The Concordia Ethnography Lab is happy to invite you to the last film night of the semester, this Wednesday, December 7th at 6pm! They will be screening the beautiful film Zagros (2018) by Ariane Lorrain and Shahab Mihandoust. The screening will be followed by a Q+A with the directors. ZAGROS follows the creation of carpets across the Western mountains of […]
Do you dance, perform, make music, sound, plays, costumes, scenography, experiments? LePARC is hosting a little performance jam in which people of different performance practices are invited to meet in the space through improvisation. All disciplines are welcome. You are encouraged to bring instruments or materials into the space to play with.
LePARC invites members across clusters to join this event! Get your boogie on with Tornado Trish - aka Tricia Enns - and potential guest appearance of MC Diamond Don for the first of many Silly Sexy Awkward Dance Parties in the Residency Room (EV 10.785). What is it?!The event will involve cheesy aerobics meets dance […]
Come join us for the first screening of our Ethnography Lab Film Nights! One of Quebec's most iconic films, this ethno-fiction is an emblem of the Cinéma direct movement. The Concordia Ethnography Lab is happy to launch a series of film nights starting off this month! With these screenings we are inviting you to see […]
In this Walk in LePARC workshop, we will be finding ways to be together in our not knowing. Through short embodied prompts, setting shared parameters and asking questions, we will hold space for one another individually and collectively without having to use the specificity of language and without having to describe what we’re working on. […]
Why do we dream?A micro-opera by RISE and CLOrk at LePARCSparked and driven by Valentina Plata Experience a lucid dream with us in a massively collaborative, intersensory performance at Concordia's EV building. Singers (human and not), masked dancers, community musicians, costumed actors, chaos (f)actors, laptopists, sound sculpturers (physical and metaphysical), brain imagers, painters, object […]
Image Credit: Cyber Sensuality. Created during LAbO Summer School 2021 by Nikola Scheibe, Alexandra Fraser, Madina Mahomedova, Mazarine Haarscheer and David Bello Arcos. Members across clusters are welcome to join this discussion and workshop with Frederik de Bleser. During the LAbO 2021 summer school in Antwerp, participants created a virtual dancer driven by artificial intelligence. […]
REGISTER: Contact Sheena at info.riseopera@gmail.com. Led by Dr. Eldad Tsabary and funded by Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Reflective Iterative Scenario Enactments (RISE) is a LePARC based 5-year (2020-2025) research-creation project designed to enact and investigate cataclysmic scenarios in 10 mini-operas. The premise of the critical-reflection session is to begin with a […]
Presented by Manon De Pauw and Pierre-Marc Ouellette 1-4 p.m. - OPEN STUDIO4-5 p.m. - PERFORMANCE Kaleidoscopic Dances is an installation-performance project that puts forward a hybrid artistic form linking dance, performance, visual and media arts. The project is based on a historical research on Oskar Schlemmer's Triadic Ballet (1922), from which we examine the […]
Inverse power of wavelengths - performative lecture is a cross-sectional survey on Alessandro Carboni’s performance practice methodology based on the relationship between body and the city. The performance illustrates a practice that has been developed over a long period of research in several European and Asian cities and mega-cities, such as Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala […]
The Power of the Spill is an audio-visual performance that works at the intersection of digital and imaginary technologies. Using live video feedback, creative coding and movement-choreography, it agitates the visible borders of objects and bodies and questions habitual divisions between life and matter. The piece starts with a video recording and movement-choreography done on site. This footage (and its constantly changing perspectives) is live-processed using pixelation-effects similar to white […]
LePARC's A Walk in LePARC series showcases cluster member research through performances and talks. This is the first Walk in LePARC of the 2019-2020 academic year! Hana Pajala-Assefa is a Helsinki-based choreographer with an extensive history of interdisciplinary work sourcing from the body both as a practitioner and artistic researcher. In recent years she […]