Julianna Bloodgood | Artists in Residence | Kamov Residency

Julianna Bloodgood

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American theatre maker with Polish address Julianna  Bloodgood (Wrocław, Poland),  is a vocalist, multidisciplinary theatre maker, somatic practitioner and teacher. From 2009 - 2018 she worked with award winning and critically acclaimed Polish theatre company Song of the Goat Theatre (Teatr Pieśń Kozła) becoming a principal performer. She is a resident artist with Ireland’s Bru Theatre, New York based Theater MITU and Slovakian company Honey and Dust. Julianna is the co-founder of The Great Globe Foundation, a non-profit organization which utilizes the power of creativity to inspire and empower the individual voice and to help build bridges between people and communities. Through this organization she co-founded and led the Dadaab Theatre Project, a youth based theatre initiative in Dadaab, Kenya, the world’s largest refugee camp. Julianna’s work includes anthropological performance research and she has traveled extensively in search of different cultural perspectives on the body, voice and the ritual of performance. Her research with the body and voice has led to an in-depth and ongoing development of this connection which she calls Embodied Voice Practices. Julianna has a particular interest and research in the vocal practice of lamentation, giving shape and voice to our pain, which has become a through line in all of her work. She performs, teaches and researches globally.

Embodied Voice Practices

17.-21.11.2022.

As part of the third edition of the European festival of contemporary theater practices Tranzit, Julianna Bloodgood is leading a research lab focused on embodied voice practices.

Embodied Voice Practices is an embodied approach to vocal training which utilises somatic practices and vocal technique to bring about the awareness, awakening and activation of an authentic voice that is open and free, expressive and capable of communicating emotional truth. Embodied Voice Practices awakens a deep sense of listening and responsiveness to the impulses that arise within our body. This awareness can be brought into all forms of communication through the integration of words, sounding, song, rhythm, relationships and imagination. Full body, full breath, full emotion, full potential. The research lab will be held from November 18th to 20th, 2022 in Filodrammatica, Rijeka.

http://krila.org/prakse-utjelovljenog-glasa-istrazivacki-lab-2-festival-tranzit/

Arts organisation KRILA

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Arts organisation KRILA is a laboratory for contemporary theatre promoting progressive practices and creating engaging art works for local communities and citizens of Rijeka as well as supporting professionals and small independent European cultural operators in the field. In the development of our audiences: 1) we use unconventional theater spaces, 2) we engage the audience in the creative process and/or performance, 3) we approach the process of audience segmentation as an articulation of values. The strategic goals of the organization are:

- to ensure stimulating conditions for the work, research and strengthening of the capacities of domestic freelance contemporary performing artists and raising the quality and visibility of their artistic production.

- to develop and implement international cooperation projects with a special focus on contemporary performance practices, connecting and cooperating with international artists, educators, organizations and institutions.

- to contribute to the improvement of the personal and professional development of children, young people and adults through educational theater content that meets their needs, relying on contemporary, collaborative, engaged and inclusive theater practices.