Join Dafa Puppet Theatre’s Husam Abed for a discussion on the company’s approach to adapting biographical information into performance.
Recommended for artists of all disciplines interested in tapping into biographical source materials
Join Dafa Puppet Theatre’s Husam Abed for a discussion on the company’s approach to adapting biographical information into performance.
Husam’s current PhD research focuses, in part, on the process of War Maker and the objects used during the show to increase refugee visibility. (See below for more information about Husam’s research and publications.)
This presentation is perfect for puppeteers, storytellers, documentarians, and other artists seeking to find the nexus between their own performance and the personal narratives of others.
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Purcell-Gates L. (2020) Spectacular Bodies, Unsettling Objects: Material Performance as Intervention in Stereotypes of Refugees. In: Meerzon Y., Dean D., McNeil D. (eds) Migration and Stereotypes in Performance and Culture. Contemporary Performance InterActions. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39915-3_3
Abed, Husam; Deak, Reka (2020), Breaking out of Time: Dafa Puppet Theatre, Applied Theatre Research, Volume 8, Number 1, 1 July 2020, pp. 135-142(8).DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/atr_00031_1
Current & Future Projects
Objects Without Borders: exploring how objects connect across borders, boundaries and difference. https://objectswithoutborders.org/
Abed H. (2023), Resisting Objects, Fragmented bodies and identities: Objects intervention for refugee visibility and refugee representations in a theatre performance in Race, Gender and Disability in Puppetry and Material Performance. Alissa Mello, Paulette Richards and Laura Purcell-Gates, eds. To be published by Routledge in 2023.
Learn more about Dafa Puppet Theatre
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