The Performing Arts Department is hosting its first interdisciplinary symposium with support from The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.

We invite you to join us September 13-15 for a series of performances, presentations, and discussions to address the theoretical and practical questions around performance re-creation in dance, drama, and the wide-spectrum of performance behavior.

Participants include Judith Chazin-Bennahum, Branislav Jakovljević, James Jordan, Chelsea Knight, Larry Lavender, Paul Menzer, Rebecca Schneider, Mark Tribe, and Monika Weiss.

The symposium is free and open to the public. Please take a moment and fill out the short form under the "Registration" page if you plan to attend the event.

Announcements:

Learn about the exceptional group of scholars and artists who will be presenting at our sessions.

  • Eleanor Antin performance to begin at 8:00 pm, Thursday, September 13

Please join us in the Annelise Mertz Dance Studio at 8:00 pm for Eleanor Antin's performance/presentation, Conversations with Stalin. This event kicks off the symposium, and is free and open to the public.

We have just added a new page on the website, with a collection of links to readings and scholarly talks directly related to the topic of this symposium. Visit the "bibliography" link on the menu to the right to explore some of the current thinking on reperformance, reenactment, and the preservation of choreography. 

  • Conversations with Stalin: a reading/performance by Eleanor Antin

Thursday evening, September 13, in the Annelise Mertz Dance Studio, Mallinckrodt Center

In conjunction with the Sam Fox School's Multiple Feminisms Lecture Series, the Performing Arts Department is pleased to host visual and performance artist Eleanor Antin as part of the Reperformance symposium. The start time of this event is TBA.

The Multiple Feminisms Lecture Series is organized by Patricia Olynyk, director of the Graduate School of Art, in conjunction with the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, and made possible by a grant from Washington University's Diversity Initiative.