THE SUMMER SHIFT 2006CPR presents ENDINGS FOR ABERYSTWYTH Saturday 22 July, 6.30pm at the Castle Theatre, Aberystwyth On Saturday, 22 July, CPR presents the final performance as part of its Summer Shift 2006 - CPR’s international summer school. ENDINGS FOR ABERYSTWYTH is an exploration of the theme of ‘endings’, questioning the nature of performance itself and will explore familiar sights and sounds of Aberystwyth, as well as create a uniquely challenging performance event. Jacob, Marie and Laure have performed other versions of ‘Endings’ over the past year in Bergen, Norway and Lisbon, Portugal. The performance for Aberystwyth has been created in a workshop led by Jacob Wren and Laure Ottmann of Montreal based P.M.E. and Marie Nerland for the CPR’s Summer Shift. The 11 participants and three guest teachers have been working over ten days researching and gathering material to perform over a five hour period at The Castle Theatre, Aberystwyth. The performance will last approximately five hours and the audience is free to come and go during that time. ‘Endings for Aberystwyth’ is a further exploration of some of the themes and techniques begun by Jacob Wren and Laure Ottmann (of Montréal based company PME) and their collaborator, Marie Nerland. ‘Endings…’ will involve participants as performers and collaborators - searching for ways to be with the audience in as warm and natural a manner as possible, but at the same time also activating a critical process (both within the performer and within the spectator): a process that relates directly to the central questions of theatre and performance. Participants will undergo many complimentary levels of experience and artistic exploration: to be in close proximity to the audience and navigate utilizing a very high level of non-performance; to create alongside the teachers - from scratch - a body of new material gradually teased out from our collective reflections upon the theme, to experience how an open-ended process of searching, where the outcome and the style of the work is never fully decided upon, can produce startlingly refreshing results. ‘Endings for Aberystwyth’ is both an exploration of the theme of ‘endings’ and a workshop which questions many of our pre-conceptions regarding the nature of performance itself, searching for new conceptual attitudes and approaches for inviting an audience into a space and genuinely interacting with them. In some ways growing out of a dissatisfaction with the conventions of the stage, the workshop is loosely based on the premise that it is difficult yet possible (and even necessary) to create a condition in which both the performer and spectator are deeply engaged in a common project and that the questions surrounding such attempts have the potential to generate ongoing insights into why we still need performance. CPR is grateful to Wales Arts International and the Québec Government Office, London for financial support for this project. For further information on ENDINGS FOR ABERYSTWYTH and the SUMMER SHIFT 2006 Tel: 01970 622133; Email: cprwww@aber.ac.uk or log on to www.thecpr.org.uk/projects/workshops.php |
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