Presents Square-Eye Online Festival | 3-6 December 2020 | Watch on Facebook LIVE & ZOOM
Note, HUT 8 R&D presentation
DATE: 26 April 2019
TIME: 20.10–21.00
Location: TATE MODERN
Tate Exchange
Blavatnik Building, Level 5
Bankside
London SE1 9TG
Choreographer Mark Smith and dancers Joseph Fletcher & Gavin Eden will present a talk and performance about creating a new dance inspired by Alan Turing’s mathematical genius and diversity. Music composed by Michael England. Turing was winner of BBC 2’s Icon of the Twentieth Century.
Alan Turing was a pioneering mathematician who received an OBE in 1945 for his work during World War Two, when he and his colleagues in Bletchley Park’s Hut 8 constructed code-breaking devices that cracked German ciphers. In 1952, Alan Turing pled guilty to a charge of public indecency. After admitting he was in a homosexual relationship with Arnold Murray he was forced to undergo chemical castration. Turing was punished for being different. Mark Smith will use the art form of dance to bring an emotional connection to Alan Turing’s story.
Research and Development funded by Arts Council England
Produced by Deaf Explorer CIC
Rachael Veazey of Deaf Explorer CIC will Introduce Mark Smith
Sign language is banned and Deaf people are on the run.
What happens to the
SIGN CRIMINAL…
Billy Read is a profoundly Deaf street dancer collaborating with Ariel Fung from Hong Kong & Local Hip Hop Dancer Kidd Ronin
Together they create amazing street dance, using Tutting, mime and sign language.
Time: 7.30 pm
Date: Sat 4 May 2019
Venue: Birmingham Hippodrome
Note, Billy Read special Guests ZYCBrum presents The B-SIDE
£5.00
It’s about …
deafness & creating secret languages
disintegration of a family & rebellion.
Credits:
Sound Design: Chris Bartholomew
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4 Minute edit of Chocolat at First Bite Scratch Night Derby Theatre 22 March 2019
3 days of R&D 20/21/22 March 2019 with kind support of The Birmingham REP. Inspired by French black clown Rafael Padilla, Chocolat is a two-hander with two clowns played by emerging theatre maker Rinkoo Barpaga and actor Stephen Collins (Reasons to be Cheerful, Graeae Theatre). Master percussionist Lekan Babalola will respond to what he sees. Using urban sign language to address racism and isolation in the community, Chocolat will be a dynamic and sonically pulsating piece of physical theatre. Chocolat R&D Artistic Director Cory Campbell, presented at China Plate’s First Bite on 22nd March at Derby Theatre Birmingham.
Photos Arnim Friess
Thank you THE BIRMINGHAM REP
In March 2019 Brighton based Omeima Mudawi-Rowlings completed her project in Birmingham with Zoetrope expert Melanie Tomlinson
We will be posting pictures of the Zoetropes soon.
It’s an R & D funded by Arts Council England
The aim of the R & D is to find a practical solution that will realise the deaf artist’s vision of a large-scale Zoetrope at outdoor festivals. Mentoring by Louise Dennison producer at Artichoke will guide creating an outdoor street artwork, networking & meeting producers. The motion of the Zoetrope will enable Omeima to animate motifs in her textile work that are synonymous with her diverse & multiple identities. For Omeima, it is a new way of working; a collaboration with maker Melanie Tomlinson & Oud player Rihab Azar, with zoetrope workshops.
Pictured Company of Cranes by Melanie Tomlinson
In March 2019 Brighton based Omeima Mudawi-Rowlings completed her project in Birmingham with Zoetrope expert Melanie Tomlinson
We will be posting pictures of the Zoetropes soon.
It’s an R & D funded by Arts Council England
The aim of the R & D is to find a practical solution that will realise the deaf artist’s vision of a large-scale Zoetrope at outdoor festivals. Mentoring by Louise Dennison producer at Artichoke will guide creating an outdoor street artwork, networking & meeting producers. The motion of the Zoetrope will enable Omeima to animate motifs in her textile work that are synonymous with her diverse & multiple identities. For Omeima, it is a new way of working; a collaboration with maker Melanie Tomlinson & Oud player Rihab Azar, with zoetrope workshops.
Pictured Company of Cranes by Melanie Tomlinson
Visual Artist Maral and Designer Maker Chris Wight found common ground at their first meeting in March 2019. Chris Wight produces astonishingly beautiful work in a variety of ways – specialising in Bone China, he is always seeking to push this very traditional material in new directions.
Deaf Artist Maral Mamaghani wants to make decorative over earpieces that are made of Bone China, and affect the hearing of the wearer in different ways.
The two hope to start work soon.
It’s a project funded by Arts Council England.
Jeweller Maral Mamaghani and Designer Maker Chris Wight found common ground at their first meeting in March 2019. Chris Wight produces astonishingly beautiful work in a variety of ways – specialising in Bone China, he is always seeking to push this very traditional material in new directions.
Deaf Artist Maral Mamaghani wants to make decorative over earpieces that are made of Bone China, and affect the hearing of the wearer in different ways.
The two hope to start work soon.
It’s a project funded by Arts Council England.
We are starting a blog post website will have a link soon!
In March 2019 Rinkoo Barpaga presented Made in India Britain. He filled the theatre with Deaf theatre goers living in London, eager to watch Rinkoo’s transition from Stand up comic to Theatre maker, following his work with Director Daniel Bailey and The Birmingham REP’s Foundry course, for new emerging theatre makers based in West Midlands.
Sprint was a great match for Rinkoo, it is CPT’s annual festival of new and unusual theatre. Even more than elsewhere in our calendar, we throw open our doors – and our stages – to artists at the dawn of their careers, making brand new cutting-edge work. Check in here for shows and talents you’ve never dreamt of before, doing striking new things with theatre and performance.
Camden People’s Theatre website to find out about 2020 programme
Deaf Explorer 