Nightswimming

The process is adjudicated by Nightswimming Artistic Director Brian Quirt (Toronto) and Dramaturg DD Kugler from SFU School for Contemporary Arts.

Led by Susanna Uchatius, Artistic Director of Theatre Terrific and James Coomber, composer/musician the question proposed was:

Is there a primal element; something missing in our pedagogy of voice practice in performance speaking and singing?

What is that missing something? 

Susanna and James will be working with Trevor O'Rourke and Kieran Naugler.  Trevor is a trained opera singer who works as a Spanish vocalist/percussionist for Spanish dancers.  His physical vocal skills will bring a distinct emotional physicality to the research.

Keiran is a student of TheatreTerrific who lives with adrenoleukodystrophy known as "locked in body syndrome." Kieran presents clear striking evidence of the presence, strength and power of that 'missing thing.' He sings.  He barely speaks.

This quartet will meet in June 2011 to research the chasm that lives between the singing voice and the speaking voice.  This work will be researched and recorded with the assistance of Brian Quirt AD of Nightswimming and DD Kugler of SFU School for Contemporary Arts.

Theatre Terrific is proud to be honored for pure theatre research that will hopefully enrich the Canadian theatre communities practice and perception.  Theatre Terrific will publish it's findings on line and in hard copy.