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.
Students
PHD / MASTERS / UNDERGRADUATE
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ALE JIMENEZ |
mise-en-corps/puesta en cuerpo: an embodied (an)archiving
This act of transference explores the bonds of the body, the archive and the transmission of knowledge. It inquiries the theory imbricated in practice through a doing-feeling-thinking flux where the public sphere is relevant to the embodied experience.
Emily Gan
KELLY KEENAN | Dancing with Metaphoric Anatomies
In movement and dance training the models we use to understand our bodies become the foundations of practice profoundly shaping how we think, move with and imagine what a body can do.
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DANA DUGAN | Circus Body
Circus body as a site for cultivating productive tensions and dialogues through the concept and practice of critical subjective disobedience.
Dominique Bouchard
EMILIE MORIN |
Skype as a performative platform
Dance, performativity, screens, Skype, domestic technologies, arepresentational, intimacy, layers/filters, voice, singularities.
Olivier Perriquet
DANIELLE GARRISON | Ethered and Tethered: a liminal space
Locating the body suspended between physical and virtual “materialities”: An aerial-hammock installation to imprint, transform, relocate, translate, and re-present movement responses between human and (in)human bodies; producing a geo/local and multitemporal tactility collection of synthetic touches.
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LUKE SHIROCK | Resonance Machines
Sound Studies, Affect, Relational Art, Voice, Production of Subjectivity, Gender
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OLIVIA MCGILCHRIST | Feminist and Post-colonial Virtual Reality
Multimedia artist and educator, engaged in questions about the representation of identity in embodied virtual space. My research-creation doctoral work investigates how VR may trouble how we portray and perform the many versions of ourselves and others, both near and far.
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PAULE GILBERT
Corporeality in relation to space and time, materiality, cycle, thresholds, systems, mapping.
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SHEENA BERNETT | Neurodiverse performance and perception, exploring transmodality
Research-creation doctoral work that investigates alternative and experimental approaches to creation and performance practices, with the performing arts as a site and language to facilitate neurodiverse thinking and communication.
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QUINLAN GREEN | Performance-Space-Text
Engaging with avant-guard theatre-making techniques and critical race theory, using space-specific text, authentic movement, and various forms of live-art/poetry, to research the semiotics of performance. The aim is towards pragmatic representations of identity politics, via a personal subjectivity which intersects with Black and queer lenses.
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ALLISON PEACOCK |Expanded Practice and Theories of Nature
Using modes of choreographic practice and dance methodologies to critically engage with local spaces such as urban gardens, forests, and corporate gardens, as well as the corresponding maintenance practices.
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CHÉLANIE BEAUDIN-QUINTIN | Embodied techno-animism
An investigation in our increasing cohabitation with artificial agents and more precisely our animist behaviours towards those agents and the transformation of corporeality in human-machine relationships, through dance and film.
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CHRISTINE CRICRI BELLEROSE | I Dance Land
An Autotheory/Autoethnography of Multiple Somatic Dimensions Experienced in Eco-Performance: Reactivating Somatic Connection to the Land .
Henry Chan
HOLLY TIMPENER |
Queer Epicenter Transformations
I am investigating internal transformations in durational performance art and its relationship to non-binary and transgender identities. I believe it is within the embodiment of affectual transformation that queer resistance is created through performative action.
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JUANITA MARCHAND | Vocal Timbre and Perception
What assumptions do we make about people based on their voices? Through historically informed exploration of vocal production, scientific research about timbre perception, new music creation, and creative experimentation we can make space for trans, BIPOC, and disabled folx in classical singing.
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JOE THIBODEAU | Selfhood and Sensation
I research the sense-of-self as a medium for understanding our connections with nonhumans and the environment.
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NIK FORREST | From Experimental to Ecological
Sound as an ecological medium defies normative boundaries between self/ other/ environment as well as oppositional binary categories (inside/outside, natural /unnatural): it suits the social challenges of our current moment, including questions of gender + sexuality.
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MAX HUNTER | Queer Performance Undone
Reimagining the idea of (un)gendered bodies in spaces through multidisciplinary performance.
Instagram: @annagramqueerlesque
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SHUNTARO YOSHIDA | Entanglement of Ecology & Performance
In my research, I demonstrate how the recent increase in awareness of environmental issues has expanded the framework for considering areas of dance participation between humans and non-humans.
VICTORIA STANTON| Modelling Rest, Cuing Recovery
Performance Art; Pedagogy; Rest; Relational Aesthetics; Participation; Dialogic Practice; Deep Hangouts; Slow Movements; Infiltrating Non-Actions; Doing Nothing; Micro-Event; Liminal Space; Socially Engaged Art; Art-Life; Un-Artist
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APRIL MARY LYNN WHITE | Noodle
A comic self portrait coming to life, from one dimensional to three dimensional. Exploring the awkwardness, tensions, and uncertainties of being in the world.
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christian scott | Play-based Urbanism
My research-creation practice and research encompasses cities, people, place, play, and participatory design. i explore ways in which play and playful design make cities more inclusive, accessible, just, and resilient.
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EIJA LOPONEN-STEPHENSON | Metro/education Revitalization
Considering Montreal’s Underground as an Epistemic Site. Investigating the relationship between human movement and urban architectural infrastructure through practice/performance-based artistic enquiry and experimental pedagogy.
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HUBERT GENDRON-BLAIS | Résonances manifestes: Music, affects & politics
A sound study on how ambient sounds can participate to the consistence of the affective communities, and how some music processes can orient the experimentation of new ways to gather in the event.
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KASEY POCIUS
Gender, environmentalism, space and improvisation through multichannel installation audio/video works & mixed media live performances: as a soloist and a prominent member of the Concordia Laptop Orchestra
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MICHAEL WATTS | The Immersed Body
Looking at design and creation of movement through visual/digital art, + the admiration of the physical body in its performative state to decontextualize the original
form + flirt with masculine identity narratives. Inspired by contemporary dance, circus, bodybuilding, and wrestling.
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PETER FARBRIDGE | Theatre Generator of Culturally-Safe Spaces
An examination of the intercultural approach of the Modern Times Stage Company. Theatre, inclusion, ethnocultural, pluralism, interculturalism, citizenship.
Kaitlyn Ramsden
SARA HANLEY |
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Contemporary dance / anthropology / sensorium / liminality
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TRICIA ENNS | Narratives of Saint-Laurent Metro Station
A Slow Materialized Discovery of the Saint Laurent Metro Station: embodiment, walking, narratives, materiality, intimacy, slow, participatory, audiowalk, playful, papermaking, mapping
Eva Robayo
XDZUNÚM DANAE TREJO-BOLES | the rod | la vara
A series of variations (physical explorations) between the human body and the rod; rods as measures of space, extensions of the body, weaponry, points of balance, paddles, propulsors, writing tools, etc., but also in the transformations they create in individual(s). What effect do external elements have on our physical and cognitive patterns?