CORPoREAL builds and supports in practice:
- An artistic research environment at the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp for artistic and arts-educational actors, focusing on aesthetic, physical/mental, and artistically pedagogical aspects of sensory and bodily practices in the performing arts (dance, drama, and music), and this in interaction with society. To this end, CORPoREAL organizes discussion and work sessions, as well as artistic events.
- An (inter)national network around artistic, experiential knowledge: interacting with artistic and arts-educational actors from (inter)national research centers, cultural forums, and arts education on this theme. CORPoREAL contributes to conferences, invites artists/researchers, establishes international contacts, and organizes workshops in exchange with the social and academic fields.
- Original collaborative research in art, art pedagogy, and arts education: drawing from individual expertise, shared exchange of knowledge and practice, doctoral support, and pedagogical insights, CORPoREAL generates new insights with artistic and academic output on the sensory, aesthetic, and bodily/physical experience of the artist in the performing arts, art pedagogy, and the arts education sector.
Through these three pillars, CORPoREAL aims to realize high-quality, original, and well-founded artistic and artistically pedagogical research on physical and aesthetic bodily interaction, knowledge, and learning in the performing arts.
Focus: Physicality in performing arts
Team: Bob Selderslaghs (chair), Annouk Van Moorsel and Kathleen Coessens (co-chairs), Karin de Fleyt (coordinator), Magda Thielemans, Jan Staes, Lies Colman, Arkadi Zaides, Georgia Nikolaou, Paul Abbott, Klaas Devos, Karel Tuytschaever, Lauranne Paulissen, Tuur Marinus, Nienke Reehorst and Max Greyson
Contact: Karin de Fleyt - karin.defleyt@ap.be
www.corporeal.be
(Photo by Wannes Cré)
