Speakers

Keynote Speakers:

Una Chaudhuri is Professor of English and Drama at New York University.  She is the author of No Man’s Stage: A Semiotic Study of Jean Genet’s Plays, and Staging Place: The Geography of Modern Drama, as well as numerous articles on drama theory and theatre history in such journals as Modern Drama, Theatre Journal, and Theatre. She is the editor of Rachel’s Brain and Other Storms, a book of scripts by performance artist Rachel Rosenthal, and co-editor, with Elinor Fuchs, of the award-winning critical anthology Land/Scape/Theater.  She was guest editor of a special issue of Yale Theater on “Theater and Ecology,” and of a forthcoming issue of TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies on “Animals and Performance.” She has served on the Executive Committee of the Drama Division of the Modern Language Association, chairs the panel of judges for the Callaway Prize for the Best Book on Drama and Theatre, and has been a judge of the the Obie Awards and the Alpert Awards.  She is writing a book on Animals and Performance.

Michael Eigtved (b. 1964) BA in musicology and MA in Arts and Cultural Studies, ph.d. in 1998 on a dissertation on Urbanity and Aesthetics in musicals, from 1999 Associate Professor at Department of Theatre at University of Copenhagen, Denmark, has published a number of books and articles mostly on popular culture, circus, cross-over performance, and music theatre.

Marianne Van Kerkhoven works as a dance and theatre dramaturge in Belgium, in particular at Kaaitheater in Brussels. She has acted as dramaturge for Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Jan Lauwers, Jan Ritsema, Emio Greco and Hooman Sharifi, among others. She teaches at P.A.R.T.S. and Rits in Brussels, at the university in Antwerp and at Dasarts in Amsterdam. She was a member of the editorial board of Etcetera, the Flemish magazine of performing arts, for more than twenty years, and editor-in-chief of the quadrilingual magazine Theaterschrift from 1990 to 1995.