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shin tai do senior instructor
video and performance artistBorn in New York City, David Franklin started studying Chinese and Japanese martial arts in high school. He studied studied cultural anthropology with an emphasis on East Asia and Chinese language at Harvard College in Cambridge Massachusetts (A.B. with honors 1987). He attended the New England School of Acupuncture for two years where he studied Chinese and Japanese medicine, but before completing the program he entered the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (Diploma of Fine Arts 1995), where he focused on Video Art and Performance Art, completing the 4-year program in 3 years and winning the Video Department Annual Award for two consecutive years (1994, 1995).
In 1996 he co-founded Pan 9, one of Boston's few surviving underground performances spaces, and in 1998 he became an artist-member of Mobius, Boston's Center for Experimental Art. His video art and performances have been shown at Mobius, the Decordova Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, and the Boston Underground Film Festival. He stars in Neovoxer (dir. Michael Pope), a cult experimental performance film, which he co-produced, and has performed with the Neovoxer Ensemble at screenings in Boston, New York, Vermont, and the Czech Republic.
He started studying Shin Tai Do in 1983 and became a Regular Instructor in 1990 and a Senior Instructor in 2004. He has studied in the US, Japan, China, France and England, and has taught courses and workshops in the US, Italy, France and Japan. He holds the rank of 2nd-dan (2nd degree black belt) in Shin Tai Do bojutsu (art of the 6 ft wooden staff). He serves on the Shintaido of America Board of Directors, and was a contributing editor to Body Dialogue, the Shintaido journal, from 1996 - 2004. He is Assistant Technical Director of Shintaido North East, and is a member of the Shintaido of America National Technical Council.
soprano
co-founde of the voice instituteAnne Harley is a classically trained soprano, specializing in baroque music and is an avid proponent of contemporary and experimental works for voice. She has a Masters in voice performance from Boston University and completed 2 years at Boston University's prestigious Opera Institute. For several years, she has investigated voicework through the techniques of the Roy Hart School with Richard Armstrong and is a certified Assistant Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework, which combines classical theater voice techniques with the very physical therapies of Wilhelm Reich. She is the founder, with Jeff Morrison, of the Voice Institute (in Cambridge, MA). She is currently pursuing a doctorate in Historical Performance (Voice) at Boston University, where she studies various historical perspectives on vocal production and performance.
As a performer, The Boston Globe has dubbed her 'a compelling advocate,' and noted that she "boasts a naturally flexible, sweet high soprano", She has performed as soloist with groups across North America and in Europe, including the Handel & Haydn Society, Boston Camerata, Boston Bach Ensemble, Musica Angelica, Back Bay Chorale, Musicians of the Old Post Road and The Neovoxer Ensemble. She was recently appointed a Bentley Fellow at Dartmouth and is a member of Lowell House at Harvard University where she teaches voice and recently directed the spring 2002 production of Carmen, set at the April 2001 Free Trade protests in Quebec City. In 2003, she will direct Eugene Onegin in the original Russian. In 1999, she made her European debut as the lead in Handel's Acis and Galatea in Amsterdam's Concertgebouw. Her group TALISMAN's recent recording of music composed by Russian women aristocrats from the court of Catherine the Great was released on Dorian in September 2002 and the project won the Noah Greenberg Award 2001.
BA, Comparative Literature, Yale University
MFA, Voice Performance, Boston University
Opera Diploma, Opera Institute, Boston University
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