Registration

Registration for the 2013 ADSA conference opens on 1 May and closes on 10 June.

Program

A draft program for the conference is available, including:

• Tue 9 July - Gathering – Conference delegates and presenters are invited to gather from 6:30pm at the Hotel Metropolitan, 46 Grote Street, Adelaide, for a few drinks and to meet other delegates.
• Wed 10 July  - Performance - Christie Evans’ Trojan Barbie, Drama Centre, Flinders University main campus at Bedford Park, transport departs at 5:45pm, performance at 7:00pm.
• Thu 11 July - Conference Dinner –  Wasai Japanese Kitchen, 9/15 Field Street, Adelaide. Dinner is included in the registration fee, except for delegates registering for 1 day only without dinner.
• Fri 12 July - ADSA Annual General Meeting, 2:00-3:30 pm.

Keynotes

Confirmed keynote presenters: 

• James Ashcroft, Artistic Director of Taki Rua Productions, The National Māori Theatre Company, Aotearoa/New Zealand (Wed 10 July, 9:30am)
• Haresh Sharma, Resident Playwright at The Necessary Stage and Co-Artistic Director of the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival (Thu 11 July, 9:00am)
• Dr Christine Evans, Playwright, Georgetown University, USA (Fri 12 July, 9:00am)

Theme

We invite proposals for individual presentations, panels, workshops and performances that explore translation in theatre, drama and performance as pivotal to innovation and intervention. Translating or adapting a work from another culture, or transposing a piece from one medium to another, has traditionally reflected how we imagine and represent unifying identities: cultural, national, regional, ethnic, or linguistic. However, these practices also allow us to stage change by historicising, localising and interpreting individual and communal experiences in a multicultural setting.

To promote a dialogue between creative practice and critical reflection, this conference will consider the opportunities translation and adaptation present for creating and disrupting collective identities, and for diversifying mainstream audiences and performance practices. We will interrogate both the possibility and impossibility of translation, its achievements and failures in (re)ordering and (dis)locating individual and collective desires and destinies.

As this broad theme can be approached from a number of perspectives, we encourage participants to choose an angle that engages their scholarly and creative interests and experiences. The following ideas can serve as points of departure:

• The translator as a writer: authorship, innovation and intervention in translation practice

• The dramaturgy of translation: issues of playability and translation in rehearsal and performance
• Places of contact between translation theory and performance practice, between translation practice and performance theory
• Adaptation, performance and ideology: translation and the (non)representable; forming, transforming and disrupting power relations
• Translation afterlives: commissioning new translations; continuity and change in the cultural transmission of canonical works
• Innovation in translation practice: alternatives to text-to-text translation and adaptation
• The creative process in translation and adaptation: visible and invisible collaborations between creative producers, writers, dramaturgs, directors, performers, designers, audiences
• Translation and adaptation as responses to cultural difference: interpreting and performing bilingual and multicultural identities
• Community cultural development through drama and performance: the role of translation in developing new audiences
• Staging translation, refusing translation: bilingual, ethno-specific and cross-cultural productions
• Machine-translations: diversifying performance practices between technology and performance
• Multi-media translations: adaptation practices across genres, media and forms.

Partners

The 2013 ADSA Conference is hosted by the Drama Department in the School of Humanities at Flinders University in association with:

	Faculty of Education, Humanities and Law
	Flinders Institute for Research in the Humanities
	Helpmann Academy for the Visual and Performing Arts
	Catering sponsored by:  Fox Creek Wines, McClaren Valley, South Australia