ABOUT US
We are a community of interdisciplinary performance practitioners made up of faculty, students, artists and affiliate researchers united by the desire to collaborate.
Our research-creation areas include participatory performance, collaborative creation, sound and music, oral history performance, intermedia performance, technologies, dramaturgy, contemporary circus, amongst many more.
OUR MISSION
Interdisciplinary Hub - Performance Practices - Collaborative encounters
The Performing Arts Research Cluster (LePARC) is a community of researchers within the MILIEUX Institute for Arts Culture and Technology at Concordia University, with a mission to investigate performance practices by facilitating collaborative encounters through interdisciplinary hub.
LePARC artist-researchers study the positive transformative impacts of performance practices on individuals and societies, and develop creative theories, methods, technologies, perceptual strategies that strengthen these impacts.
The core of our members’ work is to question and advance their creative practice through collaborative encounters and interdisciplinary conversations. Faculty, students, and an international network of artists and scholars, expand the creation, presentation, and articulation of encounters between performers and audiences.
ABOUT US
We are a community of interdisciplinary performance practitioners made up of faculty, students, artists and affiliate researchers united by the desire to collaborate.
Our research-creation areas include participatory performance, collaborative creation, sound and music, oral history performance, intermedia performance, technologies, dramaturgy, contemporary circus, amongst many more.
OUR MISSION
Interdisciplinary Hub - Performance Practices - Collaborative encounters
The Performing Arts Research Cluster (LePARC) is a community of researchers within the MILIEUX Institute for Arts Culture and Technology at Concordia University, with a mission to investigate performance practices by facilitating collaborative encounters through interdisciplinary hub.
LePARC artist-researchers study the positive transformative impacts of performance practices on individuals and societies, and develop creative theories, methods, technologies, perceptual strategies that strengthen these impacts.
The core of our members’ work is to question and advance their creative practice through collaborative encounters and interdisciplinary conversations. Faculty, students, and an international network of artists and scholars, expand the creation, presentation, and articulation of encounters between performers and audiences.
ABOUT US
We are a community of interdisciplinary performance practitioners made up of faculty, students, artists and affiliate researchers united by the desire to collaborate.
Our research-creation areas include participatory performance, collaborative creation, sound and music, oral history performance, intermedia performance, technologies, dramaturgy, contemporary circus, amongst many more.
OUR MISSION
Interdisciplinary Hub - Performance Practices - Collaborative encounters
The Performing Arts Research Cluster (LePARC) is a community of researchers within the MILIEUX Institute for Arts Culture and Technology at Concordia University, with a mission to investigate performance practices by facilitating collaborative encounters through interdisciplinary hub.
LePARC artist-researchers study the positive transformative impacts of performance practices on individuals and societies, and develop creative theories, methods, technologies, perceptual strategies that strengthen these impacts.
The core of our members’ work is to question and advance their creative practice through collaborative encounters and interdisciplinary conversations. Faculty, students, and an international network of artists and scholars, expand the creation, presentation, and articulation of encounters between performers and audiences.
Events Calendar
CURRENT ACTIVITIES
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April 25, 2023, 7-10pm
Workshop: Using Blender to Create Virtual Sets
Interested in 3D modeling to create virtual sets? Join Ryan Clayton for an introductory online workshop. Participants will be introduced to Blender, a free and open source 3D modelling and rendering software.
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March 23 & 24, 2023, 1-4pm
VHS Project Open Studio with Juan Miceli
80 VHS cassettes that VCR Concordia gave Juan are the basis of a temporary collective video installation. Come open those cassettes, share personal archives, discuss how vision machines mold us & find antidotes together.
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April 27 & 28, 2023
Movement and Dance Workshop
You are invited to explore how watching the 'The Spectre Animates our Bones' animation translates into your own body, its movements and its physical states. Participants of all levels are welcome to one or both days..
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April 24, 2023, 5-7pm
Tour & Discussion: The Spectre Animates our Bone
Emilie Morin (in person) and Ryan Clayton (streaming live from Winnipeg!) invite you on a gallery tour and informal discussion of their process and interests in creating The Spectre Animates our Bones.
PAST ACTIVITIES
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March 8, 2023, 4:30-6:30pm
Nothing with Victoria
What happens in the space/time that fills this “gap”? Is this another opportunity for/adventure in another kind of “doing nothing”?
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February 23, 5-7pm
there is space to flow
‘there is space to…’ is a series for performative encounters initiated by Adriana Minu. Practitioners from all disciplines are invited to improvise together under permeable frameworks.
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January 20, 2023, 2-3:30pm
A Walk in LePRC with Bek Berger
Berger is an Australian curator, artist and creative producer based in Riga, Latvia. Join us to talk about interdisciplinary concerns in creative process and professional practices!
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October 25, 12-14h
LePARC Lunch #2
A gathering moment to celebrate your arrival or return, share ideas, questions and what we are up to. Bring your lunch, come when you can and stay as long as you like.
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Feb 16, 2022 - 12-13h
EI 2022: Let's bodystorm some interventions!
Learn about EI 2022 in connection with Milieux's year-end showcase, propose ideas and brainstorm together about what it could look like.
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December 2 2022, 1-2pm
First Performance Jam!
Video Production Studio: EV 10.760
Do you dance, perform, make music, sound, plays, costumes, scenography, experiments? You are invited to meet in the space through improvisation. All disciplines are welcome.
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September 27, 12-14h
LePARC Lunch #1 - Welcome!
A gathering moment to celebrate your arrival or return, share ideas, questions and what we are up to. Bring your lunch, come when you can and stay as long as you like.
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March 6, 2023, 6-8:30pm
Silly Sexy Awkward Dance Party #3 with Tornado Trish
Cheesy aerobics meets dance music, mood lighting, and optional biodegradable glitter all to help you get into your best wiggly, giggly, lunging and prancing self. All are welcome!
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December 2 2022, 1-2pm
there is space to fall
‘there is space to…’ is a new series for performative encounters initiated by Adriana Minu. Practitioners from all disciplines are invited to improvise together under permeable frameworks.
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November 29 12-14h
LePARC Lunch #3
A gathering moment to celebrate your arrival or return, share ideas, questions and what we are up to. Bring your lunch, come when you can and stay as long as you like.
Walks in LePARC
LePARC hosts researchers and artists to give workshops, performances, presentations, and other forms of shared inquiry, open to all members and the public.
Winter 2020
Public Recordings
January 10 2020, 13h-15h
Milieux Resource Room EV.11.705
Skeleton Conductor with Hanna Pajala-Assefa VR Workshop/Experience
February 10-22, 2020
Misha Penton: Voice and Performance Devising
Workshop
March 10-12, 2020, 14h-16h
matrabox, EV 4.502
Embodied
Interventions
Embodied Interventions is a week-long performative platform for the research-creation projects of LePARC’s student membership that culminates in a weekend of presentations, performances, discussions, workshops.
Spring 2020
Creation: May 4th – 8th, 2020 - REORIENTED
Presentation: May 9th – 10th 2020 (2-7pm) - CANCELLED
ChampdAction.
LabO
A laboratory for young creators, by Antwerp based-production platform for new music and interdisciplinary arts within the deSingel's International Summer School, for interaction between the various arts disciplines: dance, music, fine arts and others.
Summer 2020
August 24th-30th 2020
Online