List

HowlRound Value: Diverse Aesthetics

To end 2019, we are highlighting HowlRound pieces written this year that reflect what makes HowlRound...well, HowlRound. Community members give life to our values of: generosity and abundance, community and collaboration, diverse aesthetics, equity, inclusivity, and accessibility and global citizenship. This list showcases pieces that lift up diverse aesthetics and the evolution of forms of theatre practice!

a lone dancer against a black background

Sharanya

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Essay

A Manifesto for Staging Gendered Violence

11 July 2019

Sharanya shares her thoughts on restaging gendered violence, including how the representation of sexual violence has the power to be scripted and also to script, the importance of de-spectacling violence, and more.

Series

The Future of Theatre is Accessible

In this series, a variety of disabled theatre artists—managers, designers, producers, and dramaturgs—will share how they do their work, as well as their vision for an accessible future in professional theatre.

Emerson College

Video

Future Traditions: Theorizing the Native Avant Garde

a talk by Emerson College professor Dr. Adam Spry

24 October 2019

Boston, Massachusetts

Emerson College's Media Art Gallery presented Future Traditions: Theorizing the Native Avant Garde, a talk by Emerson College professor Dr. Adam Spry, livestreamed from Boston, Massachusetts on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 24 October 2019 at 3 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles, UTC -7) / 5 p.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 6 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4) / 22:00 UTC +0.

a group sitting in three concentric circles inside a large windowed space

May

Antaki

Essay

The Intersection of Digital Technology and Live Performance

Observations from HowlRound and SpiderWebShow’s Digital + Performance Convening

12 August 2019

May Antaki reflects on the Digital + Performance Convening, produced by HowlRound Theatre Commons and SpiderWebShow Performance, which focused on the intersection of digital technology and live performance.

Sean Anthony

Chia

Essay

How the way she spoke Resuscitated the Power of Storytelling Through Minimalism

10 November 2019

Sean Anthony Chia examines the impact of a powerful story—one without spectacle—through the lens of Isaac Gomez’s the way she spoke.

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