tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4841776707173159212011-07-30T17:04:30.393+01:00CPR has invited some of the most exciting and diverse Wales based and international theatre directors to Aberystwyth for an intensive participatory project that offers a rare opportunity for both experienced and emerging directors to gather and share the methods, approaches and skills of professional directing practice via laboratories and presentations, demonstrations and dialogue.The Centre for Performance Researchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16211284540561104278noreply@blogger.comBlogger351100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-484177670717315921.post-55237088425308934892010-05-14T13:17:00.002+01:002010-05-14T13:18:26.180+01:00

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A Retrospective Bird's Eye View After ten intensive days of laboratories, exploratories, discussions, talks, blog posts and coffee breaks, the Director's Forum is over and we have all set off in our separate directions, back to our homes or new destinations. An isoteric crystal of experiences has emerged from the forum, where a number of different directors and theatremakers have presented

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The last two days of the Gathering saw more of the creative facilitations that had opened up for exchange of experiences the previous day. Peader's morning session on Saturday was a meeting not just of directors, but of designated experts on the topic, who were there to give and receive advice. We were all asked to think about a real problem we had encountered in the process of directing, that

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What an action-packed, squeezed-tight programme, the staff at CPR have created in presenting their inspirational Directors Forum, which is just about to finish its 10-day run. Having a full-time job means that it would be impossible to take part in the proceedings, but cleverly, they split the overall programme into 3x 3-day blocks, so you might do all 3, or just one or two. I attended the

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Peader was given free reigns again Friday afternoon, in what was the second plenary of the Gathering's first day. He used this opportunity to redo what had been done before, posing questions about beginnings and rethinking of roots. The structure was much like it had been before; a moment of epiphany, your family tree, your first performance and your real motivation, but with the addition of

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What is a director? What is his or her role? Where does s/he come from? This morning's session began with an open session to ask questions – a retrospective look on what we wished we had talked about in an ideal gathering, to open these points for discussion during the days to come. The idea of the Gathering is, at this point, to address some of these key issues with those who have made it to

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At the first session of the three-day gathering, Richard Gough asked participants to articulate the areas and ideas they hoped would be covered over the weekend in relation to the role of the director. A brief summary of the points that were touched upon. Roots  Where does the work we do come from?  What is our current position?  What is our responsibility to our roots  Are we obliged to

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Exploratory with Mike Pearson, The Directors' Forum.2Originally uploaded by Centre for Performance Research

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What is rhythm?, Veenapani asks the half circle of participants that have gathered for a taster of her work and practice. After a few moments' thought and some stumbling lines, the answers trickle out of us: it’s a division of time, a predictable organisation of time, a pattern we come to have expectations about. And where can we find it? In walking, in the rain, sports, and heartbeats.

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Olya Petrakova and Bryan Brown Exploratory (ARTEL) at the Directors' Forum.1Originally uploaded by Centre for Performance ResearchIII Exploration Session by ARTELians - - TRICKSTERS & PRANKSTERShttp://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=111128152252708&ref=nf

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To call this laboratory a Cake-related one might be a mistake on my part. It took characters from Natalie's extensive creative work as director of Cake Theatre Company as one of its starting points, but the process and exercises used had little to do with her previous work. Both participants and laboratory leader learnt a fair few things during the process of these three days, as we all delved

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Marnie's work is coloured by her exposure to the Body Weather training, developed from Butoh dance by Min Tanaka. This two-hour exploratory started with a warm-up of kneading the body and 'detatching' the ligaments from the bones to soften up the movements of the body whilst stretching and removing excess energy. Afterwards, the session was spent exploring the notion of decision-making, working

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Click on the title above for information on the Exploratory Session with Olya Petrakova and Bryan Brown (ARTEL): Discovering Trickster energy in the Creative Process.Starting at 10.30am this morning

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"Ruth Kanner and her acting group raise the art of storytelling-theater to new heights…masterpiece acting in which every little detail of body and soul is treated perfectly and exhaustively"- The Stage REDUNDANCIES DATES: Tuesday, 13 to Thursday, 15 April In this laboratory of practical investigation, participants will explore the two central forces energizing theatrical creation: the drive

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Adrian Jackson is the founder-director and chief executive of a unique theatre company, Cardboard Citizens, in which most of the performers are homeless and ex-homeless people, refugees or asylum-seekers. Founded in 1992, the company tours theatre productions, especially inter-active Forum theatre, to all sorts of venues. LABORATORY DATES: Tuesday, 13 April to Thursday, 15 April This laboratory

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"The grand task of Das Beckwerk is to turn the failures of the average man into masterpieces, to turn the casual ideas of the wannabe into visions, to turn the life and story of the average human being into world history!" THE THEATRE OF THE SPECTRE, THE MEDIUM AND HUMILIATION DATES: Tuesday, 13 to Thursday, 15 April   Participants will work with the director and dramaturg of Das Beckwerk and

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Veenapani has been engaged in research towards creating a performance methodology based on old knowledges. This methodology involves a physical craft to facilitate the actor’s vocal, bodily and psychological expression. She has been disseminating this through workshops, performances and papers at Adishakti and other national and international venues. LABORATORY DATES: Tuesday 13 to Thursday, 15

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A series of early thoughts and jottings by Judie Christie (Creative Producer, CPR) about the idea of the Directors' Forum and specifically it's title. As we come to the close of the first set of workshops, a look back. The working title of The Six Senses of the Director offers an early and loose thematic framework as signposts to possible clusterings of focus and exploration: Sight: Composition

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The genetic structure of theatre What does theatre and evolutionary theory have in common? According to Ralf Strøbech, everything. After working with Hotel Pro Forma for several years, he is taking a new direction in his work: he now wants to start with people, not with the specific place and set, and this morning's exploratory was a condensed version of the laboratory, which takes the people

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A Directors' Forum Exploratory with Peader Kirk (Mkultra).11 Originally uploaded by Centre for Performance ResearchWhat would you have become if you had not become a director?

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A Directors' Forum Exploratory with Peader Kirk (Mkultra).13 Originally uploaded by Centre for Performance ResearchThe Directors' Family Tree

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Today with Richard we did an exercise in absence, in not being there. Using the chair game developed by Richard, he instructed us in what to do, the rules and we carried them out. A chair was placed in the space, facing the group who sat in a semi-circle. The first instruction was to walk up and sit on the chair and “do nothing”. The second instruction was to walk up and sit on the chair and

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Beginnings and obstacles What is your genealogy, who is in your family tree? What inspired you to start with this work? What would you have been if you had chosen a different path? Where would you be? Paeder Kirk led the opening session of Day 2, which turned into a living installation that addressed many of the key questions that emerge for beginning directors, and which for the experienced

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Today we took part in Natalie’s exploratory. It was a very intense and active working process partly because there were only two of us taking part. We entered the room and launched straight into practical working with a text – no introductions. The text was written by Natalie and was a composed from a mixture of found sources. “The eyes of the world are upon you.” “He was banished by his wife

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Every morning includes a two-hour Exploratory session of practical investigation with someone who may or may not be conducting a Laboratory. This allows small groups of participants the chance to encounter and sample different and diverse approaches and aesthetics from the more intensive Laboratory sessions they are attending. “There are no mistakes”, said Julian, before he threw the

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Content on this blog is updated daily by CPR's Bursary Barters who have come together from various countries to be part of this ten day forum. Read on to get introduced to them: Alice Fiedler I currently live in Zurich Switzerland. I studied scenography at the Zurich University of Arts. Since high school I have been a performer for Strings Attached theatre group and have performed with them at

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Hotel Pro Forma displaces the notion of theatre into new territories that lie between art and non-art, theatre and non-theatre, between the physical and the metaphysical expression. Performances occupy a space between construction and sensation, consciousness and intuition, concrete and abstract. Hotel Pro Forma moves across the genres of theatre, opera, visual arts and concert. Every production

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With past projects ranging from spectacular site-specific works created with 10,000 concrete blocks, to simultaneous performances across continents using live internet streaming, Station House Opera is an internationally renowned performance company with a unique physical and visual style. ABER BACKWARDS DATES: Fri 9th to Sun 11th April Life should go in certain patterns, but it rarely does.

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Cake Theatre marries the mundane with the epic, contemporary with ritual, blows ordinary situations and relationships into absurd proportions and works towards an all encompassing intensity that is experienced rather than understood on a purely rational level. Silence and restraint co-exist with eruptions of explosive spectacle, the result is a theatre that is always relevant and challenging.

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"Quarantine is quite simply a marvel, a company that's right at the forefront of British theatre…..immensely touching, totally human yet also intellectually rigorous in their examination of the nature of performance and the raising of questions about what makes theatre seem real and reality so strongly theatrical." - Lyn Gardner, The Guardian, October 2009 FIRST, FIND YOUR AUDIENCE DATES: Fri

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