Upcoming events
Are engineers improvisers?
Wednesday, November 13, 12:15-1:15pm, Rolex Learning Center: Simon Henein, Alain Bovet and Simona Ferrar will present the Improgineering course and the Performance Lighthouse. The discussion will focus on how performance art and collective improvisation can feed into the student curriculum.
Improvisation Workshop
Wednesday, November 20, 12:15-1:15 pm., Rolex Learning Center: Two students from the Improgineering course, accompanied by their teacher, will give an improvisation workshop open to all, to share some of the essential elements that the Improgineering course has taught them. Open to all upon registration.
DAENCITY: Artistic residency for EPFL Students at Théâtre Sévelin 36
Dance workshop and reflective laboratory.
The body on stage in light of improvisation
Workshop within the “BODY” module of the CAS “Dramaturgie et performance du texte” run by La Manufacture and UNIL.
Past events
- 8 June 2024
Public performances at Théâtre Le Pommier, Neuchâtel, of the EPFL students of the Improgineering course.
- 7 June 2024
ARTS FOR TEACHING Seminar
- 1 June 2024
The body on stage in light of improvisation
At ARSENIC, Lausanne. Workshop taught by Simon Henein (professeur in microengineering, EPFL) and Joëlle Vaterio (performer and teaching assistant, EPFL) within the “BODY” module of the Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) “Dramaturgie et performance du texte” (CAS under the responsibility of Danielle Chaperon (professeur of French Literature, UNIL) run by La Manufacture and UNIL.In the neo-avant-gardes of the 1960s, the body asserted itself as a means of blurring the boundary between art and life. The art of performance (happening, event, action, participation, improvisation…) contributed to a redefinition of theatre as a “living art” that continues to this day.
- 21 and 22 May 2024
Public performances at ARSENIC, Lausanne, of the EPFL students of the Improgineering course