{"title":"Lessons from the Road: Indigenous Creative Spaces Project","authors":"Terri-Lynn Brennan, JP Longboat, Amy Poole","doi":"10.3138/ctr.192.017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ctr.192.017","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Three co-convenors of the Indigenous Creative Spaces Project, supported by ArtsBuild Ontario, reflect on their process, reflecting the depth of the stories and knowledges shared by Indigenous creative organizations. In this edited conversation, Terri-Lynn Brennan, JP Longboat, and Amy Poole reflect on what they have learned about responsively working within Indigenous-led, settler-supported structures; narrative sovereignty; and creative spaces and cultural renewal.","PeriodicalId":42646,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN THEATRE REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69967594","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":"A Proposed Guide to Witnessing: Dialoguing with Streaming Life: Storying the 94 as a Site for Call-and-Response","authors":"Philip Geller","doi":"10.3138/ctr.192.016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ctr.192.016","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This writing is an offering to consider the way we witness theatrical events and the role of the witness in a theatrical and performative endeavour. Through a dialogue with the performative intervention Streaming Life: Storying the 94 by the Deep Time working group and a conversation with Dr. Jill Carter, this article strives to interrogate the responsibilities of witnessing truth-based art activations in the context of (re)conciliation.","PeriodicalId":42646,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN THEATRE REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47368822","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":"Reflecting from the Middle: Ethics within an Interactive Theatre Project Working for Social Equity","authors":"Lebogang Disele, J. Selman","doi":"10.3138/ctr.192.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ctr.192.002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article reflects on a pilot project that incorporates interactive theatre into the Black Equity in Alberta Rainforest (BEAR) initiative. The BEAR is an interdisciplinary action research project spearheaded by Ribbon Rouge Foundation in partnership with several researchers and graduate fellows to develop critical knowledge about the effects of anti-Black racism on health equity. A key methodology within the BEAR is the use of arts to engage community and foster social dialogue around African, Caribbean, and Black Albertans' lived experiences. The BEAR uses ArtSpaces to engage in events designed for community conversations with those who are often more marginalized in Alberta. To start this long-term program, we created a pilot theatre project, aimed at building a team of animators to foster community dialogue via interactive theatre. We focus on ethics in practice to consider what questions we should be asking ourselves at the start of, during, and after this collaborative project as we try to bridge the gap between intellectual understanding and practice. In doing so, we locate ourselves as artists who question our processes as we go. We argue that we learn about ethical relationships by doing our work.","PeriodicalId":42646,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN THEATRE REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49062603","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":"Performing in Public: Ethics of a Site-Specific Theatre Practice","authors":"R. Motum","doi":"10.3138/ctr.192.009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ctr.192.009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Site-specific performance, with its grounding in the local, has the potential to engage communities and make theatre accessible by bringing performance directly to the doorsteps of new audiences. However, when performing outside of a traditional theatre venue—and particularly in a public space—a responsible site-based art must ask: How can we (as artists) ensure that our work isn't disruptive to our neighbours, and, perhaps more important, how might the work also be of benefit to the local community? By returning to four previous site-specific performance works, the author—a practitioner of the form—unpacks how their answer to this question has evolved over time.","PeriodicalId":42646,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN THEATRE REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42785262","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":"Decolonizing the Canada Council for the Arts: A Historical Perspective","authors":"Paxton Rodriguez","doi":"10.3138/ctr.192.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ctr.192.007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The Canada Council for the Arts has long been the subject of analysis in theatre scholarship. Be it due to its policies, history, or evolution, it has taken a central role in shaping the possibilities available to Canadian artists. This piece attempts to harmonize much of the scholarship around the council with studies on the development of Canadian nationalism as a method of erasing settler-colonial legacies. Just as Canadian nationalism served to gloss over the realities of settler colonialism, the Canada Council was conceived to reaffirm this nationalism as a product of the Massey Commission. The article explores this artistic and political relationship through a chronological perspective on both the development of Canadian national identity and Canadian theatre funding. Throughout, the council's role in upholding an exclusionary vision of the Canadian nation remains consistent, involving the marginalization of Black, Indigenous, and racialized artists, as well as the reinforcing of a Eurocentric canon and conception of art. The council has attempted to correct its historical trajectory with mixed results. While the council has made progress in some respects, there continue to be systemic inequities deriving from its past practices that the council has yet to address. An understanding of the council's past and present brings into focus the best practices for its future: that the council ought to seek to incorporate oft-suggested measures that would set it on a more committed path toward decolonization.","PeriodicalId":42646,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN THEATRE REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43383710","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":"Ownership and Engagement in Performance Art: The Black Drum Signed Musical Theatre Case Study","authors":"Jody H. Cripps, A. Small, Ely Lyonblum","doi":"10.3138/ctr.192.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ctr.192.003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Signed music is a rapidly growing artistic practice that incorporates signed language lyrics and/or features non-lyric- and non-auditory-based pieces The first Deaf-led signed music theatre production, The Black Drum, was performed in Toronto, Canada, and Reims, France, in 2019. Examining The Black Drum's creative development and cast perceptions offers the opportunity for ethical consideration when sharing authentic experience in signed language onstage (that is, one aspect of ownership). For the first time, Deaf professionals felt open—'having permission'—to explore and play with their signed music performances in signed language theatre. This signed musical (and its script) also confronted social justice issues through sharing signing people's experiences on the stage for broad audiences. Deaf (signed language) performers, who experience oppression of their signed language in contemporary society, wished to remain true to their signed language artistic forms onstage while simultaneously engaging diverse audience members (both Deaf and hearing people) to witness and appreciate these signed language performers' unique contributions to humanity in a society dominated by spoken language. The need to express oneself fully relates to all human experience and ultimately enriches Deaf and hearing alike. Engaging diverse audience members meaningfully without sacrificing collective authentic creation and ownership among signing Deaf professionals makes The Black Drum unique and empowering in mainstream theatre.","PeriodicalId":42646,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN THEATRE REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44481731","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":"Accountability. Intervention. Community.: On the Making of a Two-Spirit Music Video for Pride Toronto Summer 2021","authors":"Candy (Otsíkh:èta) Blair, A. Budde","doi":"10.3138/ctr.192.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ctr.192.004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This collaborative article, written by a two-spirit Indigenous artist and a queer non-Indigenous scholar-artist with contributions by project collaborators, introduces the context and Indigenous principles of ethics that are woven into the making of the music video \"Accountability,\" which premiered in 2021 at Pride Toronto. We first explain terminology and modes of artistic/activist collaboration, the particular conditions of its creation, and the major concerns expressed. In particular, the work addresses social violence that is directed at two-spirit people (two-spirit) both from outside and inside Indigenous communities. This violence is seen as a legacy of colonial oppression that has hurt the social fabric and value systems of Indigenous societies. As such, the video and the essay are thought of as healing devices and forms of anti-colonial critique and resistance. We then, using time stamps and screenshots from the music video as structural markers, explain in more detail how the creation of the music video as both an artistic and a community-making project integrates ethical and social values in its very process of making and being.","PeriodicalId":42646,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN THEATRE REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49552679","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":"Matriarchal Word Warriors in a Paddle Song for E. Pauline Johnson Tekahionwake","authors":"Sasha Kovacs, Cheri Maracle","doi":"10.3138/ctr.192.018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ctr.192.018","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article analyzes the representation of E. Pauline Johnson Tekahionwake's history at work in the 2021 production of Paddle Song, by Dinah Christie and Tom Hill, presented by the Firehall Arts Centre (Vancouver, British Columbia). The review addresses the contributions this performance biography makes to debates regarding Johnson's historiography by highlighting the work and perspectives of the Six Nations actor/singer Cheri Maracle, who plays Pauline Johnson in the solo-show musical production.","PeriodicalId":42646,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN THEATRE REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47344818","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}