International GIFT Artist duo, Walli Höfinger and Teresa Brayshaw host a live closing event for GIFT 2022, which begins with a musical medley of their spoken word and song extracts from their forthcoming Album Umbilical Chords and concludes with a shared closing circle to mark and celebrate the official end of the festival. It’s a metaphorical call and response.

 

Invoking two of the Festival’s resonant themes of care and coupling, Walli and Teresa will facilitate a special moment for everyone to find and use their own voices and rekindle the collective encounter and shared joy of both giving and receiving the GIFT.

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About Artists

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Walli Höfinger

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Born 1966 in Austria.

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Walli Höfinger is a performance artist, voice performer and accredited Roy Hart voice teacher (Malérargues, France 2009) who lives and works at Gutshof Reichenow near Berlin. Her artistic work currently focuses on experimental work on the voice, writing her own texts as well as voice and piano compositions. She works equally solo and collaborates with Christiane Hommelsheim, Jonathan Hart-Makwaia, Biliana Voutchkova, Ingo Reulecke, Teresa Brayshaw, and others. She regularly teaches voice workshops in Germany and throughout Europe. She speaks German, English and French.

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Teresa Brayshaw

 

Born 1966 in England. 

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Teresa Brayshaw is a theatre maker, teacher and Feldenkrais Practitioner (2013), who lives in Manchester and works at Leeds Beckett University and Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance. She works as a director, researcher and collaborator across a number of international, interdisciplinary and intergenerational projects including Cinage Live, Player Piano, ACT Festival artist conversations, ATIPIA training & In their Own Words. She co-edited both the Twentieth & Twenty First Century Performance Readers (2013 & 2020 Routledge). She speaks English and Spanish.