7:30pm Women’s Caucus Dinner http://swanshotel.com Swan’s Brew Pub (506 Pandora Ave.) 8:30pm-9:45pm Intrepid Theatre Club (#2-1609 Blanchard St.) Til Death: The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Ryan Gladstone (Intrepid Theatre’s Uno Fest) Six queens. Six love stories. Six <strong>de</strong>aths. One actress. Fingers are pointed, fights ensue and Anne Boleyn still can’t find her body, as the newly <strong>de</strong>ad queens fight over who is the King’s true wife, but when Henry arrives … everything changes in this afterlife meeting of the ex-wives club. Tickets: $17.00. http://www.intrepidtheatre.com 20
<strong>Day</strong> 2: Sunday, June 2 9:00am-12:15pm a) The Ethical Challenges of Performance History George Seminar Organizer: Stephen Johnson (University of Toronto). Participants: Paul Babiak (University of Toronto), Roberta Barker (Dalhousie University), Seika Boye (University of Toronto), Jenn Cole (University of Toronto), Ma<strong>de</strong>leine Copp (University of Calgary), Selena Couture (Selena Couture (University of British Columbia), Heather Davis-Fisch (University of the Fraser Valley), Moira <strong>Day</strong> (University of Saskatchewan), Steve Espey (University of Saskatchewan), Heather Fitzsimmons Frey (University of Toronto), Mary Isbell (University of Connecticut), Rhona Justice-Malloy (University of Mississippi), Joanna Mansbridge (Simon Fraser University, 2013 CATR Theatre and performance in French award winner), Jocelyn Pitsch (University of British Columbia), Dani Phillipson (Royal Holloway, University of London), Jessica Riley (University of Guelph), Grace Smith (University of Toronto), Caitlin Thompson (University of Toronto) This seminar will explore the challenges of performance history, and the relationship between the historian of performance and documentary evi<strong>de</strong>nce. It will also encourage participants to raise more general questions concerning provenance, disciplinary and cross-disciplinary benefits and challenges, and other issues that have arisen while conducting their research. The focus this year is on the ethical 'edges' of performance history, including: the extent to which historians should be advocates or 'mythbusters' regarding their subjects; the challenges of representing oppressed individuals and groups of all kinds in the study of history; the blessings and temptations of filling in gaps in the evi<strong>de</strong>nce with imaginative speculation; among many other challenges. For this seminar, participants have submitted ‘working papers’, along with documents if appropriate, which have been posted to a website for comment by other seminar participants. The session will begin with smaller groups discussing issues arising from the on-line discussion, after which the whole group will discuss more general issues. The seminar is open to anyone attending the conference, to sit in on the small group and more general discussion. The website is open for your viewing at http://performancehistoryworkshop.wordpress.com . b) Performance Studies and Contemporary Sports McIntyre Seminar Organizer: Peter Kuling (Wilfrid Laurier University). Participants: Natalie Alvarez (Brock University), Kelsey Blair (University of British Columbia), Daniel Evans (York University), Reina Green (Mount Saint Vincent University), Kellen Hoxworth (Stanford University), Kathleen Jerome (University of Victoria), Carla Lever (University of Sydney), Juan Miranda (University of California, Davis), Kristi Tredway (University of Maryland), Keren Zaiontz (Queen Mary, University of London) All contemporary sports participants (athletes, coaches, commentators, referees, and fans) confront many different levels of appearances, facts, and performance strategies during competition. Athletes are often confronted with the task of premeditating competitors’ athletic skills, preparation, and coaching in real time. Referees (without the aid of vi<strong>de</strong>o review) adjudicate player performances’ of rules and regulations. Audiences attend events to witness athletes perform super-human feats that <strong>de</strong>fy physical limitations. Furthermore, spectators are invited to participate in pre- and post-athletic celebratory performances. Fans embody affiliations focused on local, political, and confrontational i<strong>de</strong>ntity politics, which in turn perpetuates popular i<strong>de</strong>as of contemporary sports as a regressive i<strong>de</strong>ntity arena. While the results of sporting competitions appear to be rooted in facts and statistics, athletes and spectators are increasingly confronted by a higher <strong>de</strong>gree of initiated performance strategies during competition. Professional sports provi<strong>de</strong> a complicated forum of performance strategies regulating skill, ability, <strong>de</strong>sire, performance, participation, and celebrity; all of these “appearances” exist as part of the history of the sporting event, <strong>de</strong>spite not always being a<strong>de</strong>quately reflected in the final results or scores. Oscillations and interactions between these different performed i<strong>de</strong>ntities will be a key point of investigation of this seminar. 9:30am-10:15am Phoenix Theatre Lobby A Tour of the Phoenix Theatre, by Bert Timmermans (Acting Theatre Manager and Production Manger for the Phoenix Theatre). 10:30am — break (featuring an excerpt from Clayton Jeven’s Moscow Stations in the Circular Plaza) 21
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