Colleen Renihan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4073160 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Colleen Renihan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Colleen |
| FAMILY NAME | Renihan |
| SIGNATURE | RENIHAN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4480-6044 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Creative aging and lifelong learning through singing
Activities involving the integration of singing, with movement, dance, and story (Singing+), can serve as rich sites of creative aging, performativity, and pedagogical inclusion. This scoping review examines how singing, in combination with movement, dance, and/or story, which we refer to as Singing+, enhances the quality of life for older adults. The potential impacts of combining singing with movement, dance, and/or story are particularly signi…
Rape at the Opera
Margaret Cormier’s Rape at the Opera: Staging Sexual Violence confronts the flagrant issue of staging sexual violence on the operatic stage through the examination of contemporary treatments of canonic works such as Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Strauss’s Salome, Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail, and Rossini’s Guillaume Tell. The book is timely, particularly as operatic communities continue to grapple with the implications of the #MeToo movement b…
Creativity, agency, and stability
This research study aims to illuminate Canadian musicians’ portfolio careers across the cultural domains. Previous research has highlighted the career paths of music graduates directly after graduation, and other research has highlighted the experiences of well-known performers or pedagogues. However, little is known about music graduates who persist and establish careers in music. We interviewed twelve musicians working in a variety of Canadian …
Réimaginer la scène Zoom en tant qu’espace crip
L’intérêt croissant porté à la question de l’espace dans les études sur le théâtre et la performance a montré que ce même espace est inhéremment politique. Comme nous le rappelle Kim Solga, « il organise nos relations ; il structure nos relations de pouvoir (économique, politique, genré, etc.) » (2019 : 2). L’âge et les capacités ne sont pas mentionnés ici, bien qu’ils soient profondément et de manière critique affectés par la dynamique des espac…
Supporting wellbeing through place-making in virtual musicking for older adults
In this paper, we describe ways that older adults in the context of an online music and movement program used music, movement, and the Zoom platform to create places that fostered positive wellbeing during the period of lockdown in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic and how they continue to do so afterwards. Establishing and supporting place-making was particularly important during the COVID-19 pandemic, given that place was restricted and r…
Grand Opera, Musical Brothel
In the 1970s and 1980s, a flurry of activity in music theatre—a genre combining the genres of musical theatre, experimental theatre, and opera—prompted the creation of several new Canadian opera/music theatre companies specializing in crossover work, along with a creative outpouring of original genre-defying pieces. In this paper, I explore this period of generic experimentation in the history of Canadian opera, focusing on the work of the innova…
Pitching Opera
The Banff Summer Festival of the Arts and the Stratford Summer Music Festival have been unrecognized sites of operatic innovation in Canada. Indeed, the flourishing of what might be termed “new music theater” in Canada is imbricated with the history of these two festivals. Archival research reveals that the inventive, often revolutionary, approaches to music theater honed at Stratford and Banff from 1970–1990 ultimately defined the course of Cana…
The Little Angels of Popera
The emphasis that child “popera” stars like Charlotte Church, Jackie Evancho, and Amira Willighagen place on the sacred has serious ramifications for opera’s meaning in contemporary popular culture. On one hand, these singers bring opera to the masses and, in the words of Lawrence Levine, fight against “the idea that culture is for an elite audience only, and that it cannot come from the young, the inexperienced, the untutored, the marginal” (252…
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Pitching Opera
The Banff Summer Festival of the Arts and the Stratford Summer Music Festival have been unrecognized sites of operatic innovation in Canada. Indeed, the flourishing of what might be termed “new music theater” in Canada is imbricated with the history of these two festivals. Archival research reveals that the inventive, often revolutionary, approaches to music theater honed at Stratford and Banff from 1970–1990 ultimately defined the course of Cana…
The Little Angels of Popera
The emphasis that child “popera” stars like Charlotte Church, Jackie Evancho, and Amira Willighagen place on the sacred has serious ramifications for opera’s meaning in contemporary popular culture. On one hand, these singers bring opera to the masses and, in the words of Lawrence Levine, fight against “the idea that culture is for an elite audience only, and that it cannot come from the young, the inexperienced, the untutored, the marginal” (252…
Grand Opera, Musical Brothel
In the 1970s and 1980s, a flurry of activity in music theatre—a genre combining the genres of musical theatre, experimental theatre, and opera—prompted the creation of several new Canadian opera/music theatre companies specializing in crossover work, along with a creative outpouring of original genre-defying pieces. In this paper, I explore this period of generic experimentation in the history of Canadian opera, focusing on the work of the innova…
Supporting wellbeing through place-making in virtual musicking for older adults
In this paper, we describe ways that older adults in the context of an online music and movement program used music, movement, and the Zoom platform to create places that fostered positive wellbeing during the period of lockdown in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic and how they continue to do so afterwards. Establishing and supporting place-making was particularly important during the COVID-19 pandemic, given that place was restricted and r…
Creativity, agency, and stability
This research study aims to illuminate Canadian musicians’ portfolio careers across the cultural domains. Previous research has highlighted the career paths of music graduates directly after graduation, and other research has highlighted the experiences of well-known performers or pedagogues. However, little is known about music graduates who persist and establish careers in music. We interviewed twelve musicians working in a variety of Canadian …
Réimaginer la scène Zoom en tant qu’espace crip
L’intérêt croissant porté à la question de l’espace dans les études sur le théâtre et la performance a montré que ce même espace est inhéremment politique. Comme nous le rappelle Kim Solga, « il organise nos relations ; il structure nos relations de pouvoir (économique, politique, genré, etc.) » (2019 : 2). L’âge et les capacités ne sont pas mentionnés ici, bien qu’ils soient profondément et de manière critique affectés par la dynamique des espac…
Rape at the Opera
Margaret Cormier’s Rape at the Opera: Staging Sexual Violence confronts the flagrant issue of staging sexual violence on the operatic stage through the examination of contemporary treatments of canonic works such as Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Strauss’s Salome, Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail, and Rossini’s Guillaume Tell. The book is timely, particularly as operatic communities continue to grapple with the implications of the #MeToo movement b…
Creative aging and lifelong learning through singing
Activities involving the integration of singing, with movement, dance, and story (Singing+), can serve as rich sites of creative aging, performativity, and pedagogical inclusion. This scoping review examines how singing, in combination with movement, dance, and/or story, which we refer to as Singing+, enhances the quality of life for older adults. The potential impacts of combining singing with movement, dance, and/or story are particularly signi…
Art (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Opera (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Theater, Performance, and Music History (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Creativity (2 works) · Diverse Music Education Insights (2 works) · Diversity and Impact of Dance (2 works)