ACADEMIC STREAMS: Repetition and Embodiment

Chairs Dr. Peter Harrop and Maggie Jackson

Most notably in the work of Samuel Beckett and in theories of the everyday, such as Lefebvre and De Certeau, the idea of routine and repetition have become highlighted both as an embodiment of alienation and as one of resistance and liberation. What is repetitions potential relation to embodiment and how do wenegotiate the line between boredom, the banal and resistance that cuts across a range of contexts?

Spencer Roberts-University of Huddersfield
‘Beckett Machine Something Mechanical Encrusted Upon the Living’

Siobhan Tattan- University of Middlesex
 ‘Re-enacting the Re-enactment of’ Performance-documentation not submitted

Emma Cocker –Nottingham Trent University
‘Chasing Shadows’

Sarah Bonner-University of Manchester
‘Strategies of Change: Fairy Tales in the Visual Art’

Peter Harrop-University of Chester
‘This play was acted here before’.

Rita Marcalo-University of St Johns at York
‘Touring Choreographic Difference: A Discussion of the Role
of memory in the Resistance to Repetition as Sameness’

Sofia Pantouvaki, University of Athens, Greece
‘Repetition and performance: The case of children’s opera Brunidbar’

Sharon Kivland, Sheffield Hallam University
‘Labour and Wait’

Kymberly Ward, Independent
‘The Infinite Pensum vs. Creative Singularity’

Alec Shepley-North East Wales Institute
‘Un-framing: towards repeated acts of deferral and fracture in fine art practice, production & consumption’