{"id":381,"date":"2024-03-30T12:36:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T16:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conferences.wlu.ca\/sustainingglobalconnections\/?page_id=381"},"modified":"2024-04-12T09:21:18","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T13:21:18","slug":"womens-innovations-in-theatre-dance-and-performance-volume-i","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/conferences.wlu.ca\/sustainingglobalconnections\/womens-innovations-in-theatre-dance-and-performance-volume-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s Innovations in Theatre, Dance, and Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Women\u2019s Innovations in Theatre, Dance, and Performance<\/i><\/a><\/strong> is a four-volume series (forthcoming with Bloomsbury-Methuen Press) edited by Wendy Arons, Melissa Blanco Borelli, and Elizabeth W. Son that aims to capture the innovations women have made to the performing arts in their historical, geographical, and disciplinary diversity. The definitions of both \u201cperformance\u201d and \u201cwoman\u201d are capacious. The former includes all forms of theatre, dance, opera, performance art, and solo performance. The latter includes cisgender, women-identified, trans, and femme bodies. Our definition of \u201cwoman\u201d is also undergirded by Black, Asian, Latinx, Indigenous, and other intersectional feminisms alongside queer theories which trouble the gender construct\/binary. Innovation is defined by the context in which it happens. It can be something that disrupts or breaks from conventions; it can create new methods (forms, styles, aesthetics, etc.); it can be something that establishes a strong influence in the development of the field. This series seeks to broaden, celebrate, and recover historical awareness of these performance-based artmakers and their contributions; as such, it showcases innovative, intersectional feminist historiographical approaches along with a history of women\u2019s innovation in the field. <\/span><\/p>\n

The four volumes in the series are: <\/strong><\/h4>\n

Vol. 1: Performers (co-edited by Colleen Kim Daniher and Marlis Schweitzer)<\/span><\/p>\n

Vol. 2: Creators (co-edited by Indu Jain, Jill Lane, and Elliott Gordon Mercer)<\/span><\/p>\n

Vol. 3: Designers & Crafters (co-edited by Greer Crawley and Carolina E. Santo)<\/span><\/p>\n

Vol. 4: Leaders (co-edited by Eva Aymami-Rene, Anita Gonzalez, and Kimberly Jew)<\/span><\/p>\n

The primary goals of this series are to:<\/strong> <\/span><\/h4>\n