Videos and Podcasts

Videos

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: