MCLC: Staging China

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: kirk (denton.2 at osu.edu)
Subject: Staging China
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Staging China, an international practice-led research network with its hub
in Leeds is a development from the project Performing China on the Global
Stage. It brings together academics, research students and theatre
practitioners to reinvigorate Chinese theatre as a
practice-led/cross-disciplinary subject. It aims to influence academic
institutions and individual researchers; and to impact on performing
industries and the general public. The project will:

* Explore how contemporary and historic China is constructed and projected
through intra/inter/trans-cultural stage productions and what is happening
when China is ‘performed’;
* Examine and analyse theatre productions in the Chinese language, in
minority languages, plus non-Chinese productions about China in and
outside of the Chinese-speaking regions;
* Develop Chinese theatre as an inter-disciplinary subject of Sinology,
Cultural and Performance Studies, and therefore enhance the international
status of Sinological research and attract more young people to the
subject;
* Offer consultancy and help establish collaboration between researchers
and practitioners, and between theatre companies in and outside China.
* Disseminate individuals’ research amongst researchers, institutions, and
theatre professionals to promote further collaborative work, and amongst
the general public to enhance international awareness of Chinese
civilization.

URL: http://www.stagingchina.leeds.ac.uk/