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CPR Projects : Festivals
LOCATED IN WALES working nationally and internationally
Giving Voice is an established international event which has the aim of advancing the appreciation and understanding of the voice in performance through practical research and a celebration of its many and varied manifestations throughout time and culture. It brings together those who have an interest in the voice but who will not necessarily meet in the course of their practice: academics and practitioners; performers from a variety of disciplines; teachers of spoken voice and singing teachers; those with an experimental interest and those who favour traditional methodology; those from the world of medical knowledge of the vocal mechanism and those interested in the spiritual dimensions and healing properties of voice work. Giving Voice explores the voice through a series of themed meetings during which there are workshops, lecture demonstrations, discussions and performances and a symposium. These take place in April biennially and attract a wide range of participants from the performing arts but also from voice therapy, laryngology, teaching, linguistics, communication studies etc. as well as the general public.
There have been eleven sessions of GIVING VOICE since 1990:
• 1990 First explorations - Cardiff
• 1994 A Geography of the Voice 1 - Cardiff
• 1995 A Geography of the Voice 2 - Cardiff
• 1996 An Archaeology of the Voice 1 - Cardiff
• 1997 An Archaeology of the Voice 2 - Aberystwyth
• 1999 A Divinity of the Voice - Aberystwyth
• 2002 The Voice Politic - Aberystwyth & Cardiff
• 2004 Towards a Philosophy and Psychology of the Voice
- Aberystwyth & Cardiff
• 2006 Myths of the Voice - Aberystwyth
• 2008 Breath Inspiration Voice - Aberystwyth
• 2009 Harmonic Accord: Encounters Through Song - Wroclaw, Poland
Please note: As a development of its own archives CPR documents all its activities. Participants should therefore expect that workshop sessions will be appropriately recorded as a matter of course. Participation in CPR events is on the understanding that CPR is free to use such documentation in any manner in the future for its own publicity, archival and publication purposes.
Upcoming festivals
GIVING VOICE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF THE VOICE
10th - 14th November 2010, Teatro Era, Pontedera, Italy
Giving Voice 12: Hearken! Do you Hear An Angel?
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Giving Voice springs from a strong belief in the voice’s ability to communicate beyond language and cultural difference, and that working with the voice can allow people, from wherever they come, to enjoy and value the riches of difference as well as the recognition and celebration of a common humanity. At its heart is the idea of koinonia, in the ancient Greek sense of choros and congregation, encountering ourselves and each other through the voice.
Giving Voice attracts some of the world’s finest performers and voice teachers. Workshop teachers and performers at Giving Voice 12: Hearken! Do you hear an Angel? include: Stepanida Borosova (Siberia), Mariana Sadowska (Ukraine), Giovanna Marini (Italy), Francesca della Monica (Italy), Vadhat Ensemble (Iran) and Teatr ZAR (Poland).
Join us for an uplifting compendium of two to four day voice workshops, performances, talks, and lecture-demonstrations reflecting voices, methods and modes from around the world.
Giving Voice 12: Hearken! Do you hear an Angel?
There is a difference between hearing and listening, and the distinction is anatomical. Hearing is basic and physical. Listening is complex and cognitive... The process starts with attention and then extends into the complex cross-referencing of the brain, including memory, perception, images, thought, imagination, and consciousness. The pathway travels from sensation to feeling to imagination to thought.....Listening is an action. It is an encounter with the world....listening is a creative act, and it can be an act of love.
Anne Bogart
This edition of the Giving Voice Festival - GV12: Hearken! Do you hear an Angel? - takes as thematic constellation two vital organs for the voice - the heart and the ear - aiming to explore auditory pathways to and from the heart, through sound, song and musicality. Each of us as echo chamber of aural universes, each of us as ‘re-sounding listeners’, tuning and attuned to the other: listening as a creative act, and an act of love.
That missing fundamental that we ‘think’ we hear? Is it an angel singing? In calling angels forth, we are listening for the missing fundamental, the ‘virtual pitch’, the immaterial, the phantom in and of the imagination, and the voices of the past and the future.
The vocal artists gathered for Giving Voice 12 are inheritors and keepers of rich oral traditions - perhaps learned literally at their grandmothers’ knee - traditions from which they take inspiration and with which they remain in dynamic, innovative artistic dialogue.
Giving Voice 12 offers encounter and dialogue through workshop and performance with a range of traditions that embrace the melodic and the melismatic, cadence, emotional affect, the monophonic and the polyphonic as essential modal components: a meeting of voices. You are warmly invited to listen and to sing!
Giving Voice is an established international gathering mounted in Wales by the Centre for Performance Research (CPR). It aims to advance the appreciation and understanding of the expressive voice and celebrate its many and varied manifestations across time and culture. Sharing ideas and practice through workshop, performance, and discussion, the festival brings together those - performers, teachers, scholars, healers - who have an interest in the voice but who may not necessarily meet in the usual course of their practice.
This twelfth edition of Giving Voice is hosted by, and conceived in collaboration with,Teatro Era, Pontedera.
PONTEDERA
Pontedera is an important town in Tuscany, just 31 km from Pisa and 48 km from Florence, where from its Etruscan and Roman stronghold past, it became a medieval fortified town, built around a castle near a bridge over the Era river. It boast precious architectural works such as the Dome of St. Faustino, the Palazzo Pretorio and the Torre dell' Orologio and hosts the worldwide famous Piaggio industries, whose most famous icon, the "Vespa" motor-bike, has been built there since 1945.
Several low cost airlines fly direct to Pisa from a host of international airports. A twenty-minute train journey connects Pisa airport and Pontedera. The service continues to Florence, the capital city of the Tuscany region and one of the country's most important and historic cities. Full of beautiful, Renaissance-style buildings, including wonderful churches and enormous palaces, Florence is steeped in culture and atmosphere.
Comments on previous Giving Voice Festivals
It is a challenge to put into words the joyous wonder of a week at Wales “giving voice”
Giving Voice was enlightening, educational, inspirational, and very powerful. The work, the conversations, the camaraderie – all of it was of a calibre rarely to be found anywhere else. I feel honoured to have been a small part of this extraordinary event.
For me, ‘Giving Voice’ sounds always a note of renewal of hope and expansion and springing ideas. I burn my candle both ends and in the middle and am re-ignited…That extraordinary dissolving of barriers and triggering of joy that distinguishes Giving Voice from any other workshop gathering that I know. The personal input that you all make, the personal investment, pays off one hundred percent in the humanity of the experience...You have a genius by now for finding the right people and bringing them together in the same place so that spontaneous combustion of ideas and creativity explode.
Kristin Linklater, Author of Freeing the Natural Voice
Each time I attend I am impressed with the quality of the presentations, workshops, and performances. This festival is by far one of the best offered internationally. The work that you do is cutting edge and draws some of the best practitioners and scholars from all over the world. I do not find at other conferences and festivals the same level of discourse and experimentation, the wide range of work and body of knowledge. Thank you!
Location(s):
Pontedera, Italy
Additionional documentation is available for download here: brochure_GivingVoice12_ENGLISH.pdf, Giving_Voice_12_Booking_Form_.doc
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