This event, organized by Daphne Lei, Carol Sorgenfrei, and Suk-Young Kim, included a wide range of artistic disciplines as well as geographical and cultural landscape. The conference challenged the traditional definitions for both words: Asian and performance. This event brought together faculty and students, and integrated performance and research papers. There were seven research papers and two international collaboration panels (Commedia/Korean Mask Dance/Aristophanes; Chinese opera/Taoist movement/Brecht). One of the two performance panels included a P’ansori demonstration and the other one presented a Manipuri/Peacock dance research and performance. Graduate students presented papers with faculty, served as chairs and discussants, and helped the organizers. There were about sixty-five participants to this conference, including UCIPC members, UC faculty and students, and some invited guests.

January 26 (Saturday)

8:30-9:00 Breakfast

9:00-9:10 Welcome

9:10-10:40 Panel 1: Shall the Twain Never Meet?

• Marianne McDonald: The Rise and Fall of Dionysus: Suzuki Tadashi and Greek Tragedy
• Bi-qi Beatrice Lei: “Shakespeare’s Star-Crossed Lovers in Taiwanese Opera”
• Nobuko Anan: “Yubiwa Hotel’s Lear: Blocking Women’s Rites of Passage”
• Chair: Chong Wong
• Discussant: Lauren McCue

10:40-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:00 Panel 2: Intercultural Collaboration I: Re-Envisioning the West with Classical China

• William Sun: “Fusing Western Classics with Chinese Opera: Sinolizing Hedda and
• Contextualizing The Good Woman”
• Joined by Yongsheng Guo, Alex Boyd, Peter Lichtenfels
• Moderator: Daphne Lei

12:00-1:30 Lunch

1:30-2:30 Panel 3: Traditional Korean Music and Storytelling Today: P’ansori Lecture and Demonstration

• Chan Park
• Moderator: Suk-Young Kim

2:30-2:50 Coffee Break

2:50-4:00 Panel 4: Dance Ethnography: Performance as Research

• Sohini Ray: “The language of hand-gestures in Manipuri Dance: Semantics and Politics” (paper presentation) and Kaliyadaman (performance of Manipuri Dance)
• Ting-Ting Chang: “Choreographing the Peacock” (paper presentation) and The Chinese Peacock Dance (dance performance)
• Moderator: Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei

4:00-4:15 Coffee break

4:15-5:30 Panel 5: Spirituality, Politics, Performance

• Kathy Foley: “The Wayang and the Wali: Performance and Culture in Hindu and Islamic Narrative Theatre in South and Southeast Asia”
• Corrie Tritz: “Performing Spiritual Citizenship in Modern Korea”
• Chair: Taehyung Kim
• Discussant: Fan Liao

5:30-6:30 Reception

6:30-8:00 Dinner

January 27 (Sunday)

8:30-9:00 Breakfast

9:00-10:40 Panel 6 : Body, Space, Sexuality

• Priya Srinivasan: “Unearthing the Early ‘Indians’ in American Dance Archives”
• Jiayun Zhuang: “Re-signifying the Laboring Body and the Ideologized Motherhood
• in the Post-socialist Condition- Living Dance Studio’s Report of Giving Birth”
• Jonathan M. Hall: “Underground 1968: The Public Sphere of a Crazy Love”
• Chair: Szu-Ching Chang
• Discussant: Chong Wong

10:45-11:20 Coffee Break

11:00-12:00 Panel 7: Intercultural Collaboration II: Pan Pacific Payers: International Collaboration with Birds in DMZ

• Suk-Man Kim and Eli Simon
• Moderator: Suk-Young Kim

12:00-12:30 Farewell and Concluding Remarks

• Daphne Lei, Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei, Suk-Young Kim and Lynette Hunte

Asian Performance Program

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