Louis Leroux, Concordia University

Research

Read how they describe their research on their Concordia University profile.

Latest funding

Performative research and dissemination: contemporary circus dramaturgy
SSHRC · 2017 · Principal investigator
$20,000
Colloque les formes populaires de l'oralité chez Victor-Lévy Beaulieu
SSHRC · 2016 · Principal investigator
$10,023
Encounters with circus and its others
SSHRC · 2015 · Co-investigator
$23,571

All 6 grants and awards

No publications available.

Performative research and dissemination: contemporary circus dramaturgy

Principal investigatorSSHRC2017Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Leroux, Louis Patrick

Keywords: research-creation; performative research dissemination; contemporary circus; dramaturgy; writing the body

$20,000

Colloque les formes populaires de l'oralité chez Victor-Lévy Beaulieu

Principal investigatorSSHRC2016Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Leroux, Louis Patrick

Keywords: Victor-Lévy Beaulieu; contes; téléromans; télévision; théâtre; genres et culture populaires; oralité; archives

$10,023

Encounters with circus and its others

Co-investigatorSSHRC2015Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Fricker, Karen P.

Keywords: contemporary circus; contemporary performing arts; theatre and performance studies; gender studies; queer studies; disability studies; Quebec culture; social circus

$23,571

L'initiation des enfants à la pratique des arts du cirque et ses effets sur la littératie physique, la créativité et la résilience

Co-investigatorSSHRC2015Partnership Development Grants

Keywords: arts du cirque; littératie physique; créativité; résilience; pédagogie

$239,785

Régimes socio-esthétiques du théâtre au Québec 1945-2015 : synthèse historique

Co-investigatorSSHRC2014Insight Grants

Principal investigators: David, Gilbert

Keywords: histoire du théâtre; socio-esthétique;poétique du drame; histoire culturelle; analyse du discours

$347,046

The State of Circus Research in Québec: Workshop session on the Models and Conditions of Possibility

Principal investigatorSSHRC2011Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada

Principal investigators: Leroux, Louis Patrick

Keywords: circus in Québec; Cirque du Soleil; circus training; urban and creative economics; interdisciplinary aesthetics

$17,507

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

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