Joanna Dudley

Joanna on opiskellut vanhan musiikin opintoja Adelaiden konservatoriossa Australiassa sekä Sweelinck-konservatoriossa Amsterdamissa. Lisäksi hän on perehtynyt traditionaalisen japanilaiseen musiikkiin Tokiossa ja niin ikään traditionaaliseen tanssiin ja musiikkiin Jaavalla. Joannan taidot eivät jääkään yhteen tai edes kahteen taiteen alaan: hänet tunnetaan kansainvälisesti sopraanona, ohjaajana, koreografina sekä musiikkiteatteri- ja performanssitaiteilijana. Hänet on nähty vierailijana mm. New Yorkin Metropolitan Operassa, Englannin kansallisoopperassa sekä Teatro dell’Operassa Roomassa.

Joanna on työskennellyt yhteistyössä esimerkiksi Philip Millerin ja William Kentridgen kanssa (mm. Paper Music, A Guided Tour for the Exhibition: For Soprano with Handbag ja Lulu). Joannan mielenkiintoisiin yhteistyötahoihin kuuluvat myös mm. flaamilainen lauluyhtye Capilla Flamenca sekä elektronista melua musiikkinaan käyttävä SchneiderTM. Myös Joannan sooloteokset ovat ennakkoluulottomia; hänen ääniteoksensa Tom’s Song 32 soittorasialle ja 16 levysoittimelle on soinut jo useilla merkittävillä kansainvälisillä taidefestivaaleilla.

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Joanna Dudley works internationally as a director, performer and singer creating music theatre, choreography and installation.

She studied early and contemporary music at the Adelaide Conservatorium, Australia and the Sweelinck Conservatorium, The Netherlands, traditional Japanese music in Tokyo and traditional dance and music in Java.

Joanna worked as a guest director, creator and performer at Berlin’s Schaubuehne. Works created there include My Dearest, My Fairest with Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola and colours may fade with Esnaola and Rufus Didwiszus. Other works in collaboration with Didwiszus include the solo music theatre piece, The Scorpionfish, Who Killed Cock Robin? with the Flemish vocal ensemble Capilla Flamenca and LOUIS & BEBE with the electronic noise musician SchneiderTM. Her work has toured extensively throughout the world.

In collaboration with William Kentridge and Philip Miller, Joanna features as a singer and performer in Refuse the Hour and Paper Music. Joanna created a solo role for Kentridge’s production of Lulu for the Metropolitan Opera New York. Together they co-created and Joanna performed The Guided Tour of the Exhibition: for Soprano and Handbag for the Foreign Affairs Festival in Berlin and the museum of the Martin Gropius Bau.

Other collaborators include Seiji Ozawa, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Sasha Waltz and Thomas Ostermeier.