CPR Projects
FOR THE CURIOUS opening worlds of performance
DIRECTORS’ FORUM: THE SIX SENSES OF THE DIRECTOR
Guest Directors to include Richard Gregory(Quarantine, UK), Julian Maynard Smith (Station House Opera, UK), Natalie Hennedige (Cake Theatre, Singapore), Adrian Jackson (Cardboard Citizens, UK) , Ruth Kanner (Ruth Kanner Theatre Group, Israel), Dasbeckwerk (Denmark), Tim Supple (Dash Arts, UK), Veenapani Chawla (Adishakti Centre, India), Anders Paulin (Sweden), Anuradha Kapur (India), Ralf Richardt Strobech (Hotel Pro Forma, Denmark) and others to be confirmed.
"Being a director is not a solo occupation – so most of my life is spent in a room with artists who are a lot more interesting than I am” Peter Sellars: Theatre and Opera Director
Whilst the role of a theatre director is essentially collaborative, the co-ordinating centrality of the role nevertheless makes it a singular, responsible, and therefore sometimes an isolated one, with attendant possible issues of insecurity. Across its many manifestations, the role requires the acquisition of a set of diverse tools for the trade, techniques, methods and knowledge/s, many of which are often acquired empirically ‘on the job’ and ‘in the moment’ through primarily ‘hermetic’ processes of making and rehearsal. Opportunities for exchange, development and training are primarily geared to the needs of the ‘emergent’ director and opportunities for exchange of the wealth of knowledge and experience of ‘mid-career’ directors and development opportunities are therefore rare.
The Arts Council of Wales have awarded CPR a project grant to host and curate a ‘Directors’ Forum’ that will bring together a broad spectrum of Wales-based, as well as UK and international theatre directors to work intensively across a nine day period, sharing and learning methods, approaches and skills through a variety of innovative formats to enable an examination of professional practice; revealing techniques, craft and compositional strategies which are often not articulated with little opportunity to share in a collegial spirit of collaboration.
The Forum will take place at CPR’s base in Aberystwyth from 9th - 18th April 2010 and participation can be across the whole or part of the Forum period. To register your interest in the project please contact us by email and a full programme of events will be sent to you as soon as it is available.
Please note: As a development of its own archives CPR documents all of its activities. Participants should therefore expect that workshop sessions will be appropriately recorded as a matter of course. Participation in CPR events is on the understanding that CPR is free to use such documentation in any manner in the future for its own publicity, archival and publication purposes.
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Additional information is available for download here: Chronology_4.pdf, cpr_A3_post.pdf
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