Welcome to ADSA
The Australasian Association for Theatre Drama and Performance Studies
ADSA is the peak academic association promoting the study of drama in any performing medium throughout the region. ADSA represents members of staff and postgraduate students of Australasian institutions of tertiary education who are engaged in teaching, research and practice in theatre, drama and performance studies. Directors of associated theatres and members of the theatrical profession are also active members. ADSA's annual conference is usually held in July.
Next conference
- Transcultural. Transnational. Transformation. : seeing, writing and reading performance across cultures, Monash University, 28 June - 1 July 2011
Recent conference
- Stripping Bare...! 2010 ADSA Conference, Australian National University, Canberra, 29 June - 2 July 2010
News
On Memory and Forgetting: Between Philosophy and Performance
An open call for proposals for a roundtable hosted by the PSi Performance & Philosophy working group PSi #17, 25-29 May 2011, Utrecht
Call for papers: Staging Sustainability—Arts Community Culture Environment
How can we produce art that reflects, celebrates, critiques and advances the cultural life of our community without contributing to the destruction of the setting that inspires these artistic endeavours? The goal of the Staging Sustainability conference is to create an opportunity for artists and those who support the arts in a myriad of ways—from scholars, critics, producers and designers to policy-makers, industry and government—to engage in interdisciplinary dialogue about the issues and challenges associated with the creation of environmentally sustainable arts practice and performance.
Call for papers: About Performance #11: In-between Moves
The 2011 issue of About Performance is dedicated to writing about moving. Collected under the sub-title of In-between Moves articles in this issue will deal with hybrid practices and motion as their primary concerns; motion in or across forms, places, times or bodies. Guest editors Amanda Card and Justine Shih Pearson are interested in articles that address the cross-cultural, the inter-disciplinary, the trans-national, the cross-genre, the inter-generational and/or the transitional in relation to everyday/extradaily movement and/or dance.
Call for papers: About Performance #11: In-between Moves
The 2011 issue of About Performance is dedicated to writing about moving. Collected under the sub-title of In-between Moves articles in this issue will deal with hybrid practices and motion as their primary concerns; motion in or across forms, places, times or bodies. Guest editors Amanda Card and Justine Shih Pearson are interested in articles that address the cross-cultural, the inter-disciplinary, the trans-national, the cross-genre, the inter-generational and/or the transitional in relation to everyday/extradaily movement and/or dance.
Call for papers . . . Health Acts: Applied Theatre, Health, and Well-being
Thursday 28th-Saturday 30th April, 2011 Department of Drama, University of Exeter What is theatre good for? Does performance have a part to play in longevity, quality of life or well-being? Can applied theatre and performance practices be understood as health-giving acts? As the population lives longer, as community care renders health and illness more visible, as society responds to looming crises of health groups dying too young or living too long, health in all its precariousness, it would seem, is firmly on the public agenda. Moreover, within applied theatre and performance practice the proliferation of activities in hospitals, surgeries, care units, rehabilitation centres and related settings is startling.
