Agile Futures: "Futurities"

Description:

A panel presented as part of Agile Futures: Approaching Improvisation, the eleventh annual International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation colloquium. Agilities included twenty-minute presentations by Catherine Lee, and Sara Ramshaw with Kristen Lewis.

“Attuning to Precarity: Crisis, Collaboration and the Possibility of Improvisation” was a talk by Sara Ramshaw that explored the relationship between law and improvisation. She was joined by Kristen Lewis to lead the audience in an embodied exploration of these themes through various movement prompts. 

In her talk “My Shifting Identity as a Performer in Alluvium (2016) by Taylor Brook,” Catherine Lee discussed her collaborative relationship with composer Taylor Brook, and their process in developing the composition Alluvium. Written for oboe d’amore and electronics, the piece explores soundworlds through microtones. Lee closed her presentation with a live performance of Alluvium on oboe.

Presented in collaboration with the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation at the University of British Columbia and Coastal Jazz & Blues Society; and with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Government of Canada, the British Columbia Arts Council, the Province of British Columbia, the City of Vancouver, and SOCAN Foundation.