Conversazione and Soundpainting

Alerts for today, July 7:
1. In Haworth, at the Brontë Parsonage Museum

Conversazione: Between the Lines at Brontë Parsonage Museum

‘Conversaziones’ were small social gatherings held by the Victorians in their homes to discuss topics of the day. As part of her exhibition, Catherine Bertola has curated three Conversaziones, and together with a series of invited speakers and small audience, will discuss themes relating to her exhibition. The evenings take place at the Brontë Parsonage Museum after hours, and refreshments will be provided.

Thursday 7 July, 7pm
Between the Lines
Historian and biographer Kathryn Hughes explores how artefacts and historical evidence can help us to access the people and places of the past.
Kathryn Hughes is Professor of Lifewriting at UEA. Her biographies include George Eliot: the Last Victorian and The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton. She is a journalist and critic, regularly writing for The Guardian and appearing on BBC Radio 4.

2. In Poughkeepsie, New York:

Wuthering
A “Soundpainted” dance theater piece by Mark Lindberg
July 7, 14, 21, 28 at 6pm
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
Poughkeepsie, NY

An ensemble of upscale partygoers play out a story of love and other societal forces, loosely inspired by Emily Brontë's classic novel "Wuthering Heights" and set to the 1979 disco album of the same name by composer John Ferrara and his "disco orchestra."
(“Soundpainting” is a live composing sign language created in the 1970s by Walter Thompson for musicians, dancers, actors, poets, and visual artists. In this innovative, spontaneous type of performance, the composer/conductor utilizes more than 750 gestures to indicate the type of improvisation desired of the performers. )

Categories: Dance, Talks, Wuthering Heights