Northern Plains Performance Festival

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All events will be held in the Atwood Student Center 

Friday, March 31

8:30     Coffee and Baked goods           Atwood Theatre Lobby  

9-9:30     Welcome             Atwood Theatre

Sharon Cogdill, Assoc. Dean, College of  Fine Arts and Humanities
 Roseanna Ross, Chair, Communication  Studies Department   

9:30-10:30   Keynote Presentation           Atwood Theatre

Ronald J. Pelias Southern Illinois University
“Jarheads, Girly Men and the Pleasures of Violence."

10:40-11:40   Featured Group Performance         Atwood Theatre

     Villanova University
    “ Masks and Masculinity in the Philadelphia Mummers ”

12:00-1:30   Banquet Luncheon and Performance       Atwood Theatre Lobby

   The Players Performance Group, SCSU
 “The (Fe)male Gaze: Fathers, Brother, Friends”

1:40-2:40   Featured Group Performance         Atwood Theatre

Eastern Michigan University
 “ Branding the Bull: Scaring/Sculpting the Masculine Body ”  

2:50-3:50   Workshop I             Atwood Theatre

Elyse Pineau, Southern Illinois University
“En-Gendering School: Patriarchy & Pedagogy”
This interactive performance workshop explores and challenges how educational rituals and practices 'discipline' bodies into patriarchally-based and gender-specific forms.  

4-5     Featured Group Performance         Atwood Theatre

   Ithaca College
  “ Altered Boys: TRANS(T)EXTUAL Performances. "  

5:10-6:10   Featured Faculty Performance         Atwood Theatre

     Eric Love, University of Missouri
    “The Rambling Nut "

6:10-7:50   Dinner on own  

8:00     Keynote Performance           Voyagers Room

   E. Patrick Johnson
  Northwestern University
“Gender Trouble”

Saturday, April Fool's Day!  

8:30-9:00   Coffee and Baked goods           Atwood Theatre Lobby

     Hosted by the Communication Studies Club  

9:15-10:15   Featured Artist Performance         Atwood Theatre

     John Warren
    Bowling Green State University
    “Performing Difference: Repetition in Context “  

10:25-11:25   Featured Group Performance         Atwood Theatre

University of Northern Iowa
“Small G(u)ilt: The ‘Other' Birth Story”  

11:25-12:50   Lunch on own  

1-1:50     Workshop II             Atwood Theatre

Elyse Pineau 
 Southern Illinois University  

2-2:45     Featured Faculty Presentation         Atwood Theatre

Philippe Costiglioli and Scott Miller
St. Cloud State University  

2:45-3     Break               Atwood Student Center  

3-4     Independent Artist           Atwood Theatre

     Brian Lobel, “Ball: A Traumedy”     

4:10-5     Featured Group Performance         Atwood Theatre

Lake Superior State University
 “ Masks of Masculinities”  

5:00-6:30   Workshop Performances and         Atwood Theatre

    Open Festival Discussion  

6:30--     Pizza and Dancing!!!!!           The Quarry! (in Atwood)