The Skillswap Project is an initiative aimed at bringing together theatre-makers and performance artists from different disciplines in an environment of curiosity and generosity. Through fortnightly practical workshops curated by sad siren and run by a variety of practitioners, artists will be given the space to exchange, share, explore, discover, discuss and swap skills.
Each workshop will last between 1 and 2 hours and will prioritise process over product. the sessions will be based on the principle of mutual exchange and creativity. Rather than running a “lesson” or seeking to impart specific knowledge – although this may well be a by-product – we are eager that each workshop leader will benefit from running the session, with the whole group enquiring and learning together.
The sessions will provide an excellent platform for you to meet new collaborators and discover approaches to making work that could enrich your own practice. By creating an open space for Sheffield’s talented and exciting artists to come together and engage practically with each other, we believe great things will happen.
Throughout this series we strongly encourage consistent attendance, believing this will maximise the value of the workshops for everyone involved.
All sessions will be free.
workshop 4: movement physical theatre jam - 2/05/2015, moor theatre deli; free
This workshop will focus on using different creative stimulus as a physical performer and how to bring this into practice. Participants will be given the chance to test out ways of creating material towards performance. it’s a chance to use your body and try out new ways of working physically with text in collaboration with others, whether you have done this kind of thing before or it’s your first time.
It will be an informal and friendly session, everyone is welcome. You do not have to be a performer to attend, just be willing to take part.
Please learn a short piece of text (10-12 lines long) which can be from any source that you feel connected to. the workshop will be run by Lauren Hart.
workshop 3: invisible artworks - responding to site through audio - 18/04/2015, moor theatre deli; free
During this 90-minute workshop, sad siren will invite you to explore different ways in which theatre artists might use audio to respond to the particular atmospheres, stories, textures and rhythms of a location. Building very loosely on the work of Graeme Miller, Janet Cardiff and others, you will get the chance to play with ways in which audio can subvert, interrupt, amplify, unpick and harness the site in which it is heard.
Please bring as many dictaphones, headphones and mobile phones or other devices which can record audio as possible.
* * * entrance via Matilda Way at the back of theatre deli * * *
workshop 2: silent disco - 04/03/2015, moor theatre deli, 4pm; free
This movement workshop will explore how the private act of listening to music influences our body to move, dance, interact and isolate us from others and the space we are in.
IMPORTANT! come equipped with:
- an iPod and earphones with a playlist of any music that moves you, physically, emotionally or spiritually.
- (if possible) an iPod jogging sock or something you can wear to put your iPod in that won't restrict you too much from moving. an 80's style bumbag is perfect.
- bottle of water (you'll need it!)
The session will be run by Tara Baker
workshop 1: generating material - 18/02/2015, moor theatre deli, 4pm; free
Building on the work of a number of contemporary performance companies, in the first session of Sad Siren Theatre's Skillswap Project we will be practically exploring methods of generating material in a devising process. the workshop will investigate the value of using lists, rules and creative responses as a rapid method of generating rich, complex material.
The session will be run by sad siren. wear comfortable clothing.
Each workshop will last between 1 and 2 hours and will prioritise process over product. the sessions will be based on the principle of mutual exchange and creativity. Rather than running a “lesson” or seeking to impart specific knowledge – although this may well be a by-product – we are eager that each workshop leader will benefit from running the session, with the whole group enquiring and learning together.
The sessions will provide an excellent platform for you to meet new collaborators and discover approaches to making work that could enrich your own practice. By creating an open space for Sheffield’s talented and exciting artists to come together and engage practically with each other, we believe great things will happen.
Throughout this series we strongly encourage consistent attendance, believing this will maximise the value of the workshops for everyone involved.
All sessions will be free.
workshop 4: movement physical theatre jam - 2/05/2015, moor theatre deli; free
This workshop will focus on using different creative stimulus as a physical performer and how to bring this into practice. Participants will be given the chance to test out ways of creating material towards performance. it’s a chance to use your body and try out new ways of working physically with text in collaboration with others, whether you have done this kind of thing before or it’s your first time.
It will be an informal and friendly session, everyone is welcome. You do not have to be a performer to attend, just be willing to take part.
Please learn a short piece of text (10-12 lines long) which can be from any source that you feel connected to. the workshop will be run by Lauren Hart.
workshop 3: invisible artworks - responding to site through audio - 18/04/2015, moor theatre deli; free
During this 90-minute workshop, sad siren will invite you to explore different ways in which theatre artists might use audio to respond to the particular atmospheres, stories, textures and rhythms of a location. Building very loosely on the work of Graeme Miller, Janet Cardiff and others, you will get the chance to play with ways in which audio can subvert, interrupt, amplify, unpick and harness the site in which it is heard.
Please bring as many dictaphones, headphones and mobile phones or other devices which can record audio as possible.
* * * entrance via Matilda Way at the back of theatre deli * * *
workshop 2: silent disco - 04/03/2015, moor theatre deli, 4pm; free
This movement workshop will explore how the private act of listening to music influences our body to move, dance, interact and isolate us from others and the space we are in.
IMPORTANT! come equipped with:
- an iPod and earphones with a playlist of any music that moves you, physically, emotionally or spiritually.
- (if possible) an iPod jogging sock or something you can wear to put your iPod in that won't restrict you too much from moving. an 80's style bumbag is perfect.
- bottle of water (you'll need it!)
The session will be run by Tara Baker
workshop 1: generating material - 18/02/2015, moor theatre deli, 4pm; free
Building on the work of a number of contemporary performance companies, in the first session of Sad Siren Theatre's Skillswap Project we will be practically exploring methods of generating material in a devising process. the workshop will investigate the value of using lists, rules and creative responses as a rapid method of generating rich, complex material.
The session will be run by sad siren. wear comfortable clothing.
