21/12/2023
Hi All, just a 'long range sunny forecast' for arts supporters!
The University of Music and Performing Arts of Graz, Austria, in collaboration with the Confucius Institute of Graz, invite kunqu and jingju practitioner, Kathy Hall, from the London Chinese Opera Studio, and kunqu actor Chen Rui 陈睿 from the Kunqu Troupe of the Jiangsu Province Performing Arts Company to give a two-day kunqu workshop and a public performance in Graz. The workshop on April 19th and 20th, 2024, is addressed to the students of the Institute for Ethnomusicology, Institute for Stage Design and Institute for Drama from the University of Music and Performing Arts of Graz. Students will have the chance to learn a short kunqu aria, including singing, acting and make-up. After the workshop, the students will demonstrate what they have learnt in a public recital, in which the two invited actors, Mrs Kathy Hall and Mr Chen Rui, will also perform the full scene learnt by the students.
The July 2016 photos attached here recapture the happy collaboration, teaching and learning of that first large scale Kunqu course presented by the SOAS Music Department and funded by the SOAS Chinese Institute featuring the same teachers, Kathy and Rui Chen, with student participants from Barcelona and UK-wide! Cheers to a wonderful extension of that experience in different directions!
