Writing

 

 

(For info on Process Writing click here.)

 

Forthcoming, Current & Recent Writing Projects:

 

2010 ‘A Dramaturg’s Blog’ – While working as dramaturg to Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Damien Jalet & Antony Gormley on ‘Babel’ I intend to write a blog (on my long train journey home) about the work we are doing. Throughout the making process the blog will be made available to everyone involved in the production.  I expect it will include reflections about discussions, questions, ideas, difficulties etc, and it will hopefully serve to open up a channel of communication that often struggles to thrive in large devising processes. People will be invited to respond if they wish. This blog will then be available for publishing once the process is over.

 

2010 ‘How do you train somebody not to belong?’  UK Journal ‘Theatre, Dance & Performance Training’. This article will look at the role of intuition, talent and training in the Belgian dance performance scene, where a sense of ‘not belonging’ seems present in both the productions created and the individuals  that create them.

 

2009 An interview with Alain Platel, for UK Journal ‘Contemporary Theatre Review’. This document features an edited cut and paste of an email exchange between myself and Les Ballets C de la B director Alain Platel. Written as Platel toured the world with his most recent show ‘pitié!’, our discussion covers the origins and hallmarks of the Flemish performance movement, Platel’s own journey, his approach to making work today, and thoughts on what he might do next.

 

2008 ‘Mapping the Multiple’ – a chapter in ‘Making Contemporary Theatre’ to be published by Manchester University Press in 2009. In 2007 I observed Belgian-Moroccan choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui in rehearsal for 8 months as he worked with a company of 25 actors, dancers and musicians to devise the show ‘Myth’. This article reflects on the complexities of working in large collaborative processes for both director and performer.

 

2007 ‘Reflections on Collaborative Process’ – Belgian Journal ‘A Prior’.  As part of an enquiry into various approaches to and visions of collaboration and participation in the creative field, particularly in the context of visual arts discourse, editor Andrea Wiarda and I conducted and email interview about how the collaborative in theatre is understood and whether it has anything to teach the visual arts world about collaborative processes -  artistic, productive, economic and political.