Wedding of MA Advanced Theatre Practice alumna Venla Hataka in Turku Finland Saturday August 4th

Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch World Cities 2012 - Weisenland

Last night of this incredible season. Thank you Tanztheater Wuppertal for this extraordinary experience.

Thursday June 28 Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch: World Cities 2012 - Agua

MA Advanced Theatre Practice company at Istropolitana Projekt

MA Advanced Theatre Practice arrive at Bratislava airport for Project Istropolitana

MA Advanced Theatre Practice  company'Head of a Woman' arrives Bratislava airport

Pina Bausch

Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch: World Cities 2012 - Der Fensterputzer (The Window Washer)

Show Time: Three Days of Theatrical Experiments: Rich Mix- June 15 -17

Audience at Rich Mix

MA Advanced Theatre Practice: Work-in-progress Presentations: Steve Sargeant

Steve Sargeant and sound installation in the Atrium at Central School of Speech and Drama

Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch: World Cities 2012: ... como el musguito en la piedra, ay si,si,si ... (Like mosson a stone)

Summer Writing Project

Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch: World Cities 2012: Nur Du (Only You)

Walk Down - Barbican Theatre

What is the relation of each of these works to each city which inspired them?

Found this in the programme -

She (Pina Bausch) went on to point out how international the company was, and how many cultures were represented: 'We don't only travel - we ourselves are already a world of our own. And this world is constantly being enriched anew by encounters and experiences.'

In other words we can travel in order to draw out and stimulate aspects of ourselves which are already latent within us.

Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch: World Cities 2012 - Viktor

Upstairs Foyer at  Sadlers Wells  during the Interval

 First night of this extraordinary season. We start at the bottom of a black pit. Earth being shoveled in. Perhaps the longest darkest and most profound of all Pina Bausch's works. The only one in this season with Raimund Hoghe as dramaturg too.
How is it possible to assemble so many seemingly disconnected fragments into a great work?

Summer Writing Project - Day Five

MA Advanced Theatre Practice Sustained Independent Projects - Sharings of work and progress so far

 

Sara Kestelman in Robert Holman's Making Noises Quietly at the Donmar Warehouse

A Short Walk in the National Gallery - Day Four

Conversation at the next table

So far as the walk goes, the area of the gallery I'm planning to cover is Italy 1250 - 1350.
The writing is done in the coffee bar, after the walk, a kind of respite, where there are about eight tables looking out over Trafalgar Square. Today the conversation at the next table was just a bit too close. Should I be listening? Probably yes. Let them filter their way in to the work if they will.

First look at MA Advanced Theatre Practice Sustained Independent Projects with Joseph Hill-Gibbins

Joseph Hill-Gibbins - Deputy Artistic Director Young Vic

Lunchtime

A Short Walk in the National Gallery

Writing to Alex Eisenberg yesterday has set me thinking about this project and helped to remind me how it's linked to some earlier projects.

A Short Walk in the National Gallery - Postcard to Alex Eisenberg

Dress Rehearsal of revival of Anthony Minghella's Madame Butterfly at the ENO

A space for the intersection of imaginations

Puppetry by MA Advanced Theatre Practice graduate Mark Down
Revival Directed by MA Advanced Theatre graduate Sarah Tipple

Jane Munro leads MA Advanced Theatre Workshop at start of the Sustained Independent Project

Was this workshop useful for you? What stood out for you? How could it contribute to your work in future?

MA Advanced Theatre Practice graduate Selina Cartmell in conversation with the yeargroup at start of Sustained Independent Projects

 Was this conversation useful for you? What stood out for you? How could it contribute to your work in future?

Wednesday May 2nd: Guy Dartnell leads MA Advanced Theatre Practice workshop at start of Sustained Independent Projects

'Beliefs, Wants and Pasts'

'In this workshop we will explore creating work from a personal  stand point, beginning from the most fundamental aspects of ourselves, discovering how they can be the springboard to solo or collective projects.'

Was this workshop useful for you? What stood out for you? How could it contribute to your work in future?

MA Advanced Theatre Practice graduate Robert Orr (NIE) leads workshop at start of the Sustained Independent Projects

'Ways Into Devising'

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Chloé Déchery leads an MA Advanced Theatre Workshop at start of Sustained Independent Projects

'Making Performance: Playing with Facts and Fiction"

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Note on Active Imagination taken at Performing Research Conference last week

'Every creative individual owes all that is greatest in his life to fantasy ... which is inconsistent wih the principle of serious work ... the debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable ...'
Jung 1921
Found this note in my notebook. It's from one of the MA Advanced Theatre Practice presentations at the Performing Research Conference.

The project I'm working on involves creating a space for the play of imagination.

Summer Writing Project

Have had the idea of trying to document this project by writing postcards from the National Gallery. This one is to Oriel Milton - who is 6 years old today.

MA Advanced Theatre Practice Presentation at Performing Research Conference

Summer Writing Project - Day Three - April 24

Fragment of Ugolino di Nerio's Santa Croce Altarpiece - The Way to Calvary 

Nervous encounter at the next table in the cafe

Summer Writing Project - Day Two - April 20

Summer Writing Project - Day One

This blog might have reached you from Italy. My original idea was to re-create a journey of 1972, writing a play for the Hampstead Theatre, and writing a blog as the main means of communicating with you. I imagined I would be working away at my work, and you would be working away at yours, and somehow the thoughts would flow between us. Well, at the eleventh hour Central decided this would not be a good idea, and would not be a good investment for the School.

So after thinking it through, I'm thinking I will try to undertake the project, so far as possible, without actually going to Italy. This is going to involve liberal doses of Dante - on the tube. And working in the National Gallery - as close as possible to works by the same artists I would have been looking at, if not the actual works themselves.

One of the ideas behind this project is the proposition that writing a play is just a kind of prolonged improvisation - just like any other improvisation - and just like any other improvisation has a great deal with creating the frame. One of the frames in this case will be the National Gallery. Whenever I can I intend to spend the morning there writing - looking at paintings similar to those I would have been close to in Italy.

What's the connection between the pictures and the writing? Well, that's a question I might try to unravel. If time allows.

   

MA Advanced Theatre Practice alumni led company dANTE OR dIE performing at the BAC Saturday March 4th

MA Advanced Theatre Practice - Practices - Work-in progress showings - February 29th

MA Advanced Theatre Practice - Monday February 27 - Nick and Karen see run-through of one of the Practices companies



Mawgaine Tarrant-Cornish



MA Advanced Theatre Practice Interview Day - February 17th