The Audition Workshops

I'm writing from the lectern in CILASS 7 where we are currently holding the first of our two "audition" workshops - having had difficulties persuading students to overcome any fears they have about being involved in our project, we felt we needed to use the word "audition" as a way of encouraging new people to get involved. We weren't looking to eliminate people, just see how different people fit in to the group dynamic. You can see some of the stuff we got up to in the video below...



Many thanks to Dan Balla for being the guest leader for the first workshop - and giving us a lot of ideas for the second, including "Autocue Improv"... more on this later!

Workshop Auditions

This Wednesday we will be holding workshop auditions for the performers for Surveillance, which if you missed it is the title of the final piece we will be performing.

It needs to be stressed that with this project the journey is far more important than the destination, and that being involved with ttpo# will be an opportunity to be part of a pioneering student-led IBL project, after our successful grant application that will allow us to bring in professional experience and take our work to conferences, festivals and across the world-wide web.

We're looking for a mix of creatively-minded undergraduate students of all levels of experience with theatre to work on researching and devising a show exploring the implications of increased surveillance at all levels of modern society, focussing in particular on the effects on both the watcher and the watched. As an official project of CILASS, (Centre for Inquiry-based Learning in the Arts and Social Sciences), we will be blending professional-led workshops with devising sessions, discussion forums, video shoots, hands-on technical training, and a collaborative online organisational system; this will be a huge opportunity for anyone interested in theatre, sociology, collaborative research, and improving their research and information skills.

We will be running two sessions (open only to members of the University) on Wednesday 20th February 2008: 2pm-4pm and 5pm to 7pm (14:00-16:00 & 17:00-19:00). Anyone interested in joining the project need only attend one session. There is a chance we may be oversubscribed, or that you may not be able to make either session. If this is the case, either contact us by email/text/phone, or let us know in the comments and we'll get in contact ASAP.

Please wear comfortable clothing (and clean socks!), and make sure you bring your U-card to access the building.

So, to sum up...

Location: CILASS 7 (Level One of the Information Commons)
Day: Wednesday 20th February 2008
Session One: 2pm - 4pm
Session Two: 5pm - 7pm

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