Friday March 25th - Disambiguation: Second Term Step-down, and Tutorials

Morning, 'Step-down' for the Second Term led by Karen Christopher with the whole group - a practice Karen's brought to the MA Advanced Theatre Practice from her work with Goat Island.
What is a step-down?
Afternoon - Personal Academic Tutorials, around the School, and outside!

Alicia Radage           Karen Christopher

Tim Crouch's visit - further reflections

'There is an an actor's illness that actors have - a kind of passivity they just want to do acting'

Debriefs and Discussion - Interference and Monkey Tomorrow

Notes taken during Interference's performance

'caged atmosphere'
'black video tape'

'the name Scar begins to acquire significance'

'you need to reach out to people'

'conversation starts- everyone's interested'

'train goes over - blends with action'

'people laughing - nervously?'

'I'm beginning to wonder who we the audience are'

'figure with apples'

'door squeaking and slamming'

'this process of looking into the material is difficult - it becomes an opportunity for performance'

'alexander reading - this is gradually working'

'a few members of the audience push themselves forward'

'alexander starts doing puppetry'
'I feel the comapny has no resources to deal with situations which arise'
'boredom is beginning to set in'
'the train noise - it's the only real thing now'
the room is becoming too familiar - comfortable

'the protagonist gradually getting dressed - this is working up to a point'

'repetition of sound of door'

Documentation: Nicki Polykarpou's follow-up session - companies show their documentation

Photo by Paul Williams

Example of Interference's documentation

More documentation - live television interview Norfolk

Live performance - or documentation?  The interviewee's family watched the interview (on the no-fly zone) from the house live,  and simultaneously on Sky TV, restraining the dogs from joining in. A mill-stream running behind the interviewee added rural authenticity to the interview as it appeared on television. Would the interview conducted in an area of rural deprivation have the same effect?

Documentation - further thoughts

Part of kitchen wall - house in Norfolk

What could a historian learn from this?

Session on documentation by Alex Eisenburg (Present Attempt)

Alex Eisenburg

How useful are rules in an approach to documentation?

Visit of Tim Crouch and Second Showing of Monkey Tomorrow

Visit of Tim Crouch

What point from Tim's presentation stood out for you most?


Second Showing of Monkey Tomorrow

What are the main changes Monkey Tomorrow have made since last week?

Nothing and Nobody Showing (New Studio), Interference Showing (Scar, Camden) and Monkey Tomorrow start their get-in (New Studio)

Nothing and Nobody

          Soren Evinson-Williams    Alex Eisenburg

Interference

 Monkey Tomorrow - Get-in, New Studio

Hongdo - Second week showing - New Studio

This company has succeeded in bringing its disparate elements together and making a strange and haunting work.

Hongdo - start of showing

Kings of England - Showing - Continued

Kings of England - discussion

                                           Simon Bowes

Kings of England - first open rehearsal at 2.30 in Apiary Studios

Kings of England

John Pinder

Since the beginning of the year MAATP alumni Alex Eisenburg and John Pinder have been working with Kings of England developing a new performance which will be shown as part of SPILL Festival 2011 on 22/23 April 2011 at the Barbican.
Alex wrote: We would like to invite you to an informal showing of "In Eldersfield: An Elegy for Paul Dirac", which will take place this Sunday 13th March at 2.30pm at Apiary Studios, 458 Hackney Road, E2 9EG (sorry for late notice!)

Programme about English National Ballet - watching with with an ex-ballet dancer

Rehearsing Swan Lake

'I always feel every job I work they should just see ballet ... and get a grip.' Agree?

First work-in-progress showing - Monkey Tomorrow

Feedback sesssion - Monkey Tomorrow

                          Tommy Lexen

To what extent does the opening of a play or performance determine what follows?

Good news of MAATP alumni appointments

Rob Drummer's website

Pleased to hear that Rob Drummer (MAATP 2009-2010) has been appointed Resident Assistant Director at High Tide - working for 12 months on the 2011 High Tide Festival.

Interviews, Interference, and visit of by performance-maker Rajni Shah and costume designer Lucille Acevedo-Jones

Workshop interviews for the course in Rehearsal Room 4

Interviewees

Karen Christopher observes

Feedback session - Interference

Karen Christopher, Tommy Lexen

Costume Presentation

Rajni Shah and and Lucille Acevedo-Jones

'I didn't write anything down - I just did a drawing.'
Is this a good way of working?

Meeting with MAATP Student Representative, first work-in-progress showing by Hongdo, and Horseplay is one year old

While having weekly lunchtime meeting in the Hampstead Theatre with Alicia looked up and was surprised to see a photograph on the wall of one of my own plays.

Country Life

George Cole and Virginia McKenna

Time elided for a second, putting me in a receptive mood for the first showing of Hongdo's delicate piece about memory.

Hongdo Feedback Session

A good example of documentation? How can we know what each member of the audience has just seen or heard? The theme continued into the evening, meeting up with some of last year's MAATP students at Horseplay.

Horseplay 

Started by MA Advanced Theatre Practice alumnus Rob Drummer,  and other MAATP students last year, their successful venture Horseplay at Proud Galleries is now one year old! Congratulations! Where next?

First Day in the New Studio

Hongdo meet up with Andrea to their discuss technical requirements

How well prepared is each company?

British Art Show 7 In the Days of the Comet - at the Hayward Gallery

Roger Hiorns BAS7

What can we learn from contemporary British Art?

Next week's schedule - four companies rehearsing and showing work-in-progress in the New Studio

Is this workable?

Hello World - Session on visual communication led by Dr. Mark Ingham

Mark Ingham with Michelle Roche and Lisa Turner

Did you find this session useful?

It was an interesting and useful workshop, I like that it has the chance of spreading rhizome-like through the rest of the course.Thanks, Sarah

First work-in-progress showing

'Nothing and Nobody'

Wednesday Tutor Visits to Companies

Interference

Monkey Tomorrow