tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10536144078530847442024-03-13T14:40:08.637-07:00Dancing BrickDancing Brickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13797854177395165297noreply@blogger.comBlogger89125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1053614407853084744.post-6175628085875866872013-12-21T15:46:00.003-08:002013-12-21T15:58:25.919-08:00Thumbelina's Great Big Adventure at Cambridge Junction from 14 December until 4 January<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eOyB4GGPZKs/UrYrDxmboZI/AAAAAAAAAdo/QikBWZybUis/s1600/Thumbelina_A3_Poster_PRINT.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eOyB4GGPZKs/UrYrDxmboZI/AAAAAAAAAdo/QikBWZybUis/s640/Thumbelina_A3_Poster_PRINT.jpg" /></a>
Valentina Ceschihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13006348335475377512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1053614407853084744.post-70301870357523577982012-08-01T14:15:00.000-07:002012-08-01T14:15:08.301-07:00DANCING BRICK AT EDINBURGH FRINGE 2012Tomorrow we take off...To Medieval England at 13.45 with Perle at Assembly Roxy
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and at 8pm to the Planet of Rice and beyond for more adventures with Captain Ko and Al Stark.
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Just got back from ACT Festival in Bilbao. It was great to meet and connect with so many artists from around the world and try out another version of the show to another audience. The festival, in the same model as BE in Birmingham, bases itself around bringing a collection of artists together at mealtimes - providing great food twice a day to encourage everyone to be in and around the festival hubs at all times. It's a great way of stimulating engagement and interaction between the artists in a way that feels unforced, informal and intimate and that builds actual relationships as people first, artists second.Dancing Brickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13797854177395165297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1053614407853084744.post-51936503789246914232012-05-22T10:51:00.001-07:002012-05-22T10:51:50.079-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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With just one performer and his television, Perle is the story of a young father coming to terms with loss, told through a bold mixture of illustration and performance.<br />Perle is the collaboration between award-winning theatre company Dancing Brick (21:13, 6.0: How Heap and Pebble took on the World and Won) and the illustrator Serge Seidlitz, exploring how the poetry and silence of the comic book can be transferred to the stage. </span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:small;">The performance will be at 9.15 on Wednesday 21 and Thursday 22 at Camden People's Theatre (nearest tube Warren Street)</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">For more information about Sprint, and the show visit http://www.cptheatre.co.uk/event_details.php?sectionid=theatre&eventid=500&searchid=current</span></div>Valentina Ceschihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13006348335475377512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1053614407853084744.post-39189474688348550722012-03-18T11:25:00.006-07:002012-03-18T16:02:08.522-07:002012<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-r4XduYbkFtE/T2ZieCYgwTI/AAAAAAAAAJo/C82GV8DkBRo/s1600/2327901383_b9773a745c_b_2_2.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-r4XduYbkFtE/T2ZieCYgwTI/AAAAAAAAAJo/C82GV8DkBRo/s320/2327901383_b9773a745c_b_2_2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721368644796072242" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; "><a href="http://planetofrice.blogspot.co.uk/">Captain Ko and the Planet of Rice</a></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5GbqqRPm6Vs/T2Zc7TTTFgI/AAAAAAAAAJc/FGRPi-9Owr4/s1600/IMG_0052.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="text-align: justify;float: right; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5GbqqRPm6Vs/T2Zc7TTTFgI/AAAAAAAAAJc/FGRPi-9Owr4/s320/IMG_0052.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721362550484047362" /></a></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >So this year has kicked off to a great start. We are delighted to announce that we were successful in getting Arts Council funding to take <a href="http://planetofrice.blogspot.co.uk/">Captain Ko and the Planet of Rice</a> to Edinburgh this summer, thanks to the Escalator East to Edinburgh Scheme.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:85%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">We have been consulting with Professor Sergio della Sala since last year (with us in the picture) on creating this beautiful piece about time, memory and science fiction, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial, sans-serif;">using the colourful genre to talk about humans' relationship with time and the complexities of neurological diseases such as Alzheimer’s Disease. We are collaborating with video artist <a href="http://www.susannedietz.com/Susanne_Dietz/Home.html">Susanne Dietz</a> and sound artist <a href="http://www.devine.co.uk/linernotes/">Caroline Devine</a> to broaden our process and enrich our aesthetic. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:85%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial, sans-serif;">For more information about the how the development of the show, please visit our Captain's [b]log] !</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:85%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial, sans-serif;">http://planetofrice.blogspot.co.uk/</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:85%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family:arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>Valentina Ceschihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13006348335475377512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1053614407853084744.post-27498688199410643042011-11-02T07:47:00.001-07:002011-11-02T08:12:43.592-07:00Farmham Maltings<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-h6fH4Th9m1I/TrFZHzwTyzI/AAAAAAAAAGw/_vv3bKp96ys/s1600/maltingsentrance.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 150px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-h6fH4Th9m1I/TrFZHzwTyzI/AAAAAAAAAGw/_vv3bKp96ys/s320/maltingsentrance.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5670411396522953522" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">We're delighted and proud to announce that we are now one of the associate companies at Farnham Maltings. We are going to be working with them on the professional development of the company, financial management and building a solid foundation for our forthcoming projects.</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://www.farnhammaltings.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">http://www.farnhammaltings.com/</span></a> </div><br /><br />Looking good on their associate companies section on their website!<br /><a href="http://www.farnhammaltings.com/news/associate_companies/761/368/915/dancing_brick.aspx">http://www.farnhammaltings.com/news/associate_companies/761/368/915/dancing_brick.aspx</a>Valentina Ceschihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13006348335475377512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1053614407853084744.post-91524036665052387162011-11-02T06:28:00.000-07:002011-11-02T08:15:07.041-07:00Wellcome Arts Award for Public Engagement<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">We are thrilled to announce that Dancing Brick has received a Wellcome Trust Arts Award for Public Engagement, thanks to its collaboration with Professor Sergio della Sala from the University of Edinburgh to make <i>Captain Ko and the Planet of Rice</i> [working title]. We are currently in our second period of research and development for this project which we aim to take to Edinburgh next summer. </span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">
<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">To follow our progress, visit the Captain's [b]log we've started specifically for this project.
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We will be docking in Buckinghamshire and Cambridgeshire this week, showing a few very scratchy ideas at the <a href="http://www.mkgallery.org/events/2011_04_28/performance/">MK Gallery</a> this Thursday and looking forward to joining a great line-up of creators at <a href="http://www.junction.co.uk/artist/3276">Sampled Festival</a> at the Junction in Cambridge on Saturday (mentioned by <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/theatreblog/2011/apr/22/lyn-gardner-what-to-see">Lyn Gardner's What to See</a> this double bank holiday weekend). </span>Valentina Ceschihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13006348335475377512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1053614407853084744.post-49212288225675356862011-03-21T05:02:00.001-07:002011-03-21T05:03:06.749-07:00Fantastic Voyagebig small future past.<br /><br /><br /><iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3o8vsU0Dw-4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Dancing Brickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13797854177395165297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1053614407853084744.post-2173713685317824862011-02-18T01:31:00.001-08:002011-02-18T01:32:59.563-08:00NostalgiaAn expert example of music, text and image coming together and moving apart in the service of nostalgia and loss.<br /><br /><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/12814735" width="400" height="600" frameborder="0"></iframe><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/12814735">Lost Buildings</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user1189381">Kobey Teef</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>Dancing Brickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13797854177395165297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1053614407853084744.post-67580727385909862002011-02-09T14:19:00.000-08:002011-02-09T14:22:51.367-08:00New trailer for 6.0A new trailer for Heap and Pebble now online. This one actually has a bit of the show.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ie1RAxyl_-I?hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ie1RAxyl_-I?hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Dancing Brickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13797854177395165297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1053614407853084744.post-9582894799901087982011-01-31T10:53:00.000-08:002011-01-31T10:56:23.293-08:00Devoted and Disgruntled, Theatre Teachers History Lesson<!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal">Here are the notes from our session today at Devoted and Disgruntled 6.</p><p class="MsoNormal">The purpose of this session was to try to learn who the names on the D and D map were and why they were significant. Phelim revealed that the connection between all of them was that they were teachers (of theatre practice) and, as we went through (almost) all of them we tried to trace a heritage or lineage that might reveal something about where we are now or where we’re going. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">We all learned a lot.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">It was suggested, and I would love to try (but it might be better suited to one of the ‘teachers’, that the Tate modern’s ‘map’ of 20<sup>th</sup> century artists both in time but also in space is a very useful conceptual way of figuring this lineage and wouldn’t it be good to have one of the people below.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The purpose was also to be brief so, in that interest, I have tried to keep the biogs / definitions short. I have also tried to write them in the order we discussed them as this was often informed by links/similarities.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The descriptions are key words, places, book titles and things they said / stood for.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Book titles are underlined. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Symbol; ">® symbols used to be arrows in Word, but blogger doesn't like it.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Jaques Lecoq.</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">1960s <span style="font-family:Symbol;mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:Symbol">®</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>/ Paris. / Work that concerns the body in space / a practice based on the purity of movement from his background as a sports teacher / <u>The Poetic Body</u> / “Everything moves” / Complicite, Mummenschantz, Clod Ensemble.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Philippe Gaulier</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">1970s<span style="font-family:Symbol;mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:Symbol">®</span></span> / Paris, London / Pleasure, playfulness, games / “You are not funny” / Clown, bouffon, melodrama / catholic / Spymonkey, Sasha Baron Cohen, Peepolykus.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Prattki</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">1990s <span style="font-family:Symbol;mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:Symbol">®</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>/ London / LISPA / Lecoq disciple but adds elements of psychology, zen, meditative, mindfulness / A negotiation between Grotowski and Lecoq.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>John Wright</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b></b>1980s / UK, Paris / Clown, bouffon / Moved to England because ‘he got cash’ / Like Gaulier but ‘more english’ / Improvisation / Codifying comedy, the science of laughter / Games as opposed to play / Pushed clown towards the pathetic, the tragic / Told by an Idiot, Trestle.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Keith Johnstone</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">1970s, 80s / UK / Impro / Impro towards narrative, storytelling (as opposed to Gaulier who was towards the relationship w an audience <span style="font-family:Symbol;mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:Symbol">®</span></span> often people who don’t connect w Gaulier are more comfortable/successful w Johnstone) / Ran the writer’s room at the royal court in the 70s <span style="font-family:Symbol;mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:Symbol">®</span></span> Barker, Brenton, Bond / Gaulier and Lecoq say ‘No’, Johnstone says ‘yes’ / Failure is an active part of the process / Lifegame (anecdote from Phelim about a woman recounting a story in Lifegame about her mother’s heart attack and it being the first time Phelim realised impro could create wonderful, memorable scenes, and not just comedy, moments).</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Viola Spolin</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">1950s / USA / Pioneer of early ‘impro’ in the US. / Worked w street kids and developed, through this work, improvisation techniques / if Johnstone’s impro is about narrative, Spolin’s is about space / ‘Single focus’ allowing for instinct and intuition (eg. Coming onstage focusing on your feet allows you to instinctively use the rest of your body) / <u>Improvisation for the Theatre</u> / Games, play / ‘anyone can be an actor’ / </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Anne Bogart</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">1990s onwards / NYC / Serious badass with a sensitive, vulnerable side (!) / Founder of Siti company / Works with ‘Viewpoints’, a system of codifying<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>patterns in space and time to describe things and thus to be used in training or as a starting point for creation / not dissimilar from Laban / The performer of this has a 180 degree field of vision (unlike, say, a Gaulier performer who focuses on the audience) / an awareness tool / <u>The director prepares</u></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Tadashi Suzuki</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Japan / Comes from a Japanese tradition of Noh and Kabuki / voice centering (in the diaphragm, not the chest or head) / THIGHS.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Yoshi Oida</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Japan, Paris / Part of Peter Brook’s company / Noh training / the Japanese tradition of clear pictures, clean, clear language / Jo-Ha-Kyu / <u>The Invisible Actor</u>.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Konstantin Stanislavski</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">1890s-1920s / Russia / Came out of a period where declamation was king, his practice was a reaction to this, a search for authenticity, truth to life and a rejection of self-consciousness / He evolved from a place where actors worked as individuals to ensemble work / His system(s) has been misappropriated by Stella Adler and The Method in the US and is unfairly maligned as a result <span style="font-family:Symbol;mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:Symbol">®</span></span> in need of reconsideration!<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Michael Chekhov</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">1940s / Russia, USA / Stanislavski’s student / ‘the psychological gesture’ <span style="font-family:Symbol;mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:Symbol">®</span></span> the idea of creating a whole body physicalistation of a character or a play / ‘Atmospheres’ as tangible, physical things, ‘there’s an atmosphere of love in the room, what does it feel like to move my hand through it?’ / He himself was a star performer (an amazing clown) and ended up in Hollywood teaching Marilyn Monrow, Yul Brynner etc. (you can see him as the Russian in Spellbound) / Phelim’s hero / <u>To the Actor</u> / <u>the Charles Morovitz Biography</u> / Spiritual / Jungian<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Jeremy Whelan</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><u>Instant Acting</u> / working w. text: the actors record the text then, while listening to it, move in the space. This is repeated but with completely different movement. After the fourth repetition, the actors try to speak it without the sound (and almost always manage with amazing success) / alternative to ‘dubbing’ exercise / the effect is almost like improvising a text / On the first day you should do the whole play(!) / Bypasses the intellectualising of the parts, lines / <u>Dictionary of Emotions.<o:p></o:p></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Joan Littlewood</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">1960s / UK / Radical / Socialist / Impro / ‘Oh what a lovely war’ / Devising / Working class / that theatre should be like boxing, should be a struggle / wanted to form the “Pleasure Palace’, a home for art and theatre, on the Southbank but was denied and ended up moving to Paris.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Uta Hagen</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">1960s-90s / <u>Respect for Acting</u> / sense memory / 6 questions / things like ‘who am I?’, ‘where am I?’, ‘How do I get what I want’.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Augusto Boal</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">1960s – 90s / Brazil / Forum theatre / <u>Theatre of the Oppressed</u> / Political / The audience became actively involved in the experience, performance / later became a politician / ‘rainbow of desire’ added a psychological aspect.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Joan Skinner</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Dance<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>/ Dance improvisation pioneer / Similar to Chekhov’s ideas about externalising internal images physically / ‘Slinner Release / Feldenkreis / How internal images effect movement.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Wesley Balk</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">1970s-2003 / USA / Director of the Minnesota Opera / Created a system for actor singers / wrote a famous article called the ‘Disappearing Diva’, which argued that singing compromised acting (and vice versa) and, in the effort to do both, things became tangled and the result was unsatisfactory. He developed techniques to separate the two processes than bring them back together (eg. holding up emotion cards while they were singing) / <u>The Complete Singer actor</u> / <u>Radiant Performer. </u><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Dell Close</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Improv teacher and comedy writer / ‘the truth in comedy’<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>MISSING:</u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Brook<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Humphries<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Craig<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Fo<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Duncan<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Barker<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Graham<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Meisner<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <!--EndFragment-->Valentina Ceschihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13006348335475377512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1053614407853084744.post-64400858549992085192011-01-11T14:21:00.001-08:002011-01-11T14:25:35.123-08:00Rughe by Paco Roca<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;">Following our inspiring conversation with Prof Sergio della Sala this morning, we found this:</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><br /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; color: rgb(100, 95, 94); white-space: pre-wrap; "><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/409778?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/409778">Arrugas</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/vixel">vixel</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:85%;color:#645F5E;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:85%;color:#645F5E;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;">...Captain Ko and the Planet of Rice is in development.</span></div></div>Valentina Ceschihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13006348335475377512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1053614407853084744.post-19092309013417811212011-01-05T07:10:00.000-08:002011-01-05T07:11:48.150-08:00ALICE snippetBetter late than never: a new year's snippet of ALICE filmed last summer at BAC, featuring some of Caroline's amazing music. Can't wait to start working with her again on Ko...<div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-size: 12px; white-space: pre; "><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/kRP08yDImqs?hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/kRP08yDImqs?hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></span></div>Valentina Ceschihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13006348335475377512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1053614407853084744.post-26174448423608888332010-11-08T08:47:00.000-08:002010-11-08T09:04:32.059-08:00We're Jammin'....<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Pz8CzWm2qXM/TNgta4thOvI/AAAAAAAAAGA/w_ECaGuwa10/s1600/mktjunctionheader.png"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 60px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Pz8CzWm2qXM/TNgta4thOvI/AAAAAAAAAGA/w_ECaGuwa10/s400/mktjunctionheader.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5537225681775180530" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">We are thrilled to be performing next week at the Jam, an evening of work-in-progress performances at the Junction, in Cambridge. </span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Nest Wednesday, 17th of November, we'll be scratching some ideas of our latest work </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;">Captain Ko and the Planet of Rice</span></b></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">. We are very excited about the piece, and have been doing some brainstorming about what the difference between memory (a remembered thing) and fiction is. We also found some exceptional old footage of our family's life, taken a very long time ago. In black and white and brilliant technicolor. All beautifully silent still, of course. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; font-family:Helvetica, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Set in Space, in an imagined future, on a planet of rice, the play follows two astronauts as they are attacked by a mysterious force. The piece is inspired by 1960s Science Fiction, using the genre and breaking out of it, to talk about memory and our fear of forgetting, it reflects our anxiety towards aging and a nostalgic longing for a generation that is currently disappearing.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size:13px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size:13px;"><b>For more information about the Jam event, please visit: <a href="http://junction.co.uk/artist/257">http://junction.co.uk/artist/257</a><br /></b></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size:13px;"><b>We hope you can make it and give us lots of useful feedback!!</b></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size:13px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div></div>Valentina Ceschihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13006348335475377512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1053614407853084744.post-31334038581130430782010-10-11T07:45:00.000-07:002010-10-11T08:51:19.222-07:00'...Ko' concerns<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Today we had a meeting about the development process of our most recent project "Captain Ko and the Planet of Rice". Originally conceived during a SITE Residency at Tobacco Factory and Theatre Bristol this summer, the piece wants to tackle the themes of ageing, memory (and in particular memory loss) and identity. The piece is set in outer space, in a distant future, on an austere planet of rice, and we follow two characters, as they discover what the mysterious planet beholds.</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">In the last month, however, we've found many other companies and projects dealing with these themes,(in very, very similar ways!) and are struggling to work out how to reconcile our belief in our authenticity with the inevitable likeness to these other works. After all, we all know the fear of the artist, the utter frustration at, and ultimate need of, Comparison (to quote Taylor Mac!). </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">How to know what to do with an original idea, after you've seen it perfectly executed by someone else? Remarkably Fevered Sleep's On Ageing (<a href="http://www.feveredsleep.co.uk/current-projects/on-ageing">http://www.feveredsleep.co.uk/current-projects/on-ageing</a>/) at the Young Vic, which we thought was an extraordinary, and beautifully formed, contemplative piece on the subject. The use of mics, the simplicity in design, the delicate treatment of transcript and/ as text, the gaps between speaker, text and memory, the use of objects (accumulation on stage), object in a jar, are all elements present in the material we've already created for Ko. </span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;">Similarly Unlimited Theatre's latest piece "Mission to Mars" a co-production with Polka Theatre (<a href="http://www.unlimited.org.uk/shows/mars.php">http://www.unlimited.org.uk/shows/mars.php</a>) is set - obviously - in space, and seems to be inspired, even indirectly by classic Science Fiction stories. Not to mention Stan's Cafe's touching and evocative use of rice by the tonne, in their durational piece <a href="http://www.stanscafe.co.uk/ofallthepeople/">http://www.stanscafe.co.uk/ofallthepeople/</a>. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;">Can we, in all seriousness, present <b>our</b> story of two spacemen (surrounded by bucket-fulls of rice, uncovering the objects of memory-past, whilst speaking transcripts of interviews through microphones around the stage), to a knowing audience without them reading 'pastiche' - or indeed plagiarism ! - in our every move? </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;">Where can we take our material now? How can we move forward knowing that what we've got has just been tried and tested, successfully, by others? How can we re-invent it, so that when people see the finished product they're struck by its originality?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;">...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;">for more thoughts on this see Richard Dedomenici's clever and witty piece titled 'Plagiarismo' (http://dedomenicitemporarywebsite.blogspot.com/)</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><br /></span></div></div></div>Valentina Ceschihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13006348335475377512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1053614407853084744.post-85937033861363925692010-09-28T12:21:00.000-07:002010-09-28T12:46:48.441-07:00Finding time for meetings whilst on tour...<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Today we had a very successful summit meeting, during which plans for the next 10 months were broadly outlined. So expect 'Ko to develop further, with a scratch performance at The Junction on November 17th (<a href="http://www.junction.co.uk/">http://www.junction.co.uk/</a>), discussions for ALICE under way, plans for Heap and Pebble in the Spring and lots more!</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;">In the meantime we're going to see <i><b>On Ageing</b></i> this Saturday. It's a <a href="http://youngviclondon.wordpress.com/">Young Vic co-Production</a> with Fevered Sleep, in association with our old favourites, FUEL! </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;">(<a href="http://www.junction.co.uk/">http://www.youngvic.org/whats-on/on-ageing</a>). </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;">We're hoping it might serve as inspiration for <b><i>Captain Ko</i></b> - who knows?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;">Also looking forward to Black Watch at the Barbican and booking a trip to Paris for theatre festival in November (Peter Book's latest at the Bouffes du Nord is on the cards and Les Naufrages du Fol Espoir by Theatre du Soleil - not to be missed!).</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;">Things are shaping up nicely! </span></div>Valentina Ceschihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13006348335475377512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1053614407853084744.post-34502862440604591682010-09-06T09:26:00.001-07:002010-09-06T09:31:41.467-07:00Beginning of tour<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RYJqA4gAN2E/TIUXTulrCZI/AAAAAAAAADc/nTgLNNXo0dc/s1600/Photo+4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RYJqA4gAN2E/TIUXTulrCZI/AAAAAAAAADc/nTgLNNXo0dc/s320/Photo+4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513838946476034450" /></a><br />Back on the road for the much awaited tour of 6.0: How Heap and Pebble took on the World and Won. The full list is here:<br /><br />http://www.dancingbrick.net/upcoming.html<br /><br />The show has changed quite a bit since its edinburgh incarnation, with a new ending and a satisfying growth to the show. We're really looking forward to showing it to lots of people over the coming months. <br /><br />See you there!Dancing Brickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13797854177395165297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1053614407853084744.post-59541959704481863102010-08-19T14:00:00.000-07:002010-08-19T14:03:05.693-07:00Notes for work-in-progress showing of KoThese are the notes we'll be giving out as a handout for the scratch of Ko tomorrow, which explains a bit what our process and thinking has been so far: <br /><br />For this play, we set out to write something that grappled with the ideas of legacy, posterity and memory: ‘what’, we wanted to ask ‘would survive of our grandparents- or our memories of them- a thousand years in the future?’<br /><br />From the outset we have seen this play as a science fiction. There’s something about the space you find in… space that we hoped would allow us to get a real distance from things that are very close to us in order to perhaps see them with fresh, or impartial eyes. <br /><br />Beyond that, we love the naivety and bravery of classic science fiction astronauts and wanted to tell a story of two of these characters coming up against an enemy even more dangerous than a mutant spider or an atomic blob… memory. Those Sci-Fi films, we think, have always been about beautifully simplifying our most profound fears, in order to overcome them (or at least pretend for a while that you can) - so why not place our anxiety of forgetting into a malevolent planet that our intrepid explorers can overcome too? <br /><br />What you are going to see today is the end of our very first explorations of these ideas (and a few more besides), and what will, we hope, form the basis of the rest of the development of the play.Dancing Brickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13797854177395165297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1053614407853084744.post-86457263596286799332010-08-16T12:12:00.001-07:002010-08-16T12:15:51.206-07:00Captain Ko<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RYJqA4gAN2E/TGmNqRCV4JI/AAAAAAAAADM/hAYzOaIEO04/s1600/Photo+on+2010-08-16+at+17.48+%232.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RYJqA4gAN2E/TGmNqRCV4JI/AAAAAAAAADM/hAYzOaIEO04/s320/Photo+on+2010-08-16+at+17.48+%232.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506087776704389266" /></a><br /><br />Deep in rehearsals for (what's currently being called) 'Captain Ko and the Planet of Rice' at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol, as part of the SITE residency. SITE has been a fantastic way of getting started on the show, as we've been able to work with a dramaturge (Lu Kemp) and a designer (Katie Sykes) right from the beginning. We're doing a showing on friday at the brewery (not public though unfortunately) and hoping to pull together about 20 mins worth of ideas around the subjects of memory, amnesia, and deep space.Dancing Brickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13797854177395165297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1053614407853084744.post-6572036009269732492010-08-11T11:36:00.000-07:002010-08-11T11:40:25.572-07:00Vantastic<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RYJqA4gAN2E/TGLujJIxJ4I/AAAAAAAAADE/hgP2COYcf0M/s1600/Citroen_Dispatch.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RYJqA4gAN2E/TGLujJIxJ4I/AAAAAAAAADE/hgP2COYcf0M/s320/Citroen_Dispatch.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5504223982115694466" /></a><br />Over the last six months we spent over a grand on van hire. A grand! That's basically more than we each got paid. So, in preparation for the autumn tour we've taken the plunge and bought a lovely little three-seat citroen dispatch. And spent basically a grand (a grand!) on insuring it. <br /><br />Incidentally, if you are ever insuring a van, be advised that the word 'theatre' anywhere near the word 'profession' causes the insurance broker to hang up pretty much instantly.Dancing Brickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13797854177395165297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1053614407853084744.post-43974964414639794462010-07-31T03:57:00.001-07:002010-07-31T03:57:25.239-07:00Spinning Film<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/h1VkzdsOdwg&hl=en_US&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/h1VkzdsOdwg&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>Dancing Brickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13797854177395165297noreply@blogger.com0