Oct
Oct
Feldenkrais Training London
Whim or calling? I didn't know so much about the Feldenkrais method of somatic education but it kept cropping up in my life, indirectly over many years, and more directly over recent ones. My friend Kristin Fredricksson is a practitioner and variously it appeared in texts I was asking my students to reference. I have [...]
Rosemary Lee’s Square Dances (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXamnO0nE6A
My MA thesis: What to do with Gestus Today? Version II
Even when a character behaves by contradictions that’s only because nobody can be identically the same at two unidentical moments. Changes in his exterior continually lead to an inner reshuffling. The continuity of the ego is a myth. A man is an atom that perpetually breaks up and forms anew. We have to show things [...]
Rosemary Lee’s Square Dances for Dance Umbrella
After performing in Rosemary Lee's Common Dance (2009), I'm really pleased to be taking part in her latest Dance Umbrella commission - Square Dances. There are four dances performed by four distinct groups (men, women, children & dance students from The Place) in four distinct places - squares in and around the Bloomsbury area of [...]
Aug
One Man Good Woman
I am making a solo show which not only aims to serve as practice in order to research the application of Brecht's concept of Gestus but also tells the story of one good woman turned sour by the memory of one man. It is has a Hollywood frame, circa 1940s and uses Brecht's The Good [...]
Mar
Moscow Art Theatre trip – May 2008
I spent two weeks training at Moscow Art Theatre in late May. The exchange programme between MAT and University of Kent runs each year with up to a dozen students from MAT spending time in the Drama department in Canterbury in early May before an exchange later in the month. Set up by Stanislavski in 1897, [...]