Type of post: | Association news item |
Sub-type: | No sub-type |
Posted By: | Helena Grehan |
Status: | Current |
Date Posted: | Fri, 1 Oct 2021 |
HKAPA Virtual Conference
Harnessing a 21st Century approach to Performing Arts: Technology, Practice, Education and Research
Date: 20 - 22 January, 2022
Host: Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts
The past two years have been filled with an unprecedented scope of complexities. Universities and Conservatories in Performing Arts had to take a more proactive and agile role in shifting into newer learning modes and teaching under the pandemic. These paradigm shifts required new ways of encounters and approaches as universities and conservatories (re)think how the new normal in living, performance, learning and teaching under the pandemic required a (re)invention of existence, values, and ways of doing. As we approach a new era of (re)thinking, universities and conservatories must now reflect on their practices and generate innovative strategies and insights to overcome the new challenges, and ask how technologies and 21st Century competencies are reshaping performing arts in performance, curriculum design, teaching and learning and research.
We invite students, educators, researchers, and practitioners to submit a 250 to 300 word abstract for a paper presentation, roundtable discussion, lecture-demonstration /workshop, or performance lecture. The abstract should clearly state the aim/objective, the issues/questions addressed, the research design and methodology, the findings and the implications addressing these topics broadly within these themes: