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ImprovNotes September 2015 Artist of the Month: Jeanine Durning
Jeanine Durning is a dance and performance artist whose new piece, To Being, runs at New York’s Chocolate Factory Theater until September 26th, alongside a remount of its companion work,…
MSAC Becomes the Art Gallery of Guelph
Note to Guelph Jazz Festival goers: one of the festival’s best-loved venues, the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre (MSAC), is closed during this year’s festival while it undergoes major renovations. MSAC…
Think Pieces: Improvisation and Birdman; or, the Unexpected Virtue of Irony
Think pieces is a special project curated by PhD student Mark Kaethler. In this piece, Mark Kaethler delineates the different levels in which improvisation works in the Academy Award-winning filmBirdman:…
AUMI Consortium News: “Do You AUMI?”
August 31 at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the AUMI/EMPAC/ARTs Department seminar, “New Instrumentation for Performance” included Maria Batlle and David Rothenberg. Directed by Pauline Oliveros, in collaboration with EMPAC guest artist Tarek…
Announcing Douglas Ewart, 2015 Improviser-in-Residence
IICSI is pleased to announce thatDouglas Ewart has been named the 2015 Improviser-in-Residence. Catch Douglas at the 2015 Guelph Jazz Festival and Colloquium on September 17th and 19th!
Improv in Newfoundland
Chris Tonelli’s Improvising Spaces series continues to bring participatory improvisation to St. John’s. Early in September, English composer Trevor Wishart came to town to work with local performers. Later in…
Jazz at ISME, Glasgow 2016
The Jazz Special Interest Group (Jazz SIG) within the International Society of Music Education (ISME) invites you to present your jazz related research at the ISME conference in Glasgow, July 24-29,…
CFP: Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation (CSI-ÉCI)
Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation (CSI-ÉCI) invites submissions for a special issue with the theme, “Just Improvisation: Enriching child protection law through musical techniques, discourses, and pedagogies,”…
CFP: What’s In A Name? 2015, London UK
A symposium investigating improvisation across disciplines is being organized by the TransDisciplinary Improvisation Network (TIN), an international research group operating out of the School of Media and Performing Arts, Middlesex…
Just Improvisation: May 2015
Just Improvisation: Enriching Child Protection Law through Musical Techniques, Discourses, and Pedagogies This UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)-sponsored international symposium was held at Queen’s University Belfast in May 2015. It…
