Embodied Monologues

The Embodied Monologues Project seeks to generate responses and challenges to the idea of solo or ‘mono’ performance. What is the role of the intertextual, the multimedial, the intercorporeal in this mode of performance? The Embodied Monologues research network originated during Francesca’s IRC postdoctoral Fellowship at MU between 2015 and 2017, and unfolded as a research series culminating with a one-day final symposium in March 2017. The events had the financial support of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, the Faculty of Arts Dean’s Grant, a fund from the Research Centre for Performance Practices at University of Huddersfield, and the IRC. The 2021 Re-Connect series celebrated the return to practice and performance after the 2020 hiatus due to the Covid-19 global emergency. The 2021 research series explored in particular the way practitioners and artist-researchers re-connected with their embodied practices, in light of new awareness and reflections generated by months of forced distancing from practice spaces, acquaintances, collaborators, audiences. The Re-Connect research series also looked at burgeoning conceptions of monologue and solo performance, as matured and altered through isolation, whilst keeping a fresh dialogue among disciplines and practices. More information on upcoming events available at www.embodiedmonologues.com