rehearsing Perle today

PERLE showing this week @ CPT as part of Sprint Festival 2012, Wed 21 and Thurs 22 March

PERLE

This week we will be showing our work in progress "Perle" at Camden People's Theatre's great festival for new work called Sprint.

Perle is an attempt to create a live cartoon based on one of the oldest poems in the English language, Pearl. 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.
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.

The performance will be at 9.15 on Wednesday 21 and Thursday 22 at Camden People's Theatre (nearest tube Warren Street)

For more information about Sprint, and the show visit http://www.cptheatre.co.uk/event_details.php?sectionid=theatre&eventid=500&searchid=current

2012

Captain Ko and the Planet of Rice

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 Captain Ko and the Planet of Rice to Edinburgh this summer, thanks to the Escalator East to Edinburgh Scheme.

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, 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 Susanne Dietz and sound artist Caroline Devine to broaden our process and enrich our aesthetic.

For more information about the how the development of the show, please visit our Captain's [b]log] !

http://planetofrice.blogspot.co.uk/

Farmham Maltings

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.

http://www.farnhammaltings.com/

Looking good on their associate companies section on their website!
http://www.farnhammaltings.com/news/associate_companies/761/368/915/dancing_brick.aspx

Wellcome Arts Award for Public Engagement

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 Captain Ko and the Planet of Rice [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.

To follow our progress, visit the Captain's [b]log we've started specifically for this project.

http://planetofrice.blogspot.com/

This week's Scratches and a nice mention by Lyn Gardner

Our ship is on course and progressing at steady speed. We will be docking in Buckinghamshire and Cambridgeshire this week, showing a few very scratchy ideas at the MK Gallery this Thursday and looking forward to joining a great line-up of creators at Sampled Festival at the Junction in Cambridge on Saturday (mentioned by Lyn Gardner's What to See this double bank holiday weekend).