15 okt 2025
programme & registration
CORPoREAL Research Day, during ARTICULATE 2025 I Conservatoire Antwerp
The Voice of the practitioner
Advance registration is required for the workshops: registration form
PROGRAM
09:30 - 10:00: Coffee and registration
10:00 - 10:15: Welcome and introduction of the day
10:15 – 11:00: Invited Talk: Scott DeLahunta
Imagine a performing arts practitioner, for example musician or dancer, sharing what they know with another musician or dancer. Teaching, learning, creating, composing, preparing, warming up, rehearsing, playing and/ or performing are all different kinds of opportunities (or modalities) for sharing this knowledge. The primary means of this sharing is often assumed to be mainly physical, using a movement, sound or gesture. But sharing frequently relies on a range of verbal (languaging) tools to do a number of things like naming, calling out, asking questions, providing imagery, suggesting directions, partially describing and forming concepts. Notetaking, writing down, notating and video/audio recording also come into play here. What happens when music, drama or dance practitioners wish to share what they know and collaborate with disciplines outside the performing arts? The arts and sciences are increasingly encouraged to work together, to find the necessary common ground upon which to experiment, explore and discover. But how does the performing arts practitioner entering into such a relationship manage the inevitable imposition of knowledge hierarchies that take place when confronted with disciplines more traditionally represented by language and texts? This talk will try and tease out some ideas for how to value and maintain the voice of the practitioner under such interdisciplinary conditions.
11:00 – 11:15: Q&A
11:15 - 12:15: Performance: The Forest School (fragment) + introduction: from process to action
Thomas Janssens presents The Forest School as a participatory theatre practice, sharing insights from rehearsals and the artistic process. The workshop highlights the artistic and psycho-educational value of co-creation with neurodivergent players, explores its ambition as a transdisciplinary trajectory at the intersection of art, education, health, and research, and invites participants to take on roles as co-researchers, teachers, or go-between persons.
12:15 – 12:30 Q&A
12:30 - 13:30 Break
13:30 - 14:15 workshops part 1 (three parallel workshops)
Joanna Britton – 'Beyond the Mother Tongue: Language portraits for performing artists' |
We often talk about ‘mother tongue’, but languages from many places shape us—and their impact goes beyond words. Multilingualism lives in the whole body and self, shaping how we move, create, and perform. Using colours, voice, and movement, participants explore childhood words, body-voice shifts, and their artistic identity, gaining insight into their multilingual selves and authentic voice(s). |
Danae Theodoridou – “Theory as a CORPoREAL practice” |
Explore how theoretical concepts can emerge through artistic practice. Revisiting the etymology of ‘theory’ (theoro = view in Greek), participants reenact the bodily practice of Ancient Athens’ theoroi, generating new concepts from their own work and opening fresh perspectives that transcend distinctions between theory and performance. |
Nicole Wysokikamien – “Naming the Practice: Between the Work and the World" |
Reflect on the relationship between your practice and the language used to describe it. Focusing on what resists articulation—the sensorial, the unstable, the intuitive—participants explore how discourse shapes creation and develop ways of speaking that protect the complexity of their processes while preserving the joy of making. |
14:15 – 14:30 break
14:30 – 15:15 workshops part 2 (three parallel workshops)
Inesa Markava – 'Territory Between. A dance within exhibition space' |
Discover how the voice of artworks and exhibition spaces can be filtered through the moving body. Participants explore artistic mediation in dance and experience the permeability moment through listening and responding to multiple voices and intentions. |
Flavia Barbosa Pinheiro – 'The Politics of Breath – How to Keep Moving in Apnea' |
'The Politics of Breath – How to Keep Moving in Apnea' treats the voice as movement, breath, and vibration. Participants explore how the hyoid bone, rib cage, and visceral organs shape presence and use guided improvisation to sound the invisible and move what resists articulation, discovering breath as a site of transformation and political resonance. |
Silke Vanhoof – 'Embodied Cripabilities: Crip/Mad/Sick Ingenuity in the Performing Arts' |
This neurodivergent-led workshop celebrates the ingenuity of crip, mad, and sick experiences, introducing cripabilities as a generative framework. Participants engage in embodied remembering, sensory exploration, and somatic expression, reimagining performative practice where access becomes aesthetic and care becomes a creative strategy. |
15:15 – 16:00 Round table and conclusion
(Image: His Masters' Voice - Francis Barreaud)