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INVITE INFO (deadline - Friday 21st)
INVITE info. Including directions or map snippet. Clear and creative designs - PSD or any editable files to tom for friday please...
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BRIT School students present....
Crystal Centre Community Arts!
FREE ENTRY
Refreshments, original theatre and mural unveiling in and around the Crystal Centre physiotherapy room.
Wednesday the 10th of July, 2pm to 4pm
(these times are to be confirmed)
RSVP Wendy Becker at <Wendy.Becker@croydonhealth.nhs.uk>
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Hi Will!
Please add change this if you notice any mistakes or important info missing!!
Monday, 17 June 2013
Devising Rehearsal 1
Today's Work.
Mark out the space.
Find similar areas in the school.
What styles of Theatre did we use in the first devised site specific performance?
- Physical
- Immersive
- Episodic
- Non-linear
- Naturalistic
What is the role of the performer?
- Actor
- Musician
- To create atmosphere
- Narrator
What have we got?
- Present your research
Where do we place the audience?
Any unifying themes?
- Do we need a unifying theme?
Mark out the space.
Find similar areas in the school.
Further Possible Research
Dead body found 2003
Morris Dancers
What the 1000 crimes were
Compare
crime over the years
Attitude to disabilities
Past
and now
Crystals
Formation,
movements, healing effects, myths, internal and external differences, religious
views, where they are found, history of crystal healing.
Interview the people form the Crystal
centre
Saturday, 15 June 2013
Friday, 14 June 2013
Homework Tasks.
Friday 28th June
Write a personal account and evaluation of your visit to St Giles today.
Monday 24th June
Write up response and evidence from your research at the library.
Type up notes collated from Site Specific performances and evaluate one performance.
Questions to ask when responding to a site.
History
Previous Uses
Question the site
- Performance Opportunities
- Audience placement
- Architectural opportunities
- 20 Words to describe the site
- What emotions do you feel there?
- What stories does the site tell?
- What sounds are there?
What is your instinctual response to the site?
Write a personal account and evaluation of your visit to St Giles today.
Monday 24th June
Write up response and evidence from your research at the library.
Type up notes collated from Site Specific performances and evaluate one performance.
Questions to ask when responding to a site.
History
Previous Uses
Question the site
- Performance Opportunities
- Audience placement
- Architectural opportunities
- 20 Words to describe the site
- What emotions do you feel there?
- What stories does the site tell?
- What sounds are there?
What is your instinctual response to the site?
Friday 21st June
Type up responding to the site notes from Crystal
Centre Devising Book
Graded Research Task
You will research a Community Arts company.
- You will focus on the roles within the organisation.
- Analyse how they contribute to the working of different projects.
Use an example of one specific project by your given
company.
- Analysing the skills.
- Processes needed to run a community arts project.
You will then be interviewed regarding your knowledge of the organisation in a seminar discussion on Monday the 24th of June.
Suggested Oraganisations
Tuesday, 11 June 2013
Monday, 10 June 2013
Research Topics
Architecture
·
Period of
architecture?
·
Fashion
·
Feature
·
Process of
construction
·
Cost
Where from? Online, Library texts, local records office, Croydon
museum.
Street History
·
Changes
·
Crime
·
Anything in
press or online
·
Stories
Where from? Online, historical foundations, local records office,
Croydon museum.
Local history
·
Of Croydon
·
Of the local
area
·
Recent and
old
Where from? Online, historical foundations, local records office,
Croydon museum.
Research Specific to the building
·
Previous
uses
·
Process of
construction
·
Cost
Where from? Online, historical foundations, local records office,
Croydon museum, the Land Registry
This process will keep drying up
but you must allow yourself to keep coming up with new ways of finding
information and evidence.
Then ask yourself questions about
what is useful and what the next step could be.
BRIT School Mini Site Specific Performance
Questions to ask when responding to a site.
History
Previous Uses
Question the site
- Performance Opportunities
- Audience placement
- Architectural opportunities
- 20 Words to describe the site
- What emotions do you feel there?
- What stories does the site tell?
- What sounds are there?
What is your instinctual response to the site?
20 Minutes Interrogation
30 Minutes Devising
2-3 Minutes Performing!
Questions to ask when responding to a site.
History
Previous Uses
Question the site
- Performance Opportunities
- Audience placement
- Architectural opportunities
- 20 Words to describe the site
- What emotions do you feel there?
- What stories does the site tell?
- What sounds are there?
What is your instinctual response to the site?
20 Minutes Interrogation
30 Minutes Devising
2-3 Minutes Performing!
Friday, 7 June 2013
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