Decentering Japanese Performance Lab Schedule
June 2022
University of California, Santa Barbara
**All times Pacific
[all lab sessions in T/D West 2517]
Thursday, June 2
3:00 pm Welcome and introductions
4:00-5:30pm Session 1
- Peter Eckersall, “Decentered and Slow: Dramaturgies of nonplace in the work of Okada Toshiki”
- Barbara Geilhorn, “Cultural exchange between Tōhoku and the urban centers – The triple disaster as a trigger of cultural decentralization” [remote]
- Q and A; discussion
Friday, June 3
10:30-12:00pm Session 2
- Kyoko Iwaki, “Hesitant Japan: Queering Relationships in Theater der Welt 2023” [remote]
- Jyana S. Browne, “Puppetry Networks of the Seto Island Sea”
- Q and A; discussion
12:00-2:00pm lunch
2:00-3:30pm Session 3
- Marié Abe, “From Gendered Labor to Dances for the Dead: Social Life of Tankō Bushi”
- Michelle Liu Carriger, “Shigai no Sankyo: Decentering Kyoto in Tea Discourse”
- Q and A; discussion
3:30-4:00pm coffee break
4:00-5:30pm Session 4
- Nobuko Anan, “Building a Home in Limbo?: Dance Box’s Little Lullabies in Nagata, Kobe” [remote]
- Angela K. Ahlgren, “‘You took Part of Me’: Karole Armitage, Megumi Eda, and Drastic Japanese Classicism in New York”
- Q and A; discussion
Saturday, June 4
2:00-3:30pm Session 5
- Katherine Saltzman-Li, “Where’s the Center? Center and Periphery in Edo-Period Kabuki”
- Rosemary Candelario, “Jinen Butoh: Entering the Flow of the Universe”
- Q and A; discussion
3:30-4:00pm coffee break
4:00-5:30pm Session 6
- Eun Young Seong, “Freedom to Reimagine: The Heroine’s Death in the 1948 Opera Chun Hiang”
- Mariko Okada, “Reinforcing Tokyo Discourse: Female Dancers from the Countryside Who Led New Dance Movements in Japan” [remote]
- Q and A; discussion