http://hdl.handle.net/2160/2400 Fri, 24 May 2013 02:39:36 GMT 2013-05-24T02:39:36Z http://hdl.handle.net/2160/7188 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? Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2160/7188 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2160/5688 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? Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2160/5688 2010-07-26T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2160/2546 Brighton Beach Ames, Margaret This new piece is authored by Edward Wadsworth and Cyrff Ystwyth. Wadsworth is disabled. Brighton Beach was conceived through an autobiographical approach, along with the other company members who interpreted and developed his initial thoughts. The work combined past and present experience through elusive physicality. This was a personal journey that resonated beyond Wadsworth and his specific experiences. His work offers glimpses into a story of growing up, and the present day adult who asks ‘Why doesn’t society see you for what you are?’, and states that ‘I feel like a ‘normal’ person, but some people in our society make me feel more disabled than I actually am.’ Brighton Beach placed all the performers as both representatives of that society that Wadsworth interrogates, and as people who move with difference and disability through society, experiencing a sense of ‘standing alone’.; Dyfeisiwyd/Devised by - Edward Wadsworth. Cyfarwyddwr/ Director - Margaret Ames. Cynllun Goleuo/Lighting Design - Becky Mitchell. Cynllun Sain/Sound Design - Dylan Williams. Ffilm - Dorian Jones. Cynhyrchydd/Production Manager - Emma Hayward. Cynorthwywyr Cynhyrchiad/Assitant Production Managers - David Haylock, Ben Hughes, Colin Osbourne. Cerddwr/Walker - Andrea Wiltshire. Cyhoeddusrwydd/Publicity - Nick Strong. Perfformwyr/Performers - Eryl Bray, Carwyn Daniel, Andrew Evans, Bethan Evans, Sam Evans, Heather Giles, Adrian Jones, Ahmet Kemal, Pat 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? Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:54:52 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2160/2546 2009-07-03T12:54:52Z http://hdl.handle.net/2160/2401 Y Bacchai Strong, Nick The director and devisor of this production is Dr Roger Owen and it is a Welsh Medium adaptation of 'The Bacchae' by Euripides. It took place in Theatr Y Castell between the 13th and 18th March 2009. Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2160/2401 2009-03-13T00:00:00Z