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\"projsidebar\"<\/a>CPR produces a diverse and innovative programme of events that includes the following recognizable and renowned strands of work:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0Voice International and Giving Voice<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The primary aim of Voice International is to restore the vital role of vocal expression and creativity within the performing arts and within community life in Wales. The enterprise consolidates and develops a wide range of voice initiatives originated by the Centre for Performance Research (CPR) over the past twenty five years. Through a range of activities, organised at a number of levels, practical and theoretical, for professionals and amateur performers, individuals as well as the community, Voice International will extend opportunities for all to participate in explorations and projects that enhance and underline the significance of the expressive voice in creative life.<\/p>\n

A major focus of work to date has been the Giving Voice festival.\u00a0Giving Voice is an established international event which has the aim of advancing the appreciation and understanding of the voice in performance through practical research and a celebration of its many and varied manifestations throughout time and culture. It brings together those who have an interest in the voice but who will not necessarily meet in the course of their practice: academics and practitioners; performers from a variety of disciplines; teachers of spoken voice and singing teachers; those with an experimental interest and those who favour traditional methodology; those from the world of medical knowledge of the vocal mechanism and those interested in the spiritual dimensions and healing properties of voice work. Giving Voice explores the voice through a series of themed meetings during which there are workshops, lecture demonstrations, discussions and performances and a symposium. Giving Voice attract a wide range of participants from the performing arts but also from voice therapy, laryngology, teaching, linguistics, communication studies etc. as well as the general public.<\/p>\n

There have been thirteen\u00a0sessions of Giving Voice since 1990:<\/p>\n

\u2022 1990 First explorations – Cardiff, Wales
\n\u2022 1994 A Geography of the Voice 1 – Cardiff, Wales
\n\u2022 1995 A Geography of the Voice 2 – Cardiff, Wales
\n\u2022 1996 An Archaeology of the Voice 1 – Cardiff, Wales
\n\u2022 1997 An Archaeology of the Voice 2 – Aberystwyth, Wales
\n\u2022 1999 A Divinity of the Voice – Aberystwyth, Wales
\n\u2022 2002 The Voice Politic – Aberystwyth & Cardiff, Wales
\n\u2022 2004 Towards a Philosophy and Psychology of the Voice\u00a0– Aberystwyth & Cardiff, Wales
\n\u2022 2006 Myths of the Voice – Aberystwyth, Wales
\n\u2022 2008 Breath Inspiration Voice <\/a>– Aberystwyth, Wales
\n\u2022 2009 Harmonic Accord: Encounters Through Song<\/a> – Wroclaw, Poland
\n\u2022 2010 Hearken! Do you Hear An Angel?<\/a> – Teatro Era, Pontedera, Italy
\n\u2022 2015 Listening Mind, Moving Voice<\/a> – AMATA, Falmouth University, Cornwall, England
\n\u2022 2016 Giving Voice as part of VoicEncounters<\/a> – Wroclaw, Poland<\/p>\n

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The Summer Shift<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Summer Shift is an intensive working retreat in beautiful surroundings for those wanting to explore new ways of working and experiment with different processes and approaches to making theatre and performance.<\/p>\n

With a compedium of practical workshops and performance laboratories led by some of the most talented and inspiring theatre and performance artists working today, The Summer Shift offers the opportunity to take time out and away from the usual pressures of everyday life to explore ones creative practice amongst like-minded participants from around the world.<\/p>\n

The Summer Shift is comprised of workshops, talks, discussions and evening events. Past editions include:<\/p>\n

\u2022 1994 Inaugural Summer Retreat – Druidstone Haven, Wales
\n\u2022 1995\u00a0Summer Retreat: Eros and Psyche – Druidstone Haven, Wales
\n\u2022 1996\u00a0Summer Retreat: King Lear Project – Druidstone Haven, Wales
\n\u2022 1997\u00a0Summer Retreat: Landscapes, Bodiescapes, Escapes – Druidstone Haven, Wales
\n\u2022 1998\u00a0Summer School – Aberystwyth, Wales
\n\u2022 1999\u00a0Summer School: Hotel Wales – Aberystwyth, Wales
\n\u2022 2000\u00a0Summer School: Landscape and the Body – Aberystwyth and Preseli Mountains, Wales
\n\u2022 2001\u00a0Summer School: Landscape of the Senses – Aberystwyth, Druidstone Haven and Preseli Mountians, Wales
\n\u2022 2002 Summer Shift –\u00a0Aberystwyth, Wales
\n\u2022 2003 Summer Shift – Aberystwyth, Wales
\n\u2022\u00a02005 Summer Shift<\/a>\u00a0– Aberystwyth, Wales
\n\u2022\u00a02006 Summer Shift<\/a>\u00a0– Aberystwyth, Wales
\n\u2022\u00a02007 Summer Shift<\/a>\u00a0– Aberystwyth, Wales<\/p>\n

Points of Contact<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

This international conference series aims to generate investigation, critical debate and understanding of cross-disciplinary approaches to performance studies through contact and confrontation with other disciplines.<\/p>\n

Seven major conferences of this series have been staged and the series will relaunch in 2015.<\/p>\n

\u2022 1988 Theatre, Anthropology and Theatre Anthropology
\n\u2022\u00a01989 Performance Nature and Culture – Devon
\n\u2022 1990 Performance Politics and Ideology – Lancaster
\n\u2022 1993 Performance Ritual Shamanism – Cardiff
\n\u2022 1994 Performance Food and Cookery – Cardiff
\n\u2022 1996 Performance, Tourism, Identity – Beginning in Aberystwyth and journeying across Wales
\n\u2022 1998 Performance, Places and Pasts –\u00a0Beginning in Aberystwyth and journeying across Wales<\/p>\n

Pastmasters<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

PastMasters is a series of projects designed by CPR to explore and re-evaluate the work and influence of some of the great reformers of 20th Century theatre. The essence of PastMasters is to bring together practitioners and scholars to exchange views and skills, meeting and working within the context of contemporary theatre \u2013 from its roots to all its current diversity.<\/p>\n

Past Masters has been a huge success generating extraordinary training opportunities for professionals, a forum for debate between practitioners and scholars and a crucible generating new knowledge within the field of study.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a01996 Antonin Artaud
\n\u2022\u00a01997 Etienne Decroux
\n\u2022 1998 Bertolt Brecht and Sergei Eisenstein
\n\u2022 1999 Michael Chekhov
\n\u2022 2000 Beyond Pastmasters: Tadeusz Kantor & Cricot 2
\n\u2022 2001\u00a0Grounded in Europe: Tanztheatre and its Legacy
\n\u2022 2003 Craig and Appia: Sculptors of the Modern Age<\/p>\n

Cross Currents<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

A programme of two-day creative development workshops in theatre, dance, and voice<\/span>\u00a0led by world class artists and established UK practitioners, the series offers in-service professional training and creative development opportunities in communities across Wales often under-served by existing provision. Locations have included: Aberystwyth; Harlech; Brecon; Bangor; Milford Haven and Mold.<\/span><\/p>\n

CPR Productions – Performance Banquets\/Installations<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a02005\u00a0100 Years in Boxes: As Worlds Fall Apart<\/a>\u00a0– Aberystwyth, Wales
\n\u2022\u00a02007\u00a0Everyday Life in the Folds of a Serviette<\/a>\u00a0– Chichester, England
\n\u2022\u00a02008\u00a0First Supper at the Foundry<\/a>\u00a0– Aberystwyth, Wales
\n\u2022\u00a02011\u00a0Out of the Box: Unfolding Feasts \/ Allan o\u2019r Blwch: Agor Gwleddoedd<\/a>\u00a0– Across Ceredigion, Wales<\/p>\n\n\n