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SUMMER SHIFT 2007 - SIMON THORNE & INGRID VON WANTOCH REKOWSKI - July 16 to July 18
[July 2007]
VOICES IN ARCADIA
 
This workshop explores devising with sound, song, and music to create a kind of mind’s-eye-theatre for the ears that is resonant with the modern world and will also explore how engagement with a particular site location can be retrieved as approaches to soundscape composition. Taking the idea of Arcadia and the nostalgia of Paradise as our point of entry, we will be exploring ideas around the construction of Nature and the emergence of mythologies. What if we take these as raw materials? What stories and narratives can we generate? Taking time to explore the specific location of Hafod near Cwmystwyth, we will be exploring strategies for composing image, music and text that are extracted from site research. We will be exploring strategies for staging sonic performance using our ‘natural’ voices and found sound sources.
Joining Simon Thorne in leading this exploration will be French-German director Ingrid von Wantoch Rekowski, whose Belgian company, Lucilia Caeser, works with the theatricality of choir, polyglot language, and painting to give access to musical forms that in turn give life to archetypes, living pictures and transformational metamorphosis. The text develops beyond words, situations and characters to harmonies, images and choreographic structures instead. The outcome is a unique theatre for the ears – music for the eyes.
The workshop is aimed at theatre practitioners who are interested in exploring notions of sonic performance as well as musicians who are interested in exploring theatre as a compositional tool in relation to musical performance and multi-disciplinary artists who are interested in exploring sonic performance within the context of site related work. It should be stressed that no prior musical expertise is necessary to participate in the workshop.
Simon Thorne is a composer, musician and theatre maker. He was a founder director of Man Act, which, in its time was acknowledged across the globe for its highly charged physical theatre, and its groundbreaking exploration of masculinity. He is also one of the founder members of the Wales Jazz Composers Orchestra. He has recently received a prestigious Creative Wales Award from the Arts Council of Wales to explore new approaches to music-theatre.
Ingrid von Wantoch Rekowski creates living pictures. Through her company Lucilia Caesar, she has created a new drama working with harmonies, images, and structures; where the bodies of the performers merge into a collective monstrous being that is both frightening and erotic. The dynamics of her work borrow from musical forms, human solos, polyphonies, exposing human passion without the psychological connotations. Artistic conventions are twisted and become unclassifiable. The spectator can dream and imagine, freed of focusing on an outcome.
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