PERFORMART 2014 - Performance Art Conference

THEMES
Current trends and practices
Current trends and practices, locally and internationally
Perspectives on a future performing art
Multi-platform and evolving choreographic practices in the 21st century
Developing choreographers and directors in diverse settings and genres
Understandings around dance, drama and performing creativity and innovation
Social activism and history of politics on stage
Stage art as a Gesamtkunstwerk
Stage as a design
Stage design and space
Sound design
Costume design
Lightining design
History
Culturally specific stage performances and evolving / hybridised traditions
Stage in Classical and Hellenistic Greek Theater, Roman Theatre, Post-Classical Theater in the West
Eastern Theatrical traditions: Middle East, India, China,Japan
Drama, musical theater, comedy, tragedy, improvisation
Contemporary issues and history of opera, classical balet, classical music in relation to stage
People and Institutions
Professionals and artists in the society
Acting, actors, performers
Text, drama and literature
Production
The place of the academic in documenting, critiquing and providing a community of scholarly practice
The role of funding bodies, service organisations, curators, producers and agents including the business, marketing and distribution
Performing arts management
Interdisciplinary Issues
Popular culture, TV and stage
Stage as building: Architecture of stage and theater
Approaches to performing art education and training
Democratisation of theater, dance and live music through social media
Interactive performances ? 2D and 3D mediating technologies in creating, experiencing and distributing
Magic, circus arts, carnavals and culture
Modern Dance and stage
Contemporary trends in modern dance
Meaning and movement
Topographies, sites, landscapes
Stage-centred concepts of the body
the place of dance in the health, disability, youth and environment sectors
Music and Sound
Experimentalism, digital age and musical performance
Improvisation
Concerst, festivals, live music
New instruments and digital tools of sound