Song Stage Screen V
The conference will explore the performance of voice in Opera, Experimental Music Theatre, Musical Theatre, Song, Film and Multimedia Performance.
Friday 3 September – Sunday 5 September 2010
The University of Winchester, Department of Performing Arts is hosting the fifth annual international and interdisciplinary ‘Song, Stage and Screen’ conference, with the focus this year on ‘VOICE’.
Keynote Speakers: Claudia Gorbman and Steven Connor
Panels include:
Voice in the theatre
The musicality of speech
Doubling voices
Historical vocal performances
Disembodied voices
Voice and gender
Voice, body and film
Echoing voices: Intersections of past and present
The unutterable expressed
Theorising the performance of voice
Collaboration and authority in performance
Voice, identity and politics
Creative voices
Using extended voice in practice
The composer’s voice
Vocal pedagogies
There will be workshop demonstrations by Jorge Balça and Jessica Walker, and by Paul Barker with Frances Lynch.
Yvon Bonenfant will perform his installation The Beacons Project
Song, Stage and Screen is the annual conference of the academic journal, Studies in Musical Theatre, which is published by Intellect Press. Previous Song, Stage and Screen conferences have been held at the University of Portsmouth, UK (2006), University of Leeds, UK (2007), and the Graduate Center of City University of New York (2008) and Maryland Institute of Technology (2009).
For more information see the website at www.songstagescreen.co.uk or email info@songstagescreen.co.uk