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I am a body of landf poetry is a place to question, I Am a Body of Land by Shannon Webb-Campbell is an attempt to explore a relationship to poetic responsibility and accountability, and frame poetry as a form of re-visioning. Here Webb-Campbell revisits the text of her earlier work Who Took My Sister? to examine her self, her place and her own poetic strategies. These poems are efforts to decolonize, unlearn, and undoo harm. Reconsidering individual poems and letters, Webb-Campbell's confessional writing circles back, and challenges what it means to ask questions of her own settler-Indigenous identity, belonging, and attempts to cry out for community, and call in with love. [editor summary]
Créer, c'est exister : comment développer une pratique créative au quotidienDans ce manifeste résolument moderne et optimiste, Valérie Belmokhtar invite chacun à laisser entrer la création dans sa vie.
Que ce soit pour en faire une pratique professionnelle, pour s'y consacrer plusieurs heures par jour, ou bien pour lui donner une petite place dans sa vie, la création est une rencontre avec soi-même. Elle permet de sortir de « l'avoir » pour entrer dans « l'être », elle nous fait grandir et nous amène à plus de partage avec les autres. Un programme réjouissant et libérateur !
À partir de son expérience d'artiste et d'enseignante, l'auteure guide son lecteur sur les chemins de la création. Depuis la question de l'inspiration et de la confiance en soi jusqu'aux problématiques matérielles (installation d'un atelier, facturation de son travail...), en passant par les différentes méthodes créatives, Valérie Belmokhtar nous accompagne pas à pas tout au long de ce passionnant voyage. [résumé de l'éditeur]
S'appuyer, s'aligner : à la recherche de l'équilibre : sensations, contructions et inventions dans les disciplines du main à main, des équilibres sur les mains et du fil : manuel pédagogique« C’est à partir de constats de terrain et de problématiques pédagogiques concrètes que sont proposés plusieurs textes pour approfondir, expliciter ou questionner les notions liées à l’équilibre, tout en donnant la parole à celles et ceux qui ont animé ou participé à la formation. Si cet ouvrage n'a pas vocation à décrire les exercices mis en jeu aux cours de ces temps de pratique, leur observation a permis de tirer des fils et de proposer différents outils transférables aux pratiques pédagogiques de chacun. Les deux grandes parties du manuel sont : la construction de l'équilibre et le développement d'une relation à l'équilibre. Plus que des méthodes qui imposeraient des règles ou des protocoles, ces approches sensibles permettent, un moment donné, de formaliser les pratiques et de les transmettre. Pour autant, elles vont bien au-delà de la parole et de l’écrit et ne trouvent leur pleine réalisation que dans la mise en jeu du corps. »
Le manuel permet de formaliser les pratiques des professionnels d’aujourd’hui et de les transmettre. Les propositions sont transférables d’un agrès à l’autre et d’une pratique à l’autre et permettent d’amorcer une réflexion transversale sur les compétences en équilibre. [résumé de l'éditeur]
Thinking Through CircusThinking Through Circus gathers ten dialogues with and between circus artists. Each entry bears witness to how a specific circus practice is (also) a practice of critical thinking, revealing how feminism, queerness, dramaturgy, love, disobedience, posthumanism and the aesthetico-political imaginary are rethought in and through contemporary circus practice.
With this book, The Circus Dialogues wants to tend to the embodied relationships between contemporary circus and today’s world, defending circus as a field in which experimental thinking is already happening and can continue to happen. Doing so, we hope to contribute to a more sustainable circus, expanding both accountability and agency within our field.
The Circus Dialogues is a two-year artistic research project at KASK School of Arts Ghent (BE) led by Bauke Lievens (BE), Quintijn Ketels (BE), Sebastian Kann (US/DE) and accompanied by Vincent Focquet (BE). Our work delves into and makes space for encounters between theory and artistic circus practice. The Circus Dialogues aims to shine a light on the circus as a field in which experimental thinking is already happening, and we work to ensure the ongoingness of such thinking in an artistic and institutional ecology that’s long-term sustainable. We do this first and foremost through our diverse artistic practices. In parallel, we organize reading groups and collaborative gatherings for circus artists. We have also published several Open Letters to the Circus. Our activities are conceived with the intention of helping to imagine the circus field as both important and political. Most importantly, we defend circus as an open and undefinable form. [editor summary]
Continuing training for circus arts teachers : planning, facilitating and evaluating"This publication was born out of the FEDEC's desire to equip school directors and pedagogical directors with a tool enabling them to provide their teachers an offer of training and professional development in line with the evolutions of the profession of circus arts teacher in a professional circus school and adaptable to its local, national or international context.
The first part of this guide recalls the context and the reasons for its creation: it gives keys of understanding the stakes related to this guide and specify who the main recipients of this tool are. The second part defines the educational foundations of the INTENTS training sessions, which are real experiments of training environments. They are designed to serve as reference for the training courses to come. Finally, the third part introduces the proposals regarding the planning, the facilitating and evaluation of training schemes. These proposals deal with the two main categories of training set up ("intra" formations, within schools, on the one hand, and "inter" formations, bringing together teachers from different schools, on a regional, national or international level, on the other hand)." [editor summary]
Support and alignment : in search of balance : sensation, development and creation in equilibristrics : pedagogical guide"It is on the basis of field observations and concrete pedagogical issues that several texts are suggested to deepen, explain or question the notions linked with balance, while giving the floor to those who have animated or participated in the training. While this book is not meant to describe the exercises involved in these practice times, their observation has made it possible to draw threads and to propose different tools that can be transferred to the pedagogical practices of each one. The two main parts of the manual are: building balance and developing a connection with balance. More than methods that impose rules or protocols, these sensitive approaches allow, at a given moment, to formalise the practices and to spread them. For all that, they go far beyond speech and writing and find their full realisation only when the body is in motion. "
The manual makes it possible to formalise the practices of the professionals of today and to disseminate them. The proposals are transferable from one apparatus to another and from one practice to another and allow to start a transversal reflection on aerial skills or, more generally, on the way in which the circus arts are constantly facing, the stakes and difficulties of vertical work, weight and gravity. [editor summary]
Contemporary circusIn this volume, twenty-four creators come together with three scholars to discuss Contemporary Circus, bridging the divide between practice and theory.
Lavers, Leroux, and Burtt offer conversations across four key themes: Apparatus, Politics, Performers, and New Work. Extensively illustrated with fifty photos of Contemporary Circus productions, and extensively annotated, Contemporary Circus thematically groups and contextualises extracts of conversations to provide a sophisticated and wide-ranging study supported by critical theory.
Of interest to both practitioners and scholars, Contemporary Circus uses the lens of ‘contestation,’ or calling things into question, to provide a portal into ways of seeing today’s circus performance.
Conversations with: Lachlan Binns and Jascha Boyce (Gravity and Other Myths), Tilde Björfors (Cirkus Cirkör), Kim ‘Busty Beatz’ Bowers (Hot Brown Honey), Shana Carroll (The 7 Fingers), David Clarkson (Stalker), Philippe Decouflé (Compagnie DCA), Fez Faanana (Briefs), Mike Finch (Circus Oz), Daniele Finzi Pasca (Compagnia Finzi Pasca), Sean Gandini (Gandini Juggling), Firenza Guidi (ElanFrantoio, NoFit State Circus), Jo Lancaster and Simon Yates (Acrobat), Johann Le Guillerm (Cirque Ici), Yaron Lifschitz (Circa), Chelsea McGuffin (Company 2), Phia Ménard (Compagnie Non Nova), Jennifer Miller (Circus Amok), Adrien Mondot (Compagnie Adrien M and Claire B), Charlotte Mooney and Tina Koch (Ockham’s Razor), Philippe Petit (high wire artist), and Elizabeth Streb (STREB EXTREME ACTION). [editor summary]
Making spaces safer : a guide to giving harassment the boot wherever you work, play, and gatherShawna Potter, singer for the band War On Women, has tackled sexism and harassment in lyrics and on stage for years. Taking the battle to music venues themselves, she has trained night clubs and community spaces in how to create safer environments for marginalized people. Now she’s turned decades of experience into a clear and concise guide for public spaces of all sorts, from art galleries to bagel shops to concert halls, that want to shut down harassers wherever they show up. The steps she outlines are realistic, practical, and actionable. With the addition of personal stories, case studies, sample policies, and no-nonsense advice like “How to Flirt without Being a Creep,” she shows why safer spaces are important, while making it easier to achieve them. Eschewing theory, she assumes the reader is already an ethical creature and jumps right in with candor, punk passion, and righteous anger to get the job done! [editor summary]
Arts du cirque à l'école maternelle : avec Touminus la puceLes arts du cirque, dans les programmes de l’école, relèvent à la fois des activités physiqueset des activités artistiques. Les unités d’apprentissage présentées s’organisent autour des trois activités accessibles: jonglage, acrobatie, équilibre. Elles permettent de développer aussi bien les habiletés motrices (aller vers l’exploit : la difficulté, la maîtrise, la performance) que le jeu d’acteur (introduire un effet esthétique pour toucherle spectateur, le faire rêver, ou produire un effet comique pour le faire rire).
Le conte, dans lequel l’héroïne, Touminus la puce, s’initie avec l’aide de ses amis à la pratique des activités circassiennes, sert de support aux apprentissages, les enfants pouvant aisément s’identifier aux personnages de l’histoire et s’approprier leurs actions et leurs rôles respectifs.
Avec ce nouvel opus de l’équipe EPS des Bouches-du-Rhône, vous avez les clefs pour réussir vos séances d’arts du cirque en maternelle. [résumé de l'éditeur]
The art of collectivity : social circus and the cultural politics of a post-neoliberal visionAmidst epidemics of youth alienation and cultural polarization, community-based artistic practices are sprouting up around the world as antidotes to policies of austerity and social exclusion. Rejecting the radical individualism of the neoliberal era, many artistic projects promote collectivity and togetherness in navigating challenges and constructing shared futures.
The Art of Collectivity is about how one such creative social program deployed this approach in service of a post-neoliberal vision. Focusing on a national social circus initiative launched by a newly elected Ecuadorean government to help actualize its “citizens' revolution,” the book explores the intersection between global cultural politics, participatory arts, collective health, and social transformation. The authors include scholars and practitioners of community arts, humanities, social sciences, and health sciences from the Global North and Global South. Sensitive to hierarchical binaries such as research/practice, north/south, and art/science, they work together to provide a multifaceted analysis of the way cultural politics shape policy, pedagogy, and aesthetic sensibilities, as well as their socio-cultural and health-related effects.
The largest study of social circus to date, combining detailed quantitative, qualitative, and arts-based research, The Art of Collectivity is a timely contribution to the study of cultural policies, critical pedagogies, collective art-making, and community development. [editor summary]
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