Embodied Interventions, LePARC’s signature event, is coming back for its 6th edition on May 17 & 18!
Curated by Esteban Donoso and Michele Fiedler, this year’s program, titled Ruminations on Plurality, will consist of a series of exchanges, workshops and performances where participants can act as an intruder’s eye on each other’s proposals in order to signal towards questions, concerns and opacities and to provide different perspectives. We will approach performance through ruminating, as in deploying repetitive ways of relating to our environments and processing information. By attending to the plurality of identities that dwell within our hybrid bodies, we aim to get in touch with movements and voices that display multiple influences.
On May 17 and May 18, public presentations of these processes will be shown at 4 different venues around the downtown Concordia University campus. These presentations are free, and open to the public.
ABOUT THE WORKSHOPS:
Hannah Schallert – “Improvisation and Creation Workshop: Talking and Moving With Animation Software”
This workshop will introduce participants to a methodology for improvisation and choreographic creation inspired by the movement concepts and tools of computer animation software. Drawing on close embodied study and iterative group discussion, we will attend to the language and imagery of specific video excerpts from online software tutorials and interviews with animators as the jumping off point for generating choreographic gestures, phrases, and states. The workshop will include small group exploration as well as collective sharing and discussion of our experiences and findings.
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Aybüke Özel + Yuki Kéké Tam – “Gestures of Care Workshop”
Our workshop has two parts: discussion and movement. We will start with a common gesture of care—the sharing of food. While participants snack and drink tea, we will begin by discussing care and its meanings. What does it look like? Is it big or small or in-between? What does it mean to each of us, personally? We will investigate the definition, spectrum, limitations, and embodied gestures of care we all carry through conversation. While theoretical language and ideas are encouraged, this is meant to establish camaraderie, comfort, and trust between participants. The second part of this workshop will be movement-based. Participants will be led in bodily explorations rooted in vocabularies of dance and the everyday.
🗓May 17-18, 2025
📍Video Production Studio, LePARC Performance Lab, Black Box, Mini Box
