of Polonia is imagined and performed by its members.","PeriodicalId":42646,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN THEATRE REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45856195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}