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ATME Pre-Conference August 2-3, 2010
Los Angeles, CA

Join us for a day and a half of sharing movement ideas and workshops prior to the ATHE Conference 2010, the week of August 2nd. Our biannual ATME pre-conference will be Monday, August 2 from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. and again Tuesday morning, August 3, from 9:00 a.m. until noon after which the ATHE Conference (http://www.athe.org/conference/registration) officially opens at 1:30 p.m.

The Body of the Text

This year’s ATME theme investigates the intersection of “body” and “text.”

The day and a half pre-conference will be an exciting forum for movement educators to explore, create, question, and discuss our work in both experiential and theoretical formats.

We invite your participation in the following ways, allowing 20 minute sessions with 10 minutes for discussion: (See below for submission guidelines).

1. DVD presentations: Show a 10 minute section of your work in DVD format, describe your process with us for 10 minutes, and allow 10 minutes for discussion, giving each presenter a total time of 30 minutes. The DVD presentation might be a section of a fully realized physical theater piece, a section of choreography, a character moment, a portion of a rehearsal process, or examples of improvisations, addressing the theme, The Body of the Text.
2. Workshops: Present an experiential workshop on a subject inspired by the pre-conference title: The Body of the Text. Please feel free to expand, probe, and suggest other avenues of investigation.
   • The Body: The physical body; the emotional body; the mental body; the subtle body.
     
   • The Text: How do movement specialists approach a text? How is our approach different from or similar to other creative artists? What professionals in other fields (e.g., media arts) might we partner with to strengthen our two bodies of work? Is your physical approach to a text different from or an extension of traditional text analysis?
     
   • The Body of the Text: How many texts do you see in a script? (E.g., on the page, between the lines, in the subtext.) How do you approach different genres of text: poetic (e.g., Garcia Lorca), heightened (e.g., Shakespeare), Realism (e.g., Williams), evolving text (e.g., devising) or absence of text (e.g., neutral mask)? Are there practitioners whom you admire and who inspire you in their treatment of the body of the text?
     
   • The Body and the Text: What strategies, exercises, do you use in rehearsal and performance to bridge the body and the text? How do you negotiate and/or theorize about sites of integration of body and text? How do you communicate with other key players – actors, directors, designers, media artists, playwrights and others? How do you train future collaborators to keep our field vital and alive?
     
   • The Global Body: What types of training and performances are happening internationally? Nationally? Regionally? How does site-specific work inform body and text? How does the pre-conference theme intersect with political, social, economic, or historical issues?
3. Teaching Exercises: Lead a class exercise on an experimental, adaptive, or imaginative
   methodology for exploring the body and text.
4. Papers or Research Presentations: Develop a panel, discuss a new book, or bring in your research on the body and text. See descriptions under Workshops above.
5. Participation: Be a participant, experiencing ideas and methodologies.
   

Submission Guidelines - Each session is 30 minutes: 20 minutes for presentations and 10 minutes for discussion and/or questions following the session.

• Submit your proposal with your name, contact information including email and phone, and institutional affiliation, if applicable.
  
• Paper/Presentation/Workshop/Teaching: one-page description of your proposed session, panel, workshop, or presentation, describing the content and format.
  
• DVD: Submit a one-page description of your DVD, the content of your presentation, and its relevance to the body/text.
  
• You are welcome to submit with another person or group of people. Include full names and contact information for each person involved in the session.
  
• The rolling proposal submission date will begin immediately. DVD samples will be due by April 15.
  
• The executive board of ATME will select among the submissions.

As in the past, ATME will make a booklet of the papers, presentations, and outlines for all participants.
Please be advised that the due date for this material will be July 1 to allow for adequate
assembly and copying of documents.

Registration for the conference will begin in the spring of 2010.
Fee - $40.00 students, $50.00 ATME members, $75.00 non-members.

All submissions and or questions should be addressed to Annette Thornton at Annette.Thornton@cmich.edu. Also send ideas for points of discussion, panels, individual presentation ideas, etc.

Workshops

Conferences

• 2010 ATHE National Conference in Los Angeles, California at the Hyatt Century Plaza Hotel August 3-6t, 2010:  "Theatre Alive:  Theatre, Media, and Survival".

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Judith Chaffee

Boston University School of Theatre
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Please Note: ATME will be hosting its annual Hospitality Hour. Time/date TBA. Please plan on attending. Check the conference schedule for time/date of meetings of the membership.