Preliminary Schedule of Events
| Friday, Sept. 21 | CT | DR | Youth Conf. | Studio 2 | Studio 1 | Grunebaum | Green Room | Telemarketing | |
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| 10:00 | 11:30 | Pia Kontos “Cracked: New Light on Dementia”: Creating a Better World Through Theatre |
Nicole Sumner Paintscape Soundscape Bodyscape: An Inter-Arts Playshop |
Etsuko Nakagami-Yamaguchi Let’s Perform Healthcare!: The New Teamwork Training Program Applying Anime and Improv |
Andres Marquez-Lara Let’s Develop as Entrepreneurs! |
Andrew Burton Breaking the Ice: From Meaningless Performance to the Performance of Meaning |
Richard Krysztoforski You Will Fail (and that’s okay)! |
Shari Foos The Narrative Salon: Empathy in a Disconnected World |
Ruth Howard Magic of Miniatures |
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| 2:15 | 3:15 | Susan Parenti “STOP THAT” |
Sanjay Kumar Performing Kashmir: A Political Stasis and Development Through Theatre |
Ruth Yamamoto Adaptive Improv for Senior Adults |
Matthew Costanzo Exploring Safety in Gendered Dialogue |
Powpee Lee Tap, Tap, Tap Dance: Stepping on the Alienation in the Lonely City, Tapping to Growth and Community |
Jo Tyler And then what happened? Story unmasking to shift psycho-social spaces |
Marisa Holzapfel Generating Ideas for Comics with Specific Humor Used for Chemistry and Health Education |
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| 3:15 | 3:45 | ||||||||
| 3:45 | 4:30 | Atay Citron The Development of Creative Dialogue of Deaf and Hearing in Ebisu Theatre |
Yuji Moro Playing with “Let’s Develop!”: Performing Giving in the Culture of Neoliberalism |
Mayarí Pérez Arroyo Play and Theater with Adolescents’ Families: A Transformative Experience in Costa Rica |
Thomas Riccio Indigenous Performance: (Re)Devising Place |
Akiko Suzuki How High School Students Accomplished Their Own Fashion Show: A Report from Japan |
Chris Reyman Let’s Develop: A Podcast! |
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| 4:30 | 5:00 | ||||||||
| 5:00 | 6:00 | Rita Ezenwa-Okoro “One with the Sound”: A Journey of a Thousand Miles |
Katlego Kolanyane-Kesupile MASKulinity: Actions and Beyond |
Sara Ramshaw Three Experiments in Developing Unwritten Laws/Norms |
Michael Kamen “They Call Teachers by Their First Names!”: An Ethno-Drama of Pre-Service Teachers Visiting Schools |
Don Waisanen Performing Citizenship through Applied Improvisation |
REHEARSAL | Amia Lieblich Art of Dying Death Café |
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| 6:00 | 7:30 | ||||||||
| 7:30 | 9:00 | Hunter “Patch” Adams All Heads of Lettace |
Bruno Freyssinet Acts from the Desert |
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| Saturday, Sept. 22 | CT | DR | Youth Conf. | Studio 2 | Studio 1 | Grunebaum | Green Room | |
| 9:00 | 10:00 | Tamara Estefanya Jimenez Florez Magicians Without Borders Breaking Barriers |
Patch Adams Transformation: War Trauma to Clown Bliss |
Rachael Williamson Diagnosis: Performing Our Way Out of the Box |
Alexandra Sutherland Performance, Political Education and Activism: Insights and Provocations from South Africa |
Salvatore Greco Route60+: Stories That Shaped a Better Europe |
Barbara Ann Michaels Meet the Heartist Collective: Art That’s Connective |
Lalenja Harrington Unruly Bodies: Expanding the Creative Mind and Unrestricting the Imagination in Higher Education |
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| 10:30 | 12:00 | Jeff Aron “Still We Rise” |
Fernanda Liberali Performative Interventions in Schools: Resisting Expanding in Unsettled Times |
Diana Feldman Show UP!: How ENACT Helps NYC Put-At-Risk Youth Display “Power In Motion” |
Angelo Miramonti Experiencing Active Listening Through Theatrical Processes |
Mary Fridley Katharine Houpt The Joy of Dementia (You Gotta Be Kidding!) |
Maureen Kelly and Cathy Salit TITLE TBD |
Michael Chan-Frazier SOULva Bar: Experiencing the Shift from Therapist to Light Warrior |
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| 1:15 | 2:45 | Mayra Stergiou At the Heart of Things |
Gabrielle Kurlander Creating and Developing in a Nonsensical World – The World Doesn’t Make Sense So Why Should I Paint Pictures That Do – Pablo Picasso |
Jim Martinez How to Grow Your Community Project Developmentally: A Conversation About the Challenges of Scaling Up! |
Muneebur Rehman I am Us, Us is Me |
LOIS | Bruce Levitt “Human Again”: Searching for Transformation Inside a Maximum Security Prison |
Barbara Tint Applied Improvisation: Growing by Leaps, Bounds (and Silly Faces) |
| 2:45 | 3:15 | |||||||
| 3:15 | 4:45 | Elena Boukavla From PPLG to Performing The World on the Move in Europe |
Carolyn Dorfman PROJECT TIKKUN: Tikkun Olam – “To Repair” the World |
Gwen Lowenheim Everything is a Remix: How Copying, Imitating, Stealing (and Other “Bad Stuff”) Reinvigorates Collective Creativity for You and Your Community |
Elly Litvak Beyond “Mental Illness”: Performing Human Development |
Kathleen Potts Bridging Academic Institutions and Their Communities through Performing Arts |
Gloria Strickland A New Alliance for Growth: All Stars Around the World |
Francesco Argenio Benaroio Theatre of the Oppressed and Playback Theatre: A Yin-Yang Dialogue |
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| 5:15 | 6:00 | Robin Post “Sorting Through the Rubble” |
Omar Ali Greensboro in Poetry and Play: Where are we From? Where are we Going? |
Alexander Lancaster Performing New Models of Scholarship at the Ronin Institute |
Peter Harris Murderously Funny: How Humor Helps to Cope with Threatening Reality in an Extreme Intergroup Contact Situation |
Bashiru Akande Lasisi Sing Like Your Mama: Stage Performance and Promotion of Indigenous Language in Nigeria |
Natalia Collings Ways to Perform and Develop as Learners Without Grades |
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| 6:00 | 6:15 | |||||||
| 6:15 | 7:15 | Lynn Fels Art Activists in Dark Times |
Miguel Eduardo Cortes Vazquez Performing Communities de Esperanza |
Judy Wong TELL: Theater for English Language Learners |
Dan Friedman Addition Info to Come |
Valentina Caprotti From Reaction to Awareness: Reshaping our Personal and Collective Body in the Face of Patriarchy |
Marilyn Green “Reconciliation” |
Sara Sibony The City as a Stage: “Balcony Theatre”- A Model of Activist Site-Specific Performance |
| Sunday, Sept. 23 | CT | DR | Youth Conf. | Studio 2 | Studio 1 | Grunebaum | Green Room | Telemarketing | |
| 10:00 | 11:00 | Smita Mathur Play Diplomacy: A Playful Response to Hate and Violence |
Sushi Bransman Addition info to come |
Sinisa Rudan CoLaboArthon: A Socio-Technical Ecosystem for Development of Performance Activism |
Deborah Kronenberg Help Ensemble Engulf Schools |
Lisa Kramer Letting Go of Perfection: The Power of Creating Performance Across Differences |
Jessica Lejowa Collaborative Storytelling as Activism: Cross-Border Theatre-Making for Young Audiences |
Renee Emunah 2 – Theatre for Change: Performance to Raise Consciousness about Diversity in Higher Education |
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| 11:00 | 11:30 | ||||||||
| 11:30 | 1:00 | Sandra Paola López Ramírez transfronteriza: A Community Created Dance by Women from the US/Mexico Border |
Eva Brenner Performing Politics & New Realism: Lecture Demonstration |
Tamara Nikolic Maksic Interactive Game “Let’s Develop” |
Saliha Bava Let’s Develop Research |
Ursula Carrascal Vizarreta Fostering Environmental Empathy Through our Bodies and Voice |
Susan Massad Creating an Ensemble for Performing Health |
Sabine Choucair Healing through Laughter |
Camilla Jensen LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® For Supporting Life Transitions |
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| 2:15 | 3:45 | Morteza Jafari “Dreaming of Life” |
Marian Rich Clowning and Caring: Join the Love/Play Revolution! |
Shoshanah Tarkow From Happenings to Hashtags: The Performance of Community in a Digital World |
Amelia Terrapin A Day in the Life: Year 2030 |
Barbara Silverman Developing Across Borders Performs! |
Micah White Performing as Leaders in the Midst of Despair: The Fight for Public Housing in NYC and Around the World |
Jamie Gutiérrez Vélez Social Presencing Theater: From Liminality to Communitas in Our Current World |
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