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mwoisnitza on Feb 09 2010 | Filed under: Uncategorized
WORKSHOP Monday, Feb 15
mwoisnitza on Feb 08 2010 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Dear Friends,
Our next workshop will be on Monday, February 15 in Wieboldt 206, 3-5p. We will discuss a dissertation chapter, “Smooth Experience/Rough Experience: Coming Undone at Electronic Dance Music Events in Paris, Berlin, and Chicago,” from Luis-Manuel Garcia, a PhD candidate in Ethnomusicology, Department of Music here at the University of Chicago.
More information about the workshop:
Luis’ paper focuses on fieldwork done in the “techno” / “minimal” dance music scenes in Paris, Berlin, and Chicago, where partygoers often describe an ideal “night out” in dualistic terms, articulating a desire both for smooth, effortless social interaction and intense, jarring rupture. This smooth/rough dialectic produces a sort of “Coming Undone Lite©,” which sustains the hope that one can come together differently at the end of the night. The paper engages with and diverges from the extant literature on intense experience, including concepts of /jouissance/, limit-experience, and even everyday, ordinary affect.
Luis-Manuel Garcia (PhD candidate in Ethnomusicology, Department of Music) has conducted focused fieldwork in the “minimal techno” scenes of Chicago, Paris, and Berlin. His dissertation project focuses on intimacy in crowds: the emergence of a sense of intimacy between strangers/acquaintances on the dancefloors of Electronic Dance Music (i.e., “techno,” “house,” etc.) events, as well as the role of music and affect in sustaining this feeling.
Protected: Download paper for Feb 1 workshop
Majel Connery on Jan 28 2010 | Filed under: Uncategorized
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Majel Connery on Jan 19 2010 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Welcome to winter quarter!
Majel Connery on Jan 11 2010 | Filed under: Uncategorized, lit crit, performativity, voice
Because, as we know, winter quarter is the favorite quarter of all good University of Chicago graduates…
Please join us on Monday, January 3-5p in Wieboldt 206 for our first workshop of the winter term.
Barbara Straumann presents her book proposal for:
“A Voice of Her Own? Female Performers in Narrative Fiction.”
The proposal & a password for downloading it will be available next Monday.
Don’t have a password? Not on our list? Wha?! Just email us: tapsworkshop.uofc@gmail.com!
In this workshop session Dr. Straumann will discuss a work-in-progress, a book project in which she explores issues raised by the appearance of female performer figures – actresses, singers, preachers and speakers – in British and American narrative fiction, c.1850-1930. The striking abundance of female performers in the literary production of the time bespeaks a paradoxical fascination with the feminine voice performing in public. By stressing this largely neglected, yet culturally resonant tradition of public articulation, the project partly seeks to revise the conjunction of femininity, death, silence and hysteria often emphasized in gender studies. At the same time, the present project is conceived as a discussion of theoretical questions pertaining to voice. In the recent debate of the so-called “performative turn,” as Straumann argues, issues of voice have received remarkable critical attention in philosophy, theatre and media studies. They are, however, only rarely discussed in the field of literature. Straumann seeks to counter this lacuna by conceptualizing voice as a fruitful category for the analysis of narrative texts. Given that there can be no concrete voice in narrative fiction, what are the aesthetic means that produce what might be called “voice effects”? How do narrative texts evoke virtually what escapes them medially?
Dr. Barbara Straumann teaches at the English Department of the University of Zurich and is spending the academic year 2009/2010 as a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago and as a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies in the School of Advanced at the University of London. Her research interests include literary and cultural theory, psychoanalysis, gender, film and visuality. She is the co-author of Die Diva: Eine Geschichte der Bewunderung (Schirmer/Mosel, 2002) and the author of Figurations of Exile in Hitchcock and Nabokov (Edinburgh UP, 2008) as well as a number of articles on masculinity, celebrity culture, Germaine de Staël, Henry James, Willa Cather and Isak Dinesen. She is currently working on a monograph on female performer voices in British and American nineteenth and twentieth-century narrative fiction and another book project tracing the cultural afterlife of Queen Elizabeth I.
Really the last workshop of the autumn quarter …
Majel Connery on Dec 04 2009 | Filed under: camp, drag, vampires
Due to a last-minute cancelation, the workshop on Irma Vep with Court Theater dramaturg, Drew Dir, will happen next Tuesday, December 8 in Wieboldt 206, 3-5p. If you haven’t seen Irma Vep, go for it! Get tickets at Court.
Don’t believe us? Read what the Tribune had to say! Or The Sun Times. Or Time Out Chicago.
Tuesday, December 8
Wieboldt 206
3-5p
Last workshop of the Autumn quarter
Majel Connery on Nov 24 2009 | Filed under: camp, satire, vampires
Join us Monday of next week for the final Theater & Performance Studies workshop of the fall quarter. We’ll discuss the Court Theater’s current production of The Mystery of Irma Vep with dramaturg, Drew Dir.
Monday, November 30
Wieboldt 206, 3-5p
Director, Sean Graney (founder of The Hypocrites) takes on the eccentric playwright and actor Charles Ludlam’s satirical cult classic, originally performed in 1984’s Greenwich Village. The campy spoof of the Victorian era gothic novel is a commentary of sorts, parodying literary references from William Shakespeare, Henrik Ibsen, Emily Bronte, Edgar Allan Poe, Euripides and the Bible, to name a few (without being too literarily obscure, but more Monty Pythonesque).
The Trib calls Irma Vep a “gothic spoof: read the review.
Final workshop of November on the horizon
Majel Connery on Nov 10 2009 | Filed under: Race, performativity
Thanks to all who came to Fulton Hall yesterday for a performance by IMPROMPTU, and for the lively discussion that ensued!
Join us Monday, November 23 back in Wieboldt 206 for a discussion of Tracy Davis’s “Acting Black, 1824.” Professor Davis’s paper will soon be available on our website via password. (Members of the workshop will receive an email with the password — to get on the list, email us: tapsworkshop.uofc@gmail.com).
See you then!
November 9 performance & workshop
Majel Connery on Nov 03 2009 | Filed under: Mask, Opera, commedia dell'arte, pantomime
Thanks so all who attended yesterday’s lively discussion of Redmoon theater’s “Hunchback” with director Leslie Buxbaum-Danzig and writer Mickle Maher!
Join us next Monday, November 9 at our canonical time, 3-5p. We’ll be meeting next week in Fulton Hall for a live performance by University of Chicago ensemble, IMPROMPTU. Discussion to follow with music director Roger Moseley, and stage director Majel Connery.
In 1783, W. A. Mozart composed the music and plot for a commedia dell’arte pantomime intended for Vienna’s upcoming carnival season (in which he himself was to play Harlequin). Although written for string quartet, only the first violin part and the sketchiest outline of his scenario survive. The performance on Monday showcases Moseley’s work reconstructing the fragmentary violin part for performance with newly-devised scenario by Connery.
Monday, November 9, 3-5p
Fulton Hall (fourth floor of Goodspeed Hall, a.k.a the Music Department)
5845 South Ellis