FIRST EDITIONS - Natascha Diels (University of Pennsylvania) Seminar
- Time:
- 16:00
- Date:
- 20 April 2022
- Venue:
- Teams
Event details
The music department is delighted to welcome Dr. Natascha Diels (University of Pennsylvania) for an online seminar in our FIRST EDITIONS series. This public online event will take place on Microsoft Teams. If you are not a staff or student at University of Southampton and would like to attend, please contact Matthew Shlomowitz at [email protected]
Natacha Diels will present on her ongoing series of works for performance and video with the JACK quartet, Beautiful Trouble. Areas of focus include secondary artistic practices, narratives within abstract work, and the ever-changing nebulous definition of 'spectacle.'
Natacha Diels' work combines choreographed movement, video animation, instrumental practice, and cynical play to create worlds of curiosity and unease. Recent and upcoming work includes Papillon and the Dancing Cranes, for construction cranes and giant butterfly (Borealis Festival 2018, Dear Antwerp 2021); OK Fantastic! for Talea Ensemble (Fromm Foundation); and Universal™ Love, a solo performance project; and ongoing is a 6-part TV-style miniseries with the JACK quartet (TIME:SPANS, Banff Centre for the Arts, Barlow Foundation). With a focus on collage, magic of the virtual, and the ritual of life as art, Natacha's compositions have been described as "a fairy tale for a fractured world" (Music We Care About) and "the liveliest music of the evening" (LA Review of Books).
Natacha is a founding member of the composer/performer collective Ensemble Pamplemousse (est. 2003). Pamplemousse specializes in unique aspects of new music composition, from complex virtuosic instrumental performance to experimental theatre to electronic and robotic performance. She also teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.