ReOrient 2012—Engaged Performance: Building Dialogue—Golden Thread—Nov 18, 2012
Channel: HowlRound Theatre Commons
Date: 2014-08-28

This year's Forum features provocative panel discussions on topics such as "The Arab Spring and Its Dramatic Reverberations," "Engaged Performance: Building Dialogue Through Artistic Exchange," "From 'War on Drugs' to 'War on Terror': Parallels in Latino/Chicano and Middle Eastern American Performance," and "Comedic Counter Terrorism."

Chair: Roberta Levitow, International & East Africa Sundance Institute Theatre Program and Co‐founder and Director of Theatre Without Borders Panelists: Gülgün Kayim & Calling Shift collaboration, Philip Kan Gotanda (playwright), Andrew Wood (San Francisco International Art Festival) Sponsor: Theatre Without Borders
Artists, producers, and presenters discuss ways in which making theatre serves as a means to restoring social relationships affected by political trauma. Making theatre requires a high level of dialogue and collaboration, making it uniquely suited for bringing together diverse, even opposing, narratives and perspectives. Thus, theatre-making offers the potential for engaging and healing communities that have experienced various forms of political and social traumas such as war, racism, and displacement. This panel will feature a diverse range of panelists who will consider how artists work through these traumas in order to engage opposing communities and renew community and global relations. The discussion will include such topics as US-Iraq relations since the U.S. “War on Terror” and Greek-Turkish relations in Cyprus. Panelists will reflect upon whether or not the creative process of making theatre can support intercultural exchange, rebuilding fraught relationships, and work as a conduit for healing political and social wounds.

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