Our award winning short-film was premiered at Culture Night 2017, at the IRC showcase taking place at the Boston College, in St. Stephen’s Green. The screening was introduced by a talk offered by me and Shane, where we presented artistic processes leading to the making of our 11.57-minute long film: here are some pictures from […]
Our production of La Voix humaine made it into the Music Town 2017 Festival programme. Our performance took place on April 8, 2017 at 20:00 in the Lutherhaus (St, Finian’s Church, 23, Adelaide Road, Dublin), in an evening named ‘La Voix humaine and Other Voices’. The production was part of my artistic research project ‘En-Gendering Monodrama’, currently hosted at Maynooth University and supported by […]
It was a long sunny and icy afternoon in Dublin. Our film-maker Rory took me to Dublin, where we spent 8 hours shooting outdoor for our short-film Neither (I nor Not I) based on Neither by Feldman and Beckett. Getting the light right and time-lapsing was Rory’s main goal. Here are few stills from our […]
Neither (I nor Not I), our short-film based on the one-woman opera Neither by Morton Feldman and Samuel Beckett, is the second output of my IRC funded project ‘En-Gendering Monodrama’. Our production was awarded funding from the Short-Grass short-film award of the Kildare County Council. The film showcases our original adaptation of the score, realized […]
It is my pleasure to introduce the following review, written by musicologist, academic lecturer, journal editor-in-chief, Dr Susanna Pasticci, who attended the premiere of the production as a member of the audience during the conference Music and Visual Cultures, in July 2016. Lights and darkness in the solitude of the number “one” La Voix humaine (text by Jean Cocteau, music by Francis […]
Thrilled to announce we made it into the line-up of Dublin Music Festival Music Town 2017! Our application went through a revision and competition process against a number of exciting music projects and events encompassing musical styles and genres. And… we made it! A fully staged production of Francis Poulenc’s one-performer opera La Voix humaine comes to […]
Our ‘En-Gendering Monodrama’ production of La Voix humaine returns to Maynooth University after its successful premiere last July. The performance will be held in Riverstown Hall, South Campus as part of the university lunchtime concert series, and will begin at 1:10 pm. Open to staff and students, the event will collect donations in support of the next productions […]
I am delighted to announce that my Embodied Monologues Research Series has received the support of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, and of the Faculty of Arts, Celtic Studies and Philosophy at Maynooth University (MU). The Embodied Monologues Symposium, to be held on March 31 at Maynooth University, will count on the institutional support […]
En-Gendering La Voix humaine One of the objectives of artistic research is to develop radical new concepts, where art becomes able to express new possibilities, create new texts, shape new practices. Artistic research engages critically with reality and looks for ways to challenge the existing status quo. In the wake of current political and historical […]
A very positive review of our book was published in the journal Studies in Musical Theatre Volume 8 Number 3© 2014 Intellect Ltd Book Reviews. I will just quote a few lines from the review by Johanna Linsley, University of Bristol “As Francesca Placanica notes, Berberian’s status as ‘muse’ to a series of famous male composers […]