By Ema Katrovas
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What can you do with a performing arts degree, you ask? Well, according to some educators within the performing arts, you can be a great realtor if your performing career doesn’t pan out. Let’s articulate why that sort of thinking is counterproductive but also how exactly academic training DOESN’T prepare us for the real world and which skills to focus on to fill in what academic training leaves out.
Transcript: https://classicallyuntrainedpodcast.com/2024/11/18/episode3/
Footnotes & Sources: https://classicallyuntrainedpodcast.com/2024/11/18/episode3/#footnotes&sources
Music composed, recorded and produced by Silvia Berrone
Cover art by Kateřina Krejcarová
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What can you do with a performing arts degree, you ask? Well, according to some educators within the performing arts, you can be a great realtor if your performing career doesn’t pan out. Let’s articulate why that sort of thinking is counterproductive but also how exactly academic training DOESN’T prepare us for the real world and which skills to focus on to fill in what academic training leaves out.
Music composed, recorded and produced by Silvia Berrone
Cover art by Kateřina Krejcarová
Transcript of episode:
https://classicallyuntrainedpodcast.com/2024/11/11/episode2/
Footnotes & sources for this episode:
https://classicallyuntrainedpodcast.com/2024/11/11/episode2/#footnotes&sources
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Let’s start this first season with the assumption that what you do as a performer is valuable beyond bringing you joy or status or distraction. It’s a radical thought, I know. But without it, there’s no point in your listening to this podcast. So let me make a case for why you matter as a performing artist and how what I want to share on this podcast can help you make the best use of it.
Music composed, recorded and produced by Silvia Berrone
Cover art by Kateřina Krejcarová
Transcript of episode:
https://classicallyuntrainedpodcast.com/2024/11/04/episode1/
Footnotes & sources for this episode (including some pretty extensive arts employment data for the EU):
https://classicallyuntrainedpodcast.com/2024/11/04/episode1/#footnotes&sources
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The first episode will launch a week from now, Monday, November 4th!
In this pre-season episode I want to tell you a little about how to listen to the podcast and how I envision it to be useful. I’ll also talk about who I imagine my audience to be, how I’m using the term “classical,” and why I decided to create the show in the first place.
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The first season of Classically (Un) Trained will run from October to December 2024.
Music: Silvia Berrone
Cover art: Kateřina Krejcarová
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FORGOT TO SAY THAT EPISODES OF THE PREVIOUS PODCAST WILL BE AVAILABLE HERE: https://classicallyuntrainedpodcast.com/former-podcast-archive/
In what I hope is the last update before I launch the first season of the new podcast, in this episode I will:
1) Tell you about audience survey results (including reading out some responses about performing artists' frustrations and responding to a repeating theme which surprised me)
2) Describe the podcast to come (including some titles of episodes I'm writing)
3) Tie up some loose ends from the last podcast!
Currently the best way to stay up-to-date is the newsletter, which you can sing up for HERE.
New Website (under construction): classicallyuntrainedpodcast.com
Here is a full written presentation of the new podcast:
Classically (Un)Trained - Performing Artists (Re)Inventing Themselves in Times of Hardship and Technological Change
Classically (Un)Trained is a companion for classically-trained performers who are on a journey to (re)invent themselves for the 21st century and (re)discover meaning in what they’ve trained so hard to master.
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Performing arts degrees are likened to pyramid schemes, auditions are called cattle calls, and artists who make a living from performing are the 1%.
About the host:
Ema Katrovas is a classically-trained singer. She spent her formative years singing in regional Czech theatres. After the pandemic, she pivoted to contemporary classical music and cultural journalism, attending the Aix-en-Provence festival’s cultural journalism workshop and completing a two year Artist Diploma residency at the High Conservatory in Lyon, where she created and performed in the one-woman vocal-theatre show Diva Lazarus*. She is currently working on a doctorate at the University of Strasbourg/HEAR with a thesis called* A Poor Opera: In Search of Vocal Theatre. www.emakatrovas.com
In this quick update, I'm going to pitch you on my idea so far for an as-yet-unnamed podcast! But mainly - I need YOUR help to name and focus it.
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💋👁👂🏼 Artists on the Verge website: https://artists-on-the-verge.com/
Host of Artists on the Verge, Ema Katrovas, shares her next-day impressions after a live show she created which was two years in the making - and, more importantly, how her experiences around the budget, the technical aspects of the show, the reactions of the public, and the show's prospects for the future may hint at a new focus for the podcast.
Here are links to the YouTube and Instagram accounts where you can find some of the shorts/reels about the show which Ema published in the month leading up to the show:
(During this episode, Ema mentions Jerzy Grotowski's Poor Theatre without much explanation - you can actually learn more about that in the shorts/reels linked above.)
Welcome to another conversation from the high/low art divide between opera-singer-turned-experimental-performer Ema Katrovas and comedian-and-TV-writer-turned-novelist Nicholas Anthony.
I was going to put the film the Sudbury Devil (whose creator I interviewed on this podcast) to rest - but then I stumbled across Susan Sontag’s essay “Notes on Camp” and I realised “camp” kind of explains EVERYTHING about how Nick and I (i.e. a comedian and an opera singer) had very different reactions to this film - namely why Nick HATED it and I didn't.
So what does “camp” have to do with certain corners of YouTube, the piece of outsider cinema called the Sudbury Devil, and how might it explain why two people might have different reactions to a particular work of art?
Timestamps:
00:00:00 Intro
00:00:02 Conversation about why Nick didn’t like the Sudbury Devil
00:34:44 Interlude and disclaimer to the creators of the film (“the opposite of love isn’t hatred, it’s indifference”)
00:35:66 Understanding Susan Sontag’s “Notes on Camp”
00:53:58 Why camp MIGHT explain Nick’s dislike of the Sudbury Devil (disclaimer: this features Ema’s hot take on camp which she may revise)
01:08:40 So what is camp? (and final thoughts on Sudbury Devil)
01:12:59 Outro
My interview with Andrew Rakich on the Sudbury Devil: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artistsontheverge/episodes/52-A-Friendly-Debate-With-Andrew-Rakich-On-His-Epic-Micro-budget-Film---The-Sudbury-Devil-e2euolq
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The podcast currently has 66 episodes available.