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Covid Conversations 3: Elizabeth LeCompte and Kate Valk
No full textElizabeth LeCompte co-founded The Wooster Group with like-minded pioneers in New York in 1975, leading and directing its collaborators as deaths, departures, and new arrivals have changed its composition and emphases over the decades, segueing into a world-wide uncertain present. Kate Valk joined in 1978, the last representative of The Wooster Group’s foundational period, apart from LeCompte herself, who is still a key member of the company. References in this conversation are primarily to works after 2016. LeCompte briefly remarks on the importance of Since I Can Remember – one of the Group’s ongoing works in progress in 2021 – as an archival project that draws on Valk’s memory of how Nayatt School was made during her formative years. Having become, since then, a quintessential Wooster Group performer, Valk extended her artistic skills to stage direction, undertaking, most recently, The B-Side (2017). Both the initiative and idea for the piece came from performer Eric Berryman, who had brought Valk the collection of blues, songs, spirituals, and preachings on the 1965 LP made from the research of scholar folklorist Bruce Chapman. Berryman had been inspired to approach Valk because of her exclusive use of unadulterated historical recordings in Early Shaker Spirituals (2014), her directorial debut. The main work in rehearsal during 2020 and which was still locked down by the Covid-19 pandemic at the time of this conversation is The Mother, a Wooster Group variant of Brecht’s dramatized version of Gorky’s novel, directed by LeCompte. LeCompte discusses the current situation, emphasizing the increased vulnerability of independent artists and small-scale theatre, while giving a glimpse of the disadvantages for such groupings built into the North American system of project funding. The Wooster Group is a salient example of small-scale theatre that, despite continually precarious conditions, which the pandemic has highlighted and exacerbated, has achieved its creative goals and has defined its place in the exploratory avant-garde flourishing vigorously in the 1960s and 1970s. This particular avant-garde, LeCompte believes, has seen various important developments over the years but might well now be counting its last days. The conversation here presented was recorded on 31 October 2020, transcribed by Kunsang Kelden, and edited by Maria Shevtsova, Editor of New Theatre Quarterly
Importance des « facilités d’inspection » dans l’examen des viandes de porc
No full textLecompte M. Importance des «facilités d’inspection» dans l’examen des viandes de porc. In: Bulletin de l'Académie Vétérinaire de France tome 118 n°8, 1965. pp. 361-369
Elizabeth LeCompte in Rehearsal: An Intern\u27s Perspective
No full textDuring a six month internship (from May to November 2009) with the experimental theatre company the Wooster Group, I had the opportunity to sit through rehearsals and document what I saw while the company developed their production of Tennessee Williams’s Vieux Carré. This experience offered me the unique position to compare what I had learned about Elizabeth LeCompte in the library (through such writers as David Savran and Andrew Quick) with what I saw in the flesh.When LeCompte arrived on my first day, she started rehearsals with three pieces of inspiration: first, a film clip of an actor in Farewell My Concubine whose performance she mocked for poor precision; second, a Ben Brantley review criticizing JoAnne Akalaitis’s The Bacchae for lacking “teeth;” and third, a line from Alexander Star’s appreciation of recently deceased literary critic Richard Poirier, which says, “the most powerful works of literature offer ‘a fairly direct access to pleasure’ but become ‘on longer acquaintance, rather strange and imponderable.’” These pieces of inspiration mark what I discovered to be three distinct qualities of LeCompte’s personality in rehearsal: precision, teeth, and the imponderable. I offer here an inside perspective of LeCompte in rehearsal as she collaborates with her company, sifting through the challenges inherent in Williams’s play, to demonstrate how LeCompte works, not only as a director, but a artist subject to the pressures and restraints of a not-for-profit company in the heart of New York City
A Conversation on Labor, Religion, Politics, and Public Engagement: A conversation between the AFL-CIO’s Damon Silvers and Jubilee USA Network’s Eric LeCompte
No full textOur elected officials and world leaders make decisions that impact our lives every day,” said Eric LeCompte. “If we want to influence those decisions, we need to engage with decision-makers. Religious groups and labor unions throughout history and to this day, influence Minnesota, national, and global policies that impact our lives. The joint work of labor unions and faith groups translates into policies that support workers, create jobs, and protect the environment. Damon and I are excited to have a conversation on how human rights and democracy is bolstered by our participation. We are excited to have this conversation at a place that has long understood the need for solidarity between workers and people of faith.
Damon Silvers is the AFL-CIO\u27s Senior Strategic Advisor and Special Counsel to the President. He joined the AFL-CIO as Associate General Counsel in 1997. Silvers is a Senior Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute and a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose at University College, London. He is also a member of The Century Foundation’s Board of Trustees and is a member of the Board of Directors of Americans for Financial Reform.
Eric LeCompte is the Executive Director of Jubilee USA Network, an interfaith coalition of more than 750 religious groups and organizations throughout the United States and around the world to win policies that alleviate poverty, address global conflict and promote human rights. His views on religion, politics and economic issues regularly appear in media outlets including the Associated Press News, the Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post
Le Hamburger surgelé conditionné. Préparation-contrôle
No full textLecompte M., Rosset Roland. Le hamburger surgelé conditionné. Préparation - contrôle. In: Bulletin de l'Académie Vétérinaire de France tome 118 n°7, 1965. pp. 291-296
Private parts, public bodies : cross-dressing in the work of Deborah Warner and Elizabeth Lecompte
No full textTHESIS 7330In this thesis I ask what cross-dressing can tell us about the formation of identity in performance. I argue that the use of cross-dressing in the work of Deborah Warner and Elizabeth LeCompte can be used to challenge and expand the field of theatre scholarship on cross-dressing. I examine how Warner\u27s 1995 production of Richard II, and LeCompte\u27s 1993 production of The Emperor Jones used cross-dressing in performance. I analyse these productions in five key ways: I investigate how gender was represented through the use of cross-dressing, I look at the relationship between the "real" and the "illusion" in the productions, 1 focus on the range of identities invoked through the use of cross-dressing, I examine the kinds of bodies produced in performance, and 1 discuss how spectators were imagined and invented by these productions.
My thesis is divided into three sections. In Section One, Part One, 1 review the scholarship on crossdressing and, in Part Two, I investigate the historical precedents for the use of cross-dressing in my chosen productions. Section Two is divided into three chapters and focuses on the work of Deborah Warner. Section Three is also divided into three chapters and focuses on the work of Elizabeth LeCompte. In my conclusion, I compare how these directors have used cross-dressing in their work
Nonadministrative Documents from Archaic Ur and from Early Dynastic I–II Mesopotamia: A New Textual and Archaeological Analysis
No full textThe present paper addresses a subgroup of cuneiform documents from the so-called Archaic Texts from Ur in Mesopotamia. The documents in this subgroup can be isolated within the bulk of the Archaic Texts due to their nonadministrative content. A fresh textual analysis of this dataset is combined with a discussion of the archaeological context of their provenance to highlight patterns in early Ur scribal training methods. The results of this integrated analysis are used to frame more precisely the significance of “Archaic Ur” scribal traditions, dating to the first part of the Early Dynastic period, within the cultural transition from the Late Uruk to the Early Dynastic III (“Fāra”) period in Mesopotamia
Stéphanie Lecompte, La chaîne d’or des poètes. Présence de Macrobe dans l’Europe humaniste
No full textL’interessante thèse di S. Lecompte non arricchisce soltanto le nostre conoscenze sulla traditio e sulle modalità di ricezione di un autore classico – e dei classici in genere – nel Rinascimento europeo, in Francia in particolare, ma ricostruisce soprattutto, attraverso l’analisi della lettura che i rinascimentali fecero dell’opera di Macrobio, la ripresa – o meglio l’elaborazione cinquecentesca – di un concetto portante della concezione umanistica della poesia, quello di poeta theologus. Il ..
Dendrohyrax interfluvialis Oates & Woodman & Gaubert & Sargis & Wiafe & Lecompte & Dowsett-Lemaire & Dowsett & Gonedelé Bi & Ikemeh & Djagoun & Tomsett & Bearder 2022
No full text<i>Dendrohyrax interfluvialis</i> (<i>N</i> = 4) <p> <b>Nigeria.</b> Ogun State: Ilaro Forest Reserve: 6°47 <i>′</i> N, 3°04 <i>′</i> E (<i>NHMUK 46.360</i>, holotype). Oyo State: Ibadan: 7°30 <i>′</i> N, 3°53 <i>′</i> E (NHMUK 61.461). Bayelsa State: Uzere: 5°20 <i>′</i> N, 6°13 <i>′</i> E (NHMUK 1998.300). Edo State: Sapoba Forest Reserve: 6°05 <i>′</i> N, 5°49 <i>′</i> E (USNM 377548).</p>Published as part of <i>Oates, John F, Woodman, Neal, Gaubert, Philippe, Sargis, Eric J, Wiafe, Edward D, Lecompte, Emilie, Dowsett-Lemaire, Françoise, Dowsett, Robert J, Gonedelé Bi, Sery, Ikemeh, Rachel A, Djagoun, Chabi A M S, Tomsett, Louise & Bearder, Simon K, 2022, A new species of tree hyrax (Procaviidae: Dendrohyrax) from West Africa and the significance of the Niger-Volta interfluvium in mammalian biogeography, pp. 527-552 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 194 (2)</i> on page 552, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab029, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/6352101">http://zenodo.org/record/6352101</a>
Richeut, Old French poem of the twelfth century, with introduction, notes and glossary by I. C. Lecompte (Reprinted from The Romanic Review, vol. IV, n° 3, July-September, 1913)
No full textRoques Mario, Jeanroy Alfred, Foulet Lucien. Richeut, Old French poem of the twelfth century, with introduction, notes and glossary by I. C. Lecompte (Reprinted from The Romanic Review, vol. IV, n° 3, July-September, 1913). In: Romania, tome 43 n°172, 1914. pp. 597-600
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