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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT><BR><FONT size=2>If you are having problem reading
the call within the email please view the pages at<BR><BR><A
href="http://www.thecpr.org.uk/projects/towardstomorrowcall.htm">www.thecpr.org.uk/projects/towardstomorrowcall.htm</A>
<BR><BR>Antony Pickthall<BR>Marketing & Development Director<BR>Centre for
Performance Research (CPR)<BR>6, Science Park, Aberystwyth, SY23 3AH<BR>Tel: +44
(0) 1970 621571<BR>Fax: +44 (0) 1970 622132<BR>E-mail:
aop@aber.ac.uk <A
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Tomorrow?</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-GB
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<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">An
International Gathering Exploring<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">y = √
practice<SUP>2 </SUP>(1- performance<SUP>2</SUP> /
theatre<SUP>2</SUP>)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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align=center><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">7-10<SUP>
</SUP>April 2005<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<H4 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=center><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT
face=Arial>Centre for Performance Research</FONT></SPAN></H4>
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align=center><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">University
of Wales, Aberystwyth, Wales, UK<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">theatre </SPAN><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">X</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">performance</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><PRE style="MARGIN-LEFT: 127.6pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Let's purge this choler without letting blood:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="MARGIN-LEFT: 127.6pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>This we <SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">prescribe</SPAN>, though no physician;<o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="MARGIN-LEFT: 127.6pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Deep malice makes too deep incision;<o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="MARGIN-LEFT: 127.6pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Forget, forgive; conclude and be agreed;<o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="MARGIN-LEFT: 127.6pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Our doctors say this is no month to bleed.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="MARGIN-LEFT: 127.6pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 3"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~matty/Shakespeare/texts/histories/kingrichardii.html"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">King Richard II</SPAN></B></A> Act 1, Scene 1<o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 24pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Call
for x,y and z</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">(where
z = Discussions, Provocations, Polemics, Experiments, Manifestos, Papers,
Confessions, Screenings and Demonstrations)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">As part of
the programme of this event there will be panels addressing aspects of
performance and theatre that relate to broad themes of risk and failure, the
future and generations, events and institutions and practice as research.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">There will be</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> a ‘platform, soapbox, and propaganda’ station ‘In Extremis: Fundamental(ist)s of Performance’, for the promulgation and dissemination of extreme enthusiasms, radical obsessions, pristine lies and rotten truth. It will be a space to present ideas contemporary, anachronistic, contentious and conformist.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE>
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lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">A programme of ‘talk back’ sessions are
planned where artists and performers address scholars who have explored their
work; reversing the direction of enquiry and facilitating dialogue between
practice and criticism.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We encourage proposals to lead enquiries
relating to the concerns of this event, either following the themes suggested
below, or generating different areas of enquiry. Also proposals for individual
presentations or papers within these panels are invited, each should include a
300 word abstract for a presentation of 20 minutes
duration.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Possible themes may
include:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">‘Before the age of
Performance’<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">‘Transformation/Transmission/Transmutation’<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">‘The Weave of
Performance’<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">‘Staging Play: The Future of the
Field’<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">‘And where were you on the evening of…?:
Artists and Practitioners interrogate Theorists’<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">‘The Dangers of Failure: risking
performance’<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>‘Disturbing Performance’<o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">‘The Doing, Re-Doing and Undoing of Performance’<o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Please send proposals and/or abstracts, or register interest in ‘talk back’ or ‘fundamental(ist)s’ sessions by 10<SUP>th</SUP> January 2005, </SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">(we will respond by 24<SUP>th</SUP> January) to Dr Daniel Watt ,The Centre for Performance Research, Unit 6, Science Park, </SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Aberystwyth, SY23 3AH, Tel: + 44 (0)1970 622133, Fax: +44 (0)1970 622132 <A href="mailto:dpw@aber.ac.uk">dpw@aber.ac.uk</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">***<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">At this
major gathering of key practitioners and scholars from around the world the
conference programme will comprise:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: 0in; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">·<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Performances</SPAN></B><SPAN
lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> – from
Wales, Europe and beyond<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: 0in; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2"><SPAN
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style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Expositions</SPAN></B><SPAN
lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> –
understanding the state of play<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: 0in; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2"><SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">·<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Workshops
</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">–
drawing from the crucible of cutting-edge practice<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: 0in; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">·<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Panels
and Debates</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> – to
challenge and cultivate new directions<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: 0in; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">·<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Interrogations
and Enthusiasms</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> –
Strategic ‘open’ sessions<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: 0in; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">·<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Feasts</SPAN></B><SPAN
lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> – where
food becomes event<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: 0in; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">·<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Excursions</SPAN></B><SPAN
lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> –
taking advantage of our local landscape<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoBodyText2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">As The Centre for
Performance Research (CPR) celebrates thirty years of work, this conference will
build upon and extend the dialogues and debates that CPR has forged over its
long journey from research laboratory to research centre.’<B><I> Towards
Tomorrow?’</I></B> will examine the complex relation between performance and
theatre: the past, present and future of ‘performance’ and ‘theatre’ and their
aesthetic practices. </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">CPR’s
anniversary publication <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Testimony from
the Future, Evidence of the Past </I>will be launched at this gathering and a
complementary publication is planned to emerge from <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Towards Tomorrow?</B> with a range of
international contributions that seek to reorient the discipline of performance
and to demonstrate its increasing relevance in many areas of cultural studies,
philosophy and the arts.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><BR
style="PAGE-BREAK-BEFORE: always" clear=all></SPAN></B> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 36.0pt">Towards
Tomorrow?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<H6 style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" align=left><SPAN lang=EN-GB><EM><FONT face=Arial
size=5>Temporalities: Then, Now, To Come</FONT></EM></SPAN></H6>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Then:</SPAN></B><SPAN
lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">
Theoretical discourse has structured and transformed the environments of theatre
and performance. Towards Tomorrow? provides a FORUM for both a critical
reflection on performance and the nature of cultural theory and to assess its
future both beyond and within the academy. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Now:</SPAN></B><SPAN
lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>The event of performance, its
practice and presence will be explored. There will be OPPORTUNITIES for
practitioners to interrogate theorists and for the statement of radical agendas
and manifestos.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoBodyText2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Arial><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">To
Come:</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">
The development of the future of the field belongs to another GENERATION. This
gathering will not determine such a future, but it will be determined to keep
open all possible transformations, evolutions and revolutions that may be on
their way.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><B><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align=left><I><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt"><FONT
size=5> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></I></H1>
<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align=left><I><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt">Trajectory<o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></H1>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><B><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><B><SPAN
lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Towards
Tomorrow?</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> will
explore the relation between theatre and performance, risk and failure, events
and institutions to understand how the <B>possibilities</B> of performance, and
the history of organisations such as CPR, might be considered?
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><IMG height=58
alt="Text Box: possibility, 3. a. Regarded or stated as an attribute of the agent: The fact of something (expressed or implied) being possible to one, in virtue either of favourable circumstances or of one's own powers; hence, Capacity, capability, power, ability; pecuniary ability, means."
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align=center><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoBodyText2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><FONT
face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Is there
a <B>fractal</B> structure (a finite area bounded by an infinite distance) to
the discipline, its manifestation as practice and its future, as yet unknown,
transformations? What are the issues of survival: of a discipline and its
practice, its organisations, and the relationship with the
academy?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoBodyText2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><IMG height=54
alt="Text Box: fractal, A mathematically conceived curve such that any small part of it, enlarged, has the same statistical character as the original."
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v:shapes="_x0000_s1031"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoBodyText2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><FONT
face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoBodyText2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><FONT
face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoBodyText2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><FONT
face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoBodyText2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><FONT
face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoBodyText2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><FONT
face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoBodyText2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT face=Arial>How does
the spiritual aspect of performance – space, body, time and imagination –
integrate and challenge both the formal and the theoretical articulations of
work? Does such a consideration generate its own eschatology; if so, what is the
<B>apocalypse</B> of performance?<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><IMG height=57
alt="Text Box: apocalypse, 1. (With capital initial.) The ‘revelation’ of the future granted to St. John in the isle of Patmos. The book of the New Testament in which this is recorded. 2. By extension: Any revelation or disclosure."
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Some
Operations…..<o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><B><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Towards Tomorrow?</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"> </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>includes <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">In Extremis: Fundamental(ist)s of Performance </B>a ‘platform, soapbox, and propaganda’ station, for the promulgation and <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">dissemination</B> of extreme enthusiasms, radical obsessions, pristine lies and rotten truth. A space to present ideas: contemporary, anachronistic, contentious and conformist.<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><o:p></o:p></B></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><IMG height=51 alt="Text Box: dissemination, The action of scattering or spreading abroad seed, or anything likened to it; the fact or condition of being thus diffused; dispersion, diffusion, promulgation." hspace=12 src="cid:047470420@18112004-1bfb" width=423 align=left v:shapes="_x0000_s1029"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><B><SPAN
lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Towards
Tomorrow?</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> will
offer a programme of performances and workshops alongside numerous presentations
of <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">archive</B> photographic and video
material from theatre companies and performers from across the
world.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><IMG
height=70
alt="Text Box: archive, 1. A place in which public records or other important historic documents are kept. (v)To place or store in an archive; in Computing, to transfer to a store containing infrequently used files, or to a lower level in the hierarchy of memories, esp. from disc to tape."
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">The
schedule for each day will include KEYNOTES (confirmed contributors include:
Philip Auslander, Guillermo Gómez-Peńa, Jane Goodall, Dragan Klaic, Michal
Kobialka, Jon McKenzie, Susan Melrose, Marion Pastor Roces, Freddie Rokem,
,Rebecca Schneider and Stelarc)<B>, </B>PANEL SESSIONS, a PRACTICAL or RESEARCH
ENQUIRY element and the opportunity for artists and performers, from key phases
of experiment over the past 40 years, to ‘talk back’ to theorists and
commentators who have addressed their work.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><IMG height=49
alt="Text Box: enquiry, 1. a. The action of seeking, esp. (now always) for truth, knowledge, or information concerning something; search, research, investigation, examination."
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Questions
of tomorrow must also be concerned with <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">generations</B>, the potential of youth and
the energy and vitality it will provide performance in the future. <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Towards Tomorrow? </B>will include
Generation<SUP>24 </SUP>– Our panel of young practitioners of the future, from
schools and colleges in Wales and internationally, who will observe and
intervene in the proceedings with the interruptive urgency of the future’s
call.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><IMG
height=68
alt="Text Box: generation, I. The action of generating. 1. a. The act or process of generating or begetting physically; procreation; propagation of species. c. Manner of descent: genealogy, pedigree. rare. 2. a. Production by natural or artificial processes (as of plants, animals, substances, etc.).Also, mode of formation, nature of origin (obs.).
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Continuing the CPR tradition for
high quality events staged in an individual way<o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Throughout the event care is taken
to forge links between people and ideas and to create formal and informal
opportunities for people to exchange information about current and future
projects. CPR’s long history of bringing together international performance
practitioners and scholars in a potent spirit of debate/friendship,
argument/opposition also serves as the occasion to highlight and focus work at
the forefront of future developments in the field.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">30 + 10: </SPAN></I></B><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Throughout 2004/5 CPR will be
celebrating 30 years of work <o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">and 10 years in
Aberystwyth.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></P>
<P><BR><BR> </P>
<P><FONT size=2>Antony Pickthall<BR>Marketing & Development
Director<BR>Centre for Performance Research (CPR)<BR>6, Science Park,
Aberystwyth, SY23 3AH<BR>Tel: +44 (0) 1970 621571<BR>Fax: +44 (0) 1970
622132<BR>E-mail: aop@aber.ac.uk
www.thecpr.org.uk<BR><BR>For the curious...opening up worlds of
performance</FONT> </P></FONT></BODY></HTML>