Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts

Performance Spring is Factory's annual festival of groundbreaking and multi-disciplinary works for Toronto audiences from the national scene.

“Performing Back: Contemporary Theoretical and Practical

 Implications for the Post-Colonial Stage”

University of Toronto, February 4-6^th , 2011

Call for Performances

 

This year, the 2011 Festival of Original Theatre is specifically interested in involving the Toronto theatre and performance community within this festival’s activity. We are eager for this festival to reflect the diversity of the city, and the artists who live here.

 

Artists interested in submitting performances that broadly address the themes of marginality, race, migration, hegemony, agency, etc., are invited to submit their proposals to the 2011 F.O.O.T. Performance committee. We are looking for:

1. Staged readings of new works by emerging and established playwrights (not exceeding 45 mins).
2. Innovative Performance Projects.
3. Workshop Productions
4. Re-mounts of productions that directly address our themes.

 

Artists whose work reflects a mandated concern with diversity are encouraged to apply.

 

Submission Guidelines:

For artists interested in submission, please employ the following guidelines:

1. A Project Description – the type of performance you are planning for this project, and how participation in FOOT 2011 will benefit the development of this project (1 Page max).
2. Artistic Statement – What you want to accomplish with this project and its relationship to postcolonialism (ie, the themes of migration, hybridity, race, hegemony, etc.). We are not looking for sophisticated theoretical abstracts on this connection. We wish for the artists merely to display that their work relates to the larger themes of the conference, and contributes a perspective. If your work addresses a tangential theme that you still insist is relevant for consideration, please explain (1 page max).
3. Script or Working Document. Companies/artists that are interested in the presentation of re-mounts, workshop productions, or staged readings are encouraged to submit a writing proposal. Artists who are interested in the showcasing of performance work should provide a template of what the performance will entail (5 page max).
4. Bios of participants.

 

Please direct submissions as well as any questions and concerns to Festival Director, Dalbir Singh at foot.graddrama@utoronto.ca.

Submissions for Performances are DUE SEPTEMBER 20^th, 2010.