URBAN RESEARCH THEATRE
MISSION
Urban Research Theater develops original performances out of long-term embodied research. Our commitment to integrating narrative and image with irreducible liveness in performance draws on traditions ranging from Stanislavski and Grotowski in theatre to postmodern dance and performance art. Urban Research Theater was founded in Poland in 2004 with support from a Fulbright Fellowship and the Grotowski Institute. Since 2005 it has been based in New York City, where it has organized over one hundred public events.
Symposium on Masculinity and Embodied Practice
How can we approach the notion of masculinity today? While academia remains firmly invested in deconstructing gender performativity, many artists and other embodied practitioners continue to rely on archetypal or essentialist notions of the masculine. The phenomenology of the body and its knowledge has yet to be reconciled with materialist approaches to gender, race, class, and nationality.
-Ben Spatz, Symposium on Masculinity and Embodied Practice.
Program for Symposium on Masculity and Embodied Practice. Explains the structure of the project and gives more information on the panelists, performers, and activities:
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Proposals for this one-day symposium may be of any format, including: formal papers, work demonstrations or performances, multimedia documentation (with commentary), etc. Feminist queer, and critical race perspectives on masculinity are especially welcome, as are those grounded in the experiences of actors, dancers, athletes, and teachers. -Ben Spatz, Symposium on Masculinity and Embodied Practice. Video featuring Ben Spatz, founder of Urban Research Theatre, speaking on his Symposium on Masculinility and Embodied Practice: |  |
Information explaining Podcast found on the right: Movement Research Studies Project: Symposium on Masculinity and Embodied Practice Moderated by Ben Spatz The symposium included several paper presentations, speakers, and performances. Excerpts and documentation of Making Men, a series of videos and installations was presented by Susan Mar Landau. Studies Project is an artist-curated series of panel discussions, performances and/or other formats that focus on provocative and timely issues of aesthetics and philosophy in the intersection of dance and social politics, confronting and instigated by the dance and performance community. | Podcast with excerpts from the Symposium: Susan_MarLandau_-_Making_Men_FINAL.mp3 |
