THEATER AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES WORKSHOP
WINTER QUARTER 2023
Coordinators: Clara Nizard (TAPS/English) and Fabien Maltais-Bayda (TAPS/English)
Faculty Sponsors: Professors Leslie Buxbaum and Tina Post
Hijikata Tatsumi, Costume en Face, Ugly Duckling Press, 2015
Workshops in the autumn quarter take place roughly every other Tuesday from 4:30 – 6pm. Those not on Zoom will take place in person at the Logan Center, room assignments TBD. You will receive Zoom links once you register for individual sessions. Look out for registration links and materials about one week prior to the workshop!
Between Text & Performance: A Poetics of Hijikata’s Choreographic Notebooks
Caleigh Stephens, MAPH Student, UChicago
Respondent: Chenhui Mao, MFA student, SAIC
Tuesday, January 24, 4:30-6:00 pm CT
Location TBA
Dancing Psychoanalysis: Towards Untampered Rhythms, Re-Taken Games, and Soulful Expressions
Thibaud Choppin de Janvry, PhD Candidate, Université Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne
Respondent: Sophie Reichert, PhD Candidate in Anthropology, University of Chicago
Tuesday, February 7, 4:30-6:00 pm CT
Location TBA
“(Got) To Be Real: FQ Erotic Labor and Feminism of C*nt! Experience”
Eva Pensis, PhD candidate in TAPS and Ethnomusicology, UChicago
Respondent: Emily Bock, Assistant Professor of American Studies, George Washington University
Date: Tuesday, February 28 from 4:30-6:00 pm CT
Location: On Zoom
“Transformational Apologies to Plants”
Becs Epstein, MFA Performance candidate, the School of Art Institute of Chicago
Respondent: Bellamy Mitchell, joint-PhD candidate, UChicago, Committee on Social Thought and English
Date: Tuesday, March 7, 2023, 4:30 – 6 pm
Location: On Zoom
ALL IN-PERSON WORKSHOPS ARE CONTINGENT ON THE EVOLVING COVID-19 LANDSCAPE AND UNIVERSITY SAFETY PROTOCOLS.
Contact nizard@uchicago.edu or fmaltaisbayda@uchicago.edu with any questions or access requests.