Sounding Corporeality
The forthcoming special issue of Theatre Research International (46.2) is devoted to the subject of Sounding Corporeality. The first fully dedicated special issue of the journal since 2014 (39.3), it takes as its focus the relationship between sounds and bodies in theatre and performance. As the editors tell us in their editorial, the issue ‘acknowledges and examines the intimate interactions, intersections and interventions of the aesthetic, the social and the political, to explore how corporeality sounds and how sonicity moves.’
The issue includes research articles, artist reflections and dialogues that engage experimental performance, dance, choreography, installation, opera, and the dynamic interactions between performance forms and media. Contributors survey practices from the US, Israel, Northern Ireland, Singapore, Italy, the UK, India and Australia.
Edited by Aoife McGrath, Marcus Cheng Chye Tan, Prarthana Purkayastha and Tereza Havelková, the issue originally developed as a collaboration between the Choreography and Corporeality and Music Theatre working groups within the International Federation for Theatre Research.
The special issue will be launched online on Tuesday 13th July from 12.00-12.30 GMT, as a conversation between Senior Editor Fintan Walsh, issue editors and some contributors, who will preview what’s to look forward to in the publication.
The launch event is scheduled as part of the International Federation for Theatre Research annual conference hosted by NUI Galway, 12-16 July 2021. The live event will only be accessible for those attending the conference, though the recorded discussion will subsequently be made available on Cambridge Core.
To register for IFTR 2021, visit: https://www.iftr.org/conference
To find out more about Theatre Research International, visit: www.cambridge.org/TRI
I will join this conference on 13 July. After reading this blog, I feel that this musical program will be so entertaining.