@ GEORGE WOOD THEATRE, GOLDSMITHS (DRAMA DEPT.) This is a special event co-hosted by Goldsmiths Digital Studios and the Drama Department FREE, ALL ARE WELCOME Les Noces Project Les Noces Project is inspired by the Stravinsky’s ballet cantata Les Noces. Hopkins and his collaborators, Nijinska (choreography) and Goncharova (Visual design,) imported the rituals of a Russian peasant wedding onto the stage, exposing them to unflinching aesthetic investigation across their collaborative disciplines. The work was conceived using unusual musical forces, such as four electromechanical player-pianos. The work revealed a hitherto consoling cultural ideal to be a violent process of social coercion. TIM HOPKINS is the AHRC Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts Centre for Research in Opera and Music Theatre Department of Music, University of Sussex.
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FUTURE EVENTS: David Littler: Sampler – Culture Clash Date: 6 November 2008 Location: Seminar Rooms, Ben Pimlott Building Time: 18:00 - 20:00 Alexandra Antonopoulou: Once Upon a Time to Ever After AND Dawn Scarfe: Audible Auras Date: 20 November 2008 Location: Seminar Rooms, Ben Pimlott Building Time: 18:00 - 20:00 John Lechte: A Digital Aesthetics: Is it Possible? Date: 4 December 2008 Location: Seminar Rooms, Ben Pimlott Building Time: 18:00 - 20:00 Janis Jefferies in conversation with Liliane Lijn Date: 11 December 2008 Location: Seminar Rooms, Ben Pimlott Building Time: 18:00 - 20:00 For more information check: http://www.thethursdayclub.net THE THURSDAY CLUB IS ORGANISED BY GOLDSMITHS DIGITAL STUDIOS AND SUPPORTED BY GOLDSMITHS GRADUATE SCHOOL AND THE DEPT. OF COMPUTING To find Goldsmiths check http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/find-us/
-- Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka maria x] PhD Art and Computational Technologies Goldsmiths Digital Studios skype: mariax_gr www.cybertheater.org