Vocal practices for achieving embodied coordination
On November 24th, 2023, Agnes Löfgren defended her PhD dissertation successfully, entitled "Bodies to suit the music: Depictions in opera rehearsals". Her opponent was Beatrice Szczepek Reed, with committee Spencer Hazel, Oliver Ehmer, and Stefan Norrthon. Abstract: This thesis investigates how participants in 20 hours of video-recorded scenic opera rehearsals make use of depictions (Clark, …
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Löfgren presented at NORDISCO23 in Tampere, "Are you serious? Depictions at opera rehearsals" Abstract: During scenic opera rehearsals, the participants work together to create portrayals of characters to music. They use depictions--momentary scenes staged for the other participants--to propose and negotiate character behaviors that suit the developing aesthetics of the performance. This paper focuses on …
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Agnes Löfgren has published on how opera rehearsal participants use relocations and reorganize their spatial arrangements in order to do depictions for each other. Relocating to depict: Managing the interactional agenda at opera rehearsals. A performer in an opera has to portray the character they are playing not only through the music but also in …
Löfgren presenterade sin avhandling på OFTI konferensen, Sept. 21-22 2023, Uppsala. ”En situation, en kropp, som passar med musiken”: Gestaltningar under operarepetitioner I detta föredrag kommer jag att presentera resultat från min avhandling som ska publiceras i november i år. I avhandlingen studerar jag, med hjälp av multimodal interaktionsanalys (Broth & Keevallik, 2020), hur en …
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The International Conference on Conversation Analysis 2023, in Brisbane Australia, has arrived! The non-lexicals team has quite a number of different contributions, summarized and linked here: Workshop: Keevallik on Affiliation. Panel: Hofstetter & Keevallik have organized a panel on Strain in interaction, thanks to the following wonderful contributors: Misao Okada - Japanese turn-initial particle, hai, …
Non-lexical vocalizations 