NEADERTHAL: THE WORKSHOP by Simon Thorne

place: Fabryka Sztuki w Łodzi, ul. Tymienieckiego 3

time: 14 th and 15 th of August 2010, 11 a.m- 3 p.m

info/ reservation: pola.amber@fabrykasztuki.org

price: 40 zł/ per day

Simon Thorne is a composer and theatre artist living and working in Wales. His work spans opera, soundscape installation and radical improvisation. He has been working extensively with the figure of the Neanderthal to explore the relationship between language, speech and song. He has been working with new ways of writing to provoke freedom in improvisation that connects to the primordial human impulse to make music.

“why did we ever make music in the first place? The idea that Neanderthals sang their way through the landscape and that early humans were also accomplished musicians creates a space that is ripe for conjecture – how do we know ourselves in the world through song?”

Here is an opportunity to explore techniques that free the voice as a source of natural immediate expression. It is an opportunity to work with graphic mark making as a technique for composing and structuring improvisation. It is an opportunity to explore simple and direct strategies that can unlock the creativity of composer, performer, singer and musician alike.

SIMON THORNE www.simonthornemusic.co.uk/

Simon Thorne has been associate musical director for Akademia Ruchu, and a performing member of Cardiff Laboratory Theatre. He was a vocalist with the Meredith Monk Ensemble. He has also worked closely with Teatr Laboratorium, Odin Teatret and members of the Roy Hart Theatre.

He was co-founder, performer and director of Man Act theatre company. He is a founder member of The Wales Jazz Composers Orchestra. He is also composer and director for The Canton Opera Company.

Recent works include The Prodigy of Love (2004) for the Welsh Baroque Orchestra, also Ivan and the Wolf (2005) for the orchestra of the Welsh National Opera and The Infernal Twittering Machine (2007) for Klangwerkstatt Weimar. Hope Street (2008) was an interactive sound installation for the Anglican and Roman Catholic cathedrals in Liverpool for Liverpool 2008 European City of Culture. Neanderthal (2007 -) is already a soundscape installation and live performance commissioned by National Museum Wales. Dancing for Neanderthal, Drawing on Neanderthal and Sounding Neanderthal are all currently in preparation as choreographic, performance installation and instrumental versions. Tel Magura (2010) is a soundscape work for Art Landscape Transformations EC project 2007-4230 that is being conducted as a partnership between the School of History and Archaeology, Cardiff University and Muzeul Judetean Teleormanul, Romania.

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RETRO/PER/SPEKTYWY

CHOREA. Theatre Festival. Łódź 2010

august 13 – 21

RETRO/PER/SPEKTYWY: CHOREA – Theatre Festival Łódź 2010 is designed as a space for confrontation of the innovative theater research, a platform for the workshop meetings and a point of discussions concerning the changes in the 21st century’s theater.

August 13-21, 2010, in postindustrial spaces of Lodz, the spectators will be allowed to see the review of the most important Chorea’s performances and the newest creations/achievements of the invited groups.

5 years of the Theater Chorea existence is a perfect moment for the first RETRO/PER/SPECTIVE of its artistic, research and educational activity and the presentation of two premiers: GROTOWSKI- próba odwrotu directed by Tomasz Rodowicz and Antyk/Trans/Formation in modern ethno-jazz interpretation.

The first edition of the Festival will be held within the framework of the two theatrical tryptich showing the tension that is created on the clash of the tradition and contemporarlity

1. Sophocles – Euripides – Aristophanes (Antigone, dir. Dorota Porowska,  The Songs of Euripides, dir. Tomasz Rodowicz,  After the birds, dir. Jim Ennis, Jessica Cohen, Tomasz Rodowicz)
2. Herbert – Grotowski – Wyspiański (Playing Mr Cogito, dir. Tomasz Rodowicz, GROTOWSKI – próba odwrotu dir .Tomasz Rodowicz, premiere Odpoczywanie, dir. Paweł Passini)

In the frames of the Festival there will be also shown the performances of cooperating and fellow theaters. Our guests will be: neTTheater, Studium Teatralne form Warsaw, KANA Theater form Szczecin and Trupa Czango.

Creating RETRO/PER/SPECTIVES we are establishing new, periodical, cultural event, which next editions, expanded by the presence of eminent, international theatre groups. It will break, every second year, the anachronistic division between the theater of word, movement and music, thus regaining its undividable triple unity – CHOREA – the vital foundation of the theater.

In the perspective of our Festival CHOREA is not a specific name, but a description of the idea opening new spaces for the contemporary theater and determining new challenges for the actor – a storyteller, dancer, singer, as well as for the director, who should be a dramatist, choreographer and composer at the same moment.

We aim for RETRO/PER/SPEKTYWY: CHOREA Festiwal Teatralny Łódź 2010 to become a permanent point of reference on the theatrical map of Poland and to contribute as an important element of Lodz’s application for the title of European Capital of Culture 2016.

Tomasz Rodowicz
The Artistic Director