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Download here the overview of the projects which were presented during the session!

Friday, April 24th, 15:30 - 17:30

Animators:
Christine Champneuf - Les Cabannes - Théâtre Le Colombier,  Compagnie Filles de l’air  www.filledelair.asso.fr
Andrew Jones – London – British Council www.britishcouncil.org

What's "Brainstorm"?

Brainstorm is an open discussion where a few selected participants will present a new idea or a brand new project that they have just started or would like to set up. The aim of this session is to help them feed their project, advise them and help them make various connections. It is open and highly recommended to all participants. Perhaps you have already worked on similar projects? Maybe you have contacts or previous experience that can be helpful? Get inspired by new ideas and come share your experience!

Selected projects (a bilingual handout summing up all projects will be distributed during the session)

Education for performers of visual and physical theatre, Cantabile 2 (Denmark): Cantabile 2 has, since 1985, been training young people for a professional working life in physical and visual theatre with a 3 year long education called "School of Stage Arts". Now we wish to re-structure the institution in a completely new way, which opens up for international partnerships and for implementing an international platform for the structure and the running of the education.

Action Contemporaine pour la Transmission (artistique) en Europe (ACTE), Le Tas de Sable - Ches Panses Vertes (France): ACTE is a cultural project which was created 5 years ago by eight European partners and based on promoting new pieces of European playwriting; the transnational mobility of new contemporary works (and therefore their recognition and circulation) and that of their creators (through writer’s meetings, research studios and an online library); the guidance of young artists by more established companies towards professionalism and transnational projects, in order to ease their integration into the European drama sector (through residencies, studios and work presentations).

A European Theatre Development Directory, China Plate (UK): In 2004 China Plate established The Darkroom, a development scheme for collaborative theatre companies to work on an experimental commission without product in a facilitated laboratory space. We now seek to research what other development opportunities exist within the EU. This research will enable China Plate to share ideas, emulate succesful schemes and potentially create a directory / web resource for pan-European development programmes.

Training of hiphop choreographers, Camin Aktion (France): The choreographical creation in hiphop is based on one hand on the technical know how in relation to dance, but on the hand on the choreographical skills. How, and in which form, is it possible to offer an "open" training, working, for exemple, in the form of modules, with trainings related to composition, dramaturgy, semiology?

PIGS, Pentabus Theatre (UK): Inspired by the International Slow Food Movement we are working with writers from all over the UK to produce work about food, to be performed in a variety of spaces. Writers have been meeting a range of individuals including farmers, retailers and consumers as well as working alongside Michelin-starred chefs, to gain an insight into contemporary society's relationship to food and food production. We believe this project is ideal for international development.

The Body is the FrontLine, Rosie Kay dance Company (UK): Choreographer Rosie Kay, after extensive research with the UK army is beginning work on a dance theatre production looking at the physical issues surrounding warfare. She will explore the effects of war on bodies and on minds in a very physical manner, raising questions about modern warfare and how society looks at the use of the military. The work will be developed in late 2009 and premiere in 2010.