Association for Asian Performance Annual Conference 2022
Detroit, Michigan Wednesday July 27, 2022
8:00am Registration Desk Open on the 5th Floor outside of LaSalle
8:00-8:40am Breakfast and Coffee Available in Marquette
8:15-9:10am AAP Board Meeting (LaSalle B)
9:15am Welcome Remarks (LaSalle A)
Xing Fan, AAP President
9:30-10:45am Session 1
Panel 1 (LaSalle A)
Moderator: Kevin Wetmore
“Casting a Tea Spell: Staging Tea, Buddhism, and Desire,” Eason Lu (Columbia University)
“Rewriting the Ghost in Kabuki: Altering the Supernatural Narrative & Performance of Kaidan-mono,” Jennifer Yoo (University of Hawai’i at Manoa)
“Performing the Ghost Island: The Hauntology of The Apocalypse of Fudingjin from the "Kau-Puê" Perspective,” An-Ru Chu (University of California, Irvine)
Panel 2 (LaSalle B)
Moderator: Emily Wilcox
“New Red Classics: Non-fictional Nostalgia in Fudeli,” Tianding He (UC Irvine and UC San Diego)
“The Birth of Revue in Modern China —Li Jinhui and The Bright Moon Ensemble in the 1920s,” Zhiwen Gong (The University of Michigan)
“We Share Bodies: Transgenerational Embodiment of Female Experiences in Chinese Performing Arts,” Zhen Cheng (Cornell University)
11:00-12:15pm Session 2
Panel 1 (LaSalle A)
Moderator: Amanda Culp
“Mis-stepped Encounter: the American Dance Festival and the Rebirth of Modern Dance in China,” Fangfei Miao (University of Michigan)
“Performing Precarity: The Exhausted and Risk-Taking Physicality of Gu Jiani’s Exit," Yujie Chen (The Ohio State University)
“Tracing the Singularity of Nonhuman in Shen Wei's Folding and Near the Terrace,” Menghang Wu (The Ohio State University)
Panel 2 (LaSalle B)
Moderator: Siyuan Liu
“Yamaguchi Sagi kyōgen: Acquiring Cultural Significance through furusato,” Alex Rogals (Hunter College)
“English-language Theatre in Singapore, Summer 1844,” Chelsea Curto (Baylor University)
“Riad Ismat’s “Was Dinner Good, Dear Sister?” and the Politics of Arabic Theatre of the Absurd in Syria,” Suzi Elnaggar (Baylor University)
12:15-1:15pm Lunch (enjoy lunch on your own!)
1:30-2:45pm Session 3
Panel (LaSalle A)
Moderator: Tarryn Chun
“Reconfiguring the Backstage: Another Approach to Professionalize Modern Chinese Theatre,” Man He (Williams College)
“Political Adversity and Artistic Creativity—The Case of China’s Pingju (Ping Opera) Star Xin Fengxia,” Siyuan Liu (University of British Columbia)
“Criticism in an Ode: Revisiting Stories in Xijing,” Xing Fan (University of Toronto)
3:00-4:15pm Session 4
Organized Panel (LaSalle A): In-between the Theatre of Language and the Language of Theatre Moderator: Jyana Browne
“Reimagining Red Oleanders for the University Today,” Arnab Banerji (Loyola Marymount University)
“Democracy, Corruption, and Citizenship: Lessons from Cho Ramasamy,” Kristen Rudisill (Bowling Green State University)
“Cultural Maintenance and Brojendra Kumar Dey’s Noti Binodini in the American Classroom,” Jashodhara Sen (University of Florida)
4:15-4:30pm Coffee Break (Marquette B)
4:30-5:45pm Workshop: Anti-Racism in Research & Creative Practice Part II: Reflecting and Moving Forward (Lasalle A) Organizers: AAP Anti-Racism Committee (Jyana Browne, Tarryn Li-Min Chun, Amanda Culp, Freda Fiala, Ellen Gerdes, Katherine Mezur, Jashodhara Sen)
6:00-7:15pm Session 5
Emerging Scholars Panel (LaSalle A)
Moderator: Jashodhara Sen
"Enduring Performance, Representing Remains," Sharvari Sastry (The Drama School, Mumbai and University of Edinburgh)
“One Opera, Two Nationalisms”: Negotiating Hong Kong Identity and Chinese Nationalism in Cantonese Opera," Priscilla Tse (Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts)
"Expressionistic Vision Beyond the Horizon of History: Theatricality of Bai Wei’s Rarely Staged Scripts," Zhixuan Zhu (City University of New York)
7:30-9:00pm Schmoozefest at Midtown Shangri-La (4710 Cass Ave, Detroit, 48201) *Meet in hotel lobby to Uber to restaurant*
AAP @ ATHE
Thursday July 28-Sunday July 31, 2022
This year’s AAP programming for ATHE includes ten in-person sessions, one virtual session, and a variety of networking events for AAP grad students. We hope you will join us!
Thursday, July 28, 2022
8:30-10:00am Panel: Performing Possibility in East Asia: Bodies as Sites of Creative Imagining
“Walking into Democracy: Modern Dance and Fashion Modeling in Occupation Japan,”Tara Rodman (University of California, Irvine)
“Dancing Inter-Racial Solidarity: Embodied Critiques of US Anti-Black Racism and Police Violence in the Chinese Dance Drama Fires of Fury are Burning (1964),” Emily Wilcox (College of William & Mary)
“Rehearsing Virtual Corporeality: The Presence and the Absence of Physical Embodiment in Edward Lam’s An Invitation: On Empty Theatre (2020),” Po-Hsien Chu (University of Pittsburgh) [Presented posthumously by Yizhou Huang (St. Louis University)]
1:00-2:30 pm. AAP Welcome Event Join members of the Association for Asian Performance (AAP) to learn about our Focus Group and network with colleagues. All are welcome!
3:00-4:30pm Panel: Challenging the Nation: Embodied Memory in South Asian Theatre and Performance
Co-Sponsored by Theory and Criticism
Discussant: Aparna Dharwadker (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
“Embodying Memories about/against National Nostalgias: Bandu Manamperi’s Performance Art in the Sri Lankan Post-War Era,” Sandamini Ranwalage (Miami University)
“Rustom Bharucha's Black Shakuntala: Staging a Sanskrit Heroine in Heggodu,” Amanda Culp (Vassar College)
“Non-Violence, Subaltern Crisis, and a Muslim rebel: Utpal Dutt’s Political Plays and the Rise of Militant Fascism in India,” Arnab Banerji (Loyola Marymount University
“Rehearsing Chandala: Embodying Intercaste Love in Janani’s Juliet,” Rini Tarafder (University of Wisconsin- Madison)
5:00-6:30pm Roundtable: Horrific Potential: Integrating Horror into Theatre Practice and Pedagogy
Co-Sponsored by Theory and Criticism
Jane Barnette (University of Kansas)
Meredith Conti (State University of New York, Buffalo)
Anterior Leverett (Independent Scholar)
Guillermo Aviles Rodriguez (California State University, Northridge)
Alex Rogals (Hunter College)
Kevin Wetmore (Loyola Marymount University)
Justine Wiesinger (Bates College)
Jennifer Yoo (University of Hawaii at Manoa)
5:00-6:30pm Envisioning Antiracism: A Multi-Focus- Group Strategy Session Co-Sponsored by American Theatre and Drama, Black Theatre Network, and Latin, Indigenous, and the Americas
Arnab Banerji (Loyola Marymount University)
Jocelyn Buckner (Chapman University)
Veronda Carey (Oakton Community College)
Tarryn Chun (University of Notre Dame)
Courtney Elkin (Butler University)
Donatella Gallela (University of California, Riverside)
Friday, July 29, 2022
8:30-10:00am Panel: Reparative Fault Lines: Exposing US- Centrist Discourses through Asian Performance Studies
Co-sponsored by Performance Studies
“John Wong-Quincey’s Translational Metatheater: Rehearsing the Racial Possible in Yellowface Performance,” Annelise Finegan (New York University)
“Mis-stepped Encounter: Theorizing Sino-US Dance History as a Reparative Scholarly Act,” Fangfei Miao (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
“Rehearsing Utopia on Stage: Shinmyoung’s Rising People (1989) and Restorative Power of South Korean Theatre,” Hayana Kim (Northwestern University)
“Girl Terror: ‘Ornamental’ Acts of War in JPop and KPop,” Katherine Mezur (University of California, Berkeley)
1:30-3:00pm Panel: Immaterial Potential: Technology and/as Body in East Asian Performance
“Bodies of Wood, Flesh, and Light: Contemporary Technology in Traditional Japanese Theatre,” Jyana S. Browne (University of Maryland, College Park)
“Holograms, Drones, and Extra- Dimensionality: Staging Science Fiction through The Three-Body Problem,” Tarryn Chun (University of Notre Dame)
“Mediating the Physical and the Virtual: Phantom Bodies and Choreographic Gestures in Hayoun Kwon’s Participatory VR Performance,” Kyueun Kim (CUNY Graduate Center
“Staging Inbetweenness: The Use of Projections in the 2.5-Dimensional Play Hyper Projection Engeki “Haikyū!!” Karasuno, Revival (2016),” Zihui Lu (Southern University of Science and Technology)
3:30-5:00pm. Panel: Making Theatre in the Era of COVID-19: Experimentation and Acts of Solidarity in Asia and Asian Diaspora
“The Error is the Message: Political Intervention in The Plague,” Yizhou Huang (Saint Louis University)
“On The Island of Clam: Quarantine, Connection, and the Aesthetics of Disagreement,” Ruijiao Dong (The Graduate Center, City University of New York)
“Performing in-between: Finding Alternative Spaces for Storytelling, Support, and Solidarity in the Theatre of South Asian Diaspora,” Sukanya Chakrabarti (San Francisco State University)
Saturday, July 30, 2022
10:00am-11:30am. Asian Theatre Journal Lecture We are pleased to welcome Aparna Dharwadker (University of Wisconsin-Madison) who will speak on: “Cosmo-Modernism, Multilingualism,and Theatre: India in a Global Frame”
Moderated by Xing Fan (University of Toronto)
Sunday, July 31, 2022
8:00-9:30am Roundtable: Mixed Asian Casting Co-Sponsored by Acting Presentations and Discussion with:
Amy Rebecca King (Southwestern University),
Reiko Aylesworth (Southern Methodist University)
Robert Torigoe (University of Hawai'i )
Addition Virtual Panel (Date and Time TBD): Rehearsing Against Terror: Coloniality/Postcoloniality in East Asia and the Futures of Collective Activism
"Puppetry and the Performative Reenactment of Taiwan: Collective Activism in Mediated Space," Chee-Hann Wu (University of California, Irvine)
"Performing Collective Activism in Modern Korea: Using Folk Aesthetics of Vitality and Sovereignty in Madangguk," Minwoo Park (University of California, Irvine)
“Another Way of Performing Collective Activism in Theatre: The Embodiment and Conflict Between Theatrical Aesthetics and Political Protest in A Century’s Dark Journey,” Yi-Ping Wu (Ming Chuan University, Taiwan)
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