About the event
Shed your human form and take musical flight! Join Loré Lixenberg to experiment with sound, breath and song in a bold and immersive workshop inspired by Aristophanes’ play The Birds.
About The Birds
Following on from LETHE, vocalist and composer Loré Lixenberg’s new project LETHE2 – The Birds tells the story of Aristophanes’ ancient Greek comedy of the same name, where the birds are tasked with founding Cloud Cuckoo Land in order to intercept sacrificial offerings from mere mortals to mount Olympus, causing a siege-famine of the gods.
In this workshop, we invite you to stop being human for a while, and start becoming a bird. Not metaphorically. Actually.
What will we do?
Through a series of vocal exercises and live-action role-playing we’ll experiment with sound, breath, and song until our throats betray us, our bodies forget themselves, and we edge closer to the strange, chaotic community of birds.
During the workshop we’ll explore:
- Vocal and improv techniques – learning to sing like birds, squawk like parliament, and call across imagined skies through aural scores.
- Transformation – you’ll develop your own bird-character, your Cloud Cuckoo Land citizen, halfway between myth and ecology.
This is not a polite choral workshop. It’s noisy, messy, funny, and serious all at once. Think Aristophanes meets Attenborough; Frankie Boyle caught in a dawn chorus with Loré Lixenberg. Think of yourself as a migratory being, perched briefly in a room with strangers, deciding together what it means to build a world in the air.
Key info
The Birds
Date & time: Saturday 7 March, 11am-5pm
Venue: Heslington Hall, University of York, University Rd, Heslington, York YO10 5DD
Access info: Dedicated building parking including Blue Badge parking is available.
The event takes place on the ground floor and there is ramp access at the entrance to the right of the front courtyard.
Accessible toilet facilities are located in the centre of the building on the lower ground floor.
For more detailed information, click here for full access info
For further questions, please contact campus-development@york.ac.uk
Cost: Pay what you can – recommended £15
Register to take part: here