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We went to the Side by Side Symposium to meet other people who dance, make music, paint, draw, act  and do other creative things.

Everyone at the event split into smaller groups to do workshops. We made music in the workshop me and Maude took part in. 

At the end all the groups came back together and talked about how we work together with other people and what is important to us when we do this. We came up with a list of ideas to help us when we are working together and making art. 

Our stimulus today was a question, the city we live in and ourselves. 

What do you want to say to the city?

We looked out of the window of Hamilton House and watched the life of stokes croft and wrote what we wanted to say to the people out there.

We then found an image for our text and projected that image with the words and performed with the words and images. 

Our place - Stokes Croft as stimulus for writing. 

We were asked to paint a picture with words: What can I see?, What can I see and how do I feel?, What can I hear? and What I imagine I hear. 

This is what we wrote:

Watch this video.

The result of our first day of experimenting.

This week Cori gave us a taster of things to expect in our February workshop week.

We had a little play with an OHP to find out what we could do with it. Cori showed us some shadow puppets that she has made and then we made our own too.

So our creative brains have started to bubble with ideas and get excited about working with Cori and Natasha. 

Happy new year! And what a year it is going to be for the Misfits Theatre Company.

We have plans afoot for our intensive workshop week in February. The company will be working with two artists Natasha Machin (Performance Writer) and Cori Bona (Designer & Pupeteer). 

The artists will lead us through a week of creativity and fun where we will explore new ideas and ways to enrich our practice.  Together, including the actors, director and project manager (myself), we will play, try-out and experiment.

L.O.V.E at the tobacco factory. Shakespeare's love poems brought to life through physical theatre. 

Here is what people said:

Dark, forbidden.

Using body language to get the message accross.

Dance movement - good sequences

Gothicity, mystery.

I liked the actress crying - it was moving and showed depth of emotion.

I think we should explore emotions through dance movement in our work.

Dark and nasty.

Strong emotion, passion, dark desire.

Shocking.

It went too far.

I liked the words.

The Misfits Theatre Company perform to the public at conferences and public events.  We want to get better at making performances so we are finding new ways and getting new ideas to act. 

I went to see a show called Subtext where the actors danced and moved, they told the story with their bodies.  I thought it was excellent!! So we are hoping to do dance and movement in the Monday group, so the audience don’t have to follow the words or concentrate on lots of long lines that may be difficult to follow for everyone.  

Hello everyone! We've been really busy.

Some of you might have seen the African drumming and dance performance at the Rhythmn of the Night on the 18th October. 

If you didn't, here is a video clip of the rehearsal. 

We are going to post up more pictures and we're going to make a video that shows the hard work that went into learning and rehearsing as well as the performance. 

Back soon!

We went to see the 'Superpower: Science Fiction in Africa' exhibition at The Arnolfini. This is the second part of Maude's review in 3 parts. Read More then Click to listen.

Anniversary — an act of memory, Act 40: a recitation from memory of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Some time ago now Colin and I took part in Acts of Memory at the Arnolfini. Here is a link to artist Monica Ross' website for more information about the project.