Friday, November 20, 2020
Undoing Post-colonial Structures in Theatre, Starting With Zoom Convenings
HowlRound Theatre Commons: Georgetown University’s Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics brings together artists, thought leaders, activists, and policy makers from around the world who harness the power of performance to humanize global politics. Part of the Lab’s diverse programming is an eighteen-month-long fellowship program that gathers ten emerging artists who work at the intersection of performance and politics. The aim is to foster intercultural artistic and dialogue exchange and bridge ideological divides.
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Based on the way that the 3 artists praise their program in the article, I assume that the method this lab has adopted has been very effective. I do not know if giving the reins and the means completely to the participants would be effective in every scenario, but in this situation, it has clearly fostered a lot of growth. It makes me wonder what would happen if my class had an open-forum scheduled zoom room where we were encouraged to develop our own projects and have discussions. In my opinion, this would be a better use for conservatory hour, where right now we listen to guest speakers and learn about the campus that a portion of us are not even living on. Right now, the world is particularly isolating, especially for people in theater or art, so any sense of community we can glean from our university would be refreshing.
I’ve actually been thinking about this for a little bit now, not only in terms of theatre, but elementary things as well and the way in which they are functioning/ how long they can function like that for. Obviously, with the summer time being a heavily COVID popular time, everyone kind of realized that outdoors is the safest as well as the most enjoyable way to spend time during this pandemic. But summer is slowly starting to leave us and I’m not sure how people are planning to keep their spaces at full capacity or even at 50%. I think a lot of companies, especially theatre companies, that are not very well funded are going to shut down either for the winter season or as a whole in general by the result of the winter hitting them so hard. It’s already happened with a lot of places and it’s only a matter of time for a lot of companies to do some business reevaluations.
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