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CPR Projects : Conferences
Upcoming conferences
Theatre, Performance, Archive and Memory |
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Archive and Memory
September 2009
From the perspective of theatre the archive attempts to preserve all that remains when the research, the performance, the programme ends but also ‘what begins when the performance ends’ (Rustom Bharucha). How is new research, exploration and cultural action embarked upon with certain knowledge of what has previously been achieved? How is innovation informed by the past, challenged and guided by it? What is the relationship of the new to the old, of the known to the imagined and how can the potentialities in-between be efficaciously mined.
In this exploration, issues of legacy, inheritance and regeneration will be paramount; how practice/s, knowledge/s and memory/s are harnessed, forged and formulated into know-how transfer and transmission is accelerated and applied. The dynamic relationship of archive to memory and memory to imagination will be explored with a view to establishing models, protocols and programmes to enhance discovery and experiment within the sector of theatre and more generally cultural action.
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Polish Theatre in Perspective |
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November 2008 |
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Since the 1960s the impact of Polish theatre on European theatre has been profound and far-reaching; transformative and transgressive. This programme reflects on the resonance of a single nation’s theatre culture on the development and growth of European theatre generally, thus revealing values, characteristics and identities in both the single country and European culture.
The Perspective also embraces the trajectory of a theatre culture formerly operating in the communist structure of the Eastern bloc, now fully functioning as a member state in an expanded democratic Europe. How is political and social transformation reflected in aesthetic practice, how is one influenced by the other, and how does impact, influence and inspiration continue to resonate and give rise to new creativity? As well as visiting performances and workshops, this programme will comprise an accumulative sequence of short conferences aligned to the publication of five books of seminal Polish texts (previously unavailable in English) as well as a major conference (above) exploring the nexus of Polish theatre to innovation in European theatre work; information, documentation and resource material will also further expand the Perspective Programme. The book series (with the working title "Polish Theatre: Traditions of Transformation") is produced in editorial collaboration with the Grotowski Institute in Wroclaw and its Programme Director, Dr. Grzegorz Ziolkowski, and will make newly-accessible to a worldwide English-speaking readership information that illuminates recent histories of Polish theatre and its significant role and influence in the development of theatre practices in Europe and beyond.
Polish Theatre in Perspective – International Conference
CPR's Polish Theatre in Perspective programme reflects on the resonance of a single nation’s theatre culture on the development and growth of European theatre generally, thus revealing values, characteristics and identities in both the single country and European culture
This major conference will investigate not only the historical contexts out of which Polish theatre has emerged but also its impact on scenographic and devising processes, and physical and musical theatre, the education and training of the performer, and the communal and ritual dynamic of theatre and its effect on audiences. Scholars and practitioners from throughout Europe will make contributions tracing the developments that originated in the seminal work of Polish artists and their revolutionary ideas that transformed the concept of the European stage (e.g. Juliusz Osterwa, Jozef Szajna, Tadeusz Kantor, Jerzy Grotowski and various contemporary endeavours such as Gardzienice and Scena Plastyzna).
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Centre for Performance Research Conference Archive
Previous CPR conferences are archived. To read more about our past
events please select from this list
- Speaking to the Nation?
The Artist's Vision [December 2007]
Sat 8th Dec, 10.00 am - 6.00pm
- Mapping Performance Research #1 [October 2005]
seminar collaboration with Performance Research Laboratory (PRL), University of Leeds
- Towards Tomorrow [April 2005]
An International Gathering Exploring theatre x performance
- Points of Contact - Performance, Places and Pasts [September 1998]
This four day event, which includes two full-day field-trips, brings together Welsh performance practitioners whose work is concerned with notions of place and identity with other artists and scholars from around the world from the fields of archaeology, human geography, history, anthropology, folklore and literature studies.
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