Vol. 13 No.2
VASTA
Spring/Summer 1999 p. 12
National and International Events, Workshops and Training Opportunities
Contributions by Naomi Frenkel and Marlene Johnson
Although
some application deadlines and events have passed, you may want to look
to the summer of 2000 and plan ahead. (For more complete current information,
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For your information:
March 22-26 - The Central School of Speech and Drama in London, a week of intensive voice work. The week involved five morning sessions with Stephen Cheng on The Tao of Voice and/or five afternoon sessions on Voice and the Alexander Technique with Glynn Macdonald. For more information on future workshops contact The Central School of Speech and Drama voice program, Lieth McPherson - or write: CSSD, 64 Eton Avenue, London UK NW3 3HY. PH - 44- 171 -559-3921 FAX - 44- 171 -722-4132
April 1-10 - The Centre for Preformance Research presented the Giving Voice 6: A Divinity of the Voice, An International Festival, Aberystwyth, Wales, UK. Since 1980 the CPR has been introducing the work of outstanding international voice practitioners to a wide range of participants via an informal series of workshops, lecture demonstrations and performances. Over 100 voice practitioners have taught or performed in Wales, many for the first time in the UK, through this programme. The April GIVING VOICE project has become an established event in the performance training calendar and a highlight in the diary of anyone who is passionate about the voice in performance. It is founded on the belief that the human voice is a vital means of creative expression and communication, as diverse and subtle as all the peoples of the earth, and each individual on it. The voice has the ability to communicate beyond language and cultural difference, so in times when diversity may seem to produce only strife and separation, let us explore those qualities within the sounds of the voice which can allow people, from wherever they come, to enjoy the riches of difference and the recognition and celebration of a common humanity. GIVING VOICE brings together a mix of voices: male and female; culturally and racially diverse; of various ages and performance experience. For details on the festival programme, fees, registration and accommodation, please contact: Fiona Smith, Centre for Performance Research, 8 Science Park, Aberystwyth SY23 3AH, UK. Fax: +44 (0) 1970 622 132. E-mail: or visit their website at .
May 16-June 18 - Canada's National Voice Intensive. Plays being studied: ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, AS YOU LIKE IT, RICHARD II and THE WINTER'S TALE.
May 25-September 5 - Shakespeare & Company's Summer Training Institute: $5,300 (includes month-long June intensive). The Mount, PO Box 865, Lenox, MA01240; 413-637-1199, x114.
May 29-June 2 - Focusing the Voice on Musical Theatre! An Intensive Voice Workshop with Joan Melton And David Nevell, sponsored by the Department of Theatre and Dance, California State University, Fullerton. Regardless of your technique, training and experience, this workshop will integrate the speaking and singing voice in a way that is rare and vitally freeing, for you and for your students! You will leave the workshop knowing considerably more about your own voice, and feeling a sense of confidence and pleasure about singing and speaking in the theatre. You will have specific exercises to use on your own and with your students, as well as an understanding of the principles behind the exercises. The fee for the workshop is $360. For information on future workshops please contact: Joan Melton at (714) 278-2164
July 5-15 - The following (along with many others) is being offered by Theatre du Mouvement: VOICE, MOVE- MENT, SONOROUS OBJECT: Henri Ogier & Dominique Montain. August 14-20 - Claire Heggen, Vicente Fuentes. Theatre du Mouvement, 21 Rue du Grande Prieure,75011, Paris France. 33 (01) 48 06 46 58 Fax: 33 (01) 43 38 13 99.
June 13-July 24 For the first time, New World Theater and Ko Theater Works join together to present a summer of workshops and performances, all on the Amherst College campus. Through this unique partnership the two companies will offer a series of events beginning June 13. June 13 - 20 Intersection Institute: Two one-week intensive artists-technique-workshops, led by Rhodessa Jones, and Nobuko Miyamoto. Rhodessa Jones, Co-Artistic Director of Cultural Odyssey of San Francisco, opens and explores issues concerning women, race and empower- ment using movement, text and text writing, vocalization and dream-gazing. Nobuko Miyamoto, Founder and Artistic Director of Great Leap Inc. of Los Angeles, connects breath, body and memory to mine for stories and find the marriage between form and content using techniques from yoga and tai chi. The Ko season includes three workshops: July 4-10 Creative Writing for Performance. Using the techniques of automatic writing, storytelling, gender deconstruction and associative imagery, Deb Margolin, founding member of the Split Britches Theatre Company, and Yale University faculty member, invites participants to discover a lasting relationship between the desire to create material for performance and the source from which truthful and resonant material comes and can always come. July 12-17 Shakespeare Dreaming. Emphasizing the structure and muscularity of the language, this performance workshop will give the actor valuable tools so that he/she can own the text and bring it to a life of immediacy and individuality. Shakespeare Dreaming will be led by Robert Langdon Lloyd, noted for his work with the Royal Shakespeare Company and in many of Peter Brook's celebrated productions. July 19-24 A Theater of Objects. New York-based multimedia performance artist Theodora Skipitares, noted for her unusual adult puppet performances that frequently incorporate historic figures or incidents, will lead a workshop in which students will engage with texts and craft materials to create a theatre of performing objects that will vary in scale from the miniature to the fantastic. For more information on KO Workshops or Performances call (413) 256-6385 or e-mail For more information on New WORLD Intersection Institute workshops or New World Theater performances call (413) 545-1972 or e-mail.
June 18-20 - Los Angeles Joy Of Phonetics/Bringing Speech to Life Workshop, with Louis Colaianni and Claudia Anderson, for Voice and Speech teachers, coaches and other theatre professionals, at A Noise Within, Glendale, CA, (818) 248-6490; e-mail: geordiemac@earthlink.net
June 22-26 Fitzmaurice Voicework 5-day Intensive to be held at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge. If yo uwish to attend a Fitzmaurice Workshop, please contact Nancy Houfek for future scheduling: (617) 496-2000x8875 or houfek@fas.harvard.edu
June
25-August 11 - Inside French Theatre: From Audience to Actor. The George
Washington University announces "Inside French Theatre: From Audience
to Actor" in the Alsace region of France and Corsica. Applications are
due by April 1, 1999. Program price: $2,595. Includes tuition and fees,
lodging, course materials, most meals and transportation between Mulhouse
and Corsica. For more information please contact the GWU Of fice of
Summer, Special and International Programs, The George Washington University,
Washington, DC 20052, 202-994-6360,
New York University's School of Education is offering: Educational Theatre In London June 26-July 18 and Cork, Ireland July 23-August 14. 12 Graduate credits working with leaders in the drama-in-education movement. Application deadline: April 1,1999. Info and fees: (212) 998-5090, New York University, School Of Education, Of fice of Special Programs, 82 Washington Square, New York, NY 10211 -0221 Web Site:http://www.nyu.edu/studyabroad
June 29-July 11 - Three Workshops are being offered by Shakespeare and Company in the Berkshires this summer 1. Fooling Around with Shakespeare: Voice, movement, comic texts along with study of four archetypes: Mask, Buffoon, Clown and Fool. 2. The Violent Will: Hand-to-hand stage-fighting as well as an examination of the physical language of violence in Shakespeare. Voice, movement and text work. Teachers: Master Fight Teacher, Tony Simotes and Dr. Jim Gilligan, author of VIOLENCE: OUR DEADLY EPIDEMIC AND ITS CAUSES, along with other S & Co. faculty. Certificate offered. 3. Teachers & Actors: Putting Shakespeare in the Hands of Adolescents: Offers actors and teachers tools to assist in bringing students a more personal and powerful connection to Shakespeare's texts. These three are offered simultaneously and in addition to Shakespeare and Company's traditionally offered month-long Acting Intensive. Call 413-637-l l99 x114 for more information.
June 29-July 11 - Celebration Barn Theatre offers a Roy Hart Workshop led by Carol Mendelsohn and Robert Harvey. Classes are taught in a large, old barn that has been recycled into an "empty space" theatre. The barn also contains "dorm rooms" on the second floor. Individuals make their own meals in the kitchen in the barn. It is out in the country, outside South Paris, ME up on a mountain and is a wonderful, freeing environment in which to do voice work. Cost: $675.00, includes housing.
July 2-September 29 - The Roy Hart Centre in France announces 23 one week workshops dealing with the voice. They are being held at: Chateau MALERARGUES,30140 Thoiras, France, tel: 04 66 85 45 98 fax: 04 66 85 25 57. The brochure is available from this address or request by e-mail: . These three are especially for people who have familiarity with Roy Hart work; students are selected. Send CV and "Letter of Motivation ': June 14-June 30 - Two-week Intensive Residential Workshops in Malerargues: "Intensive Voice, Body Training, Song and Expression." David Goldsworthy, Anne-Marie Le Tron, Derek Rossignol, Judi Wilson, David Vincent. Sept ember 9-28 - The Creative Voice: International Workshop" Kaya Anderson, Pascale Ben, Ultrik Barfod, and Albino Bignamini. October 5-Nov 6 - Five-Week Intensive Vocal Workshop - Carol Mendelsohn, Saule Ryan, Derek Rossignol, David Goldsworthy, Judi Wilson.
July 6-31 - The Gaiety Summer School, Dublin, Ireland, The Gaiety School of Acting, Sycamore Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, Ireland, e-mail:gaiety.school@indigo.edu .
Royal Natl. Theatre in London and the Oxford School of Drama (NOT the same as BADA offering). Summer session courses offered are: July 5-16 Professional Voice Teachers Course with Patsy Rodenburg July 11-August 7 Oxford School of drama July 12-29: l999 Summer Acting Program for Professional actors July 19-30 1999 Alumni Acting Program All courses require auditions (which begin Mar 15) except Patsy's class which requires a professional/academic resume and statement of purpose. Contact Atlantic Overtures, 3549 North 47th Ave, Omaha, NE 68104. Tel/fax 402-453-3872 e-mail: for application packet and information.
July 19-August 6 - Noh Training Project 1999. This summer the Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble will again act as the host for 1999 Noh Training Project with internationally acclaimed Noh expert Richard Emmert. Now in its fifth summer, the Noh Training Project is a three week intensive, performance-based training in the dance, chant, music, and performance history of Japanese Noh Drama. Again this summer, Mr. Emmert will be joined for the final week of training by Noh Master actor/teacher Akira Matsui. In addition to teaching traditional performance practice, Matsui will lead special sessions designed to help participants create new work using Noh techniques with non-Noh musical accompaniment and/or text. The training project culminates in a final recital for an invited public. Costs: $1,300.00 for three weeks: includes tuition, housing, tabi, and Kita noh fan. Application Deadline: May 1, 1999. For information send to: Noh Training Project, c/o Learning Tomorrow, 53 West Main Street, Bloomsburg, PA 17815. Phone: (570) 387-8270 Fax: (570) 784-4160 e-mail: learnto@csrlink.net www.bte.org
July 23-28, July 30-August 4 Voice Seminar 1999 - How to Develop Healthy Habits, Cross-over Techniques/ Interdisciplinary interactivity between Speech Pathologists, singing and theatre teachers, voice scientists, otolaryngologists, choral directors, shool music teachers, advanced students. Faculty includes Oren Brown, Robert Bastian, Daniel Boone. Contact Voice Seminar 1999, Utah State University, 4015 University Avenue, Logan, UT 84322-4015, (435) 797=3015, FAX (435) 797-1862, E-mail cdewey@hass.usu.edu . College & CEU credits available.
July
27-August 1 - Pantheatre's new web site
August 22-28 - Celebration Barn Theatre in South Paris Maine is hosting a Roy Hart Theatre Voice Workshop. Seven days, $675.00 includes the workshop and lodging and 2 meals. Call: 207 743.8452 or fax 207.743.3889.
August 29-September 5 - Odin week in Holstebro, Denmark. The program includes: physical and vocal training, demonstrations by Teatret actors, "The Odin Tradition," a meeting with Eugenio Barba and evening performances by Odin Teatret. The fee of DKK 4.500 includes double room, and three meals a day. A written application must be submitted by June 8, limited to 50 participants. Contact: odinteat@post4.tele.dk tel:(+45)97 42 47 77 fax: (+45) 97 41 04 82 http://www.odinteatret.dk.
September 22-27 - Tacit Knowledge - Heritage And Waste, an international symposium to be held in Holstebro, Denmark. Application deadline: July 31. The program will include presentation of: Japanese Noh, Balinese Gambuh, Korean shaman ritual and European classical ballet. Fee: 2,000 DK, board and room NOT included.
October 13-31 - Six productions of Eugenio Barba & Odin Teatret at La Mama Theatre In NYC. Contact: La MaMa E.T.C., 74A East Fourth St., NY, NY 10003. The London Academy of Performing Art offers Classical theatre training in London: Shakespearean Acting Summer School (for beginning and advance), Classical Acting Semester, 1-Year Post Graduate Classical Acting, Directing. London Academy of Performing Arts, St. Matthew's Church, St. Petersburgh Place, London, W2 4LY UK. Tel (011 44) 171 -727-0220.
Paul
Newham and the staff at the London Voice Centre are offering a three
month Fast Track program consisting of The Healing Voice, The Creative
Voice and the Professional Voice programs. This training is ideal for
those who -wish to work towards full qualification with the Professional
Diploma in Voice Movement Therapy, and can make themselves available
for a concentrated period of study. The dates of the program are June
20th - Sept. 10,1999. To receive more information you may contact Voice
Movement Therapy, The Oxford & Cambridge University and Royal Society
of Arts Examinations Board, PO Box 4218, London SE22 OJE. Tel: +44 (0)
181 693 9502, Fax: +44 (0) 181 299 6127. E-mail:info@voicework.com
. Check out the web site www.voicework.com
September 6ãOctober 8 - International Workshop Festival at the London Studio Centre: Week-long workshop in London entitled POST-ROY HART led by Canada's Richard Armstrong: Between Character and Performer.
August 6-9, 2000 - Global Voices, VASTA'S International Voice Conference, Washington, DC, hosted by George Mason University. Plan now to attend and listen to voices around the world.
September-October,
2000 - The following workshops are being offered by the PASSAGES AND
DIALOGUES: "This project is about how people, listen to and learn from
each other, how we can renegociate familiar problems by approaching
them from different perspectives. This festival will consist of four
"strands": 1. The dialogue between Text and Performance; 2. Dialogues
across artformsãinterdisciplinary practice (in association with the
European networkãLes Transversales); 3.)The dialogue between the martial
and the performing arts; 4.) Forgotten passages: Dominique Dupuy will
lead a team of experts in an exploration of the hugely influential movement
traditions of the early 1900's. Separate workshops in Leeds: September
20-24, Belfast: September 27-October 1, Coventry: October 4-8. International
Workshop Festival, Battersea Arts Centre, Lavendar Hill, Battersea,
London, SW 11 STN; Tel. 0171 924 7733 Web: www.i-w-f.demon.co.uk
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