LSU Science Café: Artists & Athletes at the Varsity
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The arts and athletics have more in common than you might think. Join LSU Associate Professor of Theatre History Shannon Walsh as she shares her research and scholarship on sports and theater including the staging of “The Wolves,” a play about a high school girls’ soccer team. The event can be seen live streamed on Facebook for free!
Date and Time
Tuesday, May 31, 2022
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Location
Varsity Theatre & Facebook Livestream
3353 Highland Road
Baton Rouge, LA 70802
About the Speaker
Shannon Walsh is an associate professor of theatre history. She received her MA in Theatre Studies from Florida State, and her PhD in Theatre Historiography from the University of Minnesota. She is the head of the PhD Theatre program and faculty rector for the Visual and Performing Arts Residential College. Her edited volume, “Sporting Performance: Politics in Play,” examines the intersections between theatre and sport and physical culture across the world and in history. Her monograph, “Eugenics and Physical Culture Performance in the Progressive Era: Watch Whiteness Workout,” examines how Reform Era efforts in the U.S. promoted repeated physical exercise as a way to shape women’s bodies and minds to be more maternally fit. In addition, she serves as the editor for “Theatre Topics” Online and series co-editor for Palgrave’s “Studies in Theatre and Performance History.” As a theatre practitioner, she has worked as a director, actor, dramaturg, and development manager. At LSU, she teaches a broad range of classes from a 600-student Introduction to Theatre for Non-Majors course to graduate student seminars in history and theory. She serves in an advisory capacity for student performance projects both for undergraduates and MFA students. She is also an actor and director at LSU and in Baton Rouge. Recently, she directed two “live” Zoom productions at LSU and Theatre Baton Rouge and played Lady Bracknell in an audio version of “The Importance of Being Earnest” at Swine Palace.
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LSU Science Café is presented in partnership with WRKF.