http://hdl.handle.net/2160/1069 2013-05-22T01:10:10Z 2013-05-22T01:10:10Z Banham, Simon http://hdl.handle.net/2160/13958 2013-05-10T15:58:58Z 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Susan and Darren Banham, Simon Banham Simon, 'Susan and Darren', Portfolio of performance documentation, Contact Theatre, Manchester; Belfast, Coventry, Edinburgh, Taunton, Aberystwyth. (2006) RAE2008

2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Brookes, M. J. Casado, Rosa http://hdl.handle.net/2160/13934 2013-05-10T15:58:33Z 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

One thing leads to another Brookes, M. J.; Casado, Rosa A long-term practice based research project, initiated in 2007, exploring small-scale public intervention and sculptural object work as both a tool and context for direct social reflection. Producing a series of intimate public events and gallery works, and reflecting on understandings and assumptions within our construction of history and ideas of human progress. Developed with the context of Brookes' on-going artistic collaboration with Spanish artist and performer Rosa Casado. Exhibited and performed. Documentation is available.

2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Ames, Margaret http://hdl.handle.net/2160/7188 2012-07-03T13:21:45Z 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Psychedelia Ames, Margaret A new piece authored by Edward Wadsworth and Cyrff Ystwyth. Wadsworth is a learning disabled person. ‘Psychedelia’ developed as a response by Wadsworth and the company to media reports of high levels of hate crime and hate speech committed against learning disabled people in Britain. This difficult and disturbing theme was threaded through Wadsworths’ interest with the 1960’s cultural cliches of psychedelic music and fashion. Through discussion led by the Investigator embodied articulations of resistance and escape were formulated into choreography. The result was a performance that expressed issues of power and powerlessness, and ultimately dealt with the experience of dependancy, and the necessity for, care and support, whilst offering a challenge to social constructions of disabled people as deviant and as Snyder and Mitchell state: ‘The re-deployment of disabled bodies serves as more than a tool of integration; it becomes a tool of art itself by reclaiming that which has been historically viewed as dysfunctional ( Snyder and Mitchell 2001: 386). Synder, Sharon, L and Mitchell, David, T. 2001. Re-engaging the Body: Disability Studies and the Resistance to Embodiment. Public Culture Volume 13 No. 3 pp.367-389. T.Dyfeisiwyd/Devised by – Edward Wadsworth. Cyfarwyddwr/ Director/ Researcher - Margaret Ames. Lighting Design - Becky Mitchell. /Production Staff TFTS. /Publicity nad photography - Nick Strong. Performers - Carwyn Daniel, Andrew Evans, Helen Evans, Sam Evans, Heather Giles, Adrian Jones, Patricia Marks, Lucy Smith, Jo Strong, Edward Wadsworth. Helen Williams. Description: 1. What kind of dance performance might evolve through the agency of a disabled dance author? 2. In what ways might this work interrogate aesthetic principles of beauty in dance and the dancer’s body? 3. How does the disabled and untrained dancer see her/himself? 4. Can the large discrepancies in technical performance of choreography in this work, be perceived as contributions to a radical challenge to conventional notions of beauty and entertainment in performance? How might the inscription of disability in bodies reveal radical beauty and redefine new performance in rural Wales? How might the disabled artist communicate specific artistic visions and proceed through the creative process? How might asking these questions through practice, contribute to the process of a minority culture defining itself within Britain?

2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Ames, Margaret http://hdl.handle.net/2160/5688 2010-10-20T10:43:18Z 2010-07-26T00:00:00Z

Work Ames, Margaret This new piece is authored by Adrian Jones and Cyrff Ystwyth. Jones is a learning disabled person. ‘Work’ was a non-textual narrative based on Jones’ memories and his rural farming environment in Ceredigion. Rooted in sharp observation the physicality presents a highly specified expression by a learning disabled dance author that offers further development in our understanding of the issues at the heart of the research enquiry. The potential for such new performance to open previously uncharted artistic territory is developed and the project is a catalyst for audiences and performers to critique how we place ourselves in particular cultural fields through engagement with disabled and untrained performers, and in engagement with specific life-world experience, in this case rural and Welsh speaking culture.; Dyfeisiwyd/Devised by – Adrian Jones. Cyfarwyddwr/ Director - Margaret Ames. Cynllun Goleuo/Lighting Design - Becky Mitchell. Ffilm – Margaret Ames and Dorian Jones. Cynhyrchydd/Production Staff TFTS. Cyhoeddusrwydd/Publicity - Nick Strong. Perfformwyr/Performers - Carwyn Daniel, Andrew Evans, Sam Evans, Heather Giles, Adrian Jones, Annabelle Lowe, Vriginia Lowe, Patricia Marks, Lucy Smith, Jo Strong, Edward Wadsworth. 1. What kind of dance performance might evolve through the agency of a disabled dance author? 2. In what ways might this work interrogate aesthetic principles of beauty in dance and the dancer’s body? 3. How does the disabled and untrained dancer see her/himself? 4. Can the large discrepancies in technical performance of choreography in this work, be perceived as contributions to a radical challenge to conventional notions of beauty and entertainment in performance? How might the inscription of disability in bodies reveal radical beauty and redefine new performance in rural Wales? How might the disabled artist communicate specific artistic visions and proceed through the creative process? How might asking these questions through practice, contribute to the process of a minority culture defining itself within Britain?

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