TLA Plenary - Call for Papers
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.
Papers might consider:
Please submit a one page proposal by February 15, 2010 to:
Susan Brady, Chair, TLA Plenary
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University