Darrel Toulon returns home after 37 years living and working in UK, Germany and Austria to create an original ‘Song Cycle’ Musical Theatre “Oh Maria! – songs and stories of the survivors”, over an intense collaborative 2-week Workshop, to be performed in Venues all across Dominica, along with other young talented Dominicans.
The Workshop will run from 5th to 18th August 2018 at Old Mill Cultural Center, during which, stories of survivors of Hurricane Maria will be converted into monologues, and then into lyrics for songs arranged for performance by the Workshop Participants themselves. Under the Artistic Direction of Darrel Toulon, the selected Participants of the Workshop, who Toulon plans to attract from all over the Island, will be introduced to a whole new range of creative tools, by the international Leading Team of Maurizio Nobili (Musical Director, Song Writer, Composer, and Arranger) and Carole Alston (Singer, Actress, Vocal Coach, Singing Teacher). Complementing the Faculty will be Alwin Bully, Pearle Christian, Lennox Honychurch, Dorothy Leevy, Ophelia Marie, and Anthony Toulon who have been invited to give Key-Talks, providing invaluable intergenerational local input. Darrel Toulon stated: “This provides me with a chance to give something back to Dominica after 37 years of living and working abroad. Leading and creating similar projects internationally with people from other countries and using their traumatic experiences to communicate with a contemporary European Audience, it matters now to initiate this project back home.”
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Darrel Toulon
7/12/2018 12:51:28 am
I have been teaching and developing this kind of Workshop-to-Performance, very interdisciplinary, and collaborative process orientated worker the past years here in Austria/Germany/Switzerland at Universities, Think-Tanks. It's been done with Professionals, Students, Researchers, and also local Community Folks. Time to bring this home, and empower a younger generation to dig deep into themselves and pull their personal Art out.
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