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  VestAndPage. La Promenade du Sceptique. Academy of Fine Arts, Venice, 2011. Photo by Andrea Morucchio. To the kind attention of anyone interested in the subjects of: durational performance, endurance, risk-taking, emotional intelligence and performing philosophy. "Andrea Pagnes, from the performance art duo VestAndPage, presents a reflective piece that will become essential reading for anyone interested in durational and related performance practice. The particular focus on research concentrates the importance of the insights in this piece. Pagnes demonstrates the use of performance as a form of personal expression that leads to a greater capacity for sensitive interpretation and understanding." —Ross…

Cuando nadie pregunta qué es Estado de Encuentro lo que viene a mí es una decepción en lo que hacemos. Pero eso respondería el por qué mas no el qué. Encontrar algo/alguien/alguno que satisfaga lo qué somos se vuelve más complicado en lo que hacemos. Analizar etimológicamente Estado de Encuentro respondería a la parte racional y no sería en vano: "-Estado-del latín status, y éste del verbo stare (estar parado)-" "-Encuentro-del latín in contra (en contra)-"  Hablar en contra del pensamiento creativo ayudaría a dar una idea de qué es lo que acontece en el Encuentro, pero nunca respondería al…

The Impossible Theatres project intends to gather together a range of opinions on how best to contextualize, theorize and ultimately construct contemporary performance spaces. Below is an opening statement intended to initiate this process and we invite you to respond to it. Responses can be in the form of an open forum for comments, and a private channel for longer and more considered responses. The intention is to collate responses and to invite respondents to a working group meeting to be held at the University of Greenwich on 5th and 6th June. Out of this meeting it is intended to put…

23 April, 2015,  Pǝ'fɔ:m(ǝ)ns PERFORMANCE/PERFORMATIVITY CROSS FACULTY GROUPFaculty of Fine, Applied And Performing Arts, University of Gothenburg  "Let them burn down the library in Alexandria. There are powers above and beyond papyri. We may be temporarily deprived of the ability to rediscover these powers, but we will never eliminate their energy.” Antonin Artaut (Performance Studies in Motion: International Perspectives and Practices in the Twenty-First Century.Ed. Atay Citron,Sharon Aronson-Lehavi,David Zerbib, Bloomsbury, 2014) What is this power the goes beyond and above structures, rules, and material? An energy and a force, moving ongoingly, turning through any space, ruled by indeterminacy and the emergency of…

AMAE/DE PINTO 58 (+1) INDICES ON THE BODY 63 variations on the body — Open call for Composers deadline September 30th, 2015 After the launch of the project on Soundcloud, featuring Jean-Luc Nancy’s recorded voice reading his treaty 58 Indices on the body, it is now time to turn the text into music. For this reason, and in anticipation of the making of a documentary about the whole project, we are opening a call for composers to create a background track for each statement – written and recorded by the philosopher. Candidates will join our Soundcloud page where they can…

Hi all,please let me know if you're around. would love to see you there. info: www.tamuseum.org.il/en/event-item/35123 this is how it looked like last time: www.vimeo.com/116194250 The series Kontrapunkt brings together dance and visual art in events that link exhibitions at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art with contemporary dance pieces. The events comprise a tour of the exhibition, a dance show and a discussion between curators and artists about expression, interpretation and artistic conventions.Curator: Lior Avizoor Kontrapunkt #4 - Shattering the Myth: Depiction of Men in Israeli Art To mark the opening of the exhibition "The Museum Presents Itself 2: Israeli Art from…

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History, Memory, Performance Edited by David Dean, Yana Meerzon, Kathryn Prince Palgrave, 2014 History, Memory, Performance is an interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring performances of the past in a wide range of trans-national and historical contexts ranging from seventeenth century New France and nineteenth-century Russia to modern Australia, Brazil, Britain, Canada, Lebanon, Russia, and the United States. Contributions from theatre scholars and public historians address issues of shared interest to the disciplines of theatre studies and theatre history, performance studies, history, and public history, coalescing around the concept of memory, both collective and individual. Wide-ranging and theoretically engaged, History, Memory, Performanceis especially timely given the…

Master of Arts in Theatre (MA) (Theatre Theory and Dramaturgy) http://www.theatre.uottawa.ca/eng/program_masters_information.html   The Department of Theatre offers a two-year program leading to the degree of Master of Arts (MA) in Theatre (Theatre Theory and Dramaturgy).   This program gives students the opportunity to develop and perfect their analytical, critical and scholarly skills, as well as enrich the intellectual curiosity required for doctoral studies. We offer two MA thesis options: ·         The traditional MA thesis consists of a review of literature, its critical analysis and synthesis (100 pages); ·         MA thesis with creative project consists of a creative project and its critical analysis  (50…

In Choreographic Practices, about the works of the three Janez Janšas, Every House Has a Door, Tehching Hsieh and the philosophy of Henri Bergson. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/chor.5.2.183_1