Program

Download the ISPS 2009 program, including the conference schedule and abstracts booklet:
Overview
Tuesday, 15 December 2009
| 14:00-17:00 | Registration |
| 17:05-17:35 | Kapa Haka performance |
| 17:35-18:05 | Whakatau and welcome to ISPS 2009 |
| 18:05-18:15 | Brief intermission |
| 18:15-19:15 | Keynote address Robert Winston (Imperial College London) Performance, science, and society |
| 19:15- | Reception |
Wednesday, 16 December 2009
| 08:30-09:00 | Registration |
| 09:00-10:00 | Keynote address K. Anders Ericsson (Florida State University) Discovering deliberate practice activities that overcome plateaus and limits on improvement of performance |
| 10:00-10:30 | Break |
| 10:30-12:00 | Thematic sessions Physical and psychological vulnerabilities in performers The vocabulary of performance Performance analysis |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30-15:00 | Thematic sessions Performance science: Implications for practice Expression and interpretation I Expertise development |
| 15:00-15:30 | Break |
| 15:30-17:00 | Thematic sessions Performance science (cont.) Expression and interpretation II Memory and performance |
| 17:00-17:15 | Break |
| 17:15-18:00 | Graduate award paper María Herrojo Ruiz (Hanover University of Music and Drama) Fast feedforward error-detection mechanisms in highly skilled performance |
| 18:00-18:30 | Break |
| 18:30- | Screening and exhibition |
Thursday, 17 December 2009
| 08:30-09:00 | Registration |
| 09:00-10:00 | Keynote address Deidre Anderson (Macquarie University) A balanced approach to excellence: Life skill intervention and elite performance |
| 10:00-10:30 | Break |
| 10:30-11:30 | Poster session |
| 11:30-13:00 | Thematic sessions Musician's dystonia: New aspects in treatment Understanding performance The perception of technique |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00-15:30 | Thematic sessions Musician's dystonia (cont.) Emotion in performance |
| 15:30-16:00 | Break |
| 16:00-17:00 | Workshops Hearing and the noise of performance Taking microtonal music into the mainstream The art and science of historical performance |
| 17:00-17:45 | Break |
| 17:45-18:45 | Ferry to Waiheke Island |
| 18:45- | Conference dinner |
Friday, 18 December 2009
| 08:30-09:00 | Registration |
| 09:00-10:30 | Thematic sessions Student musicians' motivation, learning, and performance Performers' health Performance and life factors |
| 10:30-11:00 | Break |
| 11:00-12:30 | Thematic sessions Student musicians' motivation (cont.) Physicality of performance Defining performance |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30-15:00 | Thematic sessions Psychology of performance Perceiving performance |
| 15:00-15:15 | Break |
| 15:15-16:15 | Keynote address Sylvie Fortin (University of Québec at Montreal) The dominant artistic discourse as a health determinant |
| 16:15-17:00 | Closing remarks and announcement of ISPS 2011 |
