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| Colin, Zoe and Anna |
Our trio of performers visited Blantyre Centre at St Austell with a pop up performance in the morning and workshop in the afternoon.
Then onto Homes Farms Trust, Wadebridge the following week. Really lovely to reconnect with people there, we did the workshop straight after the pop up performance which seemed to work better. A complete joy was to meet Mary Derrington again, Mary was one of our founder members, whose duet with George Jacklin at the Barbican Theatre when we first started out remains a highlight in my memory.
Well done to Express Yourself for another successful show and sharing, Nick Fripp was able to go and "had a great time and found the performance moving and entertaining."
Shallal 2 continues to do good work and most of us where there last week after a term of illness, fatigue and absences, nice to all be together.
I heard from Kerry Lawrence this week "How's Shallal..... I think of you all often, joining in those two days workshop and my day in St Ives was the highlight of my summer."
Creativity with freedom in a shared caring structure is not the norm in our society and i tend to forget that.
Our trips to the North and East of Cornwall and feedback and conversations with those we met have rekindled the idea of starting an inclusive community group in that area and Lois Taylor and I had a really good chat about it this morning.
This afternoon Belinda http://belindawhiting.co.uk/home.html and I chatted around our Godolphin book idea which has also been initially 'sticky' as again was conceived partly from old ideas and now has started to have its own life and parameters and become unstuck - hurray!
Steve Tanner http://stevetanner.co.uk/ is available to photograph the show and Zoe http://zoeyoung.net/ will film it.
Victoria is coming in to watch rehearsals and support costume, and John Keys dropped by on Friday to catch up and set a date to come in again, so the team is moving.
11th March
And thank you again to Pep and Colin, the company explored really helpful ideas and dynamics.
The ACE consultation I went to was interesting and food for thought, as always I learn a lot from the other people around the table and their perspective and experience, our table included people working in libraries, higher education, an NPO ( National Portfolio Organisation ) and freelance artists funded and unfunded.
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| Jonathan, Zoe and Colin |
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| we really enjoyed our time at Gorfemma, Liskeard and chatting with Rosemary afterwards, (the processional sculpture in the background is called Geraldine - as is our tailors dummy! ) |
Our last trip was to Liskeard to Gorfemma and then Morley Tamlyn Centre with the same format ( by then i had improved my introductions and explanations which enabled a more fluid event.)
It was lovely to reconnect with Thomas at Gorfemma. Thomas came to visit us some years ago on work experience and is now in Far Flung a new professional inclusive dance theatre company in Plymouth
Rehearsals
Then into Friday with the much needed 'rough run through' my creative process with this new show has been 'sticky', partly as we were: working from the previous show, trying to merge in our new methods developed with George, integrating new performers and new research material, however it feels like it is flowing now and we just need to give some pieces more time and attention.
We were looking for a humourous piece mainly for the 'lads'. We looked at recreating Crows however last week we became quite over excited about horse racing! so watch out! Eddie made a quick horses head in the afternoon and is our compere! and 'Galloping George' is planning to make an appearance.
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| horse racing! |
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| as well as recovering from an injury Colin was fighting off a cold and received some relaxation and attention! |
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| Kerry's green palette for wood circles |
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| Toby's sketches for installation .....working with Paul Carter http://www.zierlecarterliveart.com/#! |
Shallal 2 continues to do good work and most of us where there last week after a term of illness, fatigue and absences, nice to all be together.
I heard from Kerry Lawrence this week "How's Shallal..... I think of you all often, joining in those two days workshop and my day in St Ives was the highlight of my summer."
Creativity with freedom in a shared caring structure is not the norm in our society and i tend to forget that.
Our trips to the North and East of Cornwall and feedback and conversations with those we met have rekindled the idea of starting an inclusive community group in that area and Lois Taylor and I had a really good chat about it this morning.
This afternoon Belinda http://belindawhiting.co.uk/home.html and I chatted around our Godolphin book idea which has also been initially 'sticky' as again was conceived partly from old ideas and now has started to have its own life and parameters and become unstuck - hurray!
Steve Tanner http://stevetanner.co.uk/ is available to photograph the show and Zoe http://zoeyoung.net/ will film it.
Victoria is coming in to watch rehearsals and support costume, and John Keys dropped by on Friday to catch up and set a date to come in again, so the team is moving.
11th March
And thank you again to Pep and Colin, the company explored really helpful ideas and dynamics.
The ACE consultation I went to was interesting and food for thought, as always I learn a lot from the other people around the table and their perspective and experience, our table included people working in libraries, higher education, an NPO ( National Portfolio Organisation ) and freelance artists funded and unfunded.
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