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SEA/WOMAN, 2010-
Our Woman is inspired by Ibsen’s Lady from the Sea. Uneasy, hemmed in, searching for something indefinable, she dives repeatedly into the text to forget herself and become Her – but comes up remembering even more. What is she finding down there? This work brings mature women theatre researchers across different political histories, driven by searingly honest confrontation with our age and stage in life, into close creative cooperation. We are navigating womanhood and theatre, the real and the persona, literature and live-ness. We are asking what is relevant, what to perform, what to say and how to say it. You think and feel in pictures and visual images. Your restless yearning for the sea… was nothing but an expression of your longing for freedom. The project offers venues opportunities to programme actor-training workshops and residencies that focus on physical training and dramaturgy for devised performance and symposia/talks on contemporary women’s practice.
Maja Mitić is a core/founding member of DAH Teatar and executive director of DAH Teatar Research Center since 1991 when it was established in Belgrade- the first theatre laboratory in Serbia. In 1993 DAH Teatar enlarged its activities by forming the Theatre Research Centre with an ongoing programme of workshops, lectures, seminars, guest performances and festivals. The work of the Centre is geared toward a constant exchange of knowledge, experience and ideas among artists and theatre professionals from different theatrical and national traditions. The company tour internationally and perform at its own base in Belgrade. In the contemporary world, destruction and violence can only be opposed by the creation of sense. |
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SICK OF LOVE 2009
So it is a lover who speaks and says: ……..
what echoes in me is what I learn with my body. SICK OF LOVE explores erotic love and the evocative power of the material via live animation of objects, text and flesh, extending Furse’s ongoing research into the body-in-performance. SICK OF LOVE is performed with the full presence of the animators in view. Sat around a huge bed, the audience become intimately close to the action, choosing their own ‘close-ups’. The work-in-progress is the first Etude on presence to come from the Laboratory, this one specifically exploring how the performer can channel the spectator’s attention to materiality and to the unfolding actions and images created. The performer is, like the puppeteer, saying ‘look at this’ not ‘look at me’, a way of playing that requires detailed focus and highly controlled physicality. SICK OF LOVE launches the Athletes Laboratory – an ongoing research laboratory based in the Pinter Centre for Performance and Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, working with a group of graduates from the MA in Performance Making that Anna Furse directs. Direction/Scenography - Anna Furse
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ANNA FURSE Athletes of the Heart (UK)
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This international company worked in a private ‘cyber studio’ for 18 months. Confessions of darkest dreams and desires then gave rise to a haunting work that pulsates with passionate physicality, bittersweet irony, 1000 feather pillows, a drag king and a man who cries at too much beauty. DON JUAN.WHO? is about men and women and why we still fight. It’s about seduction, love, sex, power, and the Man who never stays for breakfast. With over sixty million three hundred thousand web hits in his name, how come Don Juan still grips us?
directed by Anna Furse
with Damjana Černe, Željko Hrs, Mare Mlačnik, Tanya Myers, Matej Recer, Giovanna Rogante, Marie-Gabrielle Rotie
A poetic, complex, simple, intelligently directed performance, bounding in eroticism and desire… Don Juan. Who? is a unique piece.
Marjana Ravnjak TV SLOVENIA
Complex, complicated, and totally simple at the same time…very sincere, full of passion and love...fascinating….More performances of this kind!
Amelia Kraigher VECER, Slovenia
An unusual, provocative performance that both avoids and employs cliches.
Gregor Butala DNEVNIK, Slovenia
The performance is even more provocative when it ventures into existential, erotic, sexual extremes….a kind of melancholic aura..a kind of transcendental dimension..reaches beyond the known, the verified and the expected.
Blaz Lukan DELO, Slovenia
Following sell-out performances at Mladinsko Theatre, Ljubljana and previews at the Shunt Vaults, the production is at Riverside Studios for 4 performances only as part of FeEast Festival 2008.
Booking information: www.riversidestudios.co.uk
www.feeast.com
www.mladinsko.com
You can blog the project's themes and provocations on:
www.mladinsko.blogspot.com
This show contains nudity and strong language. Not suitable for under 14 year olds
Studio 2
FRIDAY 21 – SUNDAY 23RD NOVEMBER
Friday 21st 8pm / Saturday 22nd 4pm & 8pm / Sunday 23rd 6pm
Ticket prices £16 / £13 concs / £10 full time students/ £9 groups of 10+
Post Show Talk: Saturday 22nd November
EDUCATION/TRAINING
Professional workshop Riverside Studios Sunday 23rd November 1 – 4pm bookings: anna.athletes@googlemail.com
There is also an opportunity to experiment in the Cyber Studio in a creative/critical writing project. Contact Anna Furse if interested at the above.
INTERVIEW with ANNA FURSE on DON JUAN. WHO?
(new page opens to Theatreland TV website)
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THE PEACH CHILD 2001
Written and directed with financial support from an Arts Council Award for the Little Angel Theatre, Japan Festival 2000/National Children's Theatre Festival UK 2000. Multi media puppetry show for children based on the ancient infertility folk tale Momotaro.
In 2007/8, this play has been selected by the National Theatre for its
Connections Programme.
See www.ntconnections.org.uk.