Periodic Reporting for period 1 - NePraMusT (Networks of Practice in New Music Theatre)
Reporting period: 2022-09-01 to 2024-08-31
Through a pragmatic encounter with the practices that conveyed in the making of experimental theatre and music-theatre, the research has evaluated their currency and actualised their role in current practices. In particular, the practice-based exploration of trainings adopted by practitioners belonging to these lineages of practice were probed field-tested through interdisciplinary laboratory work, probing the various articulations of voicework and actor-training.
Overall, the research led has evidently raised numerous questions about training and performance across disciplines, and proven the worth of practices otherwise neglected in art forms that were liminal to yet not immediately addressed by these practices. The practice-based work undertaken through interdisciplinary laboratory has designed an experimental test-field based on an ongoing dialogue with a network of artists and scholars. Ultimately, the research might disclose new horizons in the creation of new training curricula for musical actors and opera singers, to be more desirably fostered through institutional approval by broader musical studies.
The research carried over the two intensive laboratories was documented through videographic production and has become the source of a dissemination plan that is already unfolding.
Dissemination Plan:
Open Access Reports:
Completed: Online Report 1 [WP3.1]; The online report [https://www.francescaplacanica.com/nepramust-online-report-1-musical-notes-from-an-embodied-laboratory/] is an audiovisual testimony to the training undertaken at the Lawrence Batley Theatre in Huddersfield, 27-28 November 2023. The output, bordering documentary and creative production, refers to training phase WP1.1; WP2.1.
Completed: Online Report 2 [WP3.2}; The online report [https://www.francescaplacanica.com/nepramust-online-report-2-creative-shared-spaces-a-multidisciplinary-residency/] is an audiovisual testimony to the residency undertaken at the Bidston Observatory Artistic Research Centre (BOARC) on 12-14 January 2024 . The output, bordering documentary and creative production, refers to training phase WP1.2; WP2.2.
Conferences:
Completed: a. 20-22 March 2024 Conference paper at Subject / Object / Practice / Place Connecting Creatively through the Performing Arts at University of Malta describes the training undertook at the Lawrence Batley Theatre in Huddersfield, 27-28 November 2023. Title of Paper: Creative Shared Spaces: Turning the Music Room into a Laboratory. Paper delivered on March 20.
Completed: b. 23-24 May. Conference paper at The Theatrical Voice, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK, describes more in detail insights on voice in opera and music theatre as emerging through training. Title of Paper: Operatic in the flesh: notes from an audiovisual theatre laboratory. Paper accepted.
c. 28-30 June 2024. Conference Paper at SMI Plenary Conference, National University of Ireland Galway, Enjoying the journey: (musical) notes from an audiovisual embodied laboratory. Paper accepted.
Completed: Invited Talk
22 April 2024, Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, Hochschule für Musik, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Basel. Operatic in the flesh: (musical) notes from an audiovisual embodied laboratory. To be completed
23 April 2024, Public Screening and Talk, Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, Colloquium48, Public Talk and Screening, Basel. Creative Shared Spaces: Navigating the Artistic Process through the audiovisual laboratory. To be completed.
Forthcoming Publications (in progress)
Peer-reviewed article 1 (in preparation): [Operatic in the flesh: notes from an audiovisual theatre laboratory]. (to be submitted to: Performers Training Journal or Journal of Voice Interdisciplinary Studies)
Peer-reviewed video article 2 (in preparation) [The audiovisual body in the making: Neither (I nor Not I) an opera-film] (to be submitted to Journal of Embodied Research)
Co-edited Peer-reviewed Journal Issue article 2 (“Voice and Technology”, Le nuove musiche, co-edited Prof Stefano Lombardi Vallauri, University of Milan, awaiting submissions from contributors); due in November 2024.
Encyclopaedic entry and Music and Acting in the 20th Century (Musica e Recitazione) (Treccani enciclopedia, Turin, Italy), ed. by Ernesto Assante (†) and Sandro Cappelletto.Submitted and under review
Monograph “Cathy Berberian nel teatro della voce” (under contract: Mimesis edizioni, Milan, due 2025) in preparation
Peer-reviewing:
Journal of Embodied Research 2022-
Chigiana, 2022-
Archival Notes, 2023-