The Articulate Practitioner - Articulating Practice : An International Forum : July 18th-22nd 2005

Led by an international forum of performance makers and guest scholars the programme will examine the nexus between practice and theory, to confront the language divides between scholarship and artistic production. The aim is to create an intellectual meeting ground - on the bridge between practice and academia - of ideas, words and works that challenge what it means to ‘'articulate practice'.

Historically, there exists a dividing line between academic consideration of theatre and professional practice. In recent years, however, academia has been developing notions of ‘'practice led research', and drawing on theories and interventions from what has now become termed the ‘'artist scholar' - a professional practitioner comfortable within the culture of the academy. This duality of experience and fluency in both languages is being drawn upon within contemporary pedagogy, and has led to many artists developing a voice within the context of scholarship.

As a consequence, distinctions may have become blurred: and artists are beginning to re assert the differences between academic and artistic articulation; between professional practice in the public domain and practice realised within the academy.

This gathering is the stimulus for a forum of debate intended to identify, reveal, develop and record vocabularies that might be useful, to both practitioner and scholar, in the development of an understanding of the processes engaged in the making of effective performance; performance intended for, and surviving within, the public domain.

The 4 day programme offers artist led workshops, international performances, performance lectures and presentation papers, a challenging debating platform and provocations from delegates.

Programme :

STOP PRESS : 15/07/05 : Prof. Susan Melrose informed us today that she is now unable to attend the conference for reasons beyond her control. She proposes, however, to send a recording of her paper on DVD.

Monday - 18th July

15.00 to 17.00	Registration
17.30	Welcome reception
18.00	Introductions and Opening Address Jill Greenhalgh
19.15	Performance: Sawn-off Scarface [Scarface bach] Eddie Ladd
19.45	SUPPER
21.00	Performance: Knowledge and Melancholy Margaret Cameron
22.00	BAR

Tuesday - 19th July

9.00	Workshops: Working the Word - Energy led by Geddy Aniksdal [Nor] or Working the Word - Precision led by Roxana Pineda [Cuba]
11.00	COFFEE
11.30	Diana Taylor [USA]: Performed Practice, Embodied Knowledge Julia Varley: [Den]: Stones of Water: Embodied Knowledge and the Marks of History Followed by open questions and discussion - time allowing Chair: Jill Greenhalgh
13.00	LUNCH
14.00	Deborah Hay [USA]: A Lecture on The Performance of Beauty Margaret Cameron [Aus]: The Proscenium: (a childhood) speaking against the drying wind Followed by open questions and discussion - time allowing. Chair: Susan Bassnett or Claire Macdonald (tbc)
15.30	TEA
16.00	Dijana Milosevic [Serb]: Theatre as a Tool for Transformation Roger Owen and Eddie Ladd [Wales]: Sawn-off Scar face - the interview Followed by open questions and discussion on the days events - time allowing. Chair: Heike Roms
17.30	BREAK
18.30	Work Demonstration: The Dead Brother Julia Varley [Den]
19.45	SUPPER
21.00	Performance: m.e.d.e.a. Gilla Cremer [Ger]
22.00	BAR

Wednesday - 20th July

9.00	Workshops: Working the Word - Dynamic Led by Silvia Pritz [Arg] or Working the Word - Memory Led by Cristina Castrillo [Swiss/Arg]
11.00	COFFEE
11.30	Susan Melrose [UK]: Still Chasing Angels...: qualitative transformations and the challenge to writing Claire Macdonald [UK]: Historia: The poetics of the unlost Followed by open questions and discussion - time allowing Chair: Diana Taylor
13.00	LUNCH
14.00	Gilla Cremer [Ger]: Concentrated in Mindlessness Susan Bassnett [UK]: Crossing the Threshold: Love, death and narratives of survival Followed by open questions and discussion - time allowing Chair: Heike Roms
15.30	TEA
16.00	PROGRAMME OF CONTRIBUTIONS FROM DELEGATES And including guest: Carran Waterfield [UK] 16 presentations or performances: 3 spaces: many ideas: Zoe Laughlin [UK], Margaret Ames [Wales], Lena Semic [Croatia], Guzin Yamaner [Turkey], Frances Babbage [UK], Ruth Hellier-Tinoco [UK], Rachel Sweeney [UK], Elena Knox [UK], Julia Barclay [UK], Laurelann Porter [UK] Sharna Vrhovec [Aus], Bachi [International], Ailsa Richardson [Wales], Stirling Steward [Wales], Emily Underwood + Jodie Allinson [Wales]. Scheduling and chairs to be finalised.
19.45	SUPPER
21.00	Performance: Paradise 2 - the incessant sound of a fallen tree Rosa Casado [Spain]
21.45	Sibylle Peters supported by Matthias Anton [Ger]: The Art of Demonstration

Thursday - 21st July

9.00	Roxana Pineda [Cuba] Work demonstration: The Way of Questions Geddy Aniksdal [Nor] The Garden of Epicurus Silvia Pritz [Arg] The Construction of a Scenic language: the metaphor of the body Chair: Gilly Adams
11.00	COFFEE
11.30	Carol Brown [UK]: I Will be Us or Nothing Zoe Christiansen [Nor] : Performance and other Strategies of Survival Followed by open questions and discussion - time allowing Chair: Heike Roms
13.00	LUNCH
14.00	Rosa Casado [Spain]: The Hidden Eloquence of My Daily Acts Raquel Carrio [Cuba]: The invisible island: fragments of a discovered memory Followed by open questions and discussion - time allowing Chair: Jill Greenhalgh - Translation: Julia Varley
15.30	TEA
16.00	Gilly Adams [Wales]: The Open Page Karoline Gritzner [Wales]: Why wasn't Antonin Antonia? A case for women writing theatrical Treatises
17.30	Performance: Umbral Cristina Castrillo [Arg/Switz]
19.30	Performance: No Doctor for the Dead Geddy Aniksdal [Nor]
21.00	CONFERENCE DINNER

Friday - 22nd July

9.00	Working the Word - Telling led by Margaret Cameron [Aus] A feedback round for all voices
11.00	COFFEE
11.30	Concluding Statements

13.00	Departures

+	Networking meetings / Open Page meeting