Open Session: Definitions of Emotion
Monday 27th July
7.00pm - 9.00pm
In this session, Director Madeline de Berrié will facilitate a discussion about definitions of emotion and the process of communication about emotions in the rehearsal room.
We will start by exploring together definitions of emotions and artistic representations of dramatic facial expressions from the French Baroque period.
Following this, we will move into a discussion about how we define emotions, and how we can communicate shared understanding of emotion.
What role does a shared understanding of emotion and facial expression have in the potency of the work we can produce?
How specifically is it possible for us to communicate with actors and other collaborators about emotions in our rehearsal process?
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Zoom details will be emailed to you on the day of the session.
Open Session is an initiative for directors, designers or producers on the Genesis Network to run a one-off session, discussion, or initiative.
This is a peer-led session that is not curated by RTYDS or Young Vic.
Madeline Claire de Berrié is a musician and opera director as well as an avid nature lover and yoga fanatic. As a mezzo-soprano and baroque violinist, Madeline has sung with Capella Sancta Maria in Amsterdam (also in collaboration with La Caravaggia), Laurens Collegium Rotterdam, the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, The Venice Baroque Orchestra, The Academy of Ancient Music, The Orchestra of the Age of Englightenment, Praetorius, The Floriade Ensemble, Capella del Arte, The Belgrade Baroque Academy, Venti Vecchi, The Neumayer Consort, Juliard 415 and Chamber Music New Zeland, Capella Cracoviensis (Bach Festival Swindica, Poland), Collegium Musicum Riga and the Guildhall Consort with the Academy of Ancient Music.
Madeline is a graduate of Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London and BAROCK VOKAL, Centre of Excellence for Early Music Singing, Kolleg für alte Musik an der HfM Mainz. With friends and colleagues she is a co-founder of historial performance ensemble GRAND SIÈCLE, (https://www.grandsiecle.org) , specialising in the repertoire of the French Baroque. Madeline is passionate about lute song and self-accompanies on the lute and theorbo.
Madeline has Directed/Assistant Directed/Choreographed the following operas: (Pelléas et Mélisande, (Debussy), Orpheus et Euridice (Gluck), Don Giovanni (Mozart), Xerxes (Handel), Les Mamelles de Tiresias (Poulenc), Orfeo (Monteverdi), Ballo Delle Ingrate (Monteverdi), Les Plaisirs de Versailles (Charpentier), Céphale et Procris: Prologue (Elizabeth Jaquet de la Guerre), Les Arts Florissants (Charpentier), Die Zauberflöte (Mozart), Alcina (Handel), Jepthe (Carissimi), Jonas (Carissimi), Euridice (Caccini).
Madeline is also co-founder of Arts at the Intersection (https://www.artsattheintersection.org), an initiative harnessing the power of the arts to bring different communities together.