Performances
Type
PERFORMANCE: Hearing-Visions-Sonores Launch
Jesse Stewart, Joe Sorbara, and Germaine Liu perform a structured improvisation using only percussive instruments.
PERFORMANCE: Ah Raza! The Making of an American Artist
A video recording of a multimedia performative ethnography. Ah Raza! The Making of an American Artist.
KidsAbility 2008 Workshop Profile
A profile of a collaborative outreach project conducted throughout the summer of 2008 for youth with disabilities involving ICASP, KidsAbility, and the Guelph Jazz Festival.
Oral Histories: George Elliott Clarke
George Elliott Clarke is one of Canada’s most prolific poets. He is also a renowned essayist, scholar, playwright, and, in many ways, a songwriter. His work largely explores and chronicles the experience and history of the black Canadian community of Nova Scotia, creating a cultural geography that Clarke refers to as “Africadia.” Clarke was born in Windsor, Nova Scotia in 1960, near the Black Loyalist community of Three Mile Plains, as a seventh-generation Canadian of African American and Mi’Kmaq Amerindian heritage.
Oral Histories: d’bi.young anitafrika
d’bi.young anitafrika is a Jamaican-Canadian dub poet, monodramatist, educator, and Dora Award-winning actor and playwright. In this month’s Oral History we are gifted with an on stage interview with d’bi.young, and we get to witness the power of dub poetry in action by one of Canada’s most renowned dub poets.
Campus Friends – “Comp Komp” (Audio Recording)
This soundpiece features the voices and sounds of Campus Friends students who participated in the inaugural Sounds Like Us workshops held at the Improv Lab from February-April 2024.
Thinking Spaces 2022: Aruna Antonella Handa
This Thinking Spaces session, “Untitled or how free is free anyway? Unpacking the ceteris paribus clauses in free improvisation,” with guest Aruna Antonella Handa, took place on March 25, 2022.…
4 Cities of Love: Singing in the Language of Others
This collaborative performance video was completed by Reza Yazdanpanah under Dr. Ajay Heble’s supervision in April 2021. In this video, 5 musicians with different first languages sing in the languages…
In Virtual Rectangles
In Virtual Rectangles” a recording of a non-scripted live performance by IICSI Researchers Paul Watkins and Leila Qashu, and Critical Studies in Improvisation grad students Shaghayegh Yassemi and Erwan Noblet (2021).
Workshop performance, In Other Spaces: Improvising Interventions (GJFC 2013)
The workshop performance, In Other Spaces: Improvising Interventions (USA / Brazil / Quebec / Ontario), was part of the 2013 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium.
