Keynotes and Paper Panels
Thursday will open with a keynote address from Anne Bogart,
Artistic Director of SITI Theatre Company (founded in 1992 with Japanese
Director Tadashi Suzuki) and Professor at Columbia University. Paper
Panels; Object, Presence, Absence; Audience: Bodies, Experience,
Presence, and Materialities of Performance. Presentations
from Ali Pretty of Kinetika and Ramon Ivars of the Theatre Institut Barcelona.
Roundtables - The Entrepreneurial Artist, The Audience's
Body as Material and Presence and Representation; Particpatory workshops.
The final presentation of this stimulating day will take a very different
look at matter as Zoe Laughlin of the 'Materials Library'
presents 'The Performativity of Matter'.
The day will end with a plenary session led by an international team of
respondents leading to a social evening.
Friday opens with a keynote address from Professor Alan Read,
Professor of Theatre at Kings College London, and distinguished author
of 'Theatre and Everyday Life', and 'Theatre, Intimacy and Engagement'.
Paper panels: Materialities of Light, Voice and the Body;
Puppet, performance, process; Design, space, utopias; Material communities:
involving the audience. Keynote Presentation; Pamela Howard -
'The Marriage' a manifesto for Director / Designers; Performance
demonstrations; Paul Rae 'Tree Duet', Sean Myatt 'Instinctive
Object Ramblings', and Song Jungmin 'A Dressmaker'; Roundtables on Street
Arts and Greening the Theatre.
The conference will end with a plenary session and a chance to toast the
new connections made in the 'Bar of Ideas'!
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Creative Enterprise and International Collaborations
These are key issues for CETT, and will be discussed in two focussed,
international roundtables. Choose from; The Entrepreneurial Artist- investigating
the identity of the entrepreneur within the arts, and reflect on the challenge
to higher education institutes to generate creative enterprise amongst
arts students.
Panellists include David Kirby (Vodafone Chair of Business)
and Elizabeth Bradley (Head of Drama at Carnegie Mellon) and
Presentation and Representation, a debate on the complex
nature of international collaborative Applied Theatre projects and partnerships;
the opportunities and difficulties and ethics of such work, with panellists
including Jeton Neziraj (Playwright and Direcotr, Center for Children's
Theatre Development, Kosova) and Divya Bhatia (Festival Director, Prithvi
Festival, India)
CETT also welcomes a number of leading artists and academics whose work
will be in residence throughout the Conference, with showings at points
throughout the two days. Look out for exhibitions and installations from
artists and companies who have been in residence across the year.
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Sustainability
CETT is taking part in the Mayor's 'Climate Change Action Plan
for London Theatre', with a series of focused discussions and
open access forums.
Several sessions will be taking place at the Theatre Materials conference,
including discussions on sustainable theatre architecture, sustainable
theatre production and a plenary considering the mayor's
action plan. The sessions will feature speakers from the Mayor's
office, Arts Council and the Theatre's Trust.
The Conference will also see the launch of the 'Perform' project
- the first event in an ambitious collaboration between Central and the
Bartlett School of Architecture, two of London's leading
creative institutions, who have joined forces to rethink design, fabrication
and purpose of performance spaces. Here, speculative and preliminary ideas
by young designers are presented as a catalyst to propel the commission
of a full scale prototype exploring issues of sustainability and spatial
innovation.
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Street Arts
Street Arts features across the two days, with performers-in-residence,
including Paka the Uncredible and his mechanical horse, and our very own Bar of Ideas.
On Friday a day long series of discussions includes a roundtable with a with a particular focus
on the upcoming London Olympics, featuring Martin
Green (Head of Ceremonies, London Organising Committee of the Olympic
Games) and Chenine Bathena (Arts Council England).
Another discussion will look at models of higher education for Street
Arts, with speakers including Julian Rudd (ISAN Co ordinator and
Director of Remarkable Productions) and Liz Pugh (Director and Producer, Walk the Plank).
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