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ACTD School Exhibit designed by Michael Spencer

BA (Hons) Performance Design and Practice course will have a significant presence at the world’s most prestigious Theatre Design exhibition – the Prague Quadrennial.

Running from 16 – 25 June, Prague Quadrennial ’11 features all that is current within an expanding discipline from across the globe: professional and student exhibitions, student workshops, live performances, debates, lectures etc.

Course Director Michael Spencer has curated a series of Scenography workshops for students as well as the Association of Courses in Theatre Design (ACTD) UK exhibit. Many graduates of the course feature in the highly selective professional exhibition such as Garance Marneur and Sophie Jump, and Senior Lecturer Dr Andrea Cusumano is one of the workshop leaders.

All current permanent members of the BA staff and over 50 current students will attend PQ’11, many of the students will also collaborate with an international cohort to create site specific and live street events.

A devised performance created by recent graduate (and Linbury Prize winner) Samal Blak, ‘Antoine and the Paper Aeroplane’ is one of only 10 such performances from across the globe selected to be performed in the DISC Theatre at DAMU, the leading art school in central Prague.

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Clifton Lodge

If you’re a member of staff or a current student on a performance-related discipline at University of the Arts London, now’s your chance to apply for this year’s interdisciplinary performance weekend. If successful, you’ll have the chance to work practically and collaboratively over a weekend to develop proposals for a major event or performance.

The course runs from Friday 15 to Sunday 17 April 2011 at the studios of the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance in Richmond.

The weekend will consist of plenary and break-out sessions in small groups with access to movement studios, lighting equipment, video cameras and a performance space. It will facilitated by Carolyn Choa, who has extensive experience as a practitioner and artistic director in dance, drama, film and new media.

Download the application form [Word, 0.2mb]

More information:
- MA Collaborative Performance [Word, 01.mb]
- About the Event [Word, 01.mb]

Venue: Clifton Lodge

This year’s interdisciplinary performance weekend (Friday 15 to Sunday 17 April 2011) will give 15 staff and students from a variety of performance-related disciplines across the University the chance to develop a major event or performance proposal to be worked on collaboratively over four terms.

Participants will be able to try out the kind of practical working methodologies that would need to be used in the MA Collaborative Performance course which is currently being developed. The weekend will consist of plenary and break-out sessions in small groups with access to movement studios, lighting equipment, video cameras and a performance space. It will facilitated by Carolyn Choa, who has extensive experience as a practitioner and artistic director in dance, drama, film and new media.

The studios of Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance in Richmond will provide pleasant, light spaces in a leafy and peaceful area which will be conducive to a retreat-like atmosphere.

Invitations to apply will be sent out in mid-January to final-year undergraduates, postgraduate students and staff working in performance-related disciplines.

Any questions should be addressed to Richard Ralph, the Event Co-ordinator at: wea@nildram.co.uk.

Eva Xie, currently studying on MA Creative Practice for Narrative Environments, has been selected to be part of the 2011 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space in the Czech Republic.

At the Prague Quadrennial she will work on the Six Acts project as part of the Scenofest. Scenofest involves thousands of artists from 76 countries in exhibitions, performances, workshops, lectures, discussions and presentations.

Eva and her colleagues will be led by artists including Louise Ann Wilson (UK); Uwe Köhler (Germany); Rolf Abderhalden Cortés (Columbia); Roma Patel (UK); Tomáš Žižka (Czech Republic). Six Acts will be a series of site-specific spectacles that will take place in the very heart of Prague.

You can see Eva Xie’s work in the project ‘Six Acts’ in June 2011, during the PQ in Prague, which takes place between June 16-26, 2011.

Find out more:
- Prague Quadrennial website
- MA Creative Practice for Narrative Environments course page

In a new collaboration with The Photographers Gallery, The Girls will be artists-in-residence in Selfridges’ Ultralounge (LGF), Oxford Street, London.

Artist duo The Girls have transformed the Ultralounge space, on Selfridges’ lower ground floor, into the working headquarters of The Paper Eaters: Long Live the Photo-Story!, a photo-story magazine and multi-layered arts experience. The Girls – Andrea Blood and Zoe? Sinclair have adopted the personas of Editors-in-Chief of the magazine, creating three issues comprising of photo-stories shot in and around Selfridges, featuring its staff and customers and reviving the fun of the photo-story genre.

1 – 29 April 2010
Free entry.
Open during store opening hours.
Nearest tube – Bond Street.

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BA (Hons) Performance Design & Practice graduates create films for Busaba restaurant opening

Busaba has sponsored a project with Central Saint Martins BA (Hons) Performance Design and Practice graduates to mark the opening of a new restaurant in Panton Street, near Leicester Square. Busaba are launching a number of new restaurants in 2010, marking the openings with a variety of creative projects, specific to the local market. For the Panton Street opening Busaba created a project around film, asking seven graduates to create six short films based on the brief, Gin Gan Gin Yuu, “as you eat, so you are”.

The films will be shown at free screenings at Busaba, 35 Panton Street SW1Y 4EA on 24 and 25 March, 12noon-6pm. The restaurant itself opens to the public on 28th March.

If you can’t visit this afternoon, you can still catch the films online at Busaba’s website.

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Jonathan Lunn, credit: Anthony Minghella

If you’re a student or a member of staff in a performance-related discipline, you have the chance to work as part of a small group to formulate a proposal for a major event or performance to be worked upon collaboratively over four terms.

The weekend of Friday 16 and Saturday 17 April 2010 will be led by Jonathan Lunn and Carolyn Choa, both of whom have extensive experience as practitioners and artistic directors in dance, drama, opera, film and new media. The event will comprise plenary and break-out sessions in small groups. There will also be access to movement studios, sound equipment, video cameras and a performance studio. Participants will investigate how ideas, concepts, and dreams evolve when they are practically tested through the collaborative creative process.
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Haiku is the work of recent BA Performance Design and Practice graduate, Sofie Salfelt, produced in collaboration with Cantabile 2. Sofie writes:

Its a non-verbal, non-rhythmical universe of sensual experiences and Japanese suicide pacts. I designed and made all costumes and masks.
Fun and very much a playground to try things out during the process. The performers are very skilled and engaged in everything they do. Everyone in the production is involved in the work, and everyone’s opinion is heard and valued – performers and scenography, costume designer on directing, etc.
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Grayson Perry by Jack Laurenson

I attended the astonishing talk of Grayson Perry at Cochrane Theatre, marking the publication of artist’s monograph by Jacky Klein. Grayson Perry is known for his controversial ceramic vases and cross-dressing.

He appeared as his female alter ago, Claire. I knew that it wouldn’t be just another lecture as it felt rather bizarre to see a grown-up man dressed as a doll.
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