PANTHEATRE Myth and theatre Festival Summer University 2005 4 to 17 July 2005 Mon
04-juil
Tues 05-juil 12h45
Thur
06-juil
07-juil
à confirmer
Fri
08-juil
Conferences, Master Classes, Laboratories, Performances (not including the workshops in the morning)
17h Registration
18h : Buvette and informal introductions
19h: Welcome, followed by a presentation by Kaya Anderson: "A legend, and the man."
Aperitif
Noah Pikes will be presenting the new edition of his book:
Dark Voices, The Genesis of Roy Hart Theatre
Enrique Pardo will guide a series of practical sessions including contributions from the artists present.
Experiments and improvisations around 'staging' the voice.
14h30 Laboratory choice Master Class
Wed
PROGRAMME updated July 5 (changes marked in grey areas)
directed by Linda Wise
17h15
Enrique Pardo
Enrique Pardo : Opening and presentation of the themes concerning "Myths of the Voice"
17h30
Round Table
Discussion of the proposals and first debate.
20h to 21h
Works in progress
Benedicte Blix, "Chimera", work in progress. Extracts from "Chants de Maldoror" by Vilbjørg Skrot.
14h30 Laboratory choice Master Class
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Benedicte Blix, worked this year with PANTHEATRE ACTS in Paris. Vilbjørg Skrot, Dutch artist will present extracts from a work in progress on the Songs of Maldoror by Lautréamont.
Enrique Pardo - see Tuesday 5, 14.30 directed by Richard Armstrong
17h15
Paul Silber
Presentation of the Roy Hart archives.
Paul Silber will also present a new CD "Alfred Wolfsohn - his musical ideas" created in collaboration with Sheila Braggins. A German version of this CD will be available later in 2005.
18h
Sheila Braggins
"The ideas of Alfred Wolfsohn on myths, dreams, God and the Human Voice."
Part 1 : "Alfred Wolfsohn's ideas on the voice"
19h30
Round Table
Theme 1: Towards a cultural history of the voice. Religions, mystics, philosophies and physiologies.
Enrique Pardo will open the debates with a presentation of Stephen Connor's book "Dumbstruck, A Cultural History of Ventriloquism"
14h30 Laboratory choice Master Class
Enrique Pardo - see Tuesday 5 14h30 directed by Kevin Crawford
17h15
Round Table
Theme 2 : Definitions of the voice. The notion of "soul" in : "The voice is the muscle of the soul".
Round Table preceded by a biographical presentation of Roy Hart by Noah Pikes.
18h45
Richard Armstrong
Slide presentation of the drawings and paintings of Vivienne Young.
Vivienne Young, artist and actress/singer, who died in the car accident that killed Roy Hart and Dorothy Hart. Richard Armstrong was one of her closest friends.
21h30
Amy Rome
Badlands, extract from a performance
Based on texts by Ted Hughes. Amy Rome created Badlands as part of her PhD on the voice at University of Central Lancashire.
22h30
Nick Hobbs
Nick Hobbs : conference with audio recordings: Captain Beefheart.
Nick Hobbs will give extracts of a conference given during Pantheatre's Annual Professional Workshop in Paris, 2004 on the figure (and voice) of the legendary Captain Beefheart - schoolmate of Franck Zappa.
directed by Rosemary Quinn
how to use the "ordinary" daily examples of vocal shifts to help oil the mechanism of improvising together
14h30 Master Class choice Master Class
directed by Liza Mayer
17h15
Noah Pikes
Conference 1 "Do we need him or don't we? - on Wolfsohn, Jung, Hart and Abraxas"
18h
Kevin Crawford
Reading of "Montee" the text of a solo performance written by Kevin Crawford which includes elements of the history of the Roy Hart Theatre.
Monty 'Davide' Crawford, father of Kevin Crawford, was one of the key figures in the trajectory of Roy Hart Theatre and especially in the purchase of the Chateau de Malérargues.
21h30
Performance
Biodrame : poem/oratorio written by Serge Béhar, with Anne Marie Letron, David Goldsworthy, and Samuel Tornqvist
The text of Biodrame is available in the Roy Hart Archives of Paul Silber, on http://www.roy-hart.com/pauls.htm
PROGRAMME updated July 9 (changes marked in grey areas)
PANTHEATRE Myth and theatre Festival Summer University 2005 Sat
09-juil
10-juil
Mon
11-juil
directed by Noah Pikes "Re-enchanting the Mind: Reading, Myth and Mantics"
17h45
Sheila Braggins
"The ideas of Alfred Wolfsohn on myths, dreams, God and the Human Voice."
Part 2: "How did Alfred Wolfsohn teach?"
19h15
Round Table
Theme 3 "Biodrame" - the aural vision of the voice. The philosophical ideas of Roy Hart. Extracts of a letter 1973.
The text of Biodrame and Roy Hart's letter are available in the archives of Roy Hart by Paul Silber http://www.royhart.com/pauls.htm
15h30
Interview with Patrick Cabanel
"The voice, the Camisards and the Roy Hart Theatre"
Enrique Pardo will discuss with Patrick Cabanel a number of historical hypotheses on the possible connections between the 'Roy Hart' and the Camisards, especially around the theology of the voice.
18h30
Round Table
"The voice, the Camisards, Malérargues and the Roy Hart Theatre"
Opening of the Round Table by a summary of the afternoon's discussions -. Moments of song and vocal performance, with the Chorale of Lasalle directed by Christophe Lombard, the Acapella Group directed by David Goldsworthy, a mini-concert with Natacha Crawford the trumpettist Izidor Leitinger and the pianist Sasho Vollmaier, and contributions by artists from PANTHEATRE ACTS.
Open Laboratory
Enrique Pardo - see Saturday 9, 14h30
17h45
Round Table
Malérargues
21h30
Performance
"Nostalgie Trip Tic" by Sharon Feder
Sunday afternoon free (workshops only in the morning)
13-juil
Thur
14-juil 14h30
How to reconcile past, present and future: mausoleum and theatre.
Afternoon excursion to the Festival of Avignon - Performance by Romeo Castellucci Open Laboratory
Enrique Pardo - see Saturday 9, 14h30
17h
Jay Livernois
"Voice is Myth", lecture
17h45
Round Table
Theme 4 : Voice, Shamanism and Mantics
19h30
Work in Progress
Christine Schaller : concert. "The Operation of the Sun" by the Ake Ake.
15-juil 14h30
Christine Schaller, singer collaborates regularly with PANTHEATRE. Ake Ake is a company from New Zealand directed by Jessica Sutherland and Rhys Latton, with Rosie Langabeer and Pipi Ayesha Evans.
Open Laboratory
Enrique Pardo - see Saturday 9, 14h30
17h15
Ian Magilton
Conference
18h
Noah Pikes
Conference 2: "Listening through to the whole voice evocations, invocations and provocations"
21h30
Nick Hobbs
Janis Joplin, Tina Turner, women's voices "from bel canto to hell canto "
Open Laboratory
Enrique Pardo - see Saturday 9, 14h30
17h15
Jay Livernois
The Voice of the Recluse. Reading of a text by Charles Boer.
Charles Boer, professor emeritus of mythology, is one of the founders of Pantheatre's Myth and Theatre Festival.
18h
Open Concert of original compositions by Nick Hobbs
accompanied by the young Russian pianist Igor Klyushnikov
16-juil 14h30
21h30 Sun
Experiments and improvisations around 'staging' the voice.
Stephen Karcher
Wed
Sat
(not including the workshops in the morning)
17h
Tues 12-juil 14h30
Fri
Conferences, Master Classes, Laboratories, Performances SECOND WEEK
Enrique Pardo is directing a series of practical sessions including contributions from the artists present.
14h30 Laboratory choice Master Class
Sun
4 to 17 July 2005
17-juil 11h
Nick Hobbs Closing debate
conference with recordings; Extracts from a series of lectures over 3 days given in Paris in January 2005 as part of PANTHEATRE ACTS, with more than 60 recordings of outstanding women singers voices within the realm of 'popular music'.
To be announced
Noa Nirnberg, "Chimera"
