Upcoming Workshops: Suspense Festival of Adult Puppet Theatre Workshops (CSSD)

SUSPENSE - FESTIVAL OF ADULT PUPPET THEATRE WORKSHOPS

CENTRAL SCHOOL OF SPEECH AND DRAMA, LONDON

30 OCTOBER - 8 NOVEMBER 2009

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

The Central School of Speech and Drama’s Centre for Excellence in Training for Theatre and its Puppetry course are supporting three workshops on puppetry/object theatre as part of the new festival of adult puppet theatre Suspense between 30 October and 8 November 2009

Two-day workshops

1. Ephemeral Animation

This two-day workshop will be run by Nenagh Watson of Barking Dog Theatre and Creative Fellow at CSSD.

Ephemeral Animation is a term coined by Watson to encourage appreciation of animation, often momentary, of discarded objects animated via natural elements. The plastic bag blowing and dancing in the wind in the film American Beauty has become a cultural reference point. Void of the interruption of human ego, these fragmentary experiences have a lot to tell us about the art form of puppetry. This two-day workshop will encourage debate and exploration, stripping the art form to its raw essential state. We will examine Kantor's fascination with objects and 'puppetry without ego': how can we allow something to have its own intrinsic presence, its own immanence, provoking questions of what is authentic; and how can we engage audience in this appreciation?

The workshop will take place at The Central School of Speech and Drama

Friday and Saturday 30 and 31 October, 10.00 am - 5.00 pm.

Workshop fee: £50 for both days (student fee £25).

2. Objects and New Technologies

This two-day workshop will be run by Maria Dominguez Alba who is a painter and film-maker, and also Research Fellow at the University of Castilla-La Mancha in Spain.

This two-day laboratory will explore and create a multi-disciplinary dialogue between theatres of objects and puppets and new technologies. The workshop will focus practically and theoretically on the relationship between the object and new technology. It will also provoke reflection about identity and the body; of the individual's projection in a collective environment, and vice versa; virtual reality, fiction, the idea of presence, the concept of real time, tele-presence, the fragility of the technological medium and interaction.

The workshop will take place at The Central School of Speech and Drama.

Friday and Saturday 30 and 31 October, 10.00 am - 5.00 pm.

Workshop fee: £50 for both days (student fee £25).

Four-day Masterclass with the Philippe Genty company

To be or not to be: a material

How to use emotional and sensorial memory for the creation of visual theatre

The Philippe Genty company is renowned for its visual theatre productions. The company leads many courses on manipulation of puppets and materials, object theatre, dance and movement and other elements of visual language. This four-day workshop will be led by Eric de Sarria (Drifting, Dedale, Zigmund Follies) and Simon Rann (Stowaways, Le Fin des Terres), long-standing members of the company. We aim to transmit knowledge of the manipulation of materials, puppets and objects, and to stimulate each student in their personal search for their own visual language. During these four days we will focus on two tools which are central to the artistic process of the company: the manipulation of materials nourished by personal memory.

The workshop will take place at The Central School of Speech and Drama.

Monday - Thursday 2 - 5 November, 9.00 am - 6.00 pm

Workshop fee: £120 (students £60).

Workshop participation is by application: please send your CV and a letter of application to cariad.astles@cssd.ac.uk by Tuesday 15 September 2009.

On Friday 6 November The Central School of Speech and Drama, jointly with the Little Angel Theatre, is hosting a one-day symposium entitled Objects in Performance, which will include talks and presentations by object theatre practitioners, researchers and performers at Suspense.

The symposium will take place at the Little Angel Theatre between 11.00 am and 3.00 pm.

Bookings for the symposium will be taken by the festival bookings office at the LAT.

Places for the symposium (including show) will be £30 (students £10).

Ethnomusicological Research Today – An International Doctoral Workshop (Hanover)

ETHNOMUSICOLOGICAL RESEARCH TODAY - AN INTERNATIONAL DOCTORAL WORKSHOP

ETHNOMUSICOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY FOR MUSIC AND DRAMA, HANOVER, GERMANY

24 - 28 JUNE 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Ethnomusicology Department of the University for Music and Drama at Hanover, Germany, is organising an international workshop for Ph.D. candidates in ethnomusicology and its sister disciplines. The workshop will be directed by Prof. Dr. Raimund Vogels (Hanover) and Prof. Dr. Philip V. Bohlman (Chicago/Hanover).

The aims of the workshop are to promote exchange on ethnomusicological Ph.D. projects throughout Europe and to further critical debate on recent research in the discipline. The first two days of the workshop (25 & 26 June) are devoted to the presentation of papers by the participants. The third day (27 June) will be devoted to critical discussion of recent ethnomusicological publications. Arrival will be on June 24th, departure on June 28th. The workshop language – presentations and discussion – will be English.

The organizers inivite applications from Ph.D. candidates researching their dissertations in ethnomusicology or one of its sister disciplines (e.g., musical anthropology). There are no restrictions concerning the current stage of Ph.D. research, the region of study, or the thematic focus. Participants are required to read the following publications selected for discussion by the time the workshop takes place:

* Nettl, Bruno: The Study of Ethnomusicology. Thirty-One Issues and Concepts.New Edition. Urbana, University of Illinois Press 2005.

* Stobart, Henry (Hg.): The New (Ethno)Musicologies.Lanham, Scarecrow Press 2008.

* Barz, Gregory, und Timothy Cooley (Hg.): Shadows in the Field. New Perspectives for Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology.Second Edition. New York, Oxford University Press 2008.

* Bohlman, Philip V.: World Music. A Very Short Introduction.Oxford, Oxford University Press 2002.

* Feld, Steven: Sound and Sentiment. Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression.Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press 1982.

* Stokes, Martin: The Arabesk Debate. Music and Musicians in Modern Turkey.Oxford, Oxford University Press 1992.

* Vogels, Raimund: The Big Drum was Beaten and the Force Moved East. Islamic Court Music in Northeast Nigeria.In Print. Manuscript will be sent to participants.

* Rommen, Timothy. „Mek Some Noise”. Gospel Music and the Ethics of Style in Trinidad.Berkeley, University of California Press 2007.

* Hahn, Tomie: Sensational Knowledge. Embodying Culture through Japanese Dance.Middletown, Wesleyan University Press 2007.

* Hesselink, Nathan: P’ungmul.. South Korean Drumming and Dance.Chicago, University of Chicago Press 2006..

The University for Music and Drama will cover room and board, and will attempt to contribute toward travel expenses if needed. Funding details will be negotiated
individually.

Ethnomusicology Ph.D. students interested in participating should send an abstract of 250 words, a CV, and a preliminary estimate of travel costs. The application deadline is 5 May 2009.

The number of participants is limited to sixteen. If you wish to take part in the workshop as an auditor without a presentation, you are welcome to do so, but are requested to notify the organizers by 5 May 2009. For auditors, travel, room, and board will be at their own expense.

Please forward this call to anyone interested and send your applications or any questions by e-mail to Kerstin Klenke:

Kerstin Klenke MA
University for Music and Drama
Emmichplatz 1
30175 Hanover
kerstin.klenke@hmt-hannover.de
Tel.: +49 (0)511 31007632
Fax: +49 (0)511 31007642

Prof. Dr. Raimund Vogels
University for Music and Drama Hanover
Emmichplatz 1
30175 Hanover
raimund.vogels@hmt-hannover.de
Tel.: +49 (0)511 31007631
Fax: +49 (0)511 31007642

Prof. Dr. Philip V. Bohlman
Department of Music
The University of Chicago
1010 E. 59th Street
Chicago, Illinois
60637
USA
boh6@uchicago.edu
Tel.: +1 (773)
702-0514
Fax: +1 (773) 753-0558

Sounds of Stonehenge: Upcoming Workshop (Bristol)

THE SOUNDS OF STONEHENGE
A one-day workshop at the Department of Music, Bristol University, in association with CHOMBEC (Centre for the History Of Music in Britain, the Empire and Commonwealth).
VICTORIA ROOMS
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL
FRIDAY 28 NOVEMBER 2008
11.30-16.00 hrs

Fee: £22 (coffee, lunch and tea provided).

Friends of CHOMBEC: £12

Coffee from 1100; lunch at 1300; tea at 1600

To book: phone 0117 954 5032 or email ruth.hill@bris.ac.uk, stating any dietary restrictions.

Book by 20 November.

Hardy’s Tess encounters it unseen, as nocturnal sound, the humming of an aeolian harp. What other soundscapes has Stonehenge generated, suggested or inspired in the 5000 years since construction began? Come to this workshop and explore the cultural history of Stonehenge, from the acoustics and musical instruments of Neolithic England to the representation of megaliths in 20th-century British art music, Stonehenge’s film music, and its rock music - in the most recent sense. The following speakers will contribute:

• Ronald Hutton: ‘The cultural history of Stonehenge’.

• Tim Darvill: ‘Stonehenge in rock’.

• Aaron Watson and John Crewdson: ‘Instruments of ritual’, a multimedia presentation of music and visuals.

• Simon Wyatt: ‘Soul music: instruments in an animistic age’.

• Guido Heldt: ‘Stonehenge and its film music’.

• Stephen Banfield: ‘Megaliths in 20th-century English art music’.

• Joshua Pollard: ‘Stonehenge: notes towards an acoustic archaeology’.