On the basis of the opinions of the expert committee, composed of artists, heads of cultural structures, representatives of higher education institutions and researchers, which met on 30 June, the DGCA selected 2 winning projects for this 2023 edition of the call for projects Research and development in performing arts colleges.
The call for projects DREAMS has several objectives:
- encourage the development of research within higher education institutions of the performing arts;
- raise awareness among artists in training of the spirit, method and recent achievements of research in their field;
- promote the development of research programs focused on artistic practice;
- federate the educational community of schools around a research project.
In their analysis of the applications, the members of the expert committee paid particular attention to the following criteria:
- the participatory involvement of students in the research process;
- clarity in the enunciation of a positioned, argued and referenced research approach (clear problematic and methodology, bibliography/state of the art consistent with the subject…);
- the quality of the research documentation and restitution elements envisaged with a view to disseminating the results beyond the project leaders;
- the relevance of partnerships in terms of skills and resources for the project.
This mechanism is part of the orientations of the Ministerial Research Strategy (SMR) and in particular in the issue of structuring research in the graduate schools of Culture.
The two projects selected
- “Study of a renewed use of bodies and the intimate in dramatic interpretation”, project led by the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique (CNSAD)
Building on the initiatives carried out within the CNSAD-PSL in recent years - Charte égalité (2018) and Assises de l'égalité (2022) – and drawing on the academic expertise of the "Scènes du monde" laboratory at the University of Paris 8, the research project “Deconstructing Looks” aims to raise awareness and deconstruct the systems of domination still at work in the theatre sector by renewing the tools of the pedagogy of play and the direction of performers.
In this context, the CNSAD-PSL will propose to student performers and students in the Performing Arts to collaborate for a year within a research moduleaction-creation questioning a renewed use of the bodies and the intimate in the dramatic interpretation. It will explore the issues of consent, representation and replay of systemic violence in theatre in order to collectively imagine models and protocols for training and direction of respectful, participatory and caring performers. Practical work in the form of a master-class will be based on public meetings with specialists in the subject (pedagogues, artists, researchers and researchers) to cultivate a constant return between scenic experiments, concrete proposals – such as the drafting and dissemination of a charter of good practices for the direction of dramatic performers – and reflexive extensions.
- "From the monochord to the augmented monochord: Questioning the pedagogy and the practice of just intonation in the medieval repertoire", project led by the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Lyon (CNSMDL)
This research project proposes to build on the didactic instrument of the medieval monochord to re-examine the pedagogy and practice of right intonation in this repertoire, in a historical and contemporary perspective.
Noting a need identified by the partner institutions - the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Paris, the Haute école de musique de Genève, the Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3 and the Centre International de Musiques Médiévales - around the formation of the ear and the practice of these temperate intervals, and always significant questions on the use of the instrument and its link with musical practice, this project will study the instrument in its organological, pedagogical and historical context. It will also aim to develop specifications for the construction of a related instrument, an augmented monochord, that better meets current training needs. This specification will be established by the scientific team and the students involved in the project. It will result in the construction, by a specialized archaeologist-luthier, of four monochords or increased monochords that will enrich the educational practice of the partner institutions.
The assimilation, impregnation and practice of these intervals from the monochord will then be questioned, confronted and integrated into the artistic interpretation of several medieval repertoires.
Composition of the expert committee for the 2023 edition
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