Friday 28 January 2011

Call for papers: Experimentation in the Context of Musical Practice

Algo que interessar-me-ia muito participar, mas não tenho tempo....
Talvez interesse outros colegas, por isso aqui fica o registo.


Experimentation in the Context of Performance Practice

Orpheus Research Centre in Music [ORCiM] 27-28 April 2011, Ghent Belgium


Experimentation in the Context of Performance Practice

In Western music, 'experimentation' is usually associated with composition and improvisation, despite the fact that many diverse experimental practices happen in the field of performance. However, performers of all styles and periods of music have used modes of experimentation in their preparation for performance and in the act itself. Strangely, this important factor in the creativity of performance practice remains essentially private and undiscussed, being barely acknowledged beyond the rehearsal room.


This two-day international seminar aims at exploring the complex role of experimentation in the context of performance practices and the artistic possibilities that such practices yield for performers, composers and listeners. Three main perspectives will be adopted: a historical approach revealing experimental performance practices from the past, a practical approach that takes the ‘skilled body’ as its point of departure, and finally, an open-ended approach that challenges state-of-the-art practices in the field of music performance.


Within such a general context, particular interests or questions include:


Which aspects of performance allow for experimentation?

How does experimentation 'between' performances (from performance to performance) work?

How does experimentation through collaboration (e.g. chamber music) work?

Is the use and influence of non-musical elements an important factor in experimental performance practices?

What are the relationships between experimentation and improvisation? How does experimentation occur in the daily practicing process?

What are the tensions between 'fidelity to the score' and individuation of performance?


The seminar will be relevant for musicians and graduate students working in areas of research linked to musical practice. Themes related to all aspects of the seminar topic are welcome. The principal requirement for submissions is that they illuminate some aspect of the broad area of 'artistic experimentation', contributing to greater insight into how art unfolds, and opening new possibilities for artistic practice and reception.


Note: Keynote lecture: Paul Roberts - Professor of Keyboard, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, U.K.



Organising Committee
ORCiM Research Fellows Paulo de Assis, Darla Crispin, and Hans Roels.
For all practical information, please contact the Orpheus Institute's Activities & Communication Manager:
joyce.desmet@orpheusinstituut.be



http://www.orpheusinstituut.be/en/research-centre-orcim/orcim-calendar-2011



Tvv

Thursday 20 January 2011

About my next move...

NÃO, NÃO SOU BAILARINA, NEM ACTRIZ, NEM CANTORA
MAS É DE ALGO ASSIM, FORTE E ASSUSTADOR, QUE PRECISO NESTE MOMENTO

PARA DESPERTAR O LADO MAIS EXPRESSIVO DO MEU CORPO
PARA EXPERIMENTAR NOVOS MATERIAIS E TÉCNICAS QUE ALIMENTEM O MEU SER CRIATIVO
PARA CONHECER PESSOAS QUE FALEM A MINHA LINGUAGEM, QUE TENHAM OS MESMOS MEDOS E ÍMPETOS
PARA ESTAR PERTO DE UMA GRANDE REFERÊNCIA MINHA:
A LINDA E MARAVILHOSA MULHER E BAILARINA OLGA RORIZ!

RAIOS, PRECISO DE ACORDAR DESTA VIDA!!
APENAS ISTO NÃO ME CHEGA!!
VOU PRECISAR DE MUITA CORAGEM PARA FAZER ESTE WORKSHOP
DE UMA CORAGEM VISCERAL QUE EU SEI QUE TENHO
(apenas está es-con-di-da....)



Tvv

My next move: Workshop na Companhia de Olga Roriz

Workshop "Teatro Físico" 
por Fabrizio Pazzaglia

14,15,16,18 e 19, das 18h00 às 21h00 

Para bailarinos, actores e cantores

Descrição


O Workshop encontra-se estruturado em duas partes:



1 | Trabalho físico

Consciencialização do corpo através de técnicas como Feldenkrais, antiginastica, exercícios fitoterápicos.
Trabalho de dança no chão, dança contacto, a dois e em grupo. Improvisação.

2 | Trabalho de texto

Trabalho de respiração, de som, sozinho e em grupo. Improvisação.
Leitura de um texto, trabalho sobre o fragmento e reconstituição do texto.

Mais informaçõesCompanhia Olga Roriz
Rua da Prata, 108 1100-413 Lisboa/Portugal
Tel.: 21 848 23 18 | T.M.: 91 819 23 10
companhiaolgaroriz@sapo.pt

Tvv

Monday 17 January 2011

Proposta para PERFORMA'11: Music at displaced places

Music at displaced places: a video-performance
Teresa Vila Verde

To think about “music at displaced places” we have to put music outside from its main space of action and thinking, and break many established conventions, rules and agreed norms. According to John Tusa (2005, The Janus Aspect: Artists in the Twenty-First Century. London: Methuen), this attitude is absolutely necessary to anyone interested in finding new forms of expression, in exploring new territories of action, in addressing the audience through new channels, and in experimenting new techniques and materials, aiming to achieve the traditional ends of deepened artistic expression. Indeed, when we work at liminal places, we can find new ways to link the historical heritage to the most innovatory artistic processes, to merge the real and the virtual space into a single dimension, to connect personal and collective memories, to interlink music with choreography, actions, objects and text in novel ways, and to play with layers of information where anyone has to choose what to see and how to understand what they see.

Therefore, after presenting at Performa’09 how music could be tackled as performance, this time I intend to explore more intensively the practical implications of this approach and re-create my latest work, called Music or Performance? That is the Question (created for the first feminist festival in Portugal, FeministizARTE, Braga/2009), in such a way that will link music to memory, gender and body, the three main themes of this conference. Consequently, the presentation will be a performance itself, and will start with a short introduction to contextualize the work followed by a creative description of it. This kind of presentation comes in line with the performance enterprise, which does not value pureness, perfectness, repetition, premeditation or convention. Instead, it challenges us to re-make what we have done in the past by adding new commentaries, techniques and materials. Embedded within this spirit, I will engage creatively with the video and experiment a new kind of presentation: a video-performance.

Artistic Production
Duration: around 40 minutes
Creation and Performer: Teresa Vila Verde
Video: Priscilla Fontoura
Artistic Direction: Vitor Alves da Silva


TVV

Monday 10 January 2011

sim, tenho medo...

Sim, agora tenho muitos medos

medo de acreditar nas pessoas
medo de ir a certos lugares
medo de ouvir certas músicas
medo de me sentir
medo de sonhar...
porque tudo me lembra o passado
bom, vivido, intenso
mas que já não é presente, nem será futuro

O futuro
esse terá de passar pelas minhas "performances"
só aí não tenho medo
só aí sei que nada nem ninguém me desiludirá
só aí posso sonhar sem limites
posso sentir o infinito
posso viver em plenitude
posso transcender-me como ser humano
pois todos os meus sonhos se tornam realidade!
Mas só aí...

Teresa VV

PS. Pena estar a fazer uma formação pedagógica que me tira tempo para fazer o que gosto...mas brevemente "ressuscitarei"!