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

THE DIRECTORS' FORUM: THE SIX SENSES OF THE DIRECTOR

9TH - 18TH APRIL

CPR has invited some of the most exciting and diverse Wales-based and international theatre directors to Aberystwyth for an intensive participatory project that offers a rare opportunity for both experienced and emerging directors to gather and share the methods, approaches and skills of professional directing practice via laboratories and presentations, demonstrations and dialogue.

The Directors’ Forum comprises a series of evolving and developing practical investigations (not simply workshops and training exercises) in two, three-day blocks that allow small groups of directors to explore know-how, intuition and embodied practices in a safe and intimate atmosphere. These six days of practical investigation are followed by a two-day ‘gathering’ where methods and approaches can be encountered through more presentational formats.

Engineer your own pathways and interests through a series of different ‘laboratories’, ‘exploratories’ and ‘forums’, practical and participatory sessions designed to animate, articulate and illuminate aspects of particular directorial/ making processes in exploration with others.

Guest Directors Include:
Veenapani Chawla (Adishakti Centre, India), Das Beckwerk (Denmark), Jaroslaw Fret (Teatr ZAR, Poland), Richard Gregory (Quarantine, UK), Bill Hamblett (Small World Theatre, Wales), Natalie Hennedige (Cake Theatre, Singapore), Adrian Jackson (Cardboard Citizens, UK), Ruth Kanner (Ruth Kanner Theatre Group, Israel), Anuradha Kapur (National School of Drama, India), Julian Maynard Smith (Station House Opera, UK), John McGrath (National Theatre of Wales), Philip McKenzie (Sherman Theatre Cymru), Anders Paulin (Sweden), Mike Pearson (Pearson/Brookes, Wales), Ralf Richardt Strøbech (Hotel Pro Forma/ Loop Group, Denmark), Tore Vagn Lid (Transiteatret-Bergen, Norway).

For further details and for booking information please visit the conferences section of our website.

Images from left to right: Cake Theatre, Cases of Murder - Ruth Kanner Theatre Group, New Jericho A'dam - Station House Opera.

Location(s):
Aberystwyth, Wales

Centre for Performance Research Festivals Archive

Previous CPR festivals are archived. To read more about our past events please select from this list

• Giving Voice 11: Harmonic Accord [April 2009]
  18 – 26 April 2009
• Giving Voice 10: Breath Inspiration Voice [April 2008]
  Thursday 27th March - Tuesday 1st April 2008
• Giving Voice 9: Myths of the Voice 4-9 April 2006 [April 2006]
  9th edition of the international festival celebrating the voice in performance.
• Giving Voice 8 : Thinking Voice, Feeling Voice - towards a psychology and philosophy of the voice. [April 2004]
  An uplifting compendium of voice workshops, performances, talks, and lecture-demonstrations reflecting voices from around the world, within the frame of the theme for 2004.