{"id":55,"date":"2021-04-11T09:19:13","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T09:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/23\/?page_id=55"},"modified":"2021-06-29T16:29:59","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T16:29:59","slug":"cs-issue-no-23-editors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/23\/cs-issue-no-23-editors\/","title":{"rendered":"CS Issue No 23 Editors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Special Topic<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Gigi Argyropoulou<\/strong> (PhD Roehampton University, MA Dartington College of Art) is a researcher, theorist, director, dramaturg and curator working in the fields of performance and cultural practice. Gigi has co-initiated and organised research events, public programmes, interventions, festivals, conferences, performances, actions and cultural projects both inside and outside institutions. She is a founding member of EIGHT(Critical institute for arts and politics), DIY Performance Biennial, Green Park, Mavili Collective, Institute for Live Arts Research and F2\/Mkultra. She has taught at Universities in postgraduate and undergraduate programmes in UK and Europe. Gigi received the Routledge Prize for PSi 18 and Dwight Conquergood Award in 2017. Gigi is co-editor of the special issue of Performance Research <\/em>\u201cOn Institutions\u201d and publishes regularly in journals, books and magazines. Currently, Gigi is member of the curatorial and editorial board of HKW\u2019s New Alphabet School and co-curating the upcoming edition \u2018On Instituting\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Stefanie Sachsenmaier<\/strong> (PhD Middlesex University, DEA Sorbonne Nlle, MA Goldsmiths, SFHEA) is Associate Professor in Contemporary Performance at Middlesex University and Programme Leader of BA Theatre Performance and Production. Her research centres on the processual in creative practice, with a particular interest in the ways that performance practices extend into the socio-political context. She co-edited Collaboration in Performance Practice: Premises, Workings and Failures<\/em>, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, sits on the editorial board for Choreographic Practices <\/em>Journal and forms part of the editorial team for Interventions (Contemporary Theatre Review<\/em>). She published a series of writings related to her long-term research with British choreographer Rosemary Butcher, as well as on questions concerning cross-cultural collaborations. She recently co-facilitated a conversation series entitled \u2018Performing Solidarity\u2019 and co-runs the \u2018Politicised Artistic Practices Research Initiative\u2019 at the Faculty of Creative Arts and Industries at Middlesex University. Her co-edited special issue of Performance Research <\/em>\u2018On Solidarity\u2019 is forthcoming in 2022. She has a background as a performer and is an experienced practitioner of Wu Style tai chi chuan.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Interviews, National Reports, Thalia Prize<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Savas Patsalidis<\/strong>, Professor of theatre and performance history and theory in the School of English (Aristotle University, Thessaloniki), the Hellenic Open University and the Drama School of the National Theatre of Northern Greece. He is also a regular lecturer on the Graduate Programme of the Theatre Department at Aristotle University. He is the author of fourteen books on theatre and performance criticism\/theory and co-editor of another thirteen. His two-volume study, Theatre, Society, Nation<\/em> (2010), was awarded first prize for best theatre study of the year. His latest book-length study Theatre & Theory II: About Topoi, Utopias and Heterotopias<\/em> was published in 2019 by University Studio Press. In addition to his academic activities, he writes theatre reviews for the ejournals parallaxi <\/em>and thegreekplay project. <\/em>He is currently the president of the Hellenic Association of Theatre and Performing Arts Critics, member of the curators\u2019 team of Forest Festival (organized by the National Theatre of Northern Greece) and the editor-in-chief of Critical Stages\/Sc\u00e8nes critiques<\/em>, the journal of the International Association of Theatre Critics. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Essays<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Yana Meerzon<\/strong> is Professor at the University of Ottawa and President of Canadian Association for Theatre Research. Trained as a professional theatre critic in Moscow, Russia (GITIS), she also holds a PHD from University of Toronto, Canada. Yana is the author of three books, with the latest volume Performance, Subjectivity, Cosmopolitanism<\/em> published by Palgrave in August 2020. She co-edited seven collections of articles, including Migration and Stereotypes in Performance and Culture<\/em> with David Dean and Daniel McNeil (Palgrave 2020). Her current research project is entitled \u201cBetween Migration and Neo-Nationalism(s): Performing the European Nation — Playing a Foreigner\u201d; and it has been funded by The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Yana is the editor of the \u201cEssays Section\u201d of Critical Stages\/Sc\u00e8nes critiques<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Performance Reviews<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Matti Linnavuori<\/strong> wrote theatre criticism between 1978 and 2013 for various newspapers and weeklies in his native Finland. In 1985, he worked for the BBC World Service in London. Since 1998, he has presented papers at numerous IATC events. In the 2000s, he wrote for Teatra Vestnesis in Latvia. Since 1992, he has written and directed several radio plays for YLE the Finnish Broadcasting Company. In March 2016, his play Ta mig till er ledare (Take me to your leader<\/em>) premiered at Lilla Teatern in Helsinki. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Book Reviews<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Don Rubin<\/strong> is Managing Editor of Critical Stages\/Sc\u00e8nes critiques<\/em>. He is the General Editor of Routledge’s six-volume World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre<\/em> and founding Editor of Canada’s national theatre quarterly Canadian Theatre Review<\/em>. He is Professor Emeritus of Theatre at York University in Toronto and Founding Director and Former Chair of both York\u2019s Department of Theatre and its MA\/PhD Program in Theatre and Performance Studies. His volume Canadian Theatre History: Selected Readings<\/em> is a standard volume on the subject. He is a vice-president and trustee of the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-55","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":665,"url":"https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/23\/table-of-contents\/","url_meta":{"origin":55,"position":0},"title":"Table of Contents","author":"cs2-admin","date":"June 12, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Editorial Note: Changing World\/Changing Theatre Savas Patsalidis, Editor-in-Chief Special Topic Unstable Grounds: Reconfigurations of Performance and PoliticsGuest Editors: Gigi Argyropoulou and Stefanie Sachsenmaier Editors\u2019 NoteGigi Argyropoulou and Stefanie Sachsenmaier Mutations in Crisis: Generic Engineering in Contemporary Southeast Asian DanceAparna R Nambiar The Self-Immolation of David Buckel: Towards a Postdramatic ActivismVictoria\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":812,"url":"https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/23\/editorial-note\/","url_meta":{"origin":55,"position":1},"title":"Editorial Note","author":"cs2-admin","date":"June 20, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Changing World\/Changing Theatre Savas Patsalidis* Our world is undergoing radical changes at an accelerating speed, changes that transform industries, reshape consumer demands and taste, challenge conventional logics, issues of gender and justice, sexual mores, politics of identity and established dichotomies, and certainly education. Mastering content knowledge is no longer sufficient\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.critical-stages.org\/23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2021\/05\/Savas_Patsalidis400.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":815,"url":"https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/23\/editorial\/","url_meta":{"origin":55,"position":2},"title":"\u00c9ditorial","author":"cs2-admin","date":"June 20, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Changer le monde\/Changer le th\u00e9\u00e2tre Savas Patsalidis* Notre monde subit des changements radicaux \u00e0 grande vitesse\u00a0; des changements qui transforment les industries, reconfigurent les demandes et les go\u00fbts des consommateurs, d\u00e9fient les logiques conventionnelles, les questions de genres et de justice, les m\u0153urs sexuelles, les donn\u00e9es d\u2019identit\u00e9 et de bipolarit\u00e9,\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.critical-stages.org\/23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2021\/05\/Savas_Patsalidis400.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":892,"href":"https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55\/revisions\/892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}