Thu 16 Sep, 7.30pm
Pavilion Theatre
Live artist Michael Pinchbeck presents a work-in-progress of an interactive performance about endings and exits inspired by Shakespeare’s infamous stage direction Exit, pursued by a bear from The Winter’s Tale. The End is the culmination of a week’s rehearsal at Brighton Dome and asks ‘Any last words?’
Musical Pieces is a new solo performance exploring the deceptive qualities of perception and attention offered by the theatre. Performance artist and choreographer Augusto Corrieri experiments with different forms of on-stage concealment and trickery, inviting audience members to dissociate what they see from what they hear.
Free. If you would like to attend, e-mail ad@brightondome.org including “Work in Progress: The End / Musical Pieces” in the subject line.
makingtheend
26 August, 2010
Very pleased to be a part of this and double-billing with Augusto Corrieri again. Working at The Junction in Cambridge on the project at the moment. And we’re busy looking at exits and endings. I’m keeping a blog on my process. For more information please go to http://www.makingtheend.wordpress.com.
All best
Michael
Gregory Nash
31 August, 2010
I saw some of Michael’s early ideas for The End on DVD and was really excited about where he’s going with the ideas; and anyone who saw The Post-Show Party Show at The Basement will want to spend another evening in this man’s company (although he is unaccompanied by his parents this time). Meanwhile Augusto showed one of his musical pieces – the Michael Jackson one – as part of the Movement 12 platform during this year’s festival. Wonderful.
Their showing is followed by a panel discussion at which Michael and Augusto will present papers and which is chaired by the theatre and opera director Irina Brown. Should be really interesting.
Augusto Corriero
2 September, 2010
I am currently developing some new sequences, I think they will be quite rough but I am hoping the context will encourage this sort of thing. I am working with the idea that to show something requires you to hide something else: in a theatre, you can’t have showing without hiding, you can’t present without obscuring, the two actions always go hand in hand. So sometimes you can’t tell if something is being shown, or if it is being hidden. You don’t know if it is making an entrance or an exit. If it is present or of it is absent.
Which, of course, is easier done than said!
I look forward to this a lot.
Janine Wrongies
3 September, 2010
Really looking forward to seeing both Michael and Augusto’s new work. I have had the immense pleasure of seeing some of their work before and having them as a double-bill in Brighton is a real treat. I find their individual practices/performances thought-provoking and beautiful in delivery.
Michael Pinchbeck
6 September, 2010
Really good to know there’s a critical context for the work in Brighton. Makes the process of sharing work-in-progresses at an early stage feel very well supported and ‘safe’ if that’s possible. But not too safe. I am enjoying the vulnerability of the process so far. The ‘not knowing’. We are working with lots of ideas of exits and entrances, empty stages, wings and curtains and stage directions. We started with the stage direction: ‘Exit pursued by a bear’ but now we are not sure where or how the bear belongs in the work. Or whether he always waiting in the wings for his entrance. Or whether the real stage is the wings and the bear’s stage is actually offstage. So when the bear makes its entrance it exits and vice versa. Hopefully by next week we will have reached a conclusion, or become happier with our doubts. More reflections and images of the work-in-progress at The Junction at http://www.makingtheend.wordpress.com.
Gregory Nash
15 September, 2010
Visiting the beautifully renovated mac in Birmingham to meet on another project and find Mole Wetherell of Reckless Sleepers sitting at a table speaking into a microphone while three other people walk around the building wearing headphones. I ask Mole why he is not in Brighton with Michael Pinchbeck getting ready for the showing there tomorrow? Ah, but I will be, he replies; meanwhile Michael has given me a task to work on. Intruiging…
Looking forward to a bumper evening at IPIP tomorrow: Joe Bone at 6.30, Michael and Augusto at 7.30 and the panel chaired by Irina Brown at 9ish. Bar open throughout in proper Pavilion style.
Hope to see you there…..and following Sue Maclaine’s interesting observation: come on GUYS!
Augusto Corrieri
23 September, 2010
Was a pleasure to be involved in this season’s events.
I found the conversation at the end both stimulating and challenging, the kind of thing we need more of. I’ve been thinking a lot about the distinction between performance and theatre, and whether that is really useful or necessary. With so many blurry genres of performance propping up, it does seem old fashioned to hold on to this distinction, and yet it is also dangerous to simply say ” all performances are the same”, or “in the end we’re all aiming for the same thing”… as this clearly isn’t the case at all!
I am now thinking of how to develop the Musical Pieces, what kind of work it is (if any). Thank you to everyone who made the night.