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Composing for Theatre Re
Exact release date will be annouced very soon.
In this online lecture, Alex will delve into his creative process when working with Theatre Re and dissect how he composes music for the company's shows. With practical demonstrations interspersed with clips from performances, Alex will explain how musical ideas emerge from visual stimuli or devising prompts, and what techniques can be used to elaborate on these ideas in order to develop them into substantial scores.
Alex Judd is a Composer and Musician. He studied violin, piano and composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama before going on to read music at Goldsmiths College. As well as being Co-Director and General Manager with Theatre Re, Alex has performed and composed the music for all of the company’s major productions. His score for The Little Soldiers received an ‘Off West End’ Best Sound Design award nomination, and his music has been played on BBC Radio 3’s ‘In Tune’ programme.
Other recent composition credits include commissions by Wise Buddah, the Roundhouse Choir, The Point Eastleigh and Kings Ely Theatre Company, and performances at Sadlers Wells and the European Cultural Congress. Alex is also an experienced session musician and performs with a wide variety of artists including Bastien Keb, in London’s West End with Austentatious, as well as being a founding member of jazz trio Future Gold.
www.alexjuddmusic.co.uk
Composing for Theatre Re
Exact release date will be annouced very soon.
In this online lecture, Alex will delve into his creative process when working with Theatre Re and dissect how he composes music for the company's shows. With practical demonstrations interspersed with clips from performances, Alex will explain how musical ideas emerge from visual stimuli or devising prompts, and what techniques can be used to elaborate on these ideas in order to develop them into substantial scores.
Alex Judd is a Composer and Musician. He studied violin, piano and composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama before going on to read music at Goldsmiths College. As well as being Co-Director and General Manager with Theatre Re, Alex has performed and composed the music for all of the company’s major productions. His score for The Little Soldiers received an ‘Off West End’ Best Sound Design award nomination, and his music has been played on BBC Radio 3’s ‘In Tune’ programme.
Other recent composition credits include commissions by Wise Buddah, the Roundhouse Choir, The Point Eastleigh and Kings Ely Theatre Company, and performances at Sadlers Wells and the European Cultural Congress. Alex is also an experienced session musician and performs with a wide variety of artists including Bastien Keb, in London’s West End with Austentatious, as well as being a founding member of jazz trio Future Gold.
www.alexjuddmusic.co.uk
Past recorded events
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Lecture
Everything the Light Touches: Lighting Time, Space, and Action in the work of Theatre Re This lecture premiered on June 23rd in collaboration with University of York. Light is a powerful material, not only revealing the bodies, spaces, and objects in its path, but also transforming how things look and feel. The form, colour, and quality of light can affect our moods in both subtle and powerful ways in a range of contexts. In the theatre, these properties of revelation, transformation, and affect become powerful storytelling tools through the manipulation of light and dark in performance. As a material of the theatre, light is both ephemeral and concrete; both mysterious and practical. Once thought of as a primarily technical aspect, there is now an ever-increasing awareness of the creative importance of light and the ways in which it can be used in performance practice. Drawing on examples from Theatre Re’s practice, and insights from current light research, this talk explores the role of light in performance, examining, in particular, the ways that light behaves in relation to space, time, and action. Along the way, the talk will discuss how light operates as one of many languages in Theatre Re’s visual dramaturgy. Katherine Graham is a designer and researcher. She is an associate artist with Theatre Re, and has designed the lighting for BIRTH, The Nature of Forgetting, Blind Man’s Song, The Little Soldiers, and The Gambler. Selected other credits include: MADHOUSE re:exit with Access All Areas; Saxon Court and Responsible Other with Made by Brick; and Nineveh with Theatre Témoin. She is also a lecturer in theatre in the Department of Theatre, Film, Television, and Interactive Media at the University of York, where she teaches a range of approaches to theatre-making, and researches the agency of materials in contemporary performance. She has published articles on light, scenography, and dramaturgy in Theatre and Performance Design, Contemporary Theatre Review, and Studies in Theatre and Performance. She is a co-editor of a forthcoming volume on performance lighting with Bloomsbury Methuen. |
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Who was Etienne Decroux and why should we talk about him within the context of actor training and contemporary theatre-making This lecture premiered on January 26th and was commissioned by the London International Mime Festival (LIMF'21). Etienne Decroux is considered to be one the key theatre reformers and teachers of the last century along with such others as Copeau, Stanislavski and Meyerhold. He is at the origin of a theatre tradition - some even say an art form - that is unequalled in western theatre history and one that is as rich, complex and layered as ballet, and comparable to Eastern art forms such as Noh Theatre. It is called Corporeal Mime. Guillaume Pigé is a Theatre Sirector, and Producer. Originally from France, he has been living in the UK for the past 15 years. He established Theatre Re in 2011 and has directed each of the company's productions to date. He trained with theatre makers and directors such as Andrew Visnesvski, Steven Wasson, Corinne Soum, Daniel Stein and Thomas Leabhart. Rooted in Etienne Decroux's Corporeal Mime, his practice takes inspiration from science, philosophy, psychology and public health to address global human challenges through moving and visually striking poetic theatre. His work was performed in more than fifteen countries, notably at The Cerventino Festival (Mexico), Hong Kong Arts Festival (China), New Victory Theater (USA), National Taichung Theatre (Taiwan) and London International Mime Festival (UK). He is an associate artist at The Point in Eastleigh, an associate teacher at RADA and head of devising at Fourth Monkey Actor Training Company. He is regularly invited to give workshops throughout the UK and internationally. |
Our autumn 2020 tour of BIRTH was postponed. We decided to keep collaborating with nationwide charity Aching Arms and Josephine Tremelling (who works with creativity & wellbeing) in raising awareness of the lasting impact the death of a baby has on parents and their family across generations.
We organised two free online events: Discussion On Monday the 12th of October, we hosted an online live discussion focusing on the value of staging sensitive and taboo subject matters. This discussion was part of Baby Loss Awareness Week 2020 and took our production of BIRTH as a starting point. Theatre offers a space to understand and navigate the impossible but what is the legitimacy of portraying these difficult experiences and what is the relationship between imagination and real life? It is curated by Karen Quigley (Senior Lecturer in Theatre, York University) with Leanne Turner (CEO and Founder Aching Arms), Guillaume Pigé (Director Theatre Re), Eygló Belafonte (Associate Artist Theatre Re) and Josephine Tremelling who works with creativity and wellbeing. This discussion is open to all but is especially relevant for creatives currently (or in the future) making their own work which focuses on sensitive subjects. Creative Task Yesterday, Tomorrow, Today by Josephine Tremelling Ongoing Visit Josephine's website This is for anyone who has experienced the loss of a baby. No writing experience necessary! You are invited to write about the past, present and future. This is a space for you to tell your story in full in as much detail and with as much rambling as you like, wherever you are with it now and your hopes and fears about the future. This piece of writing can either be kept to yourself or can be shared via the website if you feel comfortable doing so. There are no rules about the style or content should be. The format is the only parameter. This writing is for you. don't write something to be read... Write for yourself. Use the techniques from the warm ups, continuous writing, visual aides, repeating words. All the details here. Let Go! |
Organisations, Partners and Participants
London International Mime Festival:
London International Mime Festival (LIMF) was founded in 1977 by producer, Joseph Seelig, at the instigation of mime-clown, Nola Rae. He was joined by Helen Lannaghan as co-director in 1986. It is the Capital’s longest established international theatre season.
Taking place each January, its programme spans the spectrum of contemporary visual performance including live art, physical and circus-theatre, mask, puppetry, movement and object theatre.
Aching Arms:
Aching Arms helps bring comfort following the loss of a baby during pregnancy, at birth or infancy. They supply comfort teddy bears to parents via hospitals, hospices, support groups and funeral directors in the UK. The charity asks health professionals to offer an Aching Arms bear to every bereaved parent and discuss the emotional support available to them after they leave hospital. As the bears are donated from one bereaved family to another, each bear also reminds parents they are not alone and there are others who understand. The charity also runs free awareness training programmes for health professionals and hosts a telephone befriending service for bereaved parents.
About Baby Loss Awareness Week:
Baby Loss Awareness Week (happening every year from October 9th to 15th) aims to raise awareness about pregnancy and baby death in the UK. Throughout the week bereaved parents, their families and friends, unite with each other and others across the world to commemorate the lives of babies who died during pregnancy, at or soon after birth and in infancy. Baby Loss Awareness Week is also a collaboration between charities and organisations working together for change and tangible improvements in policy, research, bereavement care and support available for anyone affected by the death of a baby at any stage.
University of York:
A member of the prestigious Russell Group, York University is a dynamic, research-intensive university. We work collaboratively in partnership with institutions across the world to develop life-saving discoveries and new technologies that tackle some of the most pressing global challenges. Our 30+ academic departments undertake groundbreaking research that underpins our inspiring teaching and challenges students to dream big, think critically and change the world.
Josephine Tremelling:
Josephine co-founded Anyone Everyone Inclusive Theatre Company in 2014. With her drama therapist co-founder Lisa Harmer she runs creative workshops for children and adults, also running specialist projects for pregnant women and their families. She ran a project called the Silent Trimester which questioned the silence surrounding pregnancy loss. In 2017, she was invited to become an external advisor for Theatre Re and their production of BIRTH. Josephine’s other current Theatrical projects include working with Ephemeral Ensemble, Invisible Ensemble and The Little Angel Theatre. She also runs cabaret and alter ego workshops, and a weekly life drawing class.
Karen Quigley:
Karen is Senior Lecturer in Theatre at the University of York. Her first book, Performing the Unstageable: Success, Imagination, Failure, was published in February of this year and explores, amongst other things, staging violence, blood, ghosts and seemingly unstageable stage directions. Her research on a range of other subjects including site-specific performance pedagogy and solo spectatorship has been published in European Drama and Performance Studies, Journal of Contemporary Drama in English and Theatre, Dance and Performance Training.
Leanne Turner:
Leanne is the Founder of Aching Arms. In June 2010, a year after her son James died, she set out, to support the mental health and emotional well-being of parents who experience the loss of their much loved baby. When the charity gained its registration with the Charity Commission in 2013 the trustees appointed Leanne as part time Charity Coordinator. In January 2019 she was appointed full time CEO. Leanne’s role is to provide effective leadership and management of the charity’s strategic and operational aims. James remains at the heart of all the work she does for Aching Arms. Prior to founding Aching Arms, Leanne was an Education Consultant for an Inner London Education Authority for 8 years and teacher of secondary English, Drama and History for 11 years.
Eygló Belafonte:
Eygló studied contemporary dance at the Icelandic Dance Academy and graduated from the International School of Corporeal Mime in London. She has performed at the National Theatre of Iceland and for award-winning choreographer Helena Jonsdottir in her Rite of Spring. She worked with the international touring company Theatre de l'Ange Fou and extensively for Theatre Re, performing in The Nature of Forgetting and Birth. Eygló has taught at The International School of Corporeal Mime, Icelandic Academy of the Arts, Icelandic Film School and Fourth Monkey. She is a co-founder of Ephemeral Ensemble and co-directed its recent productions Carsick and OFFSTAGE.
London International Mime Festival:
London International Mime Festival (LIMF) was founded in 1977 by producer, Joseph Seelig, at the instigation of mime-clown, Nola Rae. He was joined by Helen Lannaghan as co-director in 1986. It is the Capital’s longest established international theatre season.
Taking place each January, its programme spans the spectrum of contemporary visual performance including live art, physical and circus-theatre, mask, puppetry, movement and object theatre.
Aching Arms:
Aching Arms helps bring comfort following the loss of a baby during pregnancy, at birth or infancy. They supply comfort teddy bears to parents via hospitals, hospices, support groups and funeral directors in the UK. The charity asks health professionals to offer an Aching Arms bear to every bereaved parent and discuss the emotional support available to them after they leave hospital. As the bears are donated from one bereaved family to another, each bear also reminds parents they are not alone and there are others who understand. The charity also runs free awareness training programmes for health professionals and hosts a telephone befriending service for bereaved parents.
About Baby Loss Awareness Week:
Baby Loss Awareness Week (happening every year from October 9th to 15th) aims to raise awareness about pregnancy and baby death in the UK. Throughout the week bereaved parents, their families and friends, unite with each other and others across the world to commemorate the lives of babies who died during pregnancy, at or soon after birth and in infancy. Baby Loss Awareness Week is also a collaboration between charities and organisations working together for change and tangible improvements in policy, research, bereavement care and support available for anyone affected by the death of a baby at any stage.
University of York:
A member of the prestigious Russell Group, York University is a dynamic, research-intensive university. We work collaboratively in partnership with institutions across the world to develop life-saving discoveries and new technologies that tackle some of the most pressing global challenges. Our 30+ academic departments undertake groundbreaking research that underpins our inspiring teaching and challenges students to dream big, think critically and change the world.
Josephine Tremelling:
Josephine co-founded Anyone Everyone Inclusive Theatre Company in 2014. With her drama therapist co-founder Lisa Harmer she runs creative workshops for children and adults, also running specialist projects for pregnant women and their families. She ran a project called the Silent Trimester which questioned the silence surrounding pregnancy loss. In 2017, she was invited to become an external advisor for Theatre Re and their production of BIRTH. Josephine’s other current Theatrical projects include working with Ephemeral Ensemble, Invisible Ensemble and The Little Angel Theatre. She also runs cabaret and alter ego workshops, and a weekly life drawing class.
Karen Quigley:
Karen is Senior Lecturer in Theatre at the University of York. Her first book, Performing the Unstageable: Success, Imagination, Failure, was published in February of this year and explores, amongst other things, staging violence, blood, ghosts and seemingly unstageable stage directions. Her research on a range of other subjects including site-specific performance pedagogy and solo spectatorship has been published in European Drama and Performance Studies, Journal of Contemporary Drama in English and Theatre, Dance and Performance Training.
Leanne Turner:
Leanne is the Founder of Aching Arms. In June 2010, a year after her son James died, she set out, to support the mental health and emotional well-being of parents who experience the loss of their much loved baby. When the charity gained its registration with the Charity Commission in 2013 the trustees appointed Leanne as part time Charity Coordinator. In January 2019 she was appointed full time CEO. Leanne’s role is to provide effective leadership and management of the charity’s strategic and operational aims. James remains at the heart of all the work she does for Aching Arms. Prior to founding Aching Arms, Leanne was an Education Consultant for an Inner London Education Authority for 8 years and teacher of secondary English, Drama and History for 11 years.
Eygló Belafonte:
Eygló studied contemporary dance at the Icelandic Dance Academy and graduated from the International School of Corporeal Mime in London. She has performed at the National Theatre of Iceland and for award-winning choreographer Helena Jonsdottir in her Rite of Spring. She worked with the international touring company Theatre de l'Ange Fou and extensively for Theatre Re, performing in The Nature of Forgetting and Birth. Eygló has taught at The International School of Corporeal Mime, Icelandic Academy of the Arts, Icelandic Film School and Fourth Monkey. She is a co-founder of Ephemeral Ensemble and co-directed its recent productions Carsick and OFFSTAGE.