The Centre for Excellence in Training for Theatre and
The International Workshop Festival
are pleased to announce that:
BOOKING IS NOW OPEN FOR
This one-day critical exploration and
performance-presentation:
Feminist Neo-Burlesque
at the Central School of Speech and Drama,
University of London
Friday 26th October 2007,
4pm – 10:30pm
£30 full price / £15 concessions
Please contact cett@cssd.ac.uk by 5pm on 19th October to book your place.
Payment for the event must be received in full before tickets are issued.
Speakers: … Angela McRobbie, Goldsmiths … Lara Clifton, Artistic Producer of The Whoopee Club … Sherril Dodds, University of Surrey … Darlinda Just Darlinda, New York … Liselle Terret, Central School of Speech and Drama … Diane Torr, Glasgow School of Art … Marisa Carnesky … Michele Aaron, University of Birmingham
Performers: … Empress Stah … Ryan Styles … Russella … Pia Arber … Red Sarah … Miss Fancy Chance … Doris La Trine … Miss Polly Cup Cakes … Eva Weaver … Lexi Van Gosh … Darlinda Just Darlinda … Daniel Somerville
- The event will begin with a roundtable discussion from 4pm
- A buffet supper and drinks will be served from 6:30pm
- Performances will begin at 7:30pm
The event will bring together theatre makers, theatre thinkers and theatre students to ask:
Is the resurgence of burlesque a continuation of the exploitation of women’s bodies or is it potentially part of a new feminism?
Is this performance genre, originally used as a performative platform for women to comment on social and political issues, being reclaimed in the contemporary moment?
Can neo-burlesque be mobilised as a critical space of queer performativity, exploring male and trans burlesque?
This event is part of …
Theatre Materials / Material Theatres: CETT 2007/08
The Centre for Excellence in Training for Theatre (CETT) is based at the Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. It works to provide a national resource for vocational performing arts training and learning, a focus for theatre research and scholarship, and a site for collaboration, nationally and internationally, between industry, Higher Education, and specialist training providers.
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