CALL. 15.02.2017 [PANEL 12 at CCC]: "Performing Epic/Epic Performance" - Montreal (Canad
FECHA LÍMITE/DEADLINE/SCADENZA: 15/02/2017
FECHA CONGRESO/CONGRESS DATE/DATA CONGRESSO: 19-20-21-22 /07/2017
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: University of Montreal (Montreal, Canada) ; McGill University (Montreal, Canada)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Lynn Kozak (McGill University) ; Katherine Kretler (Standford University)
INFO: web - performingepic@gmail.com
CALL:
This panel invites participants to a conversation at the intersection of theory and practice on Homeric epic performance. We are interested in how diverse contemporary performance practices, especially "durational" performances, can help enliven our understanding of Homeric performance.
What might the recent explosion of Homeric adaptations in performance around the world tell us about actually performing the epics: what techniques, formal elements, or narrative elements constitute the performance of the Homeric epics now? How can these shed light on excerption, synopses, and performance in the ancient world?
Especially interesting are those adaptations that attempt to capture the ‘epicness’ of the original: National Theatre of Wales’ ‘Marathon’ production of Christopher Logue’s War Music; Stathis Livathinos’ five-hour Iliad; the Almeida’s day-long readings of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Outside of Homeric adaptations, durational performances have become more popular and internationally recognised, including those based in the Classics, like Sean Graney’s All Our Tragic or Jan Fabre’s Mount Olympus: To glorify the cult of tragedy, and others not, like Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music. How can contemporary durational performance lend new insight into the Homeric performance tradition?
This panel seeks to bring together performance practitioners, those working in reception studies, Homerists, and those working in performance studies to consider how contemporary performance can help us better understand the epics.
We invite 20-minute papers or performances/demonstrations of variable length (no longer than 45-minutes); abstracts/proposals of 300 words and a one-page CV of relevant experience should be sent to Lynn Kozak and Katherine Kretler at performingepic@gmail.com by February 15, 2017.
Please note that the Celtic Conference in Classics is self-funding; all participants must bear their own expenses