Theatre Methods 2015 - Theatre Between Tradition & Contemporaneity 2015

International Conference "Theatre Between Tradition and Contemporaneity"
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December 17 - 21, 2015
Leitring bei Leibnitz, Austria
"Theatre Between Tradition and Contemporaneity" is the annual professional multidisciplinary conference researching the Bridge between Tradition and Contemporaneity in performing arts.
The conference programme brings together performers, practising performing arts academics and artists from different countries and various disciplines - theatre, dance, music, visual and multimedia art, arts administration, fundraising for arts and culture.
Traditional forms of performing arts constantly reconsidered and reshaped by contemporary practitioners.
Performing arts in the era of constantly evolving technology.
How artists and audience perceive "traditional" and "contemporary" today - traditions influencing, enhancing and co-mingling in contemporary performing arts processes, affecting our artistic expression, thinking and images on the stage.
Astonishing phenomena of arts appearing on the intersection of cultures, when the borders of countries become conditional.
Traditions helping artists in the search for the universal “intercultural” language in contemporary performance and artistic expression.
Traditions as inexhaustible source of inspiration for future generations of artists and firm foundation for intercultural dialogue.
Getting inspired by the unique connection opportunity and stepping beyond usual practices.
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The conference programme is highly recommended to performing arts practitioners and researchers: arts administrators, producers, performing arts educators, actors, directors, choreographers, dancers, musicians, stage designers, costume designers, painters, mask makers, multimedia artists, scriptwriters, playwrights, theatre critics and journalists interested in the research of traditional methods as applied to contemporary performing arts work, searching for international network opportunities and new collaboration partners.
The main tasks of the meeting are to demonstrate various methods and techniques in contemporary performing arts inspired and formed in the connection with the world traditional heritage; to exchange experience and ideas in performing arts education and training, rehearsal process, performance making and production, to establish new contacts and to lay the foundation for future networking and collaboration with colleagues from different countries, to promote creative collaboration in multicultural and multilingual artistic environment.
You are welcome to take part as a Presenter/Speaker or a Participant/Observer.
At the moment the Conference is accepting presentation proposals!
The conference is a wonderful opportunity for performers, performing arts educators and teachers to demonstrate their methods and techniques.
The programme is forming quickly, the number of presentation slots is limited.
Presentation Formats:
practical workshop/master class
work in progress
performance fragment not requiring special technical conditions
reading/lecture
other way of demonstration offered by Speaker/Presenter can be considered.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
https://picasaweb.google.com/globtheatrePlease send your presentation proposal to iugte.projects-AT-gmail.com
and include the following documents:
Brief letter of motivation stating the conference dates and describing the purpose of application.
Detailed CV
Brief biography - max 100 words
Title and format of presentation
Brief overview of presentation - max 250 words
Head shot and additional photo materials
All documents of a presentation proposal should be sent in one email as attachments:
text documents should be sent in Word format, photo materials should be sent in JPG format.
The working language is English.
REGISTRATION
Registration fee for Presenters/Speakers:
650 EUR - early bird reduced fee, if payment is made before September 5th, 2014).
(750 EUR - if payment is made after September 5th, 2014).
The fee covers:
Speaker's/Presenter's registration fee (1h - one hour slot in the programme for the presentation).
The registration conditions can be negotiated individually, if the Presenter would like to book a longer slot in the programme.
Participation in all events of the conference programme.