En-Gendering Monodrama: Training days at The Centre for Psychophysical Performance Research, University of Huddersfield. 5-day intensive training with Dr Ben Spatz and Ilona Krawczyk. Day 1, 10 January 2017 On the first day, we started our session with breathing exercises, and we went through some basics to explore positions of stillness. I contemplated that even […]

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 […]

I am happy to be launching today my Embodied Monologues Research Series hosted by Maynooth University and taking place in different institutions across Ireland. Embodied Monologues seeks to generate responses and challenges to the idea of solo or ‘mono’ performance. What, it asks, is the role of the intertextual, the multimedial, the intercorporeal in this mode […]

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 […]

My week training at the Centre for Psychophysical Performance Research started as usual with a train to the airport, and a coffee at the gate. I left Switzerland and flew into Manchester, directed to Huddersfield University on the 16th of April, and met with Ben Spatz the following Monday. We shared mutual ideas and expectations about […]