Name: Monstrous
Start: 2017-04-20T19:30:00-04:00
End: 2017-04-20T22:30:00-04:00
Location: Players' Theatre

Monstrous

Bodies in Difference is a three-day event exploring dramaturgies, pedagogies, and representations of racial and social difference in performance. This event will feature:• Plenaries by Harvey Young (Northwestern University), Dorinne Kondo (University of Southern California), and Helen Gilbert (University of Royal Holloway).• Panels featuring:o Stephen Johnson (University of Toronto); Jenna Gibbs (Florida International University); Douglas A. Jones (Rutgers University); Christine Mok (University of Cincinnati); Charmaine Nelson (McGill University); Naila Keleta Mae (University of Waterloo); Selena Couture (University of Alberta); Jill Carter (University of Toronto); Andrew Houston (University of Waterloo); Ayanna Dozier (McGill University); Colleen Kim Daniher (Brown University)• Mainstage performances (Admission $5)o Monstrous, by Sarah Waisvisz (Thursday, April 20, 7:30pm, Players Theatre)o Love Painted Brown, by Shanti Gonzalez (Friday, April 21, 4:30pm, TNC Theatre)• Performance interludes by McGill University students• A Roundtable on art, education, and social change with local artists and theatre practitionersPanels and plenaries will take place in the Wirth Music Building, Room A832, and the Wirth Opera Studio.For information about locations of events, please see Program Schedule on our website:bodiesindifference.wordpress.com.Sponsored by SSHRC and McGill University's IGSF, AHCS, MISC, IPLAI, East Asian Studies, and English.

Bodies in Difference: Race and Performance In and Beyond North America (April 20-22, 2017)

Monstrous
Written and performed by Sarah Waisvisz
Directed by Eleanor Crowder
A Calalou Production (<A HREF="http://www.calaloublog.wordpress.com" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.calaloublog.wordpress.com</A>)
 
“Who are you when you don’t know what you are?”
“But I am not black enough. Not quite white enough either – never quite enough.” 
 
Monstrous is a solo show integrating storytelling, multi-genre dance, music, song, projections, and audience interaction. It is a quest for roots, remembrance, and belonging; it is a cutting provocation about ‘multiculturalism’ in Canada. In Monstrous, Sarah investigates her family’s multicultural, multiracial history, her own genetics, and her experience of racism and uneven privilege in “our” Canada. She investigates longing and belonging: what does the body remember? What is the footprint of slavery four generations later? This show is about learning to be a griot in the tradition of courageous women cultural keepers and storytellers. In an increasingly international, mixed Canada – yet one only beginning to understand our colonial and white-privileged history – Monstrous offers a startling wake-up call that puts pressure on how accepting we think we are.
 
Photo credit: Christopher Snow, courtesy of undercurrents festival

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