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16Jun10

I left Cornton Vale last Thursday feeling exhausted, emotional, and proud. I felt I had been part of a team that successfully delivered a drama residency in a context which I had no previous experience of. I felt proud as I feel that I brought my practice and my understandings of performance and integrated them [...]

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Residency: Day four

10Jun10

There was a really exciting energy when all of the women came together, very few nerves, just a drive to get on and push through it all. They seemed prepared and just wanted to rehearse and show their performance. The performance went down really well, the group made it feel really slick, and the audience [...]

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Residency: Day three

09Jun10

We started pulling a piece together, exploring new things in the morning and coming back after lunch with a structure for the group pulling the material into something that resembled a performance. The group were anxious about performing, not all of them necessarily wanted to perform so we asked all of the group to give [...]

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Residency: Day two

08Jun10

We knew that we had to come in with material and exercises that were of a different feel and energy to the end of Monday afternoon as it was quite heavy, so we decided to investigate place and look at building soundscapes using some of the  places they were talking about missing or not remembering. [...]

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Residency: Day one

07Jun10

We didn’t know what to expect, we had planned as best as we could, and Kate had told us to relax, get an early night, be prepared. We never really got a good night’s sleep all week, so being in bed before one was quite the achievement! We got there with plenty of time, but [...]

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Quick fixes: Going down an old conservative track already?

04Jun10

‘Reform is no use anymore, because that is simply improving a broken model…What we need is not evolution, but a revolution in education. This has to be transformed into something else’ Ken Robinson, TED Talk, 2010. I was writing about something else and I came across this article on the Guardian. The old days under [...]

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