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Hello,

I thought you might be very interested to know about the CPR's Giving Voice
festival. I have pasted the details below and hope that you can forward them
to friends and colleagues.

Thank you.

Antony Pickthall
Marketing & Development Director
Centre for Performance Research (CPR)
6, Science Park, Aberystwyth, SY23 3AH
Tel: +44 (0) 1970 621571
Fax: +44 (0) 1970 622132
E-mail: aop@xxxxac.uk         www.thecpr.org.uk

For the curious...opening up worlds of performance


GIVING VOICE 2004 - THINKING VOICE, FEELING VOICE
Towards a Philosophy & a Psychology of the Voice
International Festival of the Voice 2004

30 March - 3 April, Aberystwyth
(in association with University of Wales, Aberystwyth)
5 - 7 April, Cardiff
(in association with the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama)


Giving Voice - Wales? international festival of the voice - is bringing
together 20 of the world?s performers, teachers and thinkers in a unique
celebration of ?the voice in performance?. Since its first edition in 1990,
it has become highly regarded by voice artists and enthusiasts, attracting
participants and audiences alike from all around the world.

Each festival is programmed around a special theme - this year Giving Voice
is focusing on ?Thinking Voice, Feeling Voice? - to stir up debate and
discussion alongside an inspiring mix of vocal practice, vocal performance,
storytelling and theatre. The festival also includes the third ?gathering?
for community choirs in Wales.

This year the Festival will explore philosophies and psychologies which have
influenced and governed performance techniques, teaching practices,
analyses, valuations and understandings of the voice as well as offering
insights into the deep and enduring relationship between thinking, feeling
and utterance.

In addition to this programme of workshops there are informative and
entertaining presentations and performances. This evening programme will
enable a number of the performers and teachers at Giving Voice and other
special guests to present the philosophy and ideas which inform their
practice, to be open to questions and to provoke discussion and debate.

Giving Voice performances explore the Festival theme in its widest sense ?
whether it is the astonishing intricacies of Ukrainian ritual song (MARIANA
SADOWSKA), the powerful other-worldly sound of the Siberian Shaman
(STEPANIDA) or the deeply moving requiem theatre from Wales based Volcano
Theatre Company (THIS IMAGINARY WOMAN).


Key contributors include: Enrique Pardo (founder of Pantheatre in France);
Jean-René Toussaint & Anne-Marie Blink (founders of the Stemwerk Foundation
in Rotterdam); Mariana Sadowska (Ukraine); Tomasz Rodowicz (from the world
renowned Gardzienice Theatre Association, Poland), Stepanida (from Siberia);
Jonathan Hart-Makwaia (Roy Hart International Theatre, USA); Judith Shahn
(leading Linklater teacher); Åsa Simma (acclaimed Saami singer from Sweden)
and from Wales, Frankie Armstrong (UK traditional and folk music performer)
and Volcano Theatre Company (This Imaginary Woman).

Further information about booking tickets for any of the events at the
festival is available from the Centre for Performance Research (01970)
622133 and www.givingvoice.org.uk/projects/givingvoice2004.htm



GIVING VOICE 2004 ? Thinking Voice, Feeling Voice ? LISTINGS INFORMATION


Events include:

WORKSHOPS IN ABERYSTWYTH 30 March- 3 April

Four Day Workshops Tues 30 March ? Sat 3 April 4-day ticket

Enrique Pardo (Peru/France) - THE WONDERFUL WAR - BETWEEN VOICES AND WORDS
The workshop will build up improvisation structures with voice and text,
separately at first, and then bring them together with a strong emphasis on
disassociation tactics (in this respect this workshop is advanced.) It will
include extended voice range techniques and choreographic ensemble work.

Jean Rene Toussaint (Netherlands) - THE POWER OF BEING, THE TEMPTATION OF
DOING
Do we have one or several different voices in us: vertical voice and
horizontal voice; female voices and male voices; a voice for being and a
voice for doing; a voice for listening and a voice for expressing; voice as
a question and voice as an answer?

Two Day Workshops Wed 31 March ? Thu 1 April 2-day ticket

Anne Marie Blink (Netherlands) - I NEED YOU ??.
How can we sing what we feel, how can we express why a song is touching us?
By working with our body as a music instrument and feeling the vibrations of
the voice in our body we develop a personal connection with the song.

Mariana Sadowska (Ukraine) - THE RITUAL SONGS OF THE UKRAINE
In this workshop participants will share her knowledge of a selection of
ritual songs from the Ukraine ?including: songs used at weddings, songs to
?call? the Spring (Rusalni), songs to mark Midsummer?s Eve, (Trojitzki).

One Day Workshops  Friday 2 April 1-day ticket
Anne Marie Blink (Netherlands)

Mariana Sadowska (Ukraine)

One day introductory workshops aimed at non-professionals and those with
less experience.

One Day Workshops  Saturday 3 April 1-day ticket

Stepanida (Siberia) - SONGS OF THE SHAMAN
This type of Epic Storytelling, performed in the style of Toyuk (vibrating
singing of different motives to represent different characters ? good and
evil by the same performer) is performed by storytellers over three or four
days. The genre of Degeren ? a four-line poem performed in Kylykhakh
(throat-singing style, traditional for female shaman). They accompany the
rituals of ?feeding the spirits? and the others which come to us from the
centuries ago and still performed in Sakha today.

Sreenath Nair and Arya Madhavan (India) - BREATH, SPIRIT AND PERFORMANCE
Sreenath and Arya have developed a new method of actor training based on the
South Indian Shiva tradition of breathing and Kudiyattam, the oldest
existing Sanskrit theatre of India.


WORKSHOPS IN CARDIFF  5 ? 7 APRIL

Three Day Workshops Monday 5 ? Friday 7 April  (3-day ticket)

Jonathan Hart Makwaia (USA) - VOICE AND MUSIC
The workshop begins by exploring the voice as it is (range, character and
natural music) and moves on to singing and structures using other kinds of
vocal sound.  Jonathan?s work is rooted in Roy Hart Theatre training,
focussing particularly on the dynamic between performer and form.  Specific
exercises depend on the interests and experience of participants but are
likely to include musical improvisation, work on songs, and exploration of
voice as a source for composition.

Judith Shahn (USA) - 'I BELIEVE': DISCOVERING THE VOICE OF YOUR CORE BELIEFS
In the same way that Kristin Linklater and Carol Gilligan combined writing
(the metaphorical voice) with speaking (the physical voice), this workshop
aims to give people the opportunity to connect with their most passionate
expression by examining their core beliefs. Judy is a leading Linklater
teacher.

Asa Simma (Sweden) ? CARVING TIME WITH VOICE
Åsa Simma was born and grew up in Swedish Lapland, and her Saami identity is
crucial to her work. Åsa grew up in the 60?s ? a time when it was officially
forbidden for Saamis to ?jojka? ( to sing/chant in the Saami language).
This is a unique opportunity to gain some insight into this ancient and
powerful means of vocal expression and to receive training from a performer
of renown in both the folk and theatre worlds.

Tomasz Rodowicz (Poland): CHOREA: Towards the Voices of Antiquity
Tomasz is an actor, director and co-founder of the Gardzienice Theatre
Association in Poland. Through sharing Gardzienice methodologies, Tomek?s
workshop for Giving Voice will explore the theatrical musicality of both the
body and voice; structured around the unique modalities of ancient Greek
song and music - come prepared to be moved!


EVENING PERFORMANCES:


Wednesday  31 March, 8pm
Mariana Sadowska
In Concert
Parry Williams Building, Dept. Theatre, Film and Television Studies
Tickets: £7/£5


Friday 2 April, 8pm
Stepanida (Yakut-Sakha Siberia)
In Concert
Parry Williams Building, Dept. Theatre, Film and Television Studies
Tickets: £7/£5


Saturday 3 April, 8pm
Participatory Concert with Mariana Sadowska (part of Local Voices, Worlds of
Song)
Tabernacle, Machynlleth
Tickets: £5/£3


Tuesday 6 April, 8pm

Volcano Theatre Company (Wales)
This Imaginary Woman ? A Modern Requiem
Bute Theatre, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
Tickets: £7/£5
Written, Composed and Performed by Fern Smith and Patrick Fitzgerald
Co-commissioned by Battersea Arts Centre
A devastating personal testimony of bitter loss and tender memory.

Wednesday 7 April, 8pm

Jonathan Hart Makwaia (USA)
In concert
Bute Theatre, Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, Cardiff
The Wild Is Rising
 A solo concert for voice and piano - 90 minutes of mostly original music
integrating traditional and non-traditional voice.  Influences include East
African tribal music, classical music, blues and jazz.
Jonathan Hart Makwaia uses the concert form as a medium for transforming 30
years? vocal research into music.
"?unusually versatile??a spectacular display of vocal timbres and
techniques?"  The New York Times



EVENING PRESENTATIONS:

Frankie Armstrong (UK)
The Need to Sing
Frankie will speak about the philosophy underlying her own approach to voice
and singing, as well as the development and aims of the Natural Voice
Practitioners Network and its statement of philosophy. Frankie Armstrong is
a practitioner of worldwide renown with more than 40 years experience as a
singer and teacher.

Yvon Bonenfant (Canada)
Gut Feelings, Dynamic Voicings: Psychologies of the Vocal Body
This lively presentation will explore the role that emotional vocal
expression plays in allowing the human body to access extreme emotional
states safely and sanely. Yvon Bonenfant is a body and voice specialist who
creates somatic psychovocal live art and teaches and researches in the UK.

Dr Andrew Kimbrough (USA)
A Practitioners? Guide to Talking to Academics about the Voice
Film-maker, actor and scholar, Andrew has studied and worked in Sri Lanka,
Moscow and China as well as the USA and currently works as a dramaturg in
Los Angeles. His research area is theories of voice in twentieth century
thought and performance, and he will talk about why the voice has been
silenced in contemporary thought on actor training.


Alice Lagaay (UK/Germany)
Towards a Philosophy of Voice
Is there or can there be such a thing as a philosophy of voice? Alice will
suggest some of the main reasons why voice as a focus for enquiry has
traditionally been overlooked in the history of metaphysics as well as why
it is increasingly being constructed as a paradigm through which to
articulate a theory of human being-in-the-world. Alice Lagaay is a
researcher in the Collaborative Research Centre ?Cultures of the
Performative? at the Free University Berlin.

Tara MacAllister (UK)
?Is Sound Universal??
Tara explores the perceived shift in focus from culture/discipline specific
British Voice Training for Actors into a more international focus. Tara is a
teaching fellow and PhD researcher in Performance Practice- Voice at the
University of Exeter, School of Performance Arts.


Enrique Pardo (Peru/France)
Myths of the Voice
Enrique will present a project being set up for 2006 on ?Myths of the
Voice? - a collaboration between Pantheatre?s ?Myth and Theatre Festival?,
CPR and Giving Voice, the Roy Hart International Centre (Southern France),
and the Town of Naples. Theatre Director, actor, founder and co-director of
Pantheatre, Enrique Pardo is also a mythology specialist and directs the
international Myth and Theatre Festival.

Dr. Ralf Peters (Germany)
Liberation and Limitation of the Voice Through Thinking
Ralf will talk about the difficulties of thinking about voice: he will
consider philosophical, historical and aesthetic aspects of the voice,
focusing on the idea of ?the beautiful voice? and its effect on our
understanding of the voice on the whole. Ralf Peters is a voice artist in
the field of extended voice movement. He is a voice teacher in Cologne,
Germany and as a doctor of philosophy also thinks and writes about the
voice.

Judith Shahn (USA)
Interview Texts : the search for a cross cultural approach in dialects and
accent training
Judith will talk about the profound results yielded through work she has
developed using dialect research interviews as performance texts. She has
been head of voice and speech at the University of Washington?s professional
actor training programme since 1990.  She trained with Kristin Linklater and
became a designated teacher in 1992, and is one of the leading vocal and
dialect coaches in the Northwest of the USA. Inspired by the work of Anna
Deveare Smith,

Jean-René Toussaint (France/Netherlands)
Stemwerk
Jean-René is director of he Stemwerk Foundation in Rotterdam, now the
largest voice institution of its kind in the Netherlands. He will talk about
his work over the past 15 years, which has included collaboration with
artists such as Jerzy Grotowski, Robert Wilson and companies such as
Festival d'Avignon, Theatre de Radeau, Theatre de Feu, The Living Theatre,
Bread and Puppet Theatre and the Roy Hart Theatre.

Joanna Weir-Ouston (UK/Australia)
The Moment of Magic
When a person connects deeply with the text and his or her breath, a moment
of performance magic occurs. The thinking, feeling voice emerges with a
profound richness of resonance, emotional connection and meaning which
instantly echoes in the hearts and minds of the audience.  Joanna will
explore this ?moment of magic?. Joanna Weir-Ouston is an accomplished Voice
and Text teacher of international repute.

Linda Wise (Kenya/France)
Voice & Soul
Linda will reflect on a vision of the voice that engages the widest possible
perspective on each person?s individuality. Co-founder and Director of
Pantheatre, Linda is invited to teach and direct throughout the world. She
worked with Roy Hart from 1969 until his death in 1975. She was a member of
the original Roy Hart Theatre and a founder member of the Roy Hart Centre in
the South of France.

LOCAL VOICES, WORLDS OF SONG   Saturday 3 April

An opportunity for community choirs in Wales to celebrate singing for
pleasure - to meet, share ideas, enthusiasm and skills, participate in
workshops around the new song cycle, The Traveller, commissioned for the
Community Choirs of Wales from Welsh composer Karl Jenkins.


BOOKING DETAILS AND NOTES

FESTIVAL TICKETS
1 DAY FESTIVAL TICKET (Aberystwyth) £60 (£45 unwaged)
2 DAY FESTIVAL TICKET (Aberystwyth) £115 (£95 unwaged)
3 DAY FESTIVAL TICKET (Cardiff, Aberystwyth) £165 (£130 unwaged)
4 DAY FESTIVAL TICKET (Aberystwyth): £205 (£165 unwaged)
FULL FESTIVAL TICKETS: £350 (£275 unwaged)


Antony Pickthall
Marketing & Development Director
Centre for Performance Research (CPR)
6, Science Park, Aberystwyth, SY23 3AH
Tel: +44 (0) 1970 621571
Fax: +44 (0) 1970 622132
E-mail: aop@xxxxac.uk         www.thecpr.org.uk

For the curious...opening up worlds of performance