The Thursday Club

23 October 2008

George Wood Theatre
Dept. of Drama
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross
London, SE14 6NW

Time: 19:00 - 21:00

Tim Hopkins
Les Noces Project

Les Noces Project is inspired by the Stravinsky’s ballet cantata Les Noces. Stravinsky and his collaborators, Nijinska (choreography) and Goncharova (Visual design,) imported the rituals of a Russian peasant wedding onto the stage, exposing them to unflinching aesthetic investigation across their collaborative disciplines. The work was conceived using unusual musical forces, such as four electromechanical player-pianos. The work revealed a hitherto consoling cultural ideal to be a violent process of social coercion.

Tim Hopkins is the AHRC Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts Centre for Research in Opera and Music Theatre Department of Music, University of Sussex.

"The Thursday Club brings together people from diverse fields and degrees of expertise, aiming to initiate discussion and debates among postgraduate students, researchers, academics, artists, theorists, and other cultural practitioners."

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