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Monday, March 21, 2016

South Asia seminar series - Sarah Saddler: "Think Differently: Get Creative:" Producing Precarity within India's Corporate Theatre Culture Industry

"Think Differently: Get Creative:" Producing Precarity within India's Corporate Theatre Culture Industry

Sarah Saddler
Department of Theater, Arts and Dance

Date:  March 24, Thursday
Time:  4-5:30 PM
Place:  609 Social Sciences

Sarah Saddler, PhD candidate at the Department of Theater, Arts and Dance, will give a presentation on her doctoral work. Sarah is going to Yale to present a conference paper on this topic and she would benefit from this group's feedback.

Abstract:
In India’s rapidly developing global cities, transnational corporations implement theatre-based corporate training programs that are designed to inspire employees to be more dynamic, aspirational, and self-motivated at work. Offering a performance ethnography perspective of a week-long Theatre in Excellence program hosted in Bangalore (2014), I suggest that the theatre-based corporate training process is a site where the emergent Indian neoliberal laboring subject is being talked about, experimented with, and actively shaped. In India, a previously colonized, emerging global superpower undergoing neoliberal restructuring, practices of theatre-based corporate training illuminates how performance both interrogates and and reproduces employee precarity within neoliberal capitalism.

Bio:
Sarah Saddler is a PhD student in the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance at the University of Minnesota. Her research, which is based on experiences facilitating and observing theatre-based training programs throughout India since 2012, has been presented at the International Federation for Theatre Research (2014) and the Mid-America Theatre Conference (2014, 2015, 2016).

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