11/7/2017 Illusions magic tour and call for contributions (circus & education; circus and its others) Conjuring and Magic tour at McCord Museum moved to Nov 15th. Call for papers. Appel à contributions: Circus & its Others and Circus & Education. Forward to a Friend Tour and talk McCord Museum (McGill CALL FOR PAPERS (15 Dec) University), Wed. 15 Nov, Circus and its 9:30 a.m. (new date) Others Il, Conference 27-29 August 2018, Prague, A Brief History of The Golden Age of Czech Rep. Stage Conjuring, Vaudeville and Circus From powerhouse stage and television in Montreal (1880-1930) shows to Cirque du Soleil’s status as the world’s most successful live performing arts company, circus in the early Guided tour and discussion animated by Dr. st 21 century has undeniably gone Joseph Culpepper (Concordia University) at the mainstream. While this is positive news for circus companies, artists, and McCord Museum. audiences with a taste for thrilling, high- performance entertainment, it also raises questions about circus’s historic status * A very much reduced admission rate of 11$ will as a site for the celebration and be charged to enter into the museum upon exploitation of differences. To what extent and in what ways is circus always- confirming your presence in advance. already different, and about difference? RSVP: [email protected] How does the mainstreaming of contemporary circus affect its status as a The Golden Age of Stage Conjuring (1880-1930) in haven for the different, the outsider? In North America and Western Europe encompasses a what ways are contemporary circus period of rapid technological advances in the artists and companies embracing and performing arts, cinema, photography, lithography, exploiting (or not) difference in their and transportation. It also marks a fifty-year period practice? How do we discuss, stage, of social and cultural transformations across the theorize, and practice such differences globe: power shifts in Europe and North America’s including questions of gender, sexuality, colonial empires, a new wave of Orientalism, embodiment, ability/disability, ethnicity, disillusionment during WWI, the zenith of class, and species? spiritualism, victories in women’s suffrage, and the stock market crash of 1929. How did the work of stage conjurors and circus artists mix during this The Circus and its Others research tumultuous period? How do we see illusions from project was launched in 2014 under the this period adapted to contemporary circus aegis of the Montréal Working Group on productions — Raoul, Queen of the Night, Le soir Circus Research to explore these des monstres, Rêveurs définitifs, Particle # B — questions. The scholarship and today? http://mailchi.mp/eeee5f596176/news-from-resonance-lab?e=[UNIQID] 1/6 11/7/2017 Illusions magic tour and call for contributions (circus & education; circus and its others) conversation during our exciting conference in the context of the 2016 Dr. Joseph Culpepper is a performance scholar, Montréal Complètement Cirque festival magician, and magic consultant. He teaches magic proved lively, provocative, and vital, with history and its adaptation to the circus arts at Montreal's National Circus School. He is an Affiliate work showcased there being published Assistant Professor at Concordia University, a in an upcoming issue of the peer- cofounder of the performance troupe Ars reviewed journal Performance Mechanica and consults for both private and public Matters (May 2018, vol. 4.1). organizations. We are thrilled to announce the expanded international exploration of these concerns with the organization Call for Proposals Invitation à of the second Circus and Its Others for a Circus and participer à la conference to be held in Prague, Czech Education journée de Republic, 27-29 August 2018, during Study Day réflexion sur le the Letní Letná circus festival, who cirque et joins us as a partner along with l’éducation, Cirqueon and Charles University. Organized by Alisan Funk (McGill), Dr. Marie-Eve Organisateurs: We invite proposals for research talks Skelling (Concordia), and Dr. Louis Patrick Leroux Alisan Funk (McGill), that address questions of difference and Dr. Marie-Eve otherness in the context of (Concordia). Skelling (Concordia) contemporary circus. We further make et Dr. Louis Patrick Submission Deadline: explicit invitation for presentations from Leroux (Concordia). artists and practitioners who address December 1st. such questions in their work, practice, Date de The Montreal Working Group and/or research-creation (our conference soumission de on Circus would like to invite venue also includes some space for votre proposition : you to participate in focused 1er Décembre performance). study day examining Le Groupe montréalais de perspectives and futures of Possible areas of inquiry might include, recherches en arts du circus education in North but need not be limited to: cirque aimerait vous inviter America. Although there is an à participer à une journée open call for presentations, Histories of circus and its others de réflexion sur les we acknowledge that your perspectives et les enjeux What hidden histories of circus contributions to circus liés à l’éducation / practice may be located in the education and knowledge enseignement du cirque en visual archive? about circus education have Amérique du Nord. Bien que l’appel à présentation What are the histories of areas of been significant. For that soit ouvert à tous, nous circus practice that today are reason, we hope you will considérons que vos considered other to the strongly consider contributions à l’éducation mainstream, such as the use and contributing to this study day du cirque et à la display of animals? with a presentation on your connaissance sur How do the histories of circus work related to circus l’éducation du cirque sont practice intersect with histories of education. significatives. C’est colonialism and imperialism? pourquoi nous espérons que vous accepterez de This Study Day will be an participer à cette journée opportunity to openly discuss Periphery and center d’échanges en présentant pertinent issues of training votre travail sur le sujet. and education in the circus, What might the Czech context tell from teacher training, us about the place of circus and Cette journée de réflexion professional training to the sera une opportunité pour its others in European or global emergence of a broad discuter ouvertement des perspectives? emerging academic field of enjeux liés à l’entrainement et la http://mailchi.mp/eeee5f596176/news-from-resonance-lab?e=[UNIQID] 2/6 11/7/2017 Illusions magic tour and call for contributions (circus & education; circus and its others) To what extent do hierarchies in circus studies. In preparation, formation en cirque, tels academic research, funding we have been asking que la formation à practices, and artistic recognition ourselves: What are the aims l’enseignement, la formation artistique, voir affect the place and presence of and objectives of circus l’émergence d’un domaine “the other”? education? What are the de recherche académique How do differing regional or existing forms of circus en études circassiennes. national practices affect education and who or what Au préalable, nous nous recognition on the world’s stages? markets do they benefit? Is sommes posés ces professional training viable questions : Quels sont les on its own in supporting a buts et les objectifs de circus ecology without l’enseignement du cirque ? Quelles sont les différentes Travelling otherness instituting a wider field of formes d’enseignement qui circus studies? What is the What happens when circus talent existent et qui sont les and circus acts travel outside their present and future of circus personnes et les marchés cultures of origin and become education in north America? qui en bénéficient ? La “other”? As people generating circus formation professionnelle est­elle capable à elle To what extent do circuses use education, what directions do seule de soutenir une their we hope to see? écologie du cirque sans le national/regional/linguistic/ethnic développement d’un plus To invite discussion around difference as branding to enable vaste domaine d’études these questions, the Circus their circulation in the global sur le cirque ? Comment entertainment market? What and Education Study Day will apparaissent le présent et practices of exotification and self- consider four large domains l’avenir de l’enseignement exotification may be employed in related to circus education du cirque en Amérique du Nord ? En tant que this? 1. Training circus personnes contribuant au professionals (training domaine de la formation en arts du cirque, quelles Circus bodies: Normal, extraordinary, directors and other directions souhaitons­nous other? domains related to circus; Pedagogical voir se dessiner ? What are the implications of shifts strategies for Pour initier la discussion in the mainstreaming of developing autour de ces questions, la contemporary circus and related performers; journée de réflexion sur le changes in skill, artistry, and Curriculum; cirque et l’éducation training for circus artists Objectives; abordera quatre thèmes : including those who may carry Challenges; Coach historical baggage of “born education) 1. Formation des otherness” with them? 2. Circus arts as a professionnels du What is required and expected of teaching methodology cirque (formation the bodies of today’s elite circus (teacher education; des metteurs en artists? With their toned, strong Physical literacy;