Fact File
For the first presentations of the year we were put into groups. We then had to research a performance company that we didn't know anything about and present it to the class. The three companies that were researched were:
- Chicken Shed
- Paper Cinema
- Zoo Indigo
This blog entry will outline the facts of these companies, what they do, what they have and are performing, the techniques used within the company and the themes they cover in their performances.
Chicken Shed
- It was founded in 1974 and based in Southgate London
- They are an established charity
- They are funded by over 85 small companies and organisations as well as trusts and donations
-They use performance to celebrate diversity, culture and social indifferences
- They welcome over 200 students in per annum
- Excluded from mainstream education
- offer BTEC, Foundation Degree and BA level programmes
- Also have a vocational programme for 14-25 yr olds
- They cover knife crime, sexual awareness, racism and many more aspects that can affect the community
- They use digital media, dance, music, drama and physical theatre through their performances
- They are currently performing Kindertransport, Night of the living shed and Tales from the shed.
Paper Cinema
- It was founded in 2004 and it is a touring company
- They are a team of professionals in their respective areas and all help to create live art
- They use animation, music, film and theatre to present their work
- They travel internationally to show their work to audiences from all different cultures
- Live film is an integral part of their production of performances
- They are currently touring the Odyssey and later on in the year Night flyer.
- They have a wide fan base and turn dramatic work into contemporary pieces of art
- They use illustrations made from paper and card to portray their stories to the audiences
Zoo Indigo
- Founded in 2002 and based in Nottingham
- They are an anglo-german contemporary company
- They perform performances regionally, nationally and internationally
- They perform in varieties of locations and create multidisiplinary performance works with artists with different variety disciplines
- They use new technology digital media, the use of humour, popular music and the reprocessing of cultural texts
- The company contrasts everyday life with the extreme things in life
- The performances that can be seen are Celluloid Souls, No Woman's Land and Flat out. These pieces are the most current that the company has done.
So from these three presentations i learnt that no theatre company sticks to one of the steps mentioned in blog 'Performance 1' . Every company is unique and has a specific quality that draws audience members in, however, we can now start to understand that part of 'What is Performance' is that performance is interpreted in different ways with different people. So therefore, at the end of this blog i conclude that a performance is when someone is witnessing someone else doing an action that doesn't belong in the setting their in.
- The company contrasts everyday life with the extreme things in life
- The performances that can be seen are Celluloid Souls, No Woman's Land and Flat out. These pieces are the most current that the company has done.
So from these three presentations i learnt that no theatre company sticks to one of the steps mentioned in blog 'Performance 1' . Every company is unique and has a specific quality that draws audience members in, however, we can now start to understand that part of 'What is Performance' is that performance is interpreted in different ways with different people. So therefore, at the end of this blog i conclude that a performance is when someone is witnessing someone else doing an action that doesn't belong in the setting their in.
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