14-16 juin 2012, Montréal

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Skin­Surface­Circuit: Embodying
the Improvisatory

Call for Papers

What does it mean to say we improvise our bodies, or embody our improvisations? The theme of this conference addresses the implications of new research emerging from the humanities, social sciences, arts and sciences on what counts in general as a body, and specifically what improvising bodies might be. What is the relationship of improvisers to their corporeality? Do the social dimensions of improvisation suggest limitations, or opportunities for new kinds of improvising agents and networks? What bodily norms do genres, communities, instruments and technologies either assume, or question?

We invite proposals on these issues, and the host of other questions they suggest, such as: How do new methods of musical mediation and new technologies for improvising across times and places question assumptions of what improvising bodies might be? How are traditional sites of essentialist thinking about bodies, be they concerning sex, gender, race, class, culture, ability or other either undermined, or assumed, by new ways of improvising, and new technologies for facilitating it? Has the whole notion of a body become redundant, or do we need a new concept to make sense of emerging modes of music making and new models of embodied knowledge and community?

The Adaptive Use Musical Instruments group  will be in attendance, and will conduct a series of events concerning their work.

Proposals should be no longer than 250 words, in either English or French. Only one proposal may be submitted per person. Please include name, address, and audiovisual requirements. Submit abstracts electronically (as .doc or .pdf) to either eric.lewis at mcgill.ca or lisa.barg at mcgill.ca by Feb. 1. Please also send a c.v. in the same format. Papers should be of 30 min reading length. We will also consider non-standard presentations, involving multi-media, performance, and so on.

 14 juin 2012l

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L'opéra comique entre deux
genres

Conférence internationale, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 190 avenue de France, 75013 Paris.

chair: Maria Birbili (Maison des Sciences de l'Homme)

09.30: Patrick Taieb (Université Motpellier III): Les contraintes de produc-tion pour l'opéra-comique dans les théâtres de province au XIXème siècle par rapport à Paris

10.30: Philip Gossett (University of Chicago): Rossini's Le Comte Ory: bet-ween different genres

11.30: pause café

chair: Sieghart Döhring (Schloß Thurnau)

11.50: Thomas Betzwieser (Universität Bayreuth): Ferdidand Hérolds Le pré aux clercs: Ein Werk zwischen opéra comique und Grand opéra

12.50: Maria Birbili (Maison des Sciences de l'Homme): L'étoile du Nord de Giacomo Meyerbeer: un opéra entre deux genres

13.50: pause déjeuner

chair: Jürgen Maehder (Freie Universität Berlin)

15.00: Hugh Macdonald (Washington University Saint Louis): The drama-turgy of spoken dialogue in Thomas' Mignon

6.00: Sieghart Döhring (Schloß Thurnau): Die Dramaturgie und die Einfüh-rung von Prosa in Massenet's Manon

17.00: Pause café

chair: Gérard Condé

17.30: Leslie Wright (University of Hawaii at Manoa): The influence of grand opéra in Bizet's Carmen

18.30: Jürgen Maehder (Freie Universität Berlin): Die Strukturen im Libretto und Partitur in Charpentiers Louise

19.30: Round Table: Was the decline of the opéra-comique related to the genre's interaction with grand opéra?

Turbulences, 2^e festival de Jazz à Vanves du 14 au 17 juin 2012

Le premier festival Turbulences a été initié par l'équipe du Théâtre de Vanves en mai 2011.

Huit concerts sont proposés sur 4 jours de festival, illustrant la diversité et la vitalité de la scène jazz française, dans les esthétiques et les formats les plus divers (du duo au grand format de 15 musiciens).

Chaque soir, la soirée se termine dans le bar du Théâtre autour d'une jam session, Comme la précédente, cette édition est programmée en complicité avec Matthieu Bloch et Samuel Achache.

Jeudi 14 juin - 20h30, Jean-Louis Benoît Delbecq & Antonin-Tri Hoang.

Vendredi 15 juin - 20h30, Groove Catchers, Aum

Samedi 16 juin - 20h30, Illaps, Purple House.

Dimanche 17 juin - 18h Vincent Peirani & Vincent Lê Quang, , Le Bocal, , Jam sesssion Alexis Pivot Trio.

Renseignements & réservations, 01 41 33 92 91
http://www.theatre-vanves.fr