2012 Special Topics Conference Schedule

Meanings and Makings of Queer Dance, CORD Special Topics Conference
Department of Dance, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
February 16-18, 2012

as of January 19, 2012





PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE AT-A-GLANCE
As of January 19, 2012

Thursday, February 16, 2012

4:00-7:00        Registration Desk Open

5:10-6:10        Penny Stamps Lecture: Wayne McGregor, Michigan Theatre

7:00-8:30        Gay Ballet, Andee Scott, University of South Florida

7:00-11:00      Technical Rehearsal for Performance #1

Friday, February 17, 2012

8:00-12:00       Registration Desk Open

9:00-9:45         Welcome

9:00-11:40       Paper Panel #1: Queer Nations/Queer Boundaries
                       Workshop #1
                       Screendance Viewing

11:40-1:00       LUNCH

12:10-2:00       Wayne McGregor Master Class

12:15-12:50     Informal Brown Bag Lunch Conversation: 
                       Teaching Queer Dance / Classroom Issues and Opportunities

1:00-5:00         Registration Desk Open

1:00-2:40         Paper Panel #2: Desire, Pleasure, Happiness
                       Paper Panel #3: Queer Spaces/Queer Locations
                       Workshop #2 

3:00-4:30         Paper Panel #4: Queer Intimacies
                       Paper Panel #5: Practicing Masculinities

5:00-7:00         Performance #1

7:00-8:00         Reception

8:00-12:00       Late Night Venue: Aut Bar

Saturday, February 18, 2012

7:30-12:00       Registration Desk Open

8:00-9:40         Paper Panel #6: Queering the Postmodern/Postmodern Queers
                       Paper Panel #7: Efficacies and Effeminacies

10:00-12:00     Paper Panel #8: Dancing Queer Histories and Methodologies
                       Paper Panel #9: Queering Tradition
                       Workshop #3 

12:00-1:00       LUNCH

1:00-4:00         Technical Rehearsal for Performance #2

1:00-2:40         Paper Panel #10: Queer Temporalities, or Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill
                       Paper Panel #11: Decoding Ballet’s Queer Point(e)s
                        Workshop #4

3:00-4:40         Paper Panel #12: Queer Screens
                       Paper Panel #13: Queer (Auto)Biographies
                       Workshop #5 

5:10-7:00         Performance #2

8:00                 Wayne McGregor’s Random Dance, UMS, Power Center

10:00-2:00        Late Night Venue: Elks Lodge
 
 


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