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We are still officially accepting applicants for participation in Prague! Please see our SUBMISSION INFO page, fill out the PARTICIPATION FORM, and return it to tomburch@uchicago.edu, along with no more than 3 images of your design work. Production photos are great, however, we are particularly interested in your "process work." Hope to see you in Prague!

Our Best,

The USA/USITT 2011 PQ Student Exhibit Committee

SPECIAL THANKS

We thank all who submitted for our extended January 1, 2010 display deadline. ALL submitters have now been notified of acceptance. Over 450 submissions from nearly 300 students at 60 educational institutions submitted their work to EMERGE: USA/USITT's 2011 PQ Student Exhibit. This is the largest submission pool any committee has ever had to draw from in the past. While much of the work was of excellent quality, we simply do not have the space to display everything, and choices had to be made. We would also like to thank all who participated in our Prague Prep Project at the 2010 USITT Conference in Kansas City. It was very informative and enjoyable for us and we hope it was for all who participated as well. Please stay tuned here for more information on how to JOIN US in Prague for the Quadrennial in June 2011. Also, check out our article in USITT's June Sightlines.

Our Best,

The USA/USITT 2011 PQ Student Exhibit Committee

WHO WE ARE

As the USITT/USA 2011 Prague Quadrennial (PQ) Student Exhibit Committee, we have been charged with the task of designing and curating EMERGE, The USITT/USA 2011 PQ Student Exhibit. Unlike PQ's past, for 2011, a dedicated group of students is in charge of the creation and curation of the student exhibit. We exist as representatives to America’s theatrical design students and the processes and work that they have created over the past four years. For more information on the exhibit committee and to read member biographies click here.

Special Thanks goes to The Tobin Theatre Arts Fund which has granted the funding for EMERGE, The USITT/USA 2011 PQ Student Exhibit.

OUR VISION - PART I - PARTICIPATORY
We feel America’s student designers are constantly challenged by designing for a given space, often with limited given resources and time. So, within the USA student exhibit, visible to all of the PQ attendees, student design works will EMERGE as live American student designers actively create responses to a piece of given text with given materials, space, and time. Be it a model, costume, lighting sculpture, soundscape, or even performance, the world will get a chance to see the action that happens behind the student design process.

Overlapping timeslots will allow students to collaborate with each other and with the work previously created in the space. This process will make the exhibit an ever-evolving entity, encouraging viewers to return to see what new variations have been invented.

Considering that there are 10 days to the open phase of the Quadrennial, and that the exhibit will be open for many hours each of those day, we will need a large number of students to participate and make this vision a reality.

OUR VISION - PART II - DISPLAY

As is tradition, we are also dedicating a portion of the exhibit to feature the realized work of students from the past four years. As we feel that a lot of theatre has to do with context, we encourage ensembles to collectively submit their work for display, including samples and representations from all the design departments. We also encourage collaborative and individual unrealized productions, as we feel the element of freedom that exists in those projects also need to be viewed by the rest of the theatrical world in Praque. Unrealized projects can be submitted from both teams and/or individuals.

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

ALL students are encouraged to apply for both aspects of the exhibit. Though we can not guarantee that all students who participate in our PARTICIPATORY aspect of the exhibit will also be included in our DISPLAY aspect, we are interested in looking at potential students for both. For more information on how to submit click here.

MORE INFORMATION

For more information and participating FAQ's click here.

NEW: PRAGUE PREP PROJECT PHOTOS

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For more information about the USA's National Exhibit, visit their homepage...

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STUDENT EXHIBIT SUBMISSION DEADLINES:

DISPLAY: NOW CLOSED

PARTICIPATION: APPLY NOW!

For details on how to submit, go to:

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

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WHAT IS PQ?

The Prague Quadrennial (PQ) of Performance Design and Space is the largest event of its kind in the world . It presents contemporary work in a variety of performance design disciplines and genres: costume, stage, light, sound design, and theatre architecture for dance, opera, drama, site specific, multi-media performances, and performance art, etc.

Every four years, since it’s establishing in 1967, the Prague Quadrennial has presented work from more then 70 countries, from five continents, in individual countries' expositions in three competitive sections: the section of countries and regions, section of theatre architecture and student section.

This large exhibition is accompanied by a wide spectrum of live events: workshops, lectures, performances, discussions and presentations, and provides an in-depth exploration of contemporary theatre and performance design, creating space for meetings and exchange among thousands of performance and theatre professionals, students and spectators, who always attended the event.

Over 12 000 square meters of objects, photos, videos and live performances of work in-between theatre and visual arts formed this unique live exhibition in 2007. With over 500 live events over the course of eleven days in the last edition, in June 2007, the PQ became more then an exhibition. The eleventh edition was the most successful in the history of 40 years of the PQ, according total the number of visitors and participating countries, including more then 1 500 students from all over the world who attended Scenofest - educational events organized in cooperation with the OISTAT.

For more information, click here.

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