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PERFORMING PLACES: a participatory practice Out-Topias, Athens, 1 st Oct 2016 Professor Sally Mackey The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London Order: Performing Place characteristics Place today Project:

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PERFORMING PLACES: a participatory practice

Out-Topias, Athens, 1st Oct 2016

Professor Sally Mackey

The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University

  • f London
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Order:

  • Performing Place characteristics
  • Place today
  • Project: Challenging Place
  • Performing Place Practices: commonalities
  • Project: Performing Local Places
  • And next?
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Performing Place: characteristics

  • An applied theatre practice (for me)
  • Participant-based
  • Site-based
  • Performance-based
  • Aimed at enhancing people’s relationship with

place

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Place

  • Relegated (space/time; mobility)
  • Place ‘attachment’ important now.
  • I am suggesting three things about place:
  • that place is animated space;
  • that place might be temporary but can still be

affective;

  • that place matters.
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Place

Key theorists who have influenced my own thinking on place: Doreen Massey, Tim Cresswell, Tim Ingold, Haydn Lorimer, Deidre Heddon, Mike Pearson, Edward Casey, Aristotle(!), Ash Amin and many

  • thers.
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Key point for me:

Can performance practices change the way people think about place?

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Project 1: Challenging Place 2011-2014

Research questions:

  • What can practical intervention tell us about how

abstract concepts such as place, community, dislocation and belonging, as theorised by contemporary academics, map onto the 'real life' experiences of vulnerable social groups?

  • Can one or more models of performance practices help

ease feelings of ‘dislocation’ among community participants, where such feelings exist?’

  • How might such models be evaluated, disseminated

and made fully accessible to community theatre

  • rganisations?
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Or (more simply):

  • Does theoretical ‘place’ connect with real

world ‘place’?

  • Can performing place practices help people

with their location?

  • How do we share ‘the findings’ for others to

use?

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  • AHRC – Arts and Humanities Research Council

funded my work: ‘Challenging concepts of “liquid” place through performing practices in community contexts’

  • Oldham (near Manchester)
  • Aberystwyth (Wales)
  • London
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A O O L

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  • Oldham (near Manchester):
  • ‘drop in’ refugees, asylum seekers and other

migrants.

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  • Aberystwyth (Wales)
  • Disabled and non-disabled community

performance company: Cyrff Ystwyth

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  • London
  • A youth group in a tough part of London: Half

Moon Theatre

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Gels; outside tea party; responses

  • http://www.performingplaces.org/placepraco

penotw.html

  • http://www.performingplaces.org/placepracsi

tesotw.htm

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEuXDue

UOEQ&feature=youtu.be (8.52)

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Three place-threads (again):

  • that place is animated space;
  • that place might be temporary but can still be

affective;

  • that place matters.
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Performing Place Practices: commonalities

  • Re-experiences: repeated ‘performances’ in everyday

settings;

  • Subversions: improvisations in different locations that

subvert their normal use;

  • Scapes: framing everyday sites through sound, object,

crafts or other methods to create an alternative representation of location;

  • Markings: activities that focus on very precise detail of

places and ‘home’;

  • Narratives: unusual, imaginary narratives focussed on

place and followed throughout a timespan.

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Performing Local Places, 2016-17

  • Camden, London
  • Working in a home for adults with mental

health issues (towards new places)

  • Clarksfield, Oldham
  • Working in one neighbourhood with the

community who are ‘divided’.

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And next?

  • Complete the practical project in Camden.
  • Evaluations
  • Symposia in Oldham and London for all local

authorities

  • Reports to go out to all UK local authorities.
  • Further roll out

Performing Landscapes: Home

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Relevant bibliography of Sally’s work

  • www.performingplace.org
  • www.performingplaces.org
  • ‘Applied theatre practice as research: polyphonic conversations’, RiDE: the Journal of Applied

Theatre and Performance, 2016 (in press as hard copy; online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13569783.2016.1220250)

  • ‘Place and applied theatre: performing location’ in Hughes, J. and Nicholson, H. (eds.) Critical

Perspectives on Applied Theatre, Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp106-126

  • ‘Cuckoos in the Nest: performing place, artists and excess', Applied Theatre Research, 1.1,

2013, pp. 43-61 (with a contribution by Sarah Cole).

  • 'Performance, place and allotments: Feast or Famine?' Contemporary Theatre Review 2007,

17.2, pp. 181-191.

  • ‘Taking Place: some reflections on site, performance and community’, Research in Drama

Education: On Site and Place 2007(with Nicolas Whybrow) 12.1: 1-14

  • ‘Drama Landscape and Memory: to be is to be in place’, Research in Drama Education, 2002,

Vol 7, No 1: 9-25.