Monday morning workshops

Monday morning workshops - led by Duncan Macmillan and Douglas O'Connell. This was to enable them both to build on their successful workshops last week.

Jorgen taking part in Douglas O'Connel's workshop on live video in performance.

Duncan Macmillan's structure workshop

Shunt at the ICA

For the last five days, the MAATP graduate collective ' Shunt' have been programming events at the ICA - five days back-to-back performance, a signiificant achievement.  Louise Mari, Gemma Brockis and Mischa Twitchin were all there on Sunday evening.

 Mamoru Iriguchi performing 'Bang Bang' - a one-on-one multimedia piece

Company Visit

Lisa Turner  in action

Jorgen Tjon-A-Fong talking to Lisa and Heng Zhang

Visit to the last of the MAATP companies this week: Hongdo - working in the Downstairs Performance Studio. Find they've divided into smaller groups today working on individual memories.  Sympathetic exploratory atmosphere - creative and supportive. Good work in the room.

Jorgen and Imogen Crough-Hyde confer

Wednesday Company Visits

Encouraging visits to three companies today - all working in very different ways.  'Interference' in the Clean Rehearsal Room at 10.0.  Monkey Tomorrow' in the West Block Performance Studio 1 at 11.0, and 'Nothing and Nobody' in the West Block Performance Studio at 4.0.
'Interference' show us some elegant movement work on the sprung wooden floor  of the Clean Rehearsal Room.  A gentle rather spiritual atmosphere in the room.

'Interference'

Photo: Paul Williams

'Monkey Tomorrow' in the Downstairs Performance Studio: more like straying into a TV studio - with seated director, performers with scripts, Hiroko Matsuo's design work all around.

Monkey Tomorrow

Mauricio Both, Catriona Kerridge

                                          'Nothing and Nobody'

 

Sarah Grange, Alica Radage, Alexander Winfield, Soren Evinson Williams

'Nothing and Nobody,' later in the day, are using scrims to evoke the atmosphere of their expedition to Dungeness.

Alexander

Soren

Alicia

Modern British Sculpture

Sunday - visit to Modern British Sculpture at the Royal Academy. The first caption in the first room asks what is Modern, what is British and what is Sculpture, and the exhibition moves on from there - from sculpture on a plinth, to sculpture on the ground, to sculpture in the everyday world (but no Anish Kapoor). I guess a parallel journey may be traced - rapidly catching up - amongst theatre practitioners.

Damien Hirst's Let's Eat Outdoors, towards the end of the Exhibition.

Oriel and Sadie Milton watching the flies.

Bootworks visit to MAATP - Friday morning

Andy Roberts (Core Company member and Performer). and James Baker (Education Coordinator).

Monday Workshops

Monday workshops.  Chahine Savroyan one of the workshops on lighting.

Practices Companies 'check-in' Tutorials

Saw three of the four Practices companies - with Amie Shilan -  this morning.

I've seeing the work of plenty artist practitionerrs this week - in the US.  So I'll try and catch up the week, mainly in images. I do in any case intend to make this diary more image-led - more of a visual diary. How that's going to work out in practice remains to be seen.

Chicago - Anish Kapoor's 'Cloudgate' in the snow

Museum of Modern Art - New York.

Arrive just in time for free Friday night. Crowded festive atmosphere. Good opportunity to see paintings in relation to audience - the different audience responses which different paintings create.