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Jeu, n°172 : Rire : Marie-Hélène Thibault, Didier Lucien, Christian Vanasse, Catherine Léger, Le Projet Bocal, Philippe-Audrey Larrue-St-JacquesLes moments d’euphorie et de franche rigolade, au théâtre, sont aussi importants et marquants que peuvent l’être les passages ardents qui nous tirent les larmes. Trop souvent dépréciée par rapport à un art plus sérieux, la comédie exige pourtant des techniques de jeu d’une grande précision, du rythme et de la surprise, mais aussi des mots et des situations qui peuvent susciter l’hilarité. Toutes sortes d’humour amènent des rires différents de la part du public. De l’art clownesque au théâtre de l’absurde, de la comédie classique au stand up comique, quelles sont les ficelles à tirer pour obtenir l’effet recherché ?
En ouverture de dossier, l’auteur, humoriste et chroniqueur Christian Vanasse réfléchit à l’incontournable question des limites de l’humour : peut-on rire de tout au théâtre ? Deux virtuoses de la drôlerie, Marie-Hélène Thibault et Didier Lucien (superbes modèles de la couverture de ce numéro), se prêtent au jeu du dialogue et partagent leurs réflexions sur leur pratique d’actrice et d’acteur particulièrement doués pour le jeu comique. Notre collaborateur Ralph Elawani décortique le rire en interrogeant théoricien∙nes et praticien∙nes, parmi lesquel∙les figurent Fabien Cloutier et Stéphane Crête. La dramaturge Catherine Léger, pour sa part, signe un plaidoyer en faveur de l’humour subversif et de l’usage controversé de la vulgarité. Le créateur du clown Omer Veilleux, Yves Dagenais, raconte l’histoire fascinante et sans frontière de l’art clownesque. Marie-Christine Lemieux-Couture évoque « le point Deschamps », ce moment où, dans une controverse en humour, on sort inévitablement l’exemple du plus célèbre de nos monologuistes. Quant au journaliste Mario Cloutier, il s’entretient avec les membres du Projet Bocal, Sonia Cordeau, Simon Lacroix et Raphaëlle Lalande, autour de la notion d’absurde. Puis, Philippe-Audrey Larrue-St-Jacques, rare diplômé en théâtre et en humour, évoque son passage heureux de l’un à l’autre. [résumé de l'éditeur]
The other within : the genius of deformity in myth, culture & psycheDaniel Deardorff knows otherness firsthand. This highly regarded “singer” in the old sense of that word—musician, storyteller, maker of ritual—had polio as an infant and has used a wheelchair most of his life, giving him a lived perspective that deeply informs his views on this subject. In The Other Within, Deardorff starts with a radical notion: to disclose the blessings of outsiderhood, the many gifts and insights contributed to culture by the marginalized and outcast. Unlike studies that stress the plight of the outsider, this one asserts that to be cast down and out of the consensus-worldview affords a difficult yet significant opportunity: to encounter oneself, not as defined by society but as one actually is. An eloquent spokesman for “the man or woman on the weird road,” Deardorff presents dozens of powerful examples from myth and literature to illustrate his message in a richly allusive, complex series of essays. Drawing on the work of mythologians, poets, psychologists, and scholars, The Other Within takes readers on an initiatory journey, uncovering the roots of human identity and imagination and offering insights–including “trickster wisdom”—revealing the mythic underpinnings of everyday life. [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]
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]
Un prof heureux peut changer le mondeUn livre événement : le premier manuel de méditation destiné aux enseignants et appliqué au milieu éducatif. Dans une société en perpétuelle mutation, où tout va de plus en plus vite, l'enseignement et l'éducation sont devenus des enjeux cruciaux. Comment transmettre ? Comment aider les nouvelles générations à transformer le monde de demain ?À ces défis colossaux, la pratique de la pleine conscience apporte une réponse à la fois simple et précieuse. Pensé par Thich Nhat Hanh, le grand maître du bouddhisme, et les éducateurs du Village des Pruniers, composé d'exercices de méditation faciles à suivre, de conseils, de propositions d'activités, ce manuel guidera les enseignants dans leur pratique de la pleine conscience, au sein de leur propre vie mais aussi dans leur classe et auprès de leurs élèves.Lumineux et inspirant, cet ouvrage ouvre la voie vers une éducation bienveillante et heureuse, et vers un monde meilleur.
La formation continue pour professeurs en arts du cirque : concevoir, animer et évaluer« Cette publication est née de la volonté de la FEDEC de doter les directeurs d’école et directeurs pédagogiques d’un outil leur permettant de mettre à disposition de leurs professeurs une offre de formation et de développement professionnel en phase avec les évolutions du métier de professeur en école de cirque professionnelle et adaptable à son contexte local, national ou international.
La première partie de ce guide rappelle le contexte et les raisons de sa création. Elle donne par des clés de compréhension des enjeux liés à ce guide et précisera qui sont les principaux destinataires de cet outil. La seconde partie définit les fondements pédagogiques des sessions de formation INTENTS, véritables laboratoires d’expérimentation d’environnements de formation et qui ont vocation à servir de référence pour les formations à venir. La troisième partie, enfin, présente les propositions relatives à la conception, l’animation et l’évaluation des dispositifs de formation. Ces propositions concernent les deux grandes catégories de dispositifs (formations « intra », au sein des écoles d’une part, et formations « inter », regroupant des enseignants d’écoles différentes, à un niveau régional, national ou international d’autre part). » [résumé de l'éditeur]
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]
Circus life : performing and laboring under America's big top shows, 1830-1920The nineteenth century saw the American circus move from a reviled and rejected form of entertainment to the “Greatest Show on Earth.” Circus Life by Micah D. Childress looks at this transition from the perspective of the people who owned and worked in circuses and how they responded to the new incentives that rapid industrialization made possible.
The circus has long been a subject of fascination for many, as evidenced by the millions of Americans that have attended circus performances over many decades since 1870, when the circus established itself as a truly unique entertainment enterprise. Yet the few analyses of the circus that do exist have only examined the circus as its own closed microcosm—the “circus family.” Circus Life, on the other hand, places circus employees in the larger context of the history of US workers and corporate America. Focusing on the circus as a business-entertainment venture, Childress pushes the scholarship on circuses to new depths, examining the performers, managers, and laborers’ lives and how the circus evolved as it grew in popularity over time. Beginning with circuses in the antebellum era, Childress examines changes in circuses as gender balances shifted, industrialization influenced the nature of shows, and customers and crowds became increasingly more middle-class.
As a study in sport and social history, Childress’s account demonstrates how the itinerant nature of the circus drew specific types of workers and performers, and how the circus was internally in constant upheaval due to the changing profile of its patrons and a changing economy. [editor summary]
Craft A secret history of craft told through lost and overlooked texts that illuminate our understanding of current art practice.
“Craft” is a contested concept in art history and a vital category through which to understand contemporary art. Through craft, materials, techniques, and tools are investigated and their histories explored in order to reflect on the politics of labor and on the extraordinary complexity of the made world around us. This anthology offers an ethnography of craft, surveying its shape-shifting identities in the context of progressive art and design through writings by artists and makers as well as poetry, fiction, anthropology, and sociology. It maps a secret history of craft through lost and overlooked texts that consider pedagogy, design, folk art, the factory, and new media in ways that illuminate our understanding of current art practice.
Recently, the idea of craft has been employed strategically: to confront issues of gender or global development, to make a stand against artistic academicism, or to engage with making processes—some distinctly archaic—employed to suggest the abject and the everyday. Craft activism, or craftivism, suggests a new political purpose for the handmade. Deep anxieties drive today's technophilia, and artists, designers, and makers turn such anxieties into a variety of dynamic engagements. The contributors' reflections on new technologies and materials, lost and found worlds of handwork, and the politics of work all throw light on craft as process, product, and ideology. Craft will serve as a vital resource for understanding technologies, materials, techniques, and tools through the lens of craft in contemporary art. [editor summary]
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