1st International Conference of the GRAE
Introduction
The GRAE (Grup de Recerca en Arts Escèniques / Research Group in Performing Arts) at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona invites researchers into the performing arts and other similar, related or overlapping subjects everywhere to take part in the first international conference organised by this research group, devoted to discussion and study of the relationship between the concept of the border and relations with the performing arts in Europe.
The conference is to be held in Barcelona on 1st, 2nd and 3rd March 2012 at the CSIC Residence for Researchers.
Grup de Recerca en Arts Escèniques
The Grup de Recerca en Arts Escèniques or Research Group in Performing Arts is a new research group, set up in 2009, recognised and financed by the Catalan government’s agency for managing university research grants (2009 SGR 1034).
Invited speakers and contributors
Manuel Molins (essayist and dramatist)
José Antonio Sánchez (Universidad de Castilla – La Mancha)
Emmanuel Wallon (Université Paris Ouest – Nanterre La Défense)
W. B. Worthen (Barnard College – Columbia University)
Carla Bodo (Associazione per l'Economia della Cultura)
Phil George (Chair of National Theatre Wales)
Domènec Reixach (director of the Théâtre de l’Archipel de Perpinyà and cocoordinator of the Escena Catalana Transfronterera project)
Kristian Smeds (director of the Smeds Ensemble)
Image credits: Poster for the performance of L’Alegria que passa, by Santiago Rusiñol, unknown author. Poster for The Skirt Dancers (189?) unknown author. Poster for The French Maid, by Basil Hood and Walter Slaughter (189?), author: John Hassal. MAE (Centre de Documentació i Museu de les Arts Escèniques de Barcelona) archive.