Experience Bryon
Experience Bryon is a practitioner/researcher and early pioneer of Integrative Performance. She is a practicing director, choreographer, classical singer, actor and yoga teacher and currently Course Leader for MA/MFA Performance Practice as Research and the Practice as Research Coordinator for the Research Degrees at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Subjects: Music
Biography
Experience Bryon trained and worked professionally as an actor, singer, dancer/choreographer and stage director in the areas of theatre, film, dance and opera. As an early pioneer of Integrative Performance she brings to the table 20 years of Practice as Research within the area of interdisciplinary performance making. She has been artistic director of numerous interdisciplinary projects, the most recent being Experience Vocal Dance Company (London/New York). Today her work is equally research and practice. She currently publishes, teaches, consults, presents and makes work internationally. She is currently a Senior Lecturer At The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama serving as Course leader for the MA in Performance Practice as Research and the Practice as Research Coordinator for the Research Degrees.Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
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Performance Practice and Theory
Practice as Research
Physio-vocal Praxis
Devising practices
Movement
Acting
Voice
Directing
Yoga
Websites
Books
Articles
From walking and talking to cartwheels and high Cs: an examination of practice-b
Published: Mar 03, 2012 by Theatre Dance and Performance Training
Authors: Experience Bryon
Subjects:
Music
Following a series of investigative workshops inquiring into the possibilities of the vocal body, artists of Experience Vocal Dance Company trained intensively in an experimental method called the Integrative Performance Practice, developing an exacting technique that allows the performer the freedom to completely integrate unlimited movement and uncompromised voicing including bel canto singing.
Interdisciplinarity and Embodied Knowledge: Towards an Active aesthetic using In
Published: Jan 01, 2006 by Tanz im Musiktheater – Tanz als Musiktheater.
Authors: Experience Bryon
Subjects:
Music
Current discourses in performance theory cast interdisciplinarity into a dilemma that errs in the direction of excluding practice as meaningful. This article argues for the possibility of an 'active aesthetic': recognising that meaning happens in the act of performance rather than in the text or in the construction of intertextual relationships.
Pedagogy, Performance Theory & Historic Prejudice in Opera
Published: Apr 01, 2005 by Voice and Speech Review
Authors: Experience Bryon
Subjects:
Music
For opera the preoccupation of meaning making and the preoccupation with meaning is particularly interesting. Opera is by design interdisciplinary, therefore born from a web of meanings set in motion. From here we can begin to teach singers an active aesthetic rather than a depictive set of rules informed by prejudice.
Stanislavsky and the Classical Singer: Is it madness to apply The Method to oper
Published: Oct 10, 2000 by Classical Singer
Authors: Experience Bryon
Subjects:
Music
Stanislavsky is commonly regarded as the father of modern acting techniques. Throughout the twentieth century his system influenced performance practices in stage, film and television. What is not so commonly acknowledged is that Stanislavsky was passionate about opera.