{"id":452,"date":"2016-04-01T09:31:28","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T09:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/?p=452"},"modified":"2016-04-01T14:34:17","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T14:34:17","slug":"yelena-moscovich-leads-a-night-walk-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/2016\/04\/01\/yelena-moscovich-leads-a-night-walk-in-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Yelena Moskovich Leads a Night Walk in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yelena Moskovich, whose recent debut novel\u00a0<em>The Natashas<\/em>\u00a0has been earning stellar reviews across Europe, visited Kent MA students as part of Paris: The Residency, a Kent module in Creative Writing. Led by Moskovich and instructor Adam Biles, the evening began at Shakespeare and Company for a reading and discussion of her book. It continued on the Place de Notre Dame, where students practised &#8217;embodying&#8217; pedestrians, discreetly imitating their gait and movements as the basis for\u00a0developing\u00a0fictional\u00a0characters. On the Quai de la Tournelle, students focused on their sense of hearing, alternatively listening to and writing the Parisian soundscape.<\/p>\n<p>Olivia Rosenthal, one of the\u00a0Paris MA students in Creative Writing, commented: \u2018We saw places by night that we might have missed by day. We were definitely out of our comfort zone some of the time. Yelena has a background in acting and that helped us to see character from a new angle. It was challenging and fulfilling to try and be somebody else.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/files\/2016\/04\/Yelena.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-451\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-451 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/files\/2016\/04\/Yelena-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"Yelena\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/files\/2016\/04\/Yelena-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/files\/2016\/04\/Yelena.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yelena Moskovich (pictured) is the keynote speaker at the MA conference on Motion at Reid Hall, Kent\u2019s base in Paris, on Monday 6 June \u2014 part of a week-long MA festival. <a href=\"https:\/\/motioninparis.wordpress.com\">Click here for further details. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2016\/jan\/14\/the-natashas-yelena-moskovich-review-debut-novel\"><em>The Guardian&#8217;<\/em>s review of <em>The Natashas<\/em> is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yelena Moskovich, whose recent debut novel\u00a0The Natashas\u00a0has been earning stellar reviews across Europe, visited Kent MA students as part of Paris: The Residency, a Kent module in Creative Writing. Led by Moskovich and instructor Adam Biles, the evening began at Shakespeare and Company for a reading and discussion of her book. It continued on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40372,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions\/456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}