After four months of focused research, the Judaica trio co-organized a series of events at 20 different universities, performing arts centres, and Jewish cultural venues across the United Kingdom, United States, and Poland. These events reached more than 700 people including performing and visual artists, scholars and researchers, and students.
(Please scroll down for other 2017 events.)
UNITED KINGDOM
Thursday 31 August: Conference Presentation
‘Molecular identities: Song as Philosophy in the Embodied Laboratory’
Theatre and Performance Studies Association
Theatre, Performance and Philosophy Working Group
University of Salford
Tuesday 5 September: Conference Presentation
‘Democratizing Songwork: Collaboration in the Embodied Research Lab’
Democracy in Music Symposium
University of Huddersfield
POLAND
ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKIE REGION
7-8 and 11-12 September: Expeditions
Visits to synagogues in:
– Chmielnik
– Szydłów
– Działoszyce
– Nowy Korczyn
– Pińczów
in collaboration with Massolit Books, Kraków
WROCŁAW
13-22 September: Residency
Brzezinka and Na Grobli Studio
at The Grotowski Institute, Wrocław
Wednesday 13 September: Meeting
Meeting with Mira Żelechower
Friday 15 September: Concert
‘Okruchy Pieśni’ / ‘Concert of Fragments’
14:00 at White Stork Synagogue, Wrocław
20-22 September: Workshop
at The Grotowski Institute
Friday 22 September: Lecture/Performance
‘What Is a Song? For an Ethics of Embodied Research‘
19:00 at The Grotowski Institute
with Dariusz Kosiński
WARSAW
Saturday 23 September: Lecture/Performance and Discussion
18:00 Event including Judaica performance
20:00 Discussion
Warsaw Gallery Weekend event (English | Polish)
with Yael Vishnizki Levi and Patrycja Orzechowska
at POLIN Museum, Warsaw
Sunday 24 September: Workshops and Video Screenings
13:00-16:00 Workshop (free admission, booking required)
18:30 Video Screenings
Warsaw Gallery Weekend event (English | Polish)
at POLIN Museum, Warsaw
LUBLIN
Tuesday 26 September: Lecture/Performance
at Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre Centre, Lublin
(Facebook event)
KRAKÓW
Sunday 1 October: Full Day of Events
‘Judaica: Bodies of Song’
12:30-14:00 Workshop
14:00-16:00 Video Screenings
16:00 Live Presentation
at Galicia Jewish Museum (Polish page)
with Marek Tuszewicki
UNITED KINGDOM
LONDON
Tuesday 3 October: Full Day of Events
‘Who Owns a Song?’
12:00-17:00 Video Screenings
13:00-14:30 Singing Workshop
18:00-19:45 Judaica Performance/Lecture
20:00-22:00 Guest Artist Presentations
with Yvon Bonenfant, Nwando Ebizie, and Shanti Suki Osman
at JW3 Jewish Community Center — click to reserve (£6 fee)
Wednesday 4 October: Research Events
‘New Dramaturgies of Actor Training’
14:00-17:00 Workshop with MA/MFA Actor Training and Coaching
18:00-20:00 Research Seminar (open event — click HERE to register)
at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Friday 6 October: Artist Exchange
at Goldsmiths, University of London
UNITED STATES
NEW YORK CITY
Tuesday 10 October: Artist Exchange
9:30-3:30 with the International Interdisciplinary Artists Consortium
at Cave, home of Leimay
Tuesday 10 October: Panel Discussion
‘The Body and the Book: Artistic Research in Today’s Academy‘ (FB event)
with Ximena Garnica, André Lepecki, Dana Whitco, and Katherine Profeta
7:00-9:00pm at NYU Department of Performance Studies
Weds-Thurs 11-12 October: Workshop for Artists
10:00-14:00 at Cave, home of Leimay
please click HERE to register
Friday 13 October: Encounter with Drama Therapy
‘Play/Work/Lab: Non-Empty Spaces’
Meeting with practitioners of Developmental Transformations
hosted by NYU Steinhardt School
Monday 16 October: Full Day of Events
‘Judaica: For a Politics of Embodied Research‘
12:00-17:00 Video Screenings
18:30 Lecture/Performance
at the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, CUNY
co-hosted by CUNY Center for Jewish Studies
and SITI Thought Center
PHILADELPHIA
Wednesday 18 October: Full Day of Events
10:00-13:00 Workshop at The Whole Shebang
13:00-16:00 Video Screenings at The Whole Shebang
19:00-20:00 Lecture/Performance at FringeArts
20:00-21:00 Panel Discussion at FringeArts [click for AUDIO]
with Fatima Adamu, Dan Blacksberg, Lela Aisha Jones and Ezra Berkley Nepon
moderated by Nicole Bindler
presented by The Institute for Somatics and Social Justice
co-sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace Philadelphia
MIDDLETOWN, CONNECTICUT
Thursday 19 October: Full Day of Events
13:20-14:50 Guest Class with Pedro Alejandro
16:40-18:10 Workshop at World Music Hall
20:00 Lecture/Performance and Roundtable Discussion
at Wesleyan University
hosted by:
The Department of Dance
The Department of Music
The College of Letters
The Office of Religious and Spiritual Life
Friday 20 October
8:30-9:45 Senior Colloquium with Susan Lourie
BOSTON AREA
Friday 20 October: Workshop
with Jeffrey A. Summit
at Tufts University Hillel, Medford
Saturday 21 October
‘Judaica: Travelogue‘
18:00-20:00 at Studio@550, Cambridge
UNITED KINGDOM
CANTERBURY
Tuesday 24 October: Research Seminar
‘For an Audio-Visual Laboratory of Humanities‘
18:30-20:30 Performance/Lecture and Discussion
hosted by European Theatre Research Network
at Jarman Building, University of Kent
MANCHESTER
Thursday 26 October: Full Day of Events
‘Bodies of Song: For a Laboratory of the Humanities‘
14:15-16:00 Workshop
16:30-18:00 Performance/Lecture
18:00-19:00 Discussion
19:00 Reception at Kro Bar
hosted by Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Arts and Languages
as part of the research series ‘Constraints of Creativity‘
at University of Manchester
LEEDS
Tuesday 31 October: Research Seminar
‘The Camera and the Trained Body‘
17:30-19:30 Open Lab, Roundtable and Discussion
hosted by Performance Training, Preparation and Pedagogy
at Alec Clegg Studio, University of Leeds
JANUARY – AUGUST EVENTS
14-15 January
Vocality/Instrumentality Conference
University of Huddersfield
17 January
Guest talk: ‘Re-Reading Grotowski in the Anthropocene’
University of the Arts, Helsinki
26 January
Participation in Holocaust Memorial Day procession
Huddersfield, UK
25 February
Performance: ‘Behold How Good‘
ACTformance, Byram Arcade, Huddersfield
10 March
Guest presentation
Digital Echoes symposium
Centre for Dance Research, Coventry
13 March
Guest workshop
Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology
University of Manchester
23 March
Performance: ‘Behold How Good‘
Awkward Bastards at MAC, Birmingham
7 April
Research presentation: ‘Future Documents: Songwork as Embodied Research.’
Joint SCUDD/NAMHE/DanceUK conference
University of Huddersfield
8 May
Guest workshop led by Colin Poole
25 May
Guest talk: ‘Future Documents: Video Epistemology and Embodied Research.’
Spring Gathering, Knowing from the Inside ERC project
University of Aberdeen
8 June
Performance Studies International
Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany
14 June
Popular Music Studies Research Group
University of Huddersfield
17 June
Guest presentation
Practice, Reflect, Share: Ways into Research
Stanislavski Centre, Rose Bruford College, Sidcup
23 June
Beyond Borders Seminar
Identity Papers Journal
University of Huddersfield
26-29 June
Laboratory guest: Dr Caroline Gatt
9-14 July
Annual meeting of the Embodied Research Working Group
International Federation for Theatre Research
University of São Paulo, Brazil
1-4 August
Laboratory guest: Elaine Spatz-Rabinowitz
Gallery of photographs
7-10 August
Laboratory guest: YARON band
Concert in St Paul’s church on 9 August
14-17 August
Laboratory guest: Massimiliano Balduzzi
Special thanks for helping with these events goes to Joshua Abrams, Katie Adler, Robert Adlington, Pedro Alejandro, Paul Allain, Massimiliano Balduzzi, Julie Becker, Francesca Billiani, Nicole Bindler, Caroline Bithell, Peter Boenisch, Yvon Bonenfant, Rukhsana Browning, Franc Chamberlain, Callie Chapman, Ewa Chomicka, Rachel Cowgill, Fred Dalmasso, Scott DeLahunta, Judy Dunaway, Nwando Ebizie, Ximena Garnica, Caroline Gatt, Gian-Murray Gianino, Michelle Goldsmith, Kalina Gotman, Kristine Healy, Tim Ingold, Andrew Irving, Bente Kahan, Frances Kay, Esa Kirkkopelto, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Maria Kapsali, Katja Kolcio, Ada Kopeć-Pawlikowska, Dariusz Kosiński, Dominika Laster, Mike Layward, André Lepecki, Abigail Levine, Susan Lourie, Jodie Matthews, Jan Mazanka, David Miller, Roanna Mitchell, Izabela Młynarz, Ian Morgan, Shige Moriya, Ronit Muszkatblit, Esther Neff, Jacqueline Nicholls, Shanti Suki Osman, Josiah Pearsall, Frances Phillips, Kate Pitt, Colin Poole, Michelle Preston, Katherine Profeta, Nisha Sajnani, Peter Sciscioli, Sarah Sigal, Jill Sigman, Johannes Sjoberg, Barry Smerrin, Elaine Spatz-Rabinowitz, David Stallings, Navah Steiner, Adam Strickson, Kim Strickson, Shanti Suki, Jeffrey Summit, Aniko Szucs, Rupert Till, Paul Ward, Nancy Watterson, Drew Weinstein, Anna Wencel, Mira Żelehower, and Jan Żórawski.
