Announcement

I am thrilled to announce that I have been invited to develop a new piece with the working title THE VOICE LESSON in partnership with Snape Maltings and the Britten Pears Residency 2022. Producer Courtenay Johnson and Sound Artist and Technical Engineer Kendell Foster will be joining me to develop an emerging idea. 

A coach is conducting a voice lesson via a projected video call when a song dating 1450 BC instigates a breakthrough in her student and subsequent realisation about their identity. THE VOICE LESSON is a poetic exploration of agency and the female voice drawing on multimedia, physicality and original music to slip between the inner and outer worlds of the artist. Vocal acrobat and electronic cellist, Anna-Helena, leads ensemble acting training and draws on this background to deconstruct the liveness of her creative process with an interactive audience. Staging writings by women spanning 4000 years (Inanna, Sappho, Woolf), the lesson positions audiences as one of many listening parts in a chorus of continuous becoming, sensitizing mind toward body and voice in an urgent reframing of the important work of women today.

Stay tuned for performance dates and process blogging.

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The Snape Residency programme is generously supported by the PRS Foundation.