Post Ritual: Events/Performances/Art (2003)

An International Interdisciplinary Conference of the Focused Research Activity in Visual and Performance Studies

 

Ritual In/Around Experimental Theatre

Richard Schechner, Performance Studies, NYU

 

The Re-engagement of Ritual on Everyday Life: Anna Halprin's Dances 1960-1980

Janice Ross, Drama, Stanford

 

The Body in Flux: Myth and Dissolution of Ana Mendieta

Anne Creissels, History and Theory of Arts, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris

 

Rituals of Truth, Acts of Reconciliation: The TRC (Truth and Reconciliation Commission) in South Africa

Catherine Cole, Dramatic Arts, Stanford

 

The French Court Ballet as Intermediary Form

Giovanni Careri, History and Theory of Arts, Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris

 

Grotowski, "Spirit Possession", and the Anthropology of Performance

Virginie Magnat, Theatre UC Santa Diego

 

Echolocations: Acoustic Form and the Shape of Ritual Space

Donald Brenneis, Anthropology, UCSC

 

Situation and Event: Playing Times, Playing Contexts

Tyrus Miller, Literature, UCSC

 

Community Theatre as Performative Intervention in the African AIDS Pandemic

Ola Johansson, Theatre Studies, Stolkholm University

 

Cunningham Not by Chance

Mark Bartlett, History of Consciousness, UCSC

 

Jackson Pollock's  Action Painting and Expressionist Ritual

Catherine Soussloff, Art History, UCSC

 

The Terrorist Event

Bill Nichols, Film Studies, SF State

 

Ritually Failing: Turner's (Hegelian) Performance

Andrew Wegley, History of Consciousness, UCSC

 

Given Movement: Dance and the Event

Mark Franko, Theatre Arts, UCSC

 

Gesture, Dance, and Ritual: A Second Look at the Early and Late Gregory Bateson

Sally Ness, Anthropology, UC Riverside