Announcement

The conveners of Performing the World, the conference/festival of the growing international performance movement, are excited to announce that the fifth Performing the World will be held in New York City from October 2-5, 2008. The event will showcase innovative practice and scholarship and provide a rich context for learning and performing together.

A New Location, A New Kind of Conference

Performing the World ’08 (PTW ’08) builds on the momentum of 2007’s PTW 4, which brought together 300 practitioners, scholars and community activists—educators, youth workers, researchers, psychologists and therapists, health and helping professionals, business people, artists and activists from 27 countries. PTW ’08 is bringing the international performance movement to the streets of New York—and introducing the performance movement to the communities of New York City.

For the first time, the All Stars Project, an organization recognized for its highly successful performance-based outside-of-school developmental programs for young people and its Castillo Theatre, joins the East Side Institute as a co-sponsor of the conference. PTW ’08 will be based out of the All Stars’ performance and development center on 42nd Street near Times Square, and will be hosted by young people from around the city. Workshops and performances will take place there and at theatres, schools and other venues throughout Manhattan and other boroughs. New Yorkers from virtually every neighborhood will open up their homes to out-of-towners, not only to save on hotel costs, but also to incorporate the diversity of family and neighborhood into the experience of the weekend and to build person-to-person ties between ordinary New Yorkers and performance activists and scholars from around the world.

A sampling of conversational themes, panels, workshops and performances:

• Performance as a Community Building Methodology
• Postmodern Creativity and Performance
• Knowing, Not Knowing and Performing
• Performance and Politics
• Performance in Daily Life
• The Therapeutics of Performance
• The Creativity of the Group, Ensemble and Community
• Theatre and Community
• The Creativity of Improvisation
• Performing, Improvising and Learning
• The Power of Play
• Conflict Resolution and Performance

Conveners:

Friedman, All Stars Project, NY
Lois Holzman, East Side Institute, NY
Dian Marie Hosking, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Ana Marjanovic-Shane,
Cultural Educational Center "ZMAJ", NY & Philadelphia Sheila McNamee,
University of New Hampshire, Durham Paul Murray, University of Winchester, UK
Fred Newman, East Side Institute, NY

Registration Fee
Before August 1:  $195 (US)
After August 1:      $225 (US)

Watch Clip from Past PTWs!

PTW ‘08 is sponsored by the All Stars Project, Inc. (www.allstars.org)
and the East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy (www.eastsideinstitute.org).