Got so excited about writing about the experience that we forgot to tell you a bit about the piece that we are working on!
"All Over the Place" is a piece that explores three diverse real life stories that, in one's opinion, acknowledges the lack of communication and equality in our world. With these stories, today's sessions were focused on an improvisational devising process which allowed us to create a structure for various scenes.
Music is a core element in the work at Orpheus, whereby every song produced and sung is done by the students at the centre, therefore they are consistently at the heart of their projects.
As enablers, we have found these experience liberating as no structure is ever produced before hand and then imposed upon the students. The art work is solely created by them and we are the support mechanism that can ensure guidance and encouragement.
On a personal level, we have noticed how the students' confidence has risen dramatically in the two days' rehearsals he have had. We are looking forward to witnessing their achievements when preparing themselves to perform at such a venue as the Royal Opera House!
We shall keep you updated!
Salwa and Juancho ;-)
Tuesday, 18 May 2010
Monday, 17 May 2010
Orpheus Centre: Day 1
First day at the Orpheus Centre, and if there was a word to sum up the entire experience it would be... AMAZING!!!
The Orpheus Centre is an organisation that was founded by entertainer and musician Richard Stilgoe in his former family home in Godstone in 1998. The centre promotes transistion into independent living; providing opportunities for young independent adults to promote personal development through Performing Atrts so they gain the skills to live independently in the community and to make informed choices about their futures.
Over the next two weeks Salwa and Juancho are members of a team of enablers (this consists of dancers, musicians, artists, actors and writers) which will work in partnership on all artistic activities with a group of tutors and the students from the centre, in order to produce a resounding show that will be staged at the Linbury Studio in the Royal Opera House.
Today we met with the entire team (a group of about 40 people) in their theatre which is a lovely converted barn. In this morning's session we explored a number of games which involved the entire group, one to one and small group work in order to learn everyone's names and their personal interests. Bearing in mind this is the first time all parties of the group have come together, by the end of the morning session, in agreement with Danny, the director of the centre, we were delighted with what we had achieved as it seemed as though we had known and worked with one another for a long time.
For the rest of the afternoon the group was divided into three small groups where we explored elements of the performance through devising ideas and games. We also learned a couple of songs that were written by some of the students and with these we brought the day to an end.
The plan for the rest of this first week is to devise all the material that we will use in the performance and use the second week for polishing and tech and dress rehearsals.
We shall be keeping you updated on the process.
Salwa and Juancho ;-)
The Orpheus Centre is an organisation that was founded by entertainer and musician Richard Stilgoe in his former family home in Godstone in 1998. The centre promotes transistion into independent living; providing opportunities for young independent adults to promote personal development through Performing Atrts so they gain the skills to live independently in the community and to make informed choices about their futures.
Over the next two weeks Salwa and Juancho are members of a team of enablers (this consists of dancers, musicians, artists, actors and writers) which will work in partnership on all artistic activities with a group of tutors and the students from the centre, in order to produce a resounding show that will be staged at the Linbury Studio in the Royal Opera House.
Today we met with the entire team (a group of about 40 people) in their theatre which is a lovely converted barn. In this morning's session we explored a number of games which involved the entire group, one to one and small group work in order to learn everyone's names and their personal interests. Bearing in mind this is the first time all parties of the group have come together, by the end of the morning session, in agreement with Danny, the director of the centre, we were delighted with what we had achieved as it seemed as though we had known and worked with one another for a long time.
For the rest of the afternoon the group was divided into three small groups where we explored elements of the performance through devising ideas and games. We also learned a couple of songs that were written by some of the students and with these we brought the day to an end.
The plan for the rest of this first week is to devise all the material that we will use in the performance and use the second week for polishing and tech and dress rehearsals.
We shall be keeping you updated on the process.
Salwa and Juancho ;-)
Friday, 14 May 2010
Charity Gig on Friday 21 May 2010
Phakama's young artists are organising a charity gig on Friday the 21st to help bring their fellow Indonesian artists to the UK.
Come along for a night full of surprises, prices and laughter!
See details for the event below:
or to go to event page on facebook click here
Come along for a night full of surprises, prices and laughter!
See details for the event below:
| Start Time: | Friday, May 21, 2010 at 7:30pm |
| End Time: | Saturday, May 22, 2010 at 12:00am |
| Location: | The Sir Richard Steeles |
| Street: | Haverstock Hill, Chalk Farm, NW3 |
or to go to event page on facebook click here
Thursday, 13 May 2010
Phakama at Queen Mary's
Yesterday Phakama attended a very enjoyable event hosted and attended by academics and students at Queen Mary's University. This was an opportunity for us to introduce ourselves to some of the students and staff with whom we have not yet come in to contact with at the University, and to talk a little bit about past, present and future Phakama projects. After a short presentation by Fabio, Jenny, Sam, Juancho and Ines the attendees were able to ask questions about, and discuss the work. We were then invited to a lovely dinner at a local restaurant where the discussions continued. We made some good new friends!
Wednesday, 12 May 2010
Saturday, 6 February 2010
Singing in rehearsals
We are now rehearsing a traditional Indonesian song that will open our show.
The song goes as follow:
"I'm standing at the edge of the day
Wondering of the change of seasons
I see everybody leaving in a hurry
Here I'm standing alone, keep on waiting
Waiting for the golden age to come
Happiness for the whole world
From time to time I keep on praying
Amongst the sorrow of Manking
I'll finish my sorrow without tears"
The song goes as follow:
"I'm standing at the edge of the day
Wondering of the change of seasons
I see everybody leaving in a hurry
Here I'm standing alone, keep on waiting
Waiting for the golden age to come
Happiness for the whole world
From time to time I keep on praying
Amongst the sorrow of Manking
I'll finish my sorrow without tears"
Tuesday, 2 February 2010
Day 1 and 2
Day 1
Day one started of early. we all woke afresh and had to leve the apartment by 9. we travelled to the school to get our first glimpse of our future workplace for the next two weeks the whole group was really excited to be working in such a beautiful place. and to be encouraged by the local spirit of all the students. the thatre in which we are to perform is is amazing the main stage is extremely big, and even the supporting rooms such as the wallace stage are big in their own respect. after we had our tour of the theatre and had lunch we organized and planned workshops for the week and even ran one the main subjects we focused on was onsamble work, how to bond within a group it went really well. after our firsty worokshop we finally met with the British international school (bis) group who would be our main chorous. they are really friendly and approacable. they warmed to phakama really quickly and were up for almost anything. we spent time in that workshop designers gaurdians that were personal and what we considered a gaurdian to be. there was some really good images on display most people opting for the mythology type gargoyle. we then finished on a high with a game. after this workshop we went to go visit the free school whitch is founded and funded by BIS this was really good and a touching experiance the classroom was just situated on a piece of land and the classroom was about as big as a caravan but they just made it work ! :D we proceeded to meet with aji and his group of young people ( theatre tetas) they were really pleased to see us and us them, there rehearsal space was outside in the open and was a old boxing ring! none the less we still had fun and made some progress with productive work based around on what both groups had been previously rehearsing. the group of young people are really kind and nice. we finished the session at about 11:10 and then made our way back to the accommodation most people to tired to stand, goodnight...
Day 2
day 2 started afresh with everyone all awake and alive and kicking, we was all looking forward to breaking of into groups and vidting different sites 4 young people went to go visit the free school (jake, regis,jenny,salwa) and 4 went to go visit the scavanger site which was a site full of rubbish and people living there made a living by collecting rubbish and sorting it for the local truck to come and pick it up to recycle it. both groups said that this experiance was really good and they felt good after, a real rewarding experiance for bioth parties and the people at both sites were pleased that outsiders had come to see them. so after this we left with a friendly goodbye and made our way back to the BIS school in order to have lunch and get ready for our workshop. we arrived at the BIS school and ate lunch planned the workshop and then got ready. the BIS students arrived and was ready to work, we progressed our work with the gaurdians in which we designed the day before. we then had to talk about their qualities and choose a single one and then create a still image in what we think these emotions represent. then we moved on to stage 2 and added movement and sound finally stage 3 which resulted in leading the whole group in from outside and putting on what we had done in our small groups of 5. it went really well and the group felt spectacular. were now getting ready to go meet adji and work on some more scenes with the group.
on behalf of the phakama company
Jake Boston.
Day one started of early. we all woke afresh and had to leve the apartment by 9. we travelled to the school to get our first glimpse of our future workplace for the next two weeks the whole group was really excited to be working in such a beautiful place. and to be encouraged by the local spirit of all the students. the thatre in which we are to perform is is amazing the main stage is extremely big, and even the supporting rooms such as the wallace stage are big in their own respect. after we had our tour of the theatre and had lunch we organized and planned workshops for the week and even ran one the main subjects we focused on was onsamble work, how to bond within a group it went really well. after our firsty worokshop we finally met with the British international school (bis) group who would be our main chorous. they are really friendly and approacable. they warmed to phakama really quickly and were up for almost anything. we spent time in that workshop designers gaurdians that were personal and what we considered a gaurdian to be. there was some really good images on display most people opting for the mythology type gargoyle. we then finished on a high with a game. after this workshop we went to go visit the free school whitch is founded and funded by BIS this was really good and a touching experiance the classroom was just situated on a piece of land and the classroom was about as big as a caravan but they just made it work ! :D we proceeded to meet with aji and his group of young people ( theatre tetas) they were really pleased to see us and us them, there rehearsal space was outside in the open and was a old boxing ring! none the less we still had fun and made some progress with productive work based around on what both groups had been previously rehearsing. the group of young people are really kind and nice. we finished the session at about 11:10 and then made our way back to the accommodation most people to tired to stand, goodnight...
Day 2
day 2 started afresh with everyone all awake and alive and kicking, we was all looking forward to breaking of into groups and vidting different sites 4 young people went to go visit the free school (jake, regis,jenny,salwa) and 4 went to go visit the scavanger site which was a site full of rubbish and people living there made a living by collecting rubbish and sorting it for the local truck to come and pick it up to recycle it. both groups said that this experiance was really good and they felt good after, a real rewarding experiance for bioth parties and the people at both sites were pleased that outsiders had come to see them. so after this we left with a friendly goodbye and made our way back to the BIS school in order to have lunch and get ready for our workshop. we arrived at the BIS school and ate lunch planned the workshop and then got ready. the BIS students arrived and was ready to work, we progressed our work with the gaurdians in which we designed the day before. we then had to talk about their qualities and choose a single one and then create a still image in what we think these emotions represent. then we moved on to stage 2 and added movement and sound finally stage 3 which resulted in leading the whole group in from outside and putting on what we had done in our small groups of 5. it went really well and the group felt spectacular. were now getting ready to go meet adji and work on some more scenes with the group.
on behalf of the phakama company
Jake Boston.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)