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The IFTR World Congress: Cultures of Modernity

July 26th-31st 2010,
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE IFTR SCENOGRAPHY WORKING GROUP

The theme of the SWG's panels will be STAGE SPACES AND MODERNITY, and are linked to the conference theme. In particular, proposals in the following fields will be welcomed:

  • The relationship between the dramatic text and theatrical space as a theatrical signifier (for example, Cocteau, Beckett, Pirandello)
  • Relationship between drama and set design
  • Set design, costume, actor and space (for example, Grotowski, Kantor)
  • Biomechanics, constructivism and scenography
  • New stage technologies as signifying systems
  • The inter-relationship of costume design and the body in modernist design (such as Schlemmer, Futurist design, Dalcroze-Appia collaboration)
  • The scenographer as theorist of modernity (such as Craig, Svoboda, Witkacy, Marinetti, Prampolini)
  • Avant-garde modernists (Bauhaus, Dadaism, Constuctivism, Futurism, etc.)
  • Reviewing modernity in a postmodern and postdramatic epoch There will be an open session for those who wish to present work unaligned to the conference theme.

    Abstracts (<250 words) should be submitted online in english or french by: January 31st 2010. Official languages are English and French. This is a strict deadline.

    Please note that the Abstract form is on: either the main conference website OR on the section for abstracts

    You must submit your abstract on the form for the Working Groups, in order to be included in the Working Group panels. The abstracts will be forwarded to the 2010 SWG conference chairs:
    Dr. Dominika Larionow (University Lodz, Poland): dominikalarionow@autograf.pl
    Professor David Vivian (Brock University, Canada): dvivian@brocku.ca


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    Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
    Dr. Dominika Larionow (University Lodz, Poland): dominikalarionow@autograf.pl
    Professor David Vivian (Brock University, Canada): dvivian@brocku.ca
    International Federation for Theatre Research

    25th December 2009
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