CPR's Summer Shift 2005, 13 June - 23 July, Aberystwyth, Wales, UK

Tue May 10 12:34:55 EDT 2005

13 June  23 JULY
THE SUMMER SHIFT 2005
CPR International Programme of Performance Workshops
ABERYSTWYTH, WALES, UK
www.thecpr.org.uk/projects/summershift5.htm

Take flight using PERFORMANCE
and your own CREATIVITY

WORKSHOPS  TALKS  PERFORMANCES

·         Frank Theatre (Australia)

·         Tomasz Rodowicz (Poland)

·         Reckless Sleepers (UK)

·         Richard Gough (Wales)

·         Ranan (India)

·         Margaret Cameron (Australia) & Deborah Hay (USA)

Whether you are a performer, designer, writer, director, choreographer,
artist or a lecturer/teacher in performance/scenography dance and theatre
CPR offers the perfect opportunity to explore your own creative practice and
meet like-minded participants from around the world.

CPR has created a workshop programme aimed at revitalising bodies and minds
with an energizing blend of practical training and creative inspiration.
Throughout June and July, Aberystwyth will become home to the work of some
of the most talented and inspiring theatre and performance artists working
in the world today.

The Summer Shift offers an exceptional journey for mind and body.

  a.. Experience and learn new training methods
  b.. Devise work that embraces the voice, physical and visual theatre
  c.. Explore your creativity and your imagination
  d.. Enjoy the beauty of the landscape in West Wales

WORKSHOPS
High quality training opportunities  get fit physically, vocally and
imaginatively indoors and out.

TALKS
Consider significant work by leading artists and hear first hand accounts of
the creative processes of guest tutors.

FREE TIME
On our doorstep we have some of the most extraordinary and beautiful
landscapes in the UK  from the mountains of Snowdonia to the Pembrokeshire
coastal path. Indoors you may spend time in the CPRs multi-cultural
Resource Centre delving into performance archives of videos, books, CDs and
DVDs or work in the studio, developing your own project in tandem, building
on the workshop training.

CHOOSE from the following:

  a.. Frank Theatre  (Australia)  Suzuki training workshop, either Monday
13  Friday 17 June or/ and Saturday 18  Sunday 19 June
  b.. Tomasz Rodowicz (Poland)  Voice & Theatre Workshop, Saturday 18 
Sunday 19 June
  c.. Reckless Sleepers (UK), experimental theatre workshop, Monday 20 
Friday 24 June
  d.. Richard Gough (Wales), visual theatre, Monday 27 June  Friday 1 July
  a.. Ranan (India), 3 classical Indian Dances, Sunday 3  Friday 8 July
  a.. Margaret Cameron & Deborah Hay  (Australia/USA), choreography, writing
and performance workshop Monday 11  Friday 15 July

A unique opportunity to train and above all create with leading
practitioners.

13  17 June

18  19 June

Frank Theatre (Australia) SUZUKI ACTOR TRAINING

5 day workshop  £150 (£105 Bursary Place)

2 day workshop  £65 (£45 Bursary Place)

John Nobbs and Jacqui Carroll, co-directors of Brisbane-based Frank Theatre,
specialise in offering the highly regarded Suzuki Actor Training Method
within their own hybrid framework, Frank/Suzuki Performance Aesthetics.
More...

18  19 June

Tomasz Rodowicz (Poland) CHOREA: Towards the Voices of Antiquity

2 day workshop  £65 (£45 Bursary Place)

Now developing a body of work and research with his own company, Tomasz
Rodowicz until very recently an actor, director with  and co-founder of -
the Gardzienice Theatre Association from Poland. Gardzienice are acclaimed
progenitors of a particular East European music-theatre genre of
ethno-oratorio that transforms native folk culture into extraordinary
avant-garde works. More...

20  24 June

Reckless Sleepers (UK)  QUIET TIME

5 day workshop £150 (£105 Bursary Place)

Reckless Sleepers Artistic Director, Mole Wetherell has distilled 15 years
practice and experience into a workshop, Quiet Time. Documentary processes
are developed into a week of performance, installation and exhibition.
More...

27 June  1 July

Richard Gough (Wales) Still Life  Inside and Outside the Box
(Performance,  Photography and the Object)

5 day workshop £100 (£75 Bursary Price)

In his own creative work as a director, deviser and workshop leader, Richard
Gough has developed an original approach to creating visual, musical and
site-specific performance. This workshop will look at the relationship
between performance & photography, the animation of objects and the use of
found objects. More...

3  8 July
Ranan (India)  Kathak, Manipuri & Bharatnatyam
6 Day workshop £180 (£125 Bursary place)

Ranan has been making waves in India with their variety of production work
including fresh choreography in traditional formats, visually stunning
ballets and vibrant pieces of dance-theatre. The Ranan Summer Shift
workshop is led by performers of three designated Indian classical dances
forms, Kathak from the north, Manipuri from the north-east, and Bharatnatyam
from the south. More...

11-15 July

Margaret Cameron (Australia) & Deborah Hay (USA) SWEETENING THE ABSTRACT

5 day workshop £150 (£105 Bursary place)

Deborah Hay has come to understand that the bodys form and content are not
what they appear to be: likewise, her relation to dancing does not coalesce
around the ideology of a single coherent being nor around specific subject
matter. Margaret Camerons research with Deborah Hay is focused on
sharpening the way to speak. More...

SUMMER SHIFTING
Wanting to keep shifting this summer? Here are some other possibilities
that you could combine with a visit to CPRs Summer Shift. More...

Download Brochure pdf here. Download Acrobat Reader here.

Read Booking Information here

Download Booking Form here.

For further information please telephone CPR on 00 44 (0) 1970 622133 or
email the office.

Centre for Performance Research (CPR)
Unit 6, Science Park , Aberystwyth, Wales,  UK SY23 3AH

Tel: +44 (0) 1970 622133

Fax: +44 (0) 1970 622132

EMAIL: cprwww at aber.ac.uk

Antony Pickthall
Marketing & Development Director
Centre for Performance Research (CPR)
6, Science Park, Aberystwyth, SY23 3AH
Tel: +44 (0) 1970 621571
Fax: +44 (0) 1970 622132
E-mail: aop at aber.ac.uk         www.thecpr.org.uk

For the curious...opening up worlds of performance
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