Videos
DÆNCITY artistic residency, spring 2025
24 EPFL students and alumni and 7 UNIL students took part in the artistic residency DÆNCITY to explore dance and improvisation, as well as to develop a reflexive process. A research in Learning Sciences accompanied the project and 3 public performances were organized.
Dates and venues:
– 22-25 April 2025: Sévelin 36, Lausanne
– 12 May 2025: Festival Les Culturelles, EPFL
– 13 June 2025: Festival Magma, Sévelin 36
Direction: Professor Simon Henein, EPFL
Coordination: Simona Ferrar (EPFL) & Morgane Stephan (Sévelin 36)
Dance and choreography workshop: Noémie Cuérel & Matthieu Ruf
Reflexive workshop: Simona Ferrar & Sascha Nick
Video: Ben Begon, étudiant EPFL en architecture
Production: EPFL Performance Lighthouse & Sévelin 36
Improvisation performance and workshop, EPFL – LUNCHenPHILO, November 2024
Students share their experience of the performance and workshop that took place on the 20th of November, at the EPFL.
The six students that gave the workshop had followed the Improgineering course that is part of the SHS program (Social Sciences and Humanities Program).
The workshop was part of the LUNCHenPHILO #17 : Are engineers improvisors?, 20 November 2024, Rolex Learning Center, EPFL.
Moderation: Anne-Laure Gannac
Communication: Virginie Martin
Improvisation workshop:
Concept and animation: Mathilde Richard & Marguerite Thery with the support of Prof. Simon Henein
Performers : six alumni students from the SHS Improgineering course : Julia Morin, Nina Mosca, Julia Ravagnani, Mathilde Richard, Marguerite Thery, Eglantine Vialaneix
Video: Chiara Freneix, EPFL student
Coordination: Simona Ferrar
Production: Performance Lighthouse, CDH, EPFL
Performance and opening of the book Barefoot Academic Teaching
Barefoot Academic Teaching
Book vernissage with live performance
Le Pommier -Theâtre – Centre culturel Neuchâtelois
8 June 2024, Neuchâtel
Barefoot Academic Teaching
Performing arts as pedagogical tool in higher education
R. Tau, L. Kloetzer, S. Henein (Eds.), 2024, 204 pages
SCENARIO Book Series, Schibri-Verlag Publisher
Panel discussion moderated by Simona Ferrar, with the following book co-authors: Simon Henein, Laure Kloetzer, Susanne Martin, Ramiro Tau and Joëlle Valterio
Other book co-authors: Danielle Chaperon and Cédric Tomasini
Public performance at Le Pommier theater, Centre Culturel Neuchâtelois with:
- 14 EPFL students who followed the 2023-2024 Improgineering course
- 4 teachers of the Improgineering course: Simon Henein, Alexandra Macdonald, Susanne Martin, and Joëlle Valterio
Interview of audience members made directly after the event including:
- Yan Walther, Director of Le Pommier
- Anne Despond, 2017-2018 Improgineering alumni student
Lights: Jacques Bouduban
Translation: Simona Ferrar
Camera and video editing: Jean-Denis Borel
Production: Simon Henein, Performance Lighthouse, EPFL
Public reading of “Poetic resonance by a performance artist”
Public reading by Joëlle Valterio of her “Poetic resonance by a performance artist” published in the book:
Barefoot Academic Teaching
Performing arts as pedagogical tool in higher education
R. Tau, L. Kloetzer, S. Henein (Eds.), 2024
SCENARIO Book Series, Schibri-Verlag Publisher
with images of the public performance presented before the reading at Le Pommier theater, Centre Culturel Neuchâtelois, with 14 EPFL students who followed the 2023-2024 Improgineering course led by Prof. Simon Henein.
Camera and video editing: Jean-Denis Borel
Production: Simon Henein, Performance Lighthouse, CDH-EPFL
Sequence shot of the deployment of an improvised sequence
Podcasts
The Embodied Educator
Episode 1 – with Simon Henein & Simona Ferrar
Episode 2 – with Marguerite Thery:
