Conference Announcement
Improvisation Continuums: theorising practice across disciplines
Date: 12 – 14 April 2007
Venue: Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, North Road, Cardiff
Hosted by: Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries, University of
Glamorgan, Pontypridd, South Wales UK
Registrations are now opened. See website for information about early bird
rates and confirmed speakers http://www.glam.ac.uk/impro2007 or email
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The inaugural Improvisation Continuums conference recognizes the key role
that improvisation is playing in debates about creative practice and
theory, and is dedicated to providing a forum for discussion and debate
about the re-emerging place of improvisation in arts practice.
This event aims to facilitate dialogue and examine contemporary
expressions of improvisation.
There are five elements that are emerging as key frames for debate:
Finding edges: Unpacking the ways in which structure can liberate
creativity and risk
Body|Space|Content: Convergences in the concepts of musician, dancers and
actors in performance
Image, Sound, Feeling: Documenting improvised performance/Documentation as
improvisation
Listening, seeing and other elements of communicating: audience/performer,
audience/audience, performer/performer interactivity and meaning making;
and
A question of teaching: the improviser as learner
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