Plenary Sessions

1. Plenary Performance: "Lost Lines", Lesa Lockford, Bowling Green State University

Where: Levis 3rd Floor

When: Friday May 18: 5:30-6:30

"Lost Lines" is a solo-performance in which Lesa Lockford explores the short life of her grandfather, a French immigrant and vaudevillian performer whom she never met.Remnants of reviews and newspaper clippings discovered in theatrical archives and in a long lost scrapbook and memories, both real and imagined, provide the fuse-points for binding geographies of time and place. By leaping across the divides that separate the public and the private, the personal and the professional, and the living and the dead Lockford constructs a relationship to the past, the present, and the future. In so doing, she interrogates loss and the fear that attends on its ever present potential.