Juliana Snapper is an opera singer, voice researcher and artist. She received her B.M. in vocal performance from the

Oberlin Conservatory The Oberlin Conservatory of Music is a private music conservatory in Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. It was founded in 1865 and is the second oldest conservatory and oldest continually operating conservatory in the United States. It is one of t ...

where she studied under Richard Miller, and her M.A. in critical musicology at University of California, San Diego. Snapper creates performances and installations that push the physical and expressive capacities of the singing body. She combines radical vocal techniques, composition, improvisation, and intermedia dynamics alone and in collaboration. Snapper collaborated with performance artist

Ron Athey Ron Athey (born December 16, 1961) is an American performance artist associated with body art and with extreme performance art. He has performed in the U.S. and internationally (especially in the UK and Europe). Athey's work explores challenging ...

on the piece Judas Cradle which toured throughout the U.K. and premiered in the U.S. at

Walt Disney Concert Hall The Walt Disney Concert Hall at 111 South Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles, California, is the fourth hall of the Los Angeles Music Center and was designed by Frank Gehry. It was opened on October 24, 2003. Bounded by Hope Street, Grand Ave ...

REDCAT Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater (REDCAT) is an interdisciplinary contemporary arts center for innovative visual, performing and media arts in downtown Los Angeles, located inside the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex. Opened in November 2003 ...

Theatre. Her Five Fathoms ''Opera Project'' premiered in 2008 at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center/

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NY. In May 2009, she collaborated with composer Andrew Infanti and costume designer Susan Matheson on the premiere of the world's first underwater opera You who will emerge from the flood at the

Victoria Baths Victoria Baths is a Grade II* listed building, in the Chorlton-on-Medlock area of Manchester, in northwest England. The Baths opened to the public in 1906 and cost £59,144 to build. Manchester City Council closed the baths in 1993 and the buildi ...

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, U.K. It is part of an episodic and site-specific work that has since been staged in the U.S., France, Portugal, Poland, and Switzerland. Her projects have been supported by grants and fellowships from The

Metropolitan Opera The Metropolitan Opera (commonly known as the Met) is an American opera company based in New York City, resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, currently situated on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The company is operat ...

Foundation,

Arts Council of Great Britain The Arts Council of Great Britain was a non-departmental public body dedicated to the promotion of the fine arts in Great Britain. It was divided in 1994 to form the Arts Council of England (now Arts Council England), the Scottish Arts Council (l ...

, The Center for Research in Computing in the Arts, and The Durfee Foundation. Snapper lives in Los Angeles, CA.

References

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TDR: The Drama Review on Judas Cradle
* Nigel Brookes. "Prison, Perception, and the Humanity of Art" Concrete Magazine, July 2005. * Amelia Jones, "Holy Bodies: Erotic Ethics in Ron Athey and Juliana Snapper's The Judas Cradle." The Drama Review, Vol. 49, Issue 3. Fall, 2005. * Faye Hirsch, Review of Performa05.

Art in America ''Art in America'' is an illustrated monthly, international magazine concentrating on the contemporary art world in the United States, including profiles of artists and genres, updates about art movements, show reviews and event schedules. It i ...

, February 2006.
Cindy Center, "Podcast Interview 21: Juliana Snapper"
* Lisa Cazzato-Vieyra, "The Judas Cradle Documentary." (DVD) Native Voice Films, London, UK, 2006. *

Mojca Kumerdej Mojca Kumerdej (born 1964) is a Slovene writer, philosopher and critic. She works as the cultural chronicler for the daily newspaper ''Delo''. Biography Kumerdej graduated in philosophy and sociology of culture from the University of Ljublja ...

, "Soprano Juliana Snapper's Underwater Sirensong," Delo, June 28, 2008 * Leija Svabic, "When Swimming Pool Turns Opera Stage," Triera, June 21, 2008 * Leah Gangitano, in Performa: New Visual Art Performance,. NY: Distributed Art Publishers, 2007

External links

Juliana Snapper official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Snapper, Juliana Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Oberlin Conservatory of Music alumni University of California, San Diego alumni American opera singers Performance art in Los Angeles American sound artists Women sound artists American performance artists