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Date: Sat, 11 Feb 1995 17:10:51 -0500
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Subject: Performance Studies conference registration information: March 23-26
 
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          F I R S T  A N N U A L
          PERFORMANCE STUDIES CONFERENCE
          "The Future of the Field"
 
          Thursday March 23-Sunday March 26, 1995
          Department of Performance Studies
          Tisch School of the Arts
          New York Univerity, NY
 
We invite you to attend the First Annual Performance Studies
Conference, "The Future of the Field."  The program will
feature over 50 events, including panels, roundtable
discussions, practical workshops, and performances. Over 180
scholars, graduate students, and artists will participate as
speakers, moderators, and performers. In all, our
participants will represent over 40 academic or artistic
institutions from around the country and abroad. Our
international participants will hail from France, the former
Yugoslavia, Slovenia, Canada, England, Israel, and Australia.
The conference will feature four plenary sessions and seven
"breakout" sessions, during which smaller panels, seminars,
and performances will be held concurrently.  Many panels
address interdisciplinary topics and aim to expand and
complicate issues in performance scholarship.  Major areas of
inquiry include: new dance scholarship; theatre research; new
technologies and performance studies; queer performativity
and performance; gender in/as performance; reading/writing
the body; race and performance scholarship; and performing
new identities.
 
Performances will be held each night. A Kick-Off cabaret will
be held on Thursday night.  The Friday and Saturday night
events at a nearby nightclub, Fez, will feature Yareli
Arizmendi, Circus Amok, The Five Lesbian Brothers, Marianne
Goldberg, Dan Hurlin, Guillermo Gomez Pena, La Grand Scena
Opera, Holly Hughes, Salley May, Peggy Pettitt, and Carmelita
Tropicana.
 
This conference inaugurates an annual event to be hosted on
alternate years by the departments of Performance Studies at
the Tisch School of the Arts and at Northwestern University.
The Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Society of Ethnomusicology
will hold their annual conference concurrenty on the NYU
campus. The theme of this year's MACSEM conference is
"Ethnomusicology and Performance Studies." The two
conferences will co-sponsor a panel, and registered members
of the Performance Studies Conference will be welcome at
selected MACSEM events.
 
Conference events on Friday and Saturday, March 24 & 25, are
scheduled from 9am to 6:30 pm, followed by a reception on
Friday and a Dinner on Saturday. On Sunday, events begin at
9am and end at 2pm. A book fair will be held  throughout the
conference.
 
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IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO REGISTER BY E-MAIL.
 
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You may download or copy the following form, or send a letter
including your name, address, phone number, institutional
affliliation (if any) and a check payable to New York
University for the appropriate amount (remember to include
both registration and dinner if you choose) to:
 
Jill Lane and Amanda Barrett
Directors, First Annual Performance Studies Confernence
Department of Performance Studies, 6th Floor
721 Broadway
NYU, Tisch School of the Arts
New York, NY 10003
 
Phone: (212) 998-1624
Fax: (212) 995-4960
Email: [log in to unmask]
 
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Performance Studies Conference Registration Form
 
**Early registration:  postmarked by February 21
          [   ] $35      [   ] Students $15
 
    Registration after February 21
          [   ] $40      [   ] Students $20
 
           (On-sight registration:
        Students $50; students $30)
 
**Special dinner Saturday March 25  in the spectacular
    Snow Dining Room: Don't miss it:  great views, open bar,
    and a chance to get to know your colleagues!
     (Dinner reservations must be made by March 5, 1995.)
          [   ] $30
 
          [ _______ ] TOTAL
 
Name:
Address:
Phone number:
Institutional affliliation (if any):
E-Mail address:
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Hotel information:
 
We recommend that you make your reservation at one of the
following hotels as soon as possible:
 
The Washington Square Hotel
103 Waverly Place.  Reservations: (212) 777-9515
European-style hotel on Washington Square.  Double bed, $120;
2 twin beds or 1 queen sized bed, $120; quad (2 doubles)
$142.  Includes continental breakfast.
 
The Grammercy Park Hotel
2 Lexington Avenue at 21st Street.
Reservations: 1-800-221-4083
Overlooks Gramercy Square Park.  Rates range from $125-$140
per night.
 
The Carlton Arms Hotel
160 East 25th Street.  Reservations: (212) 679-0680
Funky student-style accommodations, a bit of a walk from NYU.
Rates: single $40-$50; double $50-60; triple $75.