Group meeting, debrief
Final Presentations
Presenting the research-creations that have been developed. 4th Space and Listening Lab.
Guest Lecture: Boris Verkhovsky and Joe Culpepper
Material Creativity, the circus apparatus from conception to prototyping to integration: Boris Verkhovsky (Director, Design and Performance Development, Cirque du Soleil) and Joe Culpepper (MITACS postdoctoral fellow at Concordia University and Cirque du Soleil)
MICC – Concordia Panel
Concordia/MICC Panel: Blending Genres 10:00-12:00 Samuel Tétreault (7 doigts de la main), Yaron Lifschitz (Circa) & Brigitte Poupart (director and performer)
Lunchtime Guest Lecture: Claudel Doucet
Lunchtime talk with Claudel Doucet, director of and performer in Se prendre (Boxed lunch for pre-order will be available)
Seminar Session
Strategies and choices (aesthetic, formal, discursive, practical)
Who is addressed and why? Discourse and reception
(Reading will be distributed: a chapter from Contemporary Circus by Lavers, Leroux & Burtt)
Claudel Doucet’s Apartment Show Se Prendre – Date Option 3 of 3
This is a required show. You need to attend one of the three representations listed in the calendar: Friday July 5, Saturday July 6, or Sunday July 7. 15 spectators max per show. Location TBA.
Claudel Doucet’s Apartment Show Se Prendre – Date Option 2 of 3
This is a required show. You need to attend one of the three representations listed in the calendar: Friday July 5, Saturday July 6, or Sunday July 7. 15 spectators max per show. Location TBA.
Claudel Doucet’s Apartment Show Se Prendre – Date Option 1 of 3
This is a required show. You need to attend one of the three representations listed in the calendar: Friday July 5, Saturday July 6, or Sunday July 7. 15 spectators max per show. Location TBA.
Guest Lecture: Jacinthe Rivard
Circus as Meaning: Saltimbanques performance/conference with Jacinthe Rivard and others.
Seminar Session – Circus as Research
Research in to Circus (Meaning-Making or making meaning out of research?)
Circus as Research (Alisan Funk; with references to Camila Damkjaer’s work)
Seminar Session
Readings recap (discussion and exploration)
A focus on Bogart, Chapman and Sawchuk and Nelson (see readings list)
Questions and methods in research-creation
The research question and the methodology
Research Practices Seminar Session
What is an effective individual exploration? (with Alisan Funk)
Research practices 101, introduction to the spaces.
Listening Lab is on the 10th Floor of the LB Building. This will also take place in the 4th Space on the main Floor.
Introductory Seminar Session
Introduction to seminar
Overview of the rules and opportunities
General research perspectives and objectives
Assignments (blogging and podcasting & individual/group research)
What are effective blogs?
What is effective podcasting? (with Taylor Tower)
Contextualizing contemporary circus in Québec and in the world (Cirque Global will be of use here)