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TERPSICHORE IN TAURIS-III
Follwing two very successfull Musical Movement and Free Dance Festivals - Terpsichore in Tauris-2007 and Terpsichore in Tauris-2008 - the Center "Heptachor", with the support from the Department for Culture and Tourism of the City Government of Sevastopol and Directorate of the National preserve Chersonesos Taurica, organise the Third Festival, "Terpsichore in Tauris-II", in the legendary Chersonesos Taurica on 1-5 September 2010. This year's theme is "Chersonesos: A Meeting Place of Cultures". Master-classes in Musical Movement, Duncan dance and Alekseeva's Artistic Gymnastics will followed by the gala-concert at the Greek amphitheater built in IVth century B.C. and reconstructed for theatre activities. To travel to Ukraine, westerners do not need a visa. We are happy to provide our guests with instructions about getting to the place and finding budget accommodation.
FREE POETRY AND FREE DANCE: EMBODIED SENSE IN MOTION
Departments of Philology, Psychology, and of the Arts, Moscow State University organise 1-3 October, 2010 an international conference FREE POETRY AND FREE DANCE: EMBODIED SENSE IN MOTION. We invite you to discuss the issues of freedom in poetry and dance along the following lines:
- Dance and/as poetry, poetry and/as dance: basic metaphors and productive analogies in the history of culture. Defining and redefining freedom in poetry and dance in cultural contexts.
- Poetic, “artificial” – as opposed to “natural” – speech, the “art” of dance as opposed to “natural”, spontaneous movement. Rhythm and musicality in dance and movement. “Order vs freedom” and “canon vs improvisation” dilemmas. Verbal gesture and gesture as replacement of words.
- The quest for new expression in poetry and plastic arts in the XIX to XXI centuries. The disappearance of the boundary between performers and spectators, performativity in poetic speech and dance. The place of free verse and free dance in the changing ensemble of the arts, in different social and cultural contexts.
- Practices of free dance and poetry in Russia and abroad; the new aesthetics, its self-justification and expansion. Avant-guard experiment as ground for building subcultures and artistic communities, alternative life-styles, and alternative forms of trans-national cultural exchange.
- Poetry and dance practices in the light of the new possibilities for the mutual production of form and content and with the post-classic cultural paradigm – altering ideas of the subject and subjectivity, creativity, rationality, and the body.
- Free poetry and dance in cultivating personality. The experience of studying and teaching free poetry and free dance; the problem of “teaching freedom” and “treating unfreedom”.
- Paradox of mass-production and commercialisation of individual freedom. Cult of immediateness and improvisation in the age of technical reproducibility.
In addition to paper sessions and thematic round-table discussions, the conference will include master classes in free dance, musical movement, voice-and-movement training, sessions of vers libres, sound poetry, dance and contact improvisation, and site-specific performances. All master classes are open for participants. The conference venue will be the buildings of Moscow State University, located at the historical sites of the city. Conference languages will be Russian and English.
Organisers: Aida Ailamasyan (Dept. of Psychology, Moscow State University, and Centre for Music and Movement, Heptachor), Tatyana Venediktova (Dept. of Philology, Moscow State University), Julia Idlis (Russkii reporteur), Aleksandr Lobodanov (Dept. of Fine Arts, Moscow State University), Irina Sirotkina (Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences, and Centre Heptachor).
Please send your proposals for papers or artistic events (up to 500 words) to Irina Sirotkina <isiro@mail.ru> before May 15, 2010
