2011 Season

WED. SEPT. 7

9:00 Welcome and introductory remarks

9:15 – 10:30 Panel 1 (plenary: Writing Jazz

• Cecil Foster (U. Guelph)
• Paul Watkins (U. Guelph)

10:45 – noon Panel 2A: Pedagogies, Media, and Improvisation

• Moderator: Stephanie Khoury                                     • Patrick Boyle (U. Victoria)        • Andrea Kuzmich (York U.)

10:45 – noon Panel 2B: Developments in Interactivity: Improvising Machines, Improvisational Software, and Sampling

• Moderator: TBA                      • Eric Lewis (McGill U.)               • Michael Pelz-Sherman (North Carolina)

12:00-1:30: Lunch

1:30 – 2:45 Panel 3A: Recording Technologies and Reception

• Moderator: TBA
• Michael T. Spencer (Michigan State U.)
• Alan Stanbridge (U. Toronto)

1:30 – 2:45 Panel 3B: Aural and Visual Confluences (part one)

• Moderator: TBA
• Alain Derbez (Mexico)
• Rob Jackson (U. Guelph)
• Sara Villa (Centre de recherche en éthique, U. Montreal)

  3:00 – 4:15 Panel 4A: Four Faces of Contact Improvisation

• John Faichney (U. Waterloo)     • Tanya Williams (Fall on Your Feet Dance Studio)
• Adam Euerby (U. Waterloo)
• Sarah Tolmie (U. Waterloo)

  3:00 – 4:15 Panel 4B: Representation, Myth, and Power

• Moderator: TBA                      • David Lee (U. Guelph)
• Lisa Williams (Michigan State U.)
• Mark Laver (Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice, U. Guelph)

4:15 – 5:00 Workshop 1: Contact Enaction: A Practical Demonstration of Contact Improvisation

• John Faichney, Tanya Williams, Adam Euerby, Sarah Tolmie

8:00 Performance: The Rent

THURS. SEPT. 8

9:15 – 10:45 Panel 5A: Words and Music: Powering Up (part one)

• Moderator: TBA                      • Olabanji Akinola and Mopelolade Ogunbowale (U. Guelph)                                    • Barry Long (Bucknell U.)
• Tegan Ceschi-Smith (U. British Columbia)

9:15–10:45 Panel 5B: Improvising Communities: Telematics and Technology

• Moderator: Ben Grossman        • Michael Kaler (York U.)
• Jeff Albert (Louisiana State U.)
• Jason Robinson (Amherst College)

11:00 Workshop 2: Mirar el ruido (To See the Noise)

• Alain Derbez, Jazzamoart, Nicolas Caloia, Jean Derome, Isaiah Ceccarelli, and Guillaume Dostaler

Noon - 1:00: Lunch

1:00-2:00 Workshop 3: Steve Lacy's "Tips" in Dance and Music

•Susanna hood, Scott Thomson, Alanna Kraaijeveld, Christine Duncan, Kyle Brenders

2:15-3:30 Panel 6A: Words and Music: Powering Up (part two)

• Moderator: TBA                      • Carol Ann Weaver (U. Waterloo) • Jack Wright (Spring Garden Music)                                      • François Houle (Vancouver Community College School of Music)

2:15-3:30 Panel 6B: Aural/Visual Confluences (part two)

• Moderator: TBA                      • Marcel Swiboda (U. Leeds)        • Kevin McNeilly (U. British Columbia)
• Paul Watkins and Nicholas Loess (U. Guelph)

3:45 - 5:00 Keynote

• Introductory comments: TBA    • Aldon Lynn Nielsen (Pennsylvania State U.), "Meeting Over Yonder": Parker, Baraka, Mayfield

FRI. SEPT. 9

9:00 – 10:30 Keynote

• Introductory comments: TBA    • Jayne Cortez, (Poet; President, Organization of Women Writers of Africa, Inc.) "Find Your Own Voice and Use It"

10:45-11:15 Presentation: Music Therapy via Remote Video Technology: A Case Review

• Aaron Lightstone (Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre)

11:30 - noon Poetry Reading

• Kevin McNeilly (with improvised musical accompaniment)

Noon - 1:00: Lunch

1:00-2:15 Workshop 4: Passages: the North by Northwest Series

• Alexandre Pierrepont, Didier Petit, Marianne Trudel, and Gerry Hemmingway

2:45-3:30 Onstage Interview with Henry Threadgill

• Interviewed by Daniel Fischlin (U. Guelph)

5:00 Performance: Marianne Trudel Septet

This colloquium is generously sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the Lloyd Carr-Harris Foundation, the Chawkers Foundation, the SOCAN Foundation, Canadian Heritage/Patrimoine canadien, the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Universidad Veracruzana, the Office of the President, the Office of the Vice-President (Research), the Office of the Associate Vice-President (Student Affairs), the School of English and Theatre Studies, the School of Fine Art and Music, the School of Languages and Literatures, and the Central Student Association at the University of Guelph.