Torn Space Theater presents Laura Levin in a discussion with Dan Shanahan on site-specific performance. This event is produced in conjunction with Storehouse and is co-sponsored by UB's Techne Institute for Arts & Emerging Technologies and Hallwalls. The discussion will be moderated by Sarah Bay-Cheng, a professor in UB's Department of Theatre and Director of its Graduate Studies in Theatre & Performance.
Professor Levin, of York University, is a performance theorist. Her research—which focuses on gender, performance, and space—appears in several journals and edited volumes including Space and the Geographies of Canadian Theatre and Performance and the City. She is editor of Conversations Across the Border, a book by performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña on dialogue as political art practice, and she is completing a book entitled Blending into the Background on the interactions of body and environment in performance. She is editor of the Views and Reviews section of the Canadian Theatre Review and has been guest editor of two theme issues: "Space and Subjectivity in Performance" for Theatre Research in Canada and "Performance Art" for Canadian Theatre Review. She has also participated in two transnational performance pedagogy projects, Common Plants and Blur Street, which investigate intersections of performance, geography, and digital technologies.
