Conferences
ASTR/TLA/CORD Joint Conference
The American Library Association 2010 Annual Conference
Washington Convention Center
801 Mount Vernon Place N.W.
Washington, DC
June 24-29, 2010
Details concerning the 2010 TLA@ALA Program will be announced shortly. Advance registration is open until May 14.
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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
Early registration is open until April 30.
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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
Last updated: March 9, 2010