AS OF MARCH 12, 2020: Due to the uncertainty of the health crisis we currently face and the University’s decision to move classes online and cancel or postpone campus events until at least April 6, we have decided to postpone our Arts, Design, and Health Research Summit. We will focus on planning events and activities to be held during fall semester that will deepen our investigation of arts/design/health possibilities at Penn State. Please contact adri@psu.edu to express interest in a future ADRI event such as this.
Location: 125 Borland (Borland Project Space)
Presentation by Samuel Yates, artist and researcher at George Washington University
Discussion moderated by Jeanmarie Higgins, associate professor of theatre, School of Theatre
This session is part of the Arts, Design, and Health Research Summit organized by the Arts & Design Research Incubator and the Hamer Center for Community Design at Penn State: https://adri.psu.edu/news/arts-design-and-health-exploration-whats-possible-penn-state. Faculty, students, and staff in all disciplines are invited to register for sessions.
Please register if you will participate in the moderated discussion after the presentation; no need to register if you’d like to attend the presentation only: https://disability-and-the-arts.eventbrite.com
Samuel Yates, Ph.D., is an artist and researcher at George Washington University, where he examines the aesthetics of disability and performance in his current project Cripping Broadway: Disability and the American Musical. He received his M.Phil in Theatre and Performance Studies from Trinity College Dublin as a George J. Mitchell Scholar and his B.A. from Centre College as a John C. Young Scholar. Samuel holds a Humanity in Action Senior Fellowship for his work on performance and body politics, and has previously collaborated as a dramaturg, playwright, and performer with theaters such as the Abbey Theatre, the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, The Samuel Beckett Centre, and New Harmony Theater, among others. His current research concerns disability aesthetics and rhetorics in commercial theatre, and asks how our notions of able-bodiedness inform and transforms theatrical performance.
A new works dramaturg in dance and theatre, Jeanmarie Higgins publishes widely on the intersection of theory and practice. Her scholarly research addresses domestic space in contemporary drama and performance. Her edited collection, Teaching Critical Performance Theory in Today's Theatre Classroom, Studio, and Communities is forthcoming from Routledge (June 2020). Full bio at https://theatre.psu.edu/jeanmarie-higgins
