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Conferences
December 9 to 12, at Studio 303, 372 Sainte-Catherine O, Montreal
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December 9th
Espaces incarnés et immersifs: quels sont les nouveaux territoires chorégraphiques ?
“During my visit to the Venice Biennale last September, I was deeply impressed by two immersive works: Mammary Mountain, a creation by Tara Baoth Mooney, Camille C. Baker and Maf’j Alvarez and Fragile Home, conceived by Ondřej Moravec and Victoria Lopukhina. In my opinion, these works stand out for their bold approach, blending physicality and somatic sensoriality, while rethinking the codes of representation. They question the porosity between physical and virtual space, and invite us to re-examine the place of the spectator within an artistic proposition, where he or she becomes both participant and explorer.
In this sharing session, I propose to explore the emergence of new immersive artistic practices that reinvent our relationship to time and space – two fundamental pillars of choreographic writing. Through an analysis of the devices, aesthetic choices and experiences they elicit, we’ll reflect on how these works enrich and transform the landscape of contemporary arts, particularly in the field of live and digital arts.
I invite you to join me in this discussion of the creative and reflexive potential offered by these new forms of artistic expression, and how they can inform and inspire our choreographic practices.”
December 10th
Un-nevering – collaborating across the veil – by Thea Patterson
This talk/sharing will source from writings in, around and alongside the practice and creation of Patterson’s work Un-nevering which grapples with the 2021 loss of her partner Jeremy Gordaneer to a (still unsolved) homicide. It asks, what is it to un-never as practice, as a way of knowing, as a performative mode, as a dramaturgy, and as a dance piece? How is it that things come to be and then slip away again within a performance frame? And how does this tie to notions of presence, absence, disappearance and loss, as well as what stays, or remains… traces and ephemera… ghosts. What form(s) might un-nevering take? Or not take? Can the shape, texture and tone of loss/grief exist within the frame of our being together (or not together)? Can it be a place and a container of/for embodied exchange and healing across the threshold of (dis)apearance? Can we still collaborate together … especially and in particular across the veil of loss that seems so (in)finite?
December 11
The World-Building of Dance-Making (out-loud edition) – par a. portia ehrhardt
Throughout the last two years, my practice as a solo improvising dance artist has transformed into that of a painter and mixed media visual artist. This process has had a lot to do with life-altering multi systemic chronic illness, but was informed by my lifelong engagement with these media and my constant curiosity about what happens when we dance and people watch. The World-Building of Dance-Making is the catch-all title for all my current work relating to this research, and at Montréal Danse I’ll present an artist talk introducing some of what I call transcription methods for drawing dance as it’s happening, and what I call notation for scoring imaginary dances.
December 12th
Can it be stupid?
I keep coming back to this question. I wish to honour some of the people who have inspired my trajectory, thoughts and practices and offer something about my pathway through choreography and dancing that includes work on wolves & musicians & deflating balloons, speculation, and body based imagination. We might try some simple movement and spoken scores.