The Paris Chapter: 13 - 19 Nov
Interactive theatre, ice skating, The Vagina Monologues, the future of work, critical conversations, choreographed touch, artist rencontres, literary concerts, Tai Chi, philo-chats and more.
What’s your creative DNA? I’m in the midst of reading Twyla Tharp’s The Creative Habit - I’m thoroughly enjoying her perspective, and thought some of her key questions (you know I love a good question) might resonate with you also.
What is the first creative moment you remember?
What’s the best idea you’ve ever had?
What is your creative ambition?
How do you begin your day?
As Tharp says, “If you understand the strands of your creative DNA, you begin to see how they mutate into common threads in your work. You begin to see the ‘story’ that you’re trying to tell: why you do the things you do, where you are strong and where you are weak, and how you see the world and function in it.”
Art salve
Julia Margaret Cameron, Jeu de Paume (1e)
A beautiful discovery of the life and work of one of the earliest female photographers. Cameron received her first camera in 1863, at the age of 48. She turned her chicken coop into a studio and quickly pioneered close-up portraiture, in opposition to the style of the time.
Of her soft-focus process of capturing eminent men such as Charles Dickens, Alfred Lord Tennyson and Sir John F. W. Herschel, she said “When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man.”
As Paolo Roversi put it, “Cameron was one of the first photographers, perhaps the first, to have thought of photography not as a representation of reality but as a revelation.”
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Events
Free subscribers receive my selection of three events each week. Premium subscribers get the full list (30 events this week).
Mon 13 Nov
V, Mémoires de lutte, mk2 Bibliothèque (13e), 8 - 9.30pmEve Ensler, author of the best-selling The Vagina Monologues, will be presenting her latest literary creation, Reckoning. Billed as “A woman’s struggle to conquer her freedom by writing her own life”.
[FR] 15€. Buy your ticket
Thur 16
Ne me touchez pas, La Villette (19e), 8pm, through Wed
An exploration of touch in all its forms: a tool for discovery, comfort, pleasure, violence, solidarity or analysis. Choreographer Laura Bachman performs a duet with Marion Barbeau (principal dancer with the Paris Opera Ballet), that renders touch visible, both its absence and the energy it creates between two bodies.
15€. Buy your ticket
Fri 17
L’aurore est bientôt, Carreau du Temple (3e), 7.30 - 8.30pm
Literary concert meets sensory experience, with a trio of artists - musician Malik Djoudi, author Jessie Chapuis and cellist Gaspar Claus - exploring the birth of desire and the wanderings of amorous feelings.
[FR] From 12€. Buy your ticket
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