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Movement Theory Lab: Discussion with Angélique Willkie

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Discussion

Movement Theory Lab: Discussion with Angélique Willkie

Following her performance of Confession Publique, performer and dramaturg Angélique Willkie will discuss her artistic practice with Clara Nizard.

At this conversation, performer and dramaturg Angélique Willkie will discuss her artistic practice with members of the Movement Theory Lab, part of the Arts Labs research project the Neubauer Collegium. The event will follow an invitation-only showing of the solo Confession Publique and precedes an invitation-only workshop with the Movement Theory Lab (learn more here). This series of events is supported by MAYDAY, the Neubauer Collegium, Rebuild Foundation, and Monastery Foundation.

About the Speaker

Performer, singer, dramaturg and pedagogue, Angélique Willkie pursued a long career in Europe where, over 25 years, she performed with dance companies and independent projects throughout Europe, most notably Alain Platel/Les Ballets C. de la B., Jan Lauwers/Needcompany, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Helena Waldmann and as a singer with the Belgian world-music group Zap Mama. Since 2014, Angélique has been actively involved in Montreal’s professional dance community as teacher, performer and dramaturg, contributing to the work of prominent choreographers both on and offstage. She is the 2022 recipient of the Prix de la danse de Montréal, catégorie Interprète, for her solo performance, Confession Publique. She is Associate Professor in the Department of Contemporary Dance at Concordia University in Montreal, and her current research interests are firmly anchored in interdisciplinary artistic creation with a specific focus on the dramaturgy of the performer and decolonial dramaturgical practices. She holds a Concordia University Research Chair (CURC) in Ecologies of B/black Performance, is Special Advisor to the Provost on Black Integration and Knowledges and was chair of Concordia’s President’s Task Force on Anti-Black Racism. Angélique is a 2023 inductee as a Fellow into the Royal Society of Canada.

About the Moderator

Clara Nizard is a performer, translator, curator, and PhD candidate in English and Performance Studies at the University of Chicago. Their most recent work, summer games, was shown at The Lawn (Chicago) in Summer 2024. Other works include performances at the Logan Center for the Arts (Chicago), the Brink Festival (UK), and the Collisions Festival (UK). Their co-translations of the poet Cécile Mainardi have appeared in Asymptote and FENCE, and you can find their critical writing in Chicago Review, ASAP/J, and Performance Response Journal.

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Following her performance of Confession Publique, performer and dramaturg Angélique Willkie will discuss her artistic practice with Clara Nizard.

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Migrations in Literature: Geographies and Genres

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Workshop

Migrations in Literature: Geographies and Genres

Participants at this workshop will present new papers on ways migration has reshaped literary genres and challenged national and regional traditions.

The second workshop in a series exploring relationships between literature and human migration considers two sets of questions: How do literary texts interact with the dynamic physical and conceptual spaces within which migrations happen: oceanic spaces that connect people and make worlds; political spaces that collect, confine, and displace populations; and territories and boundaries both real and imagined? How have literary genres and forms changed under the pressure of migration? We examine drama, poetry, and narratives from ancient times to the present, in which issues of migration have reshaped literary genres and challenged national and regional literary traditions.

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This event is organized by the Migrations in Literature project at the Neubauer Collegium. Pre-circulated papers are available upon request. To receive them, please contact Associate Director of Communications Mark Sorkin at msorkin@uchicago.edu.

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Participants at this workshop will present new papers on ways migration has reshaped literary genres and challenged national and regional traditions.

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A New Philosophy of Opera

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A New Philosophy of Opera

Learn about the future of opera with opera and theater director Yuval Sharon as he discusses his book, A New Philosophy of Opera.

Yuval Sharon is creating an unconventional body of work that seeks to expand the operatic form. He is the founding Artistic Director of The Industry in Los Angeles, a company devoted to new and experimental opera that has brought opera into unconventional spaces. Sharon was honored with a 2017 MacArthur Fellowship and a Foundation for Contemporary Art grant for theater. In August 2024 he was chosen to direct the Metropolitan Opera’s next staging of Wagner’s Ring cycle. He is currently serving as the Gary L. Wasserman Artistic Director at the Detroit Opera and as the inaugural Global Solutions Visiting Fellow at the Neubauer Collegium. At this talk he will discuss the ideas he explores in his new book, A New Philosophy of Opera (Liveright, 2024).

David Rubenstein Forum at the University of Chicago

Learn about the future of opera with opera and theater director Yuval Sharon as he discusses his book, A New Philosophy of Opera.

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Opening Reception for Let's Get It On: The Wearable Art of Betye Saar

Exhibition Opening

Opening Reception for Let's Get It On: The Wearable Art of Betye Saar

This exhibition will hinge on Saar's experiments with “wearable” art, bringing into focus her gradual shift from costume design to collage.

The Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society will present an exhibition by Betye Saar, a key figure in the Black Arts Movement of the 1970s. Inspired by the transformative memory of Saar’s visit to the African collections of Chicago’s Field Museum in the mid-1970s, this exhibition will hinge on the artist’s experiments with “wearable” art, bringing into focus her gradual shift from working in costume design toward the instantly recognizable collage aesthetic she is justly feted for to this day.

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This exhibition will hinge on Saar's experiments with “wearable” art, bringing into focus her gradual shift from costume design to collage.

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