22 March 2017: Research Seminar on Performance, Intimacy and Emotion

Ruth Way & Russell Frampton, 'Blind Torrent' (2012)

Please join us for the next PEP Talk, the seminar series of the Performance.Experience.Presence research group at Plymouth University. All welcome.  Papers by Ruth Way and Eugenia Stamboliev Wednesday 22 March 2017, 4.30 – 6.00pm Roland Levinsky Building, room 308 “Clearing A Path: Somatic transformations in the Opening of Hearts and Spaces, Dances of Self-Agency and Empathic Response” Ruth… Continue reading 22 March 2017: Research Seminar on Performance, Intimacy and Emotion

Plymouth University Computer Music PhD candidate wins French award

Pierre-Emmanuel Largeron, a PhD candidate at the University of Plymouth, has been chosen to receive one of seven Trophées des Français de l’etranger 2017, which celebrate the achievements of French expatriates and francophones around the world. Organised by lepetitjournal.com, in partnership with national government, business and media, the awards on Tuesday 7 March were attended… Continue reading Plymouth University Computer Music PhD candidate wins French award

Keynote by Phil Smith at Supernatural Cities conference

Dr Phil Smith, Reader in Theatre & Performance at the University of Plymouth, is presenting a keynote lecture at the Supernatural Cities II: Gothic Cities conference in Limerick, Ireland, in April 2017. This conference offers  interdisciplinary conversations and activities for artists, folklorists, historians, geographers, literary, theatre and film scholars that explore urban Gothic and supernatural contexts.… Continue reading Keynote by Phil Smith at Supernatural Cities conference

1 March 2017: Performance and Moving Image Artistic Research Seminar

1 March 2017, 4.30 – 6 pm in Scott Building room 102, University of Plymouth You are welcome to join us for this jointly presented seminar by Moving Image Arts (MIA), the Artistic Research Cluster (ARC) and Performance.Experience.Presence (P.E.P) research group at the University of Plymouth. The two speakers are Karen Abadie and Beth Emily… Continue reading 1 March 2017: Performance and Moving Image Artistic Research Seminar

Plymouth PhD researcher awarded Composer Residency with British Paraorchestra

Amble Skuse

Amble Skuse, who is a PhD candidate at Plymouth University, has been selected for a prestigious composition residency with The British Paraorchestra. The British Paraorchestra is the world’s first, large-scale professional ensemble for musicians with disabilities. Just as the Paralympics have achieved so effectively in sport, the British Paraorchestra has shifted perceptions of disability and disabled people by… Continue reading Plymouth PhD researcher awarded Composer Residency with British Paraorchestra

8 February 2017: Artistic research seminar by Natalie Raven

Natalie Raven, La Sainte Trinité (2016)

la sainte trinité: unveiled by Natalie Raven A research seminar presented jointly by the Artistic Research Cluster (ARC) and Performance.Experience.Presence (PEP) research groups, Plymouth University Wednesday, 8 February 2017 4.30pm > 6.00pm Roland Levinsky Building, Studio RLB 308, Plymouth University   This presentation will chart the development of Natalie Raven‘s practice research over the past 6 months, unravelling the variety… Continue reading 8 February 2017: Artistic research seminar by Natalie Raven

25 January 2017: Seminar on Performance, Anthropology & Martial Arts

By Shi Deru (a.k.a. Shawn Xiangyang Liu), CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=45725217

Please join us for the first PEP Talk of 2017 the seminar series of the Performance.Experience.Presence research group at Plymouth University:  The Anthropology of Performance in Martial Arts Studies Presented by Dr D.S. Farrer  Wednesday, 25th January 2017, 4.30 – 6.00pm in Roland Levinsky Building room RLB306, Plymouth University  The development of a new academic field… Continue reading 25 January 2017: Seminar on Performance, Anthropology & Martial Arts

Plymouth LGBT dance film exhibited in Venice until 16 January 2017

Adam Whiting in Heaven is a Place (2014)

A film made by Plymouth University practitioner-researchers, Kayla Parker, Roberta Mock and Ruth Way, is currently screening for a month as part of the Out of Borders Venice International Experimental Art Festival. Heaven is a Place is a community dance film made in collaboration with the advocacy organisation, Pride in Plymouth. It was part of an EU-funded cultural project… Continue reading Plymouth LGBT dance film exhibited in Venice until 16 January 2017

Feature: “Between Us: Audiences, Affect and the In-Between”

BY LEE MILLER AND JOANNE ‘BOB’ WHALLEY  How do you write about writing in a way that is engaging, resists becoming a self-regarding meta-commentary, and makes people want to read your other work without looking like an advert? It’s quite a tall-order, but that’s what we hope to do over the next few paragraphs. In… Continue reading Feature: “Between Us: Audiences, Affect and the In-Between”

Arts & Humanities Research events this week at Plymouth University

The following research events are taking place in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities this week. Please contact theartsinstitute@plymouth.ac.uk if you would like further information. MIA (Moving Image Arts) Seminar: Tom Trevor on ‘The River Tamar Project’. 4pm on 6th December 2016 in Jill Craigie Cinema  ICCMR (Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research) Seminar: Edward Braund on ‘Music… Continue reading Arts & Humanities Research events this week at Plymouth University