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George Rodosthenous
Artistic Director
Email:
george@altitudenorth.com
ROLES
Lecturer in Music Theatre (University of Leeds)
Programme Manager for BA (Hons) Theatre and Performance (University
of Leeds)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
The Body in Performance
Devised pieces with live musical soundscapes as interdisciplinary
process
The work of David Greig
The interfaces between Music, Movement and Text
Refining improvisational techniques and compositional practices for
Performance
Antonin Artaud’s “Theatre of Cruelty”
Contemporary British Drama since the 1990s
European and Art-house Film Music
Stage and Film Musicals of the late 1990s
Contemporary Approaches to Greek Tragedy
Recording and Reflecting on Creative and Performance work as
academic process
EKT
Journalism
Associate Editor of Theatre Magazine EPI SKINIS (Cyprus)
Regular Contributor to Theatre Magazine FOYER (Greece)
Cultural Correspondent for Cyprus Broadcasting Co-operation (Cyprus)
Membership of Professional Bodies
Artistic Director of Theatre Company “Altitude North”
Member of Royal Shakespeare Company’s Higher Education Advisory
Group
Licensed as a member of Performing Rights Society
Member of Society for the Promotion of New Music
Member of the Association of University Teachers
Member of the Higher Education Academy
Member of the American Biographical Institute Inc.
TEACHING
Processes of Performance 1 (Theatre and Performance)
Processes of Performance 4 (Theatre and Performance) – module leader
Exploring the Musical (Elective) – module leader
Exploring Music Theatre (Elective) – module leader
Self-directed Performance (Music Theatre) – module leader
Collaborative Processes (Common Module)
Theatre & Performance – Staff Directed Performance (Acting)
Postgraduate Supervision
I currently co-supervise 2 PhD students:
Towards a music-centric Music Theatre (practice-based)
Songs from the Underground: The Music and Politics of Toronto’s
Subway Musicians
BIOGRAPHY
1993 BMus (Hons) Cardiff University
1997 MA Composition of Music for Film, TV and Theatre, University of
Bristol
2001 PhD in Musical Composition (Music Theatre), University of Leeds
2004 Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher
Education, University of Leeds
AWARDS AND GRANTS
Dec 2005 Best Theatre Music for IRON - Theatrical Organization of
Cyprus Theatrical Awards for 2003-2005
1997-2001 Stanley Burton Scholarship for PhD in Musical Composition,
University of Leeds
PUBLICATIONS
Theatre as Voyeurism: the pleasures of watching (Book – in progress)
Theatre as Voyeurism: David Greig’s "Outlying Islands" and the
pleasures of watching (TaPRA Conference – CSSD, September 2006)
"Billy Elliot the Musical": Visual representations of the all
singing & dancing bo[d]y (Song, Stage and Screen: Interdisciplinary
Approaches to the Musical Stage Conference – University of
Portsmouth, April 2006)
Conducting the Body: Sounds and Bodies in a production of George
Rodosthenous’ adaptation of "Alcestis" (International Federation of
Theatre Research - Washington D.C., May 2005, "The Changing Body" -
University of Exeter, January 2006)
The Dramatic Imagery of "Howl": the [naked] bodies of madness
(chapter in book "Howl for Now" - Route, October 2005)
Beauty, the Human Body and the Abject: Semiotics and the ephemeral
in Rimbaud’s "A Season In Hell" (Image and Imagery Conference:
Beauty and the Abject – Brock University Canada, October 2004)
Music as Dramaturgical Process: The Organic Use of Music in the Film
"The Talented Mr Ripley" (Louis Le Prince - University of Leeds, May
2004)
Free adaptation of text in creating Music Theatre: Applications of
musical interpretation on Rimbaud's "A Season in Hell" (University
of Sheffield, February 2004)
The Aural versus the Visual: The Desire of the Greeks, the Cruelty
of the French & the disappearing moment of experience in
contemporary Music Theatre (SOUNDINGS: innovations in, and
reflections on Music Theatre - Rose Bruford College Symposium, May
2003, International Federation of Theatre Research - St. Petersburg,
May 2004)
As Director
Symposium and Salome (Workshop Theatre - Leeds, March 2007)
Ajax (University of Leeds, November 2006)
The Speculator (University of Leeds, December 2005)
Howl (University of Leeds - Poetry reading, October 2005)
Alcestis (University of Leeds, November 2004)
Flowers for the Lady (West Yorkshire Playhouse – Script in hand,
November 2003)
A Season in Hell (Rose Bruford College, West Yorkshire Playhouse,
Newcastle Playhouse, Canada)
The Sacrifice (Festival of Contemporary European Plays - University
of Huddersfield, March 2002)
Wasted Bodies (Western Campus Theatre - Leeds, November 2001)
Agamemnon (Raven Theatre - Leeds, February 2001)
Music for Theatre (Incidental Music)
The Sixth Commandment: Thou Shall Not Kill (National Theatre -
Greece, March 2007)
Romeo and Juliet (Harlow Playhouse, March 2007)
Laios’ murderer and the crows (National Theatre - Cyprus, October
2006)
Guy (Pleasance Theatre - London, March 2006)
The Merchant of Venice (National Theatre - Cyprus, November 2005)
Bella and the Beautiful Knight (Edinburgh, August 2005 / UK Tour
2006)
Orlando (Bloomsbury Theatre – London, September 2004 / Cyprus,
October 2004 / Athens, September 2005)
Iron (ETHAL - Cyprus, November 2004) – PRIZE FOR BEST THEATRE MUSIC
FOR 2003-2005
Alcestis (University of Leeds, November 2004)
Solemn Mass for A Full Moon in Summer (University of Leeds, January
2004)
Little Eyolf (ETHAL - Cyprus, March 2003)
The Mousetrap (National Theatre - Cyprus, December 2002)
Professor Wren’s Goldfish (Underbelly - Edinburgh, August 2002)
Measure for Measure (IFTR World Congress - Amsterdam, July 2002)
Children of a lesser God (National Theatre - Cyprus, November 2001)
Gemini (Scottish Academy - Edinburgh Fringe Festival, August 2001)
The Visions (Workshop Theatre - Leeds, February 2001)
The Gambler (C Venue - Edinburgh Fringe Festival, August 2000)
Dumb Wonderland (Chads Palace - London, June 2000)
Closer (Theatre ENA - Cyprus, February 2000)
The Propsmaster (Meredith Studio - Huddersfield, May 2000)
The Wedding at the Eiffel Tower (Workshop Theatre - Leeds, December
1999)
21 Years old at 6 a.m. (Venue 41 - Edinburgh Fringe Festival, August
1997)
Shelf-life (C Venue - Edinburgh Fringe Festival, August 1997)
Love’s Sacrifice (Wickham Theatre - Bristol, March 1997)
Music theatre works
Composer and Director: A Season in Hell (Image and Imagery
Conference: Beauty and the Abject – Brock University Canada, October
2004 / SOUNDINGS: innovations in, and reflections on Music Theatre,
Rose Bruford College Symposium, May 2003 and as part of the New
Writing Festival at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, June 2003)
Composer/performer and director of a trilogy for actor,
percussionist and pianist, based on texts by Steve Sweeney-Turner
and Adrian Smith: Aggression (York Contemporary Arts Festival, June
1999 with Sam Grogan), Schizophrenia (Leeds One Act Play Festival,
June 2000 and Edinburgh Fringe festival, August 2001 with Oliver
Renton). Sensitivity (Leeds LUUTG Theatre Week, October 2000 with
Nick Court and Edinburgh Fringe festival, August 2001 with Jonathan
Robson). Complete trilogy performed (Cyprus tour invitation by
National Theatre - Cyprus, Cyprus Ministry of Education, April 2001
- British premiere at the University of Huddersfield, 30th April
2001) Composer and director of piece for 4 dancers, 3 electric
guitars, 2 flutes and percussion: In Stillness Movement (as part LS
Two contemporary ensemble installation performance of John Cage’s
Variations IV, University of Leeds, March 2000)
Composer/performer of audio-visual work for 5 musicians, dancer and
actress: Mosthai (Biennale des Jeunes Artistes des Pays de l’Europe
et de la Mediterranée, Il Mattatoio, Rome, June 1999)
Musical Director: Hysteric Studs (Battersea Arts Centre, December
1997)
Original score for the musical: A Stranger in the House (Wickham
Theatre - Bristol, 1997)
Music for Film and TV
The Day Granddad went blind, HTV Commission, shortlisted for a BAFTA
Short Film Award, (screened at the 1999 London Film Festival and
other European Film Festivals)
The 10,000th Day, shortlisted for a BAFTA Short Film Award (screened
on HTV, 1999)
Eve, one morning, Fuji Film Scholarship nominee (screened in London,
1997)
The Toad Lodge, (screened on HTV, 1997)
Music for Uno Minuto Festival, Brazil - commission from Cyprus
Broadcasting Corporation (screened San Paolo, 1995)
Music for the video Famagusta, commission from CyBC
Soundtracks of the comic television series Kirie Proedre and Ta
Kopelia (SIGMA RADIO TELEVISION Ltd., 2001)
Music Consultancy
Scuffer (West Yorkshire Playhouse – directed by Alex Chisholm, March
2006)
Musical compositions
and so they kissed for organ (2001)
Studies in Sensitivity for orchestra (2001)
Elegy and Dance for piano (1998)
The Strait Gate for eleven wind instruments (1998)
Continuity for clarinet, cello and piano (1998)
Prelude and Scena for guitar (1996).
Five not neo-classical pieces for electric piano (1996)
Sonata for double-bass solo (1996)
Piano Toccata (1996)
Ballet-scene for septet (1996)
Diprosopia - concertino for flute and string orchestra (1995)
Other compositions
A Path to the Unknown Space: Tracking through the body... [Dance
Performance] (University of Leeds, March 2003)Il ritorno del
castrato : La Vendetta [Electronic Music] (Dartington, 2000)
Music for X-Scape MPEG4 EC demonstrator- interactive music video for
PACT, Partnership of Advanced Computer Technology (Bristol, 1997)
Music for the Catwalk [Fashion Show] (St Martin’s College of Art and
Design,1999) |
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