Tues 13th - Thurs 15th April"The grand task of Das Beckwerk is to turn the failures of the average man into masterpieces, to turn the casual ideas of the wannabe into visions, to turn the life and story of the average human being into world history!" In the year of 2001, the author, playwright, performer, musician and human being Claus Beck-Nielsen, was declared dead. In 2002 Das Beckværk, a theatre and arts house, was opened in his name to govern and develop the life and work of Beck-Nielsen. The company had it's headquarters in a former reactor on the outskirts of Copenhagen. But in 2006 the name was changed to Das Beckwerk, now a trans-national corporation with the globalized world stage as its target and audience. Through staging of world politics, public spaces and media Das Beckwerk seeks to establish an active link between the individual world citizen and the contemporary world history. In this way Das Beckwerk creates stories about the hopeless, but necessary attempt to daily intervene in world history. Stories that can take shape as walks, serial photography, novels, performances, concerts, installations, video, historic events and guided museum tours. Stories about the common man and his heroic, yet naive attempt to gain influence on the creation of world history. THE THEATRE OF THE SPECTRE, THE MEDIUM AND HUMILIATION Participants in this Laboratory will work with the director and dramaturg of Das Beckwerk and four British media/former actors to develop material that shall form the scenes of a new theatre - The Theatre of the Spectre, the Medium and Humiliation. http://www.dasbeckwerk.com/ The Centre for Performance Research has invited some of the most exciting and diverse Wales based and international theatre directors to Aberystwyth for an intensive participatory project that offers a rare opportunity for both experienced and emerging directors to gather and share the methods, approaches and skills of professional directing practice via laboratories and presentations, demonstrations and dialogue. Guest Directors include: Veenapani Chawla (Adishakti Centre, India), Dasbeckwerk (Denmark), Richard Gregory (Quarantine, UK), Natalie Hennedige (Cake Theatre, Singapore), Adrian Jackson (Cardboard Citizens, UK), Ruth Kanner (Ruth Kanner Theatre Group, Israel), Anuradha Kapur (India), Julian Maynard Smith (Station House Opera, UK), John McGrath (National Theatre of Wales), Ong Keng Sen (Theatreworks, Singapore), Anders Paulin (Sweden), Ralf Richardt Strobech (Hotel Pro Forma, Denmark), Tore Vagn Lid (Transiteatret-Bergen, Norway) TO BOOK ONE OF THE LIMITED PLACES AVAILABLE OR TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE DIRECTORS' FORUM CONTACT US NOW - phone: 01970 622 133 email: cprwww@aber.ac.uk web: www.thecpr.org.uk facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=276478667399 The Directors' Forum has been made possible with the support of a project grant from the Arts Council of Wales. The Centre for Performance Research at Aberystwyth is a joint venture of Aberystwyth University and Centre for Performance Research Ltd, working in close association with AU Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies. |
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