BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk//
X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Rehearsal - Performing the Everyday - Speaker to be confirmed
DTSTART:20141110T170000Z
DTEND:20141110T190000Z
UID:TALK56050@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:Jonas Tinius
DESCRIPTION:To what extent can we compare rehearsal behaviours in the arts
  with those in our quotidian lives? What inclusions are performed by such 
 framing\, and recognition?\n\nRachel Davies (Filmmaker and Lecturer at Kin
 gston University)\nProfessor Tracy C. Davis (English/Theatre/Performance S
 tudies\, Northwestern University)\n\nChair: Clare Foster (Classics\, Cambr
 idge)\n\n\nRachel Davies trained in animation at the Royal College of Art 
 before moving to working with choreography and performance in films and in
 terdisciplinary works focussing on personal biography\, collective memory\
 , and the everyday. Her current project ‘They Tuck You Up (your Mum and 
 Dad)’\, involves film interactivity within a theatre setting\, explores 
 the performativity of family routines\, aimed at an intergenerational audi
 ence.\n\nProfessor Tracy C. Davis is a specialist in performance theory\, 
 theatre historiography\, and research methodology. Among other works\, she
  is author of Theatricality (with Thomas Postlewait\, CUP\, 2004)\, The Pe
 rforming Society (Palgrave\, 2007)\, Stages of Emergency: Cold War Nuclear
  Defense (Duke\, 2007)\, and The Cambridge Companion to Performance Studie
 s (CUP\, 2008). She is also editor of the Cambridge University Press book 
 series Cambridge Studies in Theatre and Performance Theory and General Edi
 tor of the forthcoming six-volume Cultural History of Theatre (Bloomsbury\
 , 2016).\n\nClare Foster is a writer and founding co-convenor of the Cambr
 idge Interdisciplinary Performance Network. She recently finished a PhD at
  Cambridge on the relationship between tradition and performance (‘A Ver
 y British Greek Play’). She teaches dramatic writing at Cambridge and is
  course director for UCL’s MA course Ancient Rome on Film.\n\nAll are we
 lcome. \n\nVisit our website and follow us on twitter @PerformNet\n\nhttp:
 //www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25812
LOCATION:CRASSH\, Seminar room SG1\, Ground floor  
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR