Invited Speaker for Cambridge University Press panel launching my co-edited special issue of Theatre Research International at the IFTR international conference 2021, NUIG (online)

McGrath, A. (Invited speaker)

School of Arts, English and Languages

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited or keynote talk at national or international conference

Description

Invited by CUP and TRI Editor Fintan Walsh to speak at a panel launching the co-edited special issue of TRI at the IFTR conference 2021, NUIG. With co-editors and contributors Prarthana Purkasatha, Marcus Tan and Tereza Havelková

Period	13 Jul 2021
Held at	CambridgeUniversityPress, United Kingdom
Degree of Recognition	International

Documents & Links

The forthcoming special issue of Theatre Research International (46.2) is devoted to the subject of Sounding Corporeality. The first fully dedicated special issue of the journal since 2014 (39.3), it takes as its focus the relationship between sounds and bodies in theatre and performance. As the editors tell us in their editorial, the issue ‘acknowledges and examines the intimate interactions, intersections and interventions of the aesthetic, the social and the political, to explore how corporeality sounds and how sonicity moves.’ The issue includes research articles, artist reflections and dialogues that engage experimental performance, dance, choreography, installation, opera, and the dynamic interactions between performance forms and media. Contributors survey practices from the US, Israel, Northern Ireland, Singapore, Italy, the UK, India and Australia. Edited by Aoife McGrath, Marcus Cheng Chye Tan, Prarthana Purkayastha and Tereza Havelková, the issue originally developed as a collaboration between the Choreography and Corporeality and Music Theatre working groups within the International Federation for Theatre Research. The special issue will be launched online on Tuesday 13th July from 12.00-12.30 GMT, as a conversation between Senior Editor Fintan Walsh, issue editors and some contributors, who will preview what’s to look forward to in the publication. The launch event is scheduled as part of the International Federation for Theatre Research annual conference hosted by NUI Galway, 12-16 July 2021. The live event will only be accessible for those attending the conference, though the recorded discussion will subsequently be made available on Cambridge Core.