The Drift Project

run by Zecora Ura & Persis-Jade Maravala (Brazil/UK)

in partnership with National Theatre Wales

13th - 15th November 2012

mini-DRIFT Cardiff schedule

Tuesday 13th Nov 5pm-7pm  (informal gathering of participants and leaders)

Wednesday 14th Nov 10am-8pm (mini-DRIFT day one, including internal sharing)

Thursday 15th Nov 10am-8pm (mini-DRIFT day two, including sharing with guests)

mini-DRIFT

Participants are encouraged to collaborate with each other, without the goal or pressure of a performance product, but with an open environment for work to be shared.  It is a model of process and community building that will provoke and inspire different ways of thinking about your practice and different contexts through which ideas are exchanged – that will include training, performing, nightly sharings of process, feedback, one-one-one sessions and insight into your own practice.

mini-Drift Residency Leaders

Jorge Lopes Ramos is joint artistic director of Zecora Ura (Brazil/UK) and the Hotel Medea trilogy, lecturer at University of East London and has recently completed the cultural leadership program run by Battersea Arts Centre.  Jorge develops playful theatrical structures which allow for a participatory, immersive and interactive perspective of the theatrical event. His work with audiences includes performative documentation, artist-led curatorship and Dramaturgy of Participation which is often site-specific, time-specific and audience-specific.  As joint leader of the Cardiff mini-DRIFT will be mentoring artists through performance and coaching methods in the fields of audience participation, artistic vision and project management.

As Zecora Ura's joint director and solo artist, Persis-Jade Maravala is committed to an ongoing actor training. She directs, writes and performs in interactive performances, exhibitions and performance lectures that explore the role of the outsider and examine conflict in an intercultural society. Her work provokes meetings of active culture, transcending commonplace social behaviours and liberating the actor from accepted traditions of actor training and theatrical acts by encouraging direct and unpredictable communication between actors, audiences and participants.  Her approach as joint leader of the mini-DRIFT in Cardiff will focus on physical and vocal exercises that aim to reconnect the artist to his individual inner life and discover it as a source of creativity. The training is driven by the research of Jerzy Grotowski, and has developed from Asian and Eastern European roots. She leads an intercultural training that does not aim to produce a style, but a continuous process of encounters, transformations and discovery of theatrical dynamics.

Informal Meeting (Tuesday)

5-7 Informal gathering of participants and mini-DRIFT leaders

Participants are invited to articulate their practice, interests and their 'idea/project' which will be used during the mini-DRIFT.  This is an opportunity to engage in dynamic dialogue with a number of other artists and their practices, as well as a chance for new collaborations to emerge in preparation for the following day.

Please get in touch with Abdul Shayek for more details and to enquire about booking a place for these workshops/ opportunities.  Please note the Drift participants will selected through a shortlisting process. 

Email: abdulshayek@nationaltheatrewales.org

Phone: 07545 915 185