Autumn Widdoes at the Japan Writers Conference
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Autumn Widdoes (Okinawa, 2010 – present) is “a teacher, a writer, and a performance/hybrid-theater artist whose work explores the multiple intersections between written and spoken language and movement/dance.” She recently finished a dance theater video that will soon appear on her website, but you can also see it here. Her upcoming projects include a Nov. 2 lecture and workshop at the 2013 Japan Writers Conference titled “Performative Words: Writing for and Making Performance.” Here’s the official description:
Autumn Widdoes (photo by Melissa Campenile)
How do you enter into a new language with only the performative words that you know? This performace lecture will discuss how to create work for performance in Japan (performance art, poetic narratives for movement/dance theater, and plays), how to find both non-Japanese and Japanese collaborators/actors/performers to stage the work, and how to cultivate an audience, with a particular focus on doing this outside of the major cities and without networks. Additionally, we’ll discuss how to incorporate and enfold personal experience, the writing and unwriting of oneself into the texts, working with translations (and “anti translations”), and engaging with new language(s) and their complexities in one’s work without using it/them as simplistic ornamentation.
For details on the Japan Writers Conference, visit its site HERE.
To learn more about Autumn, visit her site HERE.
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