Station House Opera run projects and workshops for students and artists, designed to make their work accessible to all and to share skills and approaches to the company’s work.

They can encompass a broad range of performance ideas or may be tailored to a specific production and are created for participants with varying degrees of knowledge and experience. Workshops may be also instigated as part of the creative natural 'breathing' of the company's ongoing existence as a performance group, or as part of the introductory sessions in the development of a new production.

BACKWARDS Workshop
From 13 April - 22 May 2010
Battersea Arts Centre, London

Participants are needed for a series of workshops that will start the development process of a new show. Created by Station House Opera and commissioned by BAC, the show will be performed as part of May’s Scratch Festival at BAC.

Station House Opera, who recently created the site-specific project Dominoes, and previously the performance Mind Out, are holding a series of workshops exploring the idea of backwardsness. Participants will be invited to think and act backwards, reversing the usual notions of causality, morality, will, belief and common sense. Memory occurs before the event, desire after its fulfilment, and education results in ignorance. Punishment comes before the crime, and the beggar gives money to the rich.

The six workshops will lead to a Scratch performance at BAC as the first step towards a major new project. They will be led by artistic director Julian Maynard Smith and other members of the company. Participants will gain a unique insight into the creative development process alongside this highly respected performance company and will perform at BAC.

WHEN
Workshops : every Tuesday, starting 13 April, 7-9.30pm, at BAC, with a more intensive rehearsal time Sat 15th May and the week of the performances w/c 17th May time TBC.
Performances : Fri 21st and Sat 22nd
Free, but attendance at ALL workshops and the performances is crucial.

WHO
The workshops are open to artists, students and anyone else interested in the creative development process, coming from different backgrounds, performance, live art, visual art, but also video as the company is working with live video in the performance.

HOW TO APPLY:
Please email Marine Thévenet at marine@artsadmin.co.uk by 25th March with your name, contact details and a brief paragraph outlining a little about yourself and why you’re interested in participating in the project.

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DIRECTORS FORUM
9-18 April 2010
Aberystwyth, Wales

CPR has invited some of the most exciting theatre directors to Aberystwyth for an intense participatory project.

This laboratory will oscillate between practice and analysis; participants will work alongside Julian Maynard Smith in exploring themes such as backwards action, backwards thinking, backwards emotion, backwards politics whilst developing strategies for more extended performance ideas.

To book one of the limited spaces on this laboratory please contact CPR:

01970 622 133 / cprwww@aber.ac.uk / www.thecpr.org.uk