Uncategorized – Performance Philosophy

TaPRA Theatre, Performance and Philosophy Working Group Call for Co-Convenors

Nov 20, 2025

Dear colleagues and friends, The TaPRA Theatre, Performance and Philosophy working group is seeking new co-convenors to lead the facilitation of this gathering as we move into an exciting new chapter. After three years of dedicated and generative work Annalaura Alifuoco, Jenny Swingler and Vânia Gala will be stepping down from their convenor roles following the 2025 conference. We are grateful for the vibrant intellectual community that has flourished during this time and we look forward to welcoming new voices, ears and orientations to carry this work forward. The Theatre, Performance and Philosophy working group has been a space for…

The Refrain: Getting in Sync With the World. Episode 3: Cabin in the Woods.

Nov 21, 2024

Episode 3 of The Refrain is now available. For this episode, we leave the 'explicit' philosophizing aside to allow for an 'implicit' philosophy of immersion in sound and voice. The listener journeys through a number of sound spaces intended to soften the boundaries of self and allow for transformation. You can find it on the usual podcast platforms or on our website at: https://www.fightwithastick.ca/podcast . Enjoy!

Jazz-Philosophy Evening at Keele University

Nov 07, 2024

Continuum of Selves, the World’s Only Jazz-Philosophy Fusion band, plays the music of Thelonious Monk Jazz-Philosophy Concert Tuesday 03 December | 07:30pm Keele Chapel Continuum of Selves is: Ray Butcher – trumpet James Tartaglia – philosophy and saxophone Fino Lopes – double bass Lee Allatson – drums Free to attend, but please register: https://www.keele.ac.uk/about/events/2024/december/jazzphilosophyevent/continuumofselvestheworldsonlyjazz-philosophyfusionbandplaysthemusicoftheloniousmonk.php

Performance Praxises in the Staging of “Rasik Sampaadak” (The Playful Editor) at Centre for Theatre & Film, University of Allahabad

Oct 08, 2024

An ensemble of "rejected actors" gets fed up with the paraphernalia of auditions and at the brink of going berserk, they decide to perform Munshi Premchand's "Rasik Sampaadak" (The Playful Editor). The text provokes us to unravel the human condition of judging a person by their looks and interrogates the cliché of our patriarchal order. In this vein, this process-based devised performance has mapped out five rotors (working parts), which has guided the ensemble to express it in the language of parody. Along this line, four performance praxises have also been tested — With-Through, Tariqa, Perform-e-ability and Affective Sublation

Onward to “An Encounter Residency”

Oct 08, 2024

Join us for a week-long cultural expedition to Varanasi as we invite performers, artists, theatre practitioners and academicians alike. The expedition seeks to uncover a unique way of experiencing the city landscape by moving beyond the "touristic gaze" and encounter a spectrum of hues and shades that the city can offer. The experience will be shaped by a unique composition of individuals who engage in different fields of expertise. Herein, after each visit, discussions on the cultural nuances of these sights, and their repercussions on the contemporary social and aesthetic discourses in India will be solicited.

Online Issue Launch: Decolonisation and Performance Studies – 8th December, 2023

Dec 04, 2023

Online Issue Launch: Decolonisation and Performance Studies Special Issue of Global Performance Studies Journal 8th December, 2023 – 18:00-20:00 GMT Join us for the online launch of the latest Special Double Issue of Global Performance Studies (GPS) journal, Vol. 5 No. 1-2 (2022), “Decolonisation and Performance Studies”, published in the summer of 2023. Issue Editor: Nesreen N. Hussein Co-Editors: Kevin Brown, Felipe Cervera, Theron Schmidt This special issue is a gesture towards an engagement with decolonisation and performance studies that considers a future for the field that challenges hegemonic configurations of power and epistemic privilege that place particular narratives, methodologies, and epistemologies at the “centre.” No matter…

Episode 2 of The Refrain: Getting in Sync with the World

Nov 10, 2023

Hi Performer-philosophers, the 2nd episode of The Refrain is now live. Here's the info and the link: Episode 2, Falling Apart, Falling Together, is about transformation. How do we become ourselves, what holds us together, and for how long? How are boundaries created, and how bounded are they? We take inspiration from Chapter 11 of the classic tome, A Thousand Plateaus, by French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. Along the way we get some help from Kym Maclaren, Canadian phenomenologist and philosopher of intimacy. Link: https://www.fightwithastick.ca/podcast. Enjoy!

National Workshop on Script & Screenplay Writing (Hybrid); Centre for Theatre & Film, University of Allahabad, India

Nov 05, 2023

The "Idea to Screen” workshop is designed to empower aspiring writers and filmmakers to develop their skills in crafting compelling concepts, writing engaging scripts, and creating impactful screenplays. This intensive workshop aims to provide participants with the tools and knowledge necessary to transform their creative ideas into fully realized narratives for various mediums, including film, television, and online content.

Workshop on Embodied Cognition and Dance (October 20-22nd)

Aug 05, 2023

Dates: October 20-22, 2023 With the advent of the 4E cognition research paradigm, cognitive science has seen a renewed interest in dance. However, much of the new cognitive science on dance does not interact with dance studies, the philosophy of dance, or aesthetics. This interdisciplinary conference brings together cognitive science, philosophy of dance, dance studies, and aesthetics to break down methodological boundaries and facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration. The conference series supports diverse scholars speaking from multiple disciplines and includes traditional academic talks, movement workshops, and performances. This year we will explore "Spatial Dynamics, Aesthetics, and Learning in Dance." We invite researchers…

Performance: 10th Annual International Conference of the Centre for Phenomenology in South Africa

May 04, 2023

The 10th Annual International Conference of the Centre for Phenomenology in South Africa is pleased to invite submissions for its upcoming event on the theme of performance, to be held from 17-19 of November 2023 at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. The conference aims to explore the role of performance in philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the arts, and to examine its relevance in contemporary thought. Performance can be viewed in various ways, including in terms of the distinction, common to French authors in the 1960s, between the enunciated statement and the act of enunciation or speech act. This concept is…