9 - 18 April
The Directors’ Forum: The Six Senses of the Director is taking place in Aberystwyth, UK, on 9 - 18 April.
Programmes for directors’ exchange, development and training are primarily geared to the needs of the ‘emergent’ director; occasions for the exchange of the wealth of knowledge and experience of ‘mid-career’ directors and development opportunities are simply not available.
In this context, and building on a previous strand of work in this area, the centre for performance research CPR has invited some of the most exciting and diverse Wales-based and international theatre directors to Aberystwyth for an intensive participatory project that offers a rare opportunity for both experienced and emerging directors to gather and share the methods, approaches and skills of professional directing practice via laboratories and presentations, demonstrations and dialogue.
The Directors’ Forum comprises a series of evolving and developing practical investigations (not simply workshops and training exercises) in two, three-day blocks that allow small groups of directors to explore know-how, intuition and embodied practices in a safe and intimate atmosphere. These six days of practical investigation are followed by a two-day ‘gathering’ where methods and approaches can be encountered through more presentational formats.
Engineer your own pathways and interests through a series of different ‘laboratories’, ‘exploratories’ and ‘forums’, practical and participatory sessions designed to animate, articulate and illuminate aspects of particular directorial/ making processes in exploration with others.
For applicants in particular financial hardship a small number of discretionary bursary places in return for some practical assistance on the project are available. To apply for a bursary place, please complete a booking form and write enclosing a brief CV and reason for applying. Closing date for bursary applications: 1st March 2010.
Find many more details here.
