Programme...

You can use this programme to find out more about what happened bewteen 2 - 4 May 2011. Follow the blue links for more information. 

Monday 2nd May


11:00 - 12:00
Workshop 1
Heritage Arts Company
Colouring Inside the Lines: Conventionality and Uniqueness in One on One Performance
Performance
Studio
   


13:00 - 14:00
Workshop 2
Heritage Arts Company
Colouring Inside the Lines: Conventionality and Uniqueness in One on One Performance
Performance
Studio
13:00 - 14:00
Workshop 3
Uwe Gröschel
An Interdisciplinary Investigation of 'Inner Life Worlds'
Rehearsal 
Studio

17:00 - 18:00
Welcome
Upstairs Bar
(Tea and Coffee)

The evening's events will take place in the theatre.

18:00 - 18:30
Introductions to Events
Dr Carl Lavery
Dr .Karoline Gritzner
Questions & Provocations
(livecast)


18:40 - 20:20
Punch Drunk Perspectives
Josephine Machon
Immersive Theatres: Intimacy and Immediacy in contemporary performance
Rose Biggin 
Reading Fan Mail
Adam Alston
Audience Participation & the Aesthetics of Risk
(livecast)

Break (40 Minutes)

21:00 - 22:30
Guest Lecture
Patrick Primavesi
Performance
Ella Finer
Pitch Black: 
How the Voice Performs in the Dark and the Distance
(livecast)

Tuesday 3rd May


8:00 - 9:00 
Emancipatory Breakfast 
Theatre Foyer - Breakfast items and tea and coffee will be on sale in the cafe from 7:45
Richard Allen
Reports From an Unidentified Space Station: 
Is Participation the 'Big Dumb Object' of Performance?
Astrid Breel
Emancipating the Spectator: 
Participation in Performance

All of today's presentations will take place in the theatre.

9:30 - 10:40
Ethics & Awkwardness
Daniel Oliver
The Efficacy of Awkwardness in 'David Hoyle's Factory a Sweatshop for the Soul'
Julia Wilson
Participation and the Ethics of Consent
(livecast)

Mid-Morning Break (40 minutes)

11:20 - 12:30
Challenges to Making
Carl Lavery
A Conversation with Action Hero
Guest Speaker LIGNA
(live cast)

Lunch (1 hour 30 minutes)

14:00 - 15:40
Conversations with 
National Theatre Wales
Guest Speaker John McGrath 
Tom Payne
Standing in an Expanding Field
Kirsty Sedgman
The Audiences of National Theatre Wales
(live cast)

Break (40 Minutes)

16:20 - 17:40
Scenography and Interactive Medias: New & Old
David Haylock
Sustainability of Interactive Systems Within Theatrical Performance
Madeleine Hughes
Cine-Theatre: Towards a New Aesthetic
David Shearing
The Scenographer as Co-Author of Experience
(livecast)

Dinner (1 hour 50 minutes)

The evening's events will take place in the theatre foyer and the theatre. 

19:30 - Late
Outdoors 
(Contact us for one of the 13 tickets available. Performance takes place in town.)
Drink, Play, Dance
(in the Theatre Foyer)
Ali Matthews & Friends
10 Cents a Dance: 
A Farmers' Market of Performance
Louise Ritchie
Navigating the Site Map: 
From Analogue to Digital Space
Rachel Gomme
(in the Theatre)
Waiting Game
Voluntary Participation in Disco Music

Wednesday 4th May


9:00 - 10:00
Das Frühstück
Theatre Foyer - Breakfast items and tea and coffee will be on sale in the cafe from 8:45
Q&A with Rimini ProtokollLive from Berlin
Arts Centre Cafe

10:00 am
The New Man by LIGNA
There are 68 tickets available. You can book one at the same time as your FREE symposium ticket. There will be an extra charge of £7 for this performance.

11:30 - 12:30 
Post Show Discussion

Audience members will have the opportunity to discuss The New Man with members of LIGNA.

Departure
We suggest that those of you who are leaving Aberystwyth by train do so on the 13:27 from Aberystwyth train station.

Artists in Residence


There will be a number of other activities taking place over the course of the symposium, and attendees will be invited to join in:


Artists


Ania Bas
Forget the Stage: 
Performance and Lived Environments

David Hughes
Mykus are Yorkus are Mykus

Fred McVittie
Being in Social Media: Youtuber in Residence