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If you work with your voice, the voices of others or perhaps are simply interested in the voice, the GIVING VOICE FESTIVAL provides an extraordinary opportunity to learn from some of the very best teachers and performers in the world today and participate in vibrant discussion. 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). Joan Mills comments, “The voice, spoken and sung has been able to communicate ideas and emotions in ways that transcend language and meaning. The notion of a human psyche – the character’s innermost feelings and emotions laid bare in sound has been central to a wide range of performances. Quite how the voice can do this has not been so apparent, but now researchers in the field of neuroscience are looking at the powerful effect the voice has on cognition and the complex interaction of nerve structures, physical and chemical impulses which makes up the sentient, feeling, human and gives the performer the means of communication.” Key contributors include:, Frankie Armstrong (UK traditional and folk music performer); Enrique Pardo (founder of Pantheatre in France); founders of the Stemwerk Foundation in Rotterdam, Jean-René Toussaint & Anne-Marie Blink; Mariana Sadowska (Ukraine): Tomasz Rodowicz from the world renowned Gardzienice Theatre Association, from Siberia, Stepanida; from the USA Jonathan Hart-Makwaia (Roy Hart International Theatre) and leading Linklater teacher Judy Shahn; from Lappland, acclaimed Saami singer, Åsa Simma and from Wales, Volcano Theatre Company. 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 |
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Monday, January 26, 2004 |
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