UCIPC Dance/Devised Theatre Graduate Student Retreat, UC Davis, December 5-6, 2009
The UCIPC funds graduate students to attend a retreat focused on professionalization in the area of international performance and culture. The retreats invite two students from each participating campus to submit an essay or chapter for detailed feedback. Three UCIPC faculty are involved in the week-long intensive event, and one invited faculty member from a campus outside the University of California system gives a keynote lecture. The structure of the retreat is based on the series of highly successful graduate retreats held in Helsinki, Finland. Students work in small group sessions with faculty members. All participants read the submitted papers, present short introductions to their own submission and receive substantial feedback. In addition, the whole group discusses significant new books in the field and watch video/dvd documentation of recent performance work. Discussions also take place concerning career progression, publishing, and the current state of the profession. Student response to these events speaks of a rewarding experience that is of substantial benefit to their careers.
Program UCIPC Dance/Devised Theatre Graduate Student Retreat, UC Davis, December 5-6, 2009
Faculty Members
Lynette Hunter (UC Davis)
Peter Lichtenfels (UC Davis)
Della Davidson (UC Davis)
Susan Foster (UCLA)
Alan Read (King’s College London)
Schedule
| 9.15-9.30 START
Intro to Retreat Chair: Lynette |
8.30-9.15
Jess Curtis Susan Foster |
| 9.30-10.15
Nita Little Lynette Hunter |
9.15-10.00
Rosemary Candelario Lynette Hunter |
| 10.15-11.00
Angeline Shaka Peter Lichtenfels |
10.00-10.45
Publishing |
| 11.15-12 noon
Nitza Tenenblat Alan Read |
10.45-11.00
break |
| 12-1.00
Lunch |
11.00-12 noon
small group session 2 |
| 1.00-2.00
Alan Read Keynote |
12-1.00
Lunch |
| 2.00-2.45
Hilary Bryan Susan Foster |
1.00-1.45
Szu Chin Chang Peter Lichtenfels |
| 2.45-3.30
Kelly Rafferty Lynette Hunter |
1.45-2.30
Beth Stephens Alan Read |
| 3.30-3.45
break |
2.30-3.30
travel/feedback forms and departures |
| 3.45-4.30
Keith Hennessy Alan Read |
|
| 4.30-5.30
small group session 1 |
|
| 5:45 Dinner
7.00 Documentation and Performance |
SATURDAY SUNDAY
Student Papers
Hilary Bryan, “killkillkill, The Eventmentalization of Violence or ‘It’s an attitude’”
Rosemary Candelario, “Eiko & Koma: Choreographies of Place in Asian America”
Szu-Ching Chang, “Transforming Nostalgia(s): a Grounded Journeying in Lee-Chen Lin’s Jiao”
Jess Curtis, “Symmetry Study #19 - Solo Medi(t)ations/Intersections”
Keith Hennessy, “Archives of an emergent culture: West Coast Performance Collectives, 1975…”
Nita Little, “Articulating Presence”
Angeline Shaka, “Restless Natives/ The Natives Are Restless-Ke Akua: Re-presenting Hawaiian History in the late Twentieth Century”
Nitza Tenenblat, “Clandestines play IAGO”
Beth Stephens, ”
Kelly Rafferty, “Regeneration: Tissue Engineering, Maintenance, and the Time of Performance”