DISCUSSION DAY IMAGES
(Photos: Maria Andrews)
WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT/SIMILAR PROCESSES OF LANGUAGING AND MOVING? (VIDA)
HOW CAN I GET BEYOND MY RESISTANCE AND PERFORM REGULARLY? (KATE)
Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn’t know anything about scene, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about.
HOW CAN WE CONTINUE MAKING THIS WORK AMONGST US? (SOPHIE/ANTONIO)
Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn’t know anything about scene, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about.
nightrunning 14 November 2014
NIGHTRUNNING ON HACKNEY MARSHES (Nightrunning happened from 6pm on Friday 14th November 2014, Hackney Marshes, East London with twenty participants – led by myself and James Cross. It was inspired by Gardzienice’s actor-training practice which focuses on communal breath and rhythmic practice.) Inspired by the night, I wrote the following poem the next day as…
What_Now 2014
What_Now 2014 I’m writing now, at my desk, being sedentary, thinking, not thinking, a bit stuck (PhD chapter), then I’ll go to see Les Ballets C de la B and then I’ll come home and pack for this – four days occupying Siobhan Davies studios for What_Now 2014, and look forward to a different, and perhaps…
My MA thesis: What to do with Gestus Today? Version II
Even when a character behaves by contradictions that’s only because nobody can be identically the same at two unidentical moments. Changes in his exterior continually lead to an inner reshuffling. The continuity of the ego is a myth. A man is an atom that perpetually breaks up and forms anew. We have to show things…
One Man Good Woman
I am making a solo show which not only aims to serve as practice in order to research the application of Brecht’s concept of Gestus but also tells the story of one good woman turned sour by the memory of one man. It is has a Hollywood frame, circa 1940s and uses Brecht’s The Good…
Moscow Art Theatre trip – May 2008
I spent two weeks training at Moscow Art Theatre in late May. The exchange programme between MAT and University of Kent runs each year with up to a dozen students from MAT spending time in the Drama department in Canterbury in early May before an exchange later in the month. Set up by Stanislavski in 1897,…