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The Body and Mask in Ancient Theatre Space - Research Project

The Body and the Mask in Ancient Theatre Space: Perceptions, Coincidences and Diversions

2 day interdisciplinary conference May 5th & 6th 2007

Conference schedule: (may be subject to change)

Saturday 5 May: Nô Studio, Royal Holloway University, Egham
10-10.30 am	Registration
10.30 am	Welcome: Setting out the Issues – Professor Richard Beacham, Director of the AHRC Research Project: The Body and the Mask in Ancient Theatre Space
	Session 1: Modelling, Motion Capture and the Virtual Stage
11.00 am	Richard Williams, Durham University "3D Modelling & Making Masks"
11.30 am	Drew Baker, King’s Visualisation Lab “Pipelines & Paradata or Getting the Virtual Actor onto the Virtual Stage”
12.00 pm	Martin Blazeby, King’s Visualisation Lab “The Virtual Stage: Architecture, Time and Space”
12.30 pm	Discussion
1-2.00 pm	Lunch
	Session 2: Approaches to the Mask
2.00 pm	Chris Vervain, Royal Holloway, University of London "Preparing for tragic roles and the multivalent masks of fifth century Greece"
2.30 pm	Bianca Mastrominico, Organic Theatre Company "Experiments with Half-Masks"
3.00 pm	Thanos Vovolis, Dramatic Institute, Stockholm "The Acoustical Mask Of Greek Tragedy: Form, function and appearance of the tragic mask and its relation to the actor, text, audience and theatre space"
3.30 pm	Tea Break
	Session 3: Mask and Body Across Cultures
3.45 pm	Margaret Coldiron, Durham University “Cross-Cultural Connections, Confluences and Contradictions in Masked Performance?
4.15 pm	Salz, Ryukoku University, Faculty of Intercultural Communication "The Noh Actor As Ur-Cinematographer: Mask And Stage In Moving Montage”
4.45-5.15 pm	Discussion
6-7.00 pm	Workshop/Demonstration – Matsui Akira (assisted by Jonah Salz)

Sunday 6 May: King's College, London (Lecture Room 2C, Strand Building)
10-10.30 am	Registration
	Commentary – Professor Richard Beacham, Project Director
11-12.30 pm	Hugh Denard and Margaret Coldiron in conversation with Akira Matsui "AJAX & KIYOTSUNE: Translating Performance Across Cultures"
12.30-1.00 pm	Discussion
1-2.30 pm	Lunch – Committee Room Demonstration: Michael Stocking of Armadillo Systems “3D Imaging Environments for Books”
2.30 pm	Yana Zarifi, Royal Holloway “Greek Satyr Dances Ancient & Modern”
3.00 pm	Professor J Michael Walton, University of Hull “The Word & the Take: Writing for the Mask”
3.30-3.45 pm	Tea Break
3.45-4.30 pm	Questions, Comments and Discussion

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