Stephanie Pan is a voice artist, composer, interdisciplinary maker and performer, and designer. Her work is a mutating combination of music performance/post-opera/sound art/(physical-)theater/(participatory-)performance art/durational performance/installation. Sonically she integrates experimental, electronic pop/dramatic song/contemporary new music/improvisation/noise/tekno/controlled chaos. As a voice artist she has developed an idiosyncratic technique which moves freely between classical bel canto to screaming and belting, to extended vocal techniques, approaching the voice as a pure soundmaking instrument. Her approach is primal and visceral, often exploring the limits of the body and voice. Aside from work as a sound and performance artist, Ms Pan’s practice extends to aerial silks, knitwear design and more. Central to her larger art practice is the notion of ‘analog digital’, approaching contemporary art from an analog, hands-on approach while reflecting and digesting digital technology and aesthetics within the realm of human imperfection and interpretation.
Ms Pan performs extensively internationally, having created and presented work at venues and festivals as varied as CTM Berlin, Rewire Festival, Young Vic Theatre, La MaMa Theater, BBC, IDFA, Dutch National Opera, Beursschouwburg Brussel, O. Festival, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Kunstmuseum Den Haag. She has collaborated regularly with Belarus Free Theatre, filmmaker Jeanette Groenendaal, Ensemble Klang, and Rosa Ensemble, among others. Together with Stelios Manousakis she co-founded and co-curates the inter-media platform Modern Body Festival. Ms. Pan holds a Masters in Theatre from DasArts, Double BA from UC Berkeley in Music and Applied Mathematics, and a First Phase Diploma with distinction in Classical Singing from The Royal Conservatory, The Hague.