In this experimental choral and voice learnshop developed by singer and music-maker Xenia Rubinos, participants are invited to explore their voice through rituals of collective speaking.
In the second part of the learnshop, Xenia will guide and compose a choral ode in collaboration with the participants. Through improvisational and compositional scores, we will expand on the sounds and text developed in the learnshop and throughout the script-writing and rehearsal process for En Parábola, leading to a chorus of voices and sounds that bring together the multiplicity of Puerto Rican migratory experiences.
This learnshop will be held in Spanish and English and is open to all, especially folks of Puerto Rican descent, no prior experience is required. Part of this session will be filmed as part of Natalia’s research phase for En Parábola/Conversations on Tragedy, which will premiere at Amant in January of 2024.
We have a maximum capacity of 20 people. If you would like to attend, email curatorial@amant.org briefly explaining your connection to Puerto Rico and why you would like to participate, please use “Rituals of Speaking with Xenia Rubinos” as email subject.
Photo of Xenia Rubinos by Paula La Bloise Art.
Her latest album, Una Rosa (Anti Records 2021) was profiled in The New York Times. Rubinos performed on NPR’s Tiny Desk concert series and her music has appeared in film and TV including the Netflix series Gentefied. She has collaborated with a diverse array of artists from Deerhoof to Helado Negro. She has been a composer in residence and clinician at the Curtis Institute of Music as well as the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Xenia composed the theme song for the longest running Latinx-focused journalism radio program in U.S. public media, Latino USA.
She is currently an Associate Professor in the Songwriting & Production department for the Master’s Program at Berklee College of Music’s NYC campus.
