Storying the 94: a land-based series of performative interventions on the St. George Campus of the University of Toronto (2021-2022). Collaborators: Native Performance Culture and the Rhythm of (Re) Conciliation: Remembering Ourselves in Deep Time and the Digital Dramaturgy Lab squared, with Hart House, the Centre for Indigenous Studies, and the Critical Digital Humanities Initiative’s Emerging Project Fund (University of Toronto)

Institute for Dance Studies, Lecture Pop-Up: IDS will facilitate two pop-up lecture sessions in the upcoming academic year to provide a platform for IDS members to share current research. Each presenter will be given 30 minutes to present (20-minute presentation, 10-minute Q&A). Open to the public.

What a Body Can Do: International Speaker Series on Practice-as-Research. Hosted by the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies. Co-organized by Dr. T. Nikki Cesare Schotzko, Dr. Elliot Leffler, Robert Motum, and Munia Tripathi.

[elephants] collective: A monthly performance experiment centered on exploring performance online. This is a public laboratory where we build monthly work, explore interaction and reroute some money to the Anishnawbe Health Foundation (and the Aboriginal Front Door Society in Vancouver). For upcoming dates: https://www.facebook.com/groups/730658417805428

Calendar of events

October

Wednesday, October 13 / 8:30pm

Story-ing the 94 — a land-based series of performative interventions on the St. George Campus of the University of Toronto (2021-2022).

Friday, October 22 – Saturday 23 / Various Times

CATR: Crisis and Recovery: Act 4
Includes work from several Gatherings members including Jill Carter’s Protocols for Curating Safer Spaces and Devising Protocols that Welcome

Friday October 22 / 12:00 - 2:00 EST

Centre for Spectatorship and Audience Research (CSAR)
Special Guest: Nina Penner, Brock University

November

November marks Dance Collection Danse’s 35th Anniversary.

Dance Collection Danse Magazine (Issue 81) will be released with features from Fiesta Filipina Dance Troupe, Dancers of Damelahamid, Ice Ballets over the century, Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre, and Michèle Moss. https://www.dcdhalloffame.com/magazines

Friday, November 26 / 2pm

What a Body Can Do: International Speaker Series on Practice-as-Research. November speaker: Ben Spatz, University of Huddersfield

Friday, November 26 / 2:30-4pm EST
Centre for Spectatorship and Audience Research (CSAR)
Special Guest: Signy Lynch, York University

January

Friday, January 14

What a Body Can Do: International Speaker Series on Practice-as-Research. January Speaker: Urmimala Sarkar Munsi, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

March

Mid-March

Dance Collection Danse: Mary Wigman's Legacy in Canada virtual exhibit curated by Carol Anderson

Friday, March 25

What a Body Can Do: International Speaker Series on Practice-as-Research. March Speaker: Baz Kershaw

May

Friday, May 27 – Saturday, May 28

CATR virtual conference: hosted on the Theatre Agora website by STU

June

Monday, June 6 – Tuesday, June 7

CATR virtual conference: hosted on the Theatre Agora website by UTSC

Friday, June 10 – Saturday, June 11

Lethbridge Symposium: Widening the River: Communicating Performance Research Beyond Scholarly Communities (Co-organized by Justin Blum, Gabrielle Houle, and Heather Fitzsimmons Frey).

Sunday, June 12 – Tuesday, June 14

CATR: in-person conference: hosted at the University of Lethbridge

October 2022

Thursday, October 13 – Sunday, October 16, 2022

Dance Studies Association in-person conference: Dancing Resilience: Dance Studies and Activism in a Global Age in Vancouver. https://dancestudiesassociation.org/conferences/dancing- resilience