Fluid Voices
Misha Myers
Fri 26 July 2-6pm, Sat 27 July 10.30am-6pm, Sun 28 July 10.30am-4pm
Chisenhale Dance Space, London
Artists Programme 2002

A laboratory workshop for choreographers interested in developing vocal
work in their creative practice led by voice and movement practitioners,
Linet Andréa, Ria Higler, and Misha Myers.
Suitable for emerging choreographers and those who are exploring the use of
voice in their work for the first time.
Cost: £40/£30 conc
Sharing: Sun 28 July 5pm. All welcome

Anyone interested can call Chisenhale on 020 8981 6617 or email Misha
directly at [log in to unmask]

As the choreographic and performance work of Misha Myers, an American,
Britain based performer, choreographer, and teacher has always integrated
the body and language with highly physical movement and performance states,
the importance of developing an approach that would use difficulty for the
physical experience and expression of the nuances of the voice in the body,
has been the foremost primary enquiry in her work. Her approach is informed
by the vocal and acting training of the contemporary Japanese director,
Tadashi Suzuki, the ancient vocal and dance form of Hawaiian Hula, Release
Technique, Developmental Movement, Contact Improvisation, aerial work, and
Butō. She has made solo and collaborative work internationally
collaborating most recently with Secret Hotel, Denmark, Guillermo Gómez-
Peña and Roberto Sifuentes, San Francisco, and Momentary Fusion, UK. She
has been on the faculty at Dartington College of Arts since 1999 as
Lecturer in Devised Theatre. Supported by a grant from the Japan Foundation
Endowment Committee, she traveled to Japan in August 2001 to continue her
previous training and research of Tadashi Suzuki’s method with the director
himself.

Through the process of working upside down on trapeze, Linet Andréa, a
British, France based vocalist, aerialist, and visual artist discovered her
approach to voice developed by finding a solution to what began as two
activities cancelling each other out, singing and upside down movement. She
has developed her own techniques through her own experimentation with what
she calls “inverted singing” and in constrained and intensely physical
conditions combined with techniques acquired through her training with
Francoise Galais, who combines lyric singing and “vocal gymnastics”.
Combining her interests in sculpture and circus, Andréa invented a new form
of trapeze, the pendulum. She started singing at the Centre National des
Arte de Cirque in Challon, France where she graduated in 1996 with a
specialism in aerial work and joined Archaos as an aerialist/vocalist and
songwriter for their 1997-1998 tour. She has been performing both aerial
and voice with Cahin Caha, an interdisciplinary and international
collaboration of artists combining circus, music, and performance art based
in France.

Voice is an integrated part of Ria Higler's movement research and
performance material. Her interest is in the interface between nature and
culture, and she considers the body as a landscape to explore this issue.
She says of her work, "Through the work with organs and fluids we can
directly connect with many rhythms, colours and "weathering" in this
landscape. This is a technique to open the mind and the senses to read the
body, and to amplify this landscape/weathering directly into space.
Awareness of inner and outer space is a guide for tuning the body and the
voice, to find the most effective colour of expression and clear
communication." Since 1973 Ria's study, performing and teaching takes place
in her own (Dutch) community, in other European  countries, in the USA,
Central and Latin America and Indonesia.  From 1989 till 1998 she was
artistic co-director of the School for New Dance Development, a department
within the Theatre faculty of the Amsterdam School for the Arts.(AHK)
Currently she is lecturing in four departments of the AHK.