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New episode: Access Intimacy in Academic Spaces (with guest Katya Vrtis)
Nicolas welcomes Dr. Katya Vrtis back to the podcast. They turn their practice of crip theorizing-in-process to Mia Mingus’ concept of access intimacy and the possibilities it offers as a way of thinking about and practicing accessibility in higher education. Key questions include: What is access intimacy, and what interventions might it make where higher ed’s…
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Two-Part Episode: Making Monsters
Pedagogy in Process host Nicolas Shannon Savard is joined by Dr. Katya Vrtis and Kairos Looney to unpack the contemporary wave of anti-trans politics. And to talk about monsters. Bringing together performance studies with queer-/crip and critical race theories, the conversation serves as a space to theorize collaboratively, to process, to strategize modes of resistance.
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Queer Archival Praxis Roundtable Part 3: Where the Past Touches the Present
This episode is part 3 of the Queer Archival Praxis Roundtable series of conversations with theatre historians, artists, and educators.Pedagogy in Process host Nicolas Shannon Savard, Kelly Aliano, Keenan Shionylan, and Ben Gillespie explore the questions: What discoveries arise through queer archival strategies focused on repair? What technologies or strategies do we use to confront…
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Roundtable Part 2: Queer Failure, Queer Possibility
Host Nicolas Shannon Savard, Kelly Aliano, Keenan Shionylan, and Ben Gillespie explore the questions: How have the constraints of existing archives caused (invited? necessitated?) what Jack Halberstam calls “queer failure”? Where do we see queer possibility in the archive? Their conversation offers a range of queer interventions for scholars and students of performance and history…
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New Episode. Queer Praxis Roundtable, Pt. 1: Disrupting White Supremacy in Theatre History
Host Nicolas Shannon Savard invites queer theatre artist-educator-historians Janet Werther, Kelli Crump, Jordan Ealy, Victoria Lafave to dig into how we bring a queer eye to history in the classroom, what power and responsibility we have as queer artist-educators to disrupt white supremacy in the archive and our institutions and strategies for building solidarity.
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Conference panel-turned-podcast. Pedagogy in Process.
How do we queer the archive? Or the conference? How do we bend the format to fit people in the session rather than fitting ourselves into traditional formats and structures? One response to that was to turn our conference panel into a podcast.
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Podcast Episode: Making Space for Self-Authorship through Audio Description
One of my favorite things about working on Gender Euphoria, the Podcast, is getting to be in conversation with brilliant queer and gender nonconforming artists, activists, and educators. This time around I had the chance to bring together two people who I have had the privilege to learn from and introduce them to one another.…
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Director’s Talk. Exploring Queer-Trans Intimacy, Disability Aesthetics, and Community Care in JC Pankratz’s Seahorse
In this director’s talk, CWRU Humanities in Leadership Learning Series postdoctoral scholar Nicolas Shannon Savard describes how feminist performance practice, queer theory, disability aesthetics and principles of community-engaged art making informed their approach to the design and the collaborative process in this spring’s production of Seahorse. The talk offers behind-the-scenes insight into how the cast and…
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Nicolas Shannon interviews JC Pankratz on Gender Euphoria, the Podcast
Queer Intimacies, Trans Futures, Grief, and Radical Hope in Seahorse With Guest J.C. Pankratz Host, Nicolas Shannon Savard interviews playwright JC Pankratz about their play, Seahorse, a poetic, stream-of-consciousness one-person show about a trans man’s attempts at artificial insemination following his husband’s unexpected death. The conversation will dive into the “messiness” of imagining futures you can’t…
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Behind-the-Scenes Audio Tour
Inspired by the workshop on audio description for performance I took with Liz Thomson this fall and the Royal Shakespeare Company’s pre-show touch tours, I’ve created a behind-the-scenes audio tour for our production of Seahorse. In it, I provide in-depth audio description of the venue, set, props, and costumes and a few of the stories…