Earth Matters On Stage
Schedule of Events ~ May 31 – June 3, 2012
Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama
All sessions & performances will be held in the Purnell Center for the Arts, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Thursday, May 31
2:00 – 3:00 pm ~ Registration
3:00 – 5:00 pm ~ Panel & Presentations
3:00 – 4:00 pm PRESENTATION: “The Carbon Footprint of Theatrical Production”
Ian Garrett
3:00 – 4:30 pm PANEL: “Performance & Pause: Developing Kinesthetic Exchanges with Urban Environments”
Julia Handschuh, Jennifer Monson, Courtney Ryan, Arden Thomas
4:45-5:45pm PERFORMANCE/PRESENTATION: “The Black Dirt Cycle”
Will MacAdams
5:45pm – 6:30pm ~ Reception and Opening Remarks (Wendy Arons)
Friday, June 1
9:00am – 10:30am ~ Panels & Papers
9:00-10:30am PANEL: “Earth Matters in Performance”
Sarah Standing, “Greenpeace as Intermediated Theatre”
Sonia Kircher, “Native American Theatre”
Rob Fallon, “Music of Copeland”
9:00-10:30am PANEL: “Beyond the Horizon: Collective Creation in the Afterlife of Ecological Catastrophe”
Daniel Sack, Megan McLain, & Brianna Sloane (each giving a “performative lecture”)
11:00am – 12:30pm ~ Panels & Papers
11:00- 12:30pm PRESENTATION: “Developing a Sustainability Measuring Tool”
James McKernan
11:00- 12:30pm PANEL: “Ghosts of EMOS Past: Legacies & Visions”
Theresa J. May, E.M. Lewis, Theresa Robbins-Dudeck, Robert Koon, Larry Fried, & Downing Cless
9:00am – 12:00pm ~ Workshops
9:00 – 12:00pm WORKSHOP: “Ec(o)occupy the Narrative”
Heather Woodbury
9:00 – 12:00 pm INTERACTIVE DANCE/ROUNDTABLE: “And so I offered them our Land” Angenette Spalink, Evangeline Rose Whitlock, & Jack Lampl
12:30-1:30pm ~ LUNCH
1:30pm-3:15pm ~ Panel & Workshops
1:30pm- 3:15pm – PANEL: “Sustainable Design”
Michael Mehler, Paul Brunner, & Tanja Beer
1:30pm – 3:15 pm – DEVISING WORKSHOP: “Soup: Devising Toward a Global Balance/ Applying Ecocriticism to Performance and Script Development”
Marnie Glazier & Gabriela Ponce
3:00pm – 5:00pm ~ Performances
3:00pm- 5:00pm – LECTURE/INSTALLATION: “Leaf, Rust and the Afterculture”
Mary Elizabeth Anderson & Richard Haley (performances every half hour)
4:00- 5:00 pm – PERFORMANCE: “The rediscovery of North America”
Victor Holtcamp
1:30pm-5:00pm ~ Workshops
1:30pm-5:00pm – DANCE MOVEMENT/WORKSHOP: “Ecorporeality: Experimental Physical Theatre and the Ecology of Consciousness”
Antonia Katrandjieva, Stoyan Radev, & Vessela S. Warner
1:30pm- 5:00pm – WORKSHOP: “EarthBodyment”
Bronwyn Preece
5:30pm – 6:30pm ~ Keynote Speaker – HOLLY HUGHES
6:30-8:00 pm— Dinner Reception hosted by the Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education at CMU
Saturday, June 2
9:00am – 10:45 am ~ Panels & Workshop
9:00 – 10:45 am- PANEL: Ecocriticism & Contemporary American Theater
Katie Hogan, “Queer Greeen Apocalypse”
Theresa J. May, “Menageries of Blood”
Doyle Ott, “My Heart’s in the Highlands”
Brian Reinking, “We are all connected”
9:00 – 10:45 am- PANEL: “Little Ripples, Big Impact”
Anne D’Zmura + 5 others
9:00- 10:45 am – WORKSHOP: “Play Creation”
Jeanne Hacker-Cerulean
11:00am – 12:30pm ~ Workshops & Performances
11:00- 12:30 pm – WORKSHOP: “Poking Fun at Plants: using humor to deepen our relationship to nature”
Megan Moe Beitiks
11:00-12:30pm- PERFORMANCE: “In the Garden of Live Flowers”
Buck Favorini (reading of play about Rachel Carson)
11:00-12:30pm- PERFORMANCE/WORKSHOP: “Beijing Opera Demystified”
Ghaffar Pourazar
12:30-1:30pm ~ LUNCH
1:30pm- 2:30 pm ~ Panels & Presentations
1:30pm- 2:30 pm – PRESENTATION: “Dramatizing African Oral Narratives in an Eco-Changing Environment: A Study of Tales form the Forest and Grassfields of Cameroon”
Taku Victor
1:30pm- 2:30pm – PANEL: “Making & Remaking: Examples of Sustainable Theater Design & Production”
Ian Garrett & Guests
3:00pm – 4:30pm ~ Workshops & Performances
3:00pm- 4:30pm – WRITING WORKSHOP: “Putting People in their Place: Toward an Eco-Centric Theatre”
Marcus Renner
2:00pm-5:45pm ~ Workshops & Performances
2:00pm-5:00pm – MOVEMENT/WORKSHOP: “Toward Deep Ecology: Embodied movement practices and the landscape”
Shannon Roszell
2:00- 2:30 pm – PERFORMANCE: “Sensing Place/Staging Place: The Aisle of the Barn”
Judy Mazzucco
4:45pm- 5:45pm – PARTICIPATORY COMMUNITY GATHERING: “Performativity of our Earth (Life) Cycles: Modern Paganism as a Responsive Performance to the Environmental Crisis”
Christina Angelus, Michael Angelus, Fran Brashier, Je’Amour Matthews, & Renzy Shade