WG Music Theatre

Day 1 / Sunday, July 25 & Day 2 / Monday, July 26

_{Venue & Room: LMU Leopoldstr. 13, Room 1211}

Conveners: Michael Eigtved (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Clemens Risi (Free University Berlin, Germany)

• Marcus Cheng Chye Tan (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland):
  Music as Universal. Cultural Acoustics and Identity Politics in Ong Keng Sen's Awakening
• Hanah Dübgen (Independent, Berlin, Germany):
  Matsukaze. The Rebirth of Noh Theatre as Contemporary Music Dance Theatre
• Sarah Ellis (University of California, Los Angeles, USA):
  "No Day But Today". Queer Temporality in the American Musical
• Mary Ingraham (University of Alberta, Canada) and
  Michael Macdonald (University of Alberta, Canada):
  Performance as Practice. Kwakiutl Ritual Theatre on Film
• Pamela Karantonis (University of the West of England, UK):
  Music Theatre and Developments in Scholarship
• Evangelia Rigaki (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany):
  Emergent Approaches to Music and Dance in Contemporary Music Theatre Practices
• George Rodosthenous (University of Leeds, UK):
  Meta-theatrical Visions and Surreal Bursts of Sung Choreographed Film Sequences. Julie Taymor's Across the Universe
• David Savran (City University of New York, USA):
  The Broadway Musical and Globalization
• Dominic Symonds (University of Portsmouth, UK):
  The Dance of the Song / the Song of the Dance
• Kati Szego (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada):
  What's So Funny About a Coup d'Etat? A Deposed Hawaiian Queen's Comic Opera
• Millie Taylor (University of Winchester, UK):
  The "We Will Rock You" Factor. Cognitive Responses to the Performance of Well-known Songs
• Caroline Wilkins (Brunel University, UK):
  The Electronic Aria, Sprechstimme Za'um: The Performance Song and Live Electronics in Experimental Music Theatre
• Pete Wyer (University of Portsmouth, UK):
  Between Song and Dialogue in the House of Culture. The Development Process of 57 Hours in the House of Culture

_{Please contact your conveners for programme details.}