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The American Library Association 2010 Annual Conference

Washington Convention Center
801 Mount Vernon Place N.W.
Washington, DC
June 24-29, 2010

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TLA Program — “Dress Me Up With Your Research”

Saturday, June 26, 1:30-3:30pm
Location: Washington Convention Center, Room 148

Set and costume designers from Washington DC-area theaters share their experiences in the research process of mounting period or time-shifted productions, including re-creating specific locales and/or time periods onstage. The panel will discuss the process of research and the resources involved in realizing past and/or imaginary worlds and the transition from sketch to stage.

Panelists:

  • Tony Cisek, Much Ado About Nothing, Folger Theatre
  • Kathleen Geldard, Showboat, Signature Theatre
  • Deb Sivigny, The Grace of Mary Traverse, Georgetown University Theater
  • Nancy Friedland, Librarian for Butler Media, Film Studies and Performing Arts, Columbia University

The panel will be moderated by Brook Stowe, Coordinator of Instruction, Library, Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus.

 

 

The 28th Congress of the International Association of Libraries and Museums of the Performing Arts

Connecting Points: Performing Arts Collections Uniting Past and Future
Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde (Ethnological Museum)
Maximilianstraße
Munich, Germany
July 26-30, 2010

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Joint Conference of the American Society for Theatre Research, Theatre Library Association, and the Congress on Research in Dance

Embodying Power: Work Over Time
The Renaissance Seattle Hotel
515 Madison Street
Seattle, Washington
November 18-21, 2010

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TLA Plenary — Harnessing the Power of Performance: Documentation Strategies for Theater and Dance

Throughout history, capturing performance through various media has been challenging. Performance historians have based their work on archeological artifacts, paper records, oral history and memory, audio recordings, and film documentation of dance and theater performances. Each method – in itself ephemeral – presents challenges due in part to limitations inherent in its physical characteristics: images fade, paper crumbles, and memory fails.

This session will address and assess past, current, and future methodologies for harnessing the power of performance – and the extent to which these approaches and strategies support or impede research. We invite papers addressing the many forms of documentation – from depictions of Athenian performances on vases to computer-generated dance notation/animation.

TLA Plenary Chair: Susan Brady, Yale University

 

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