The Centre for performance research

the centre for performance research

Welcome to CPR

LOCATED IN WALES working nationally and internationally FOR THE CURIOUS opening worlds of performance

Giving Voice International Festival, 2010
10th - 14th November, Pontedera, Italy

A festival of extraordinary voices from around the world.

Giving Voice springs from a strong belief in the voice’s ability to communicate beyond language and cultural difference, and that working with the voice can allow people, from wherever they come, to enjoy and value the riches of difference as well as the recognition and celebration of a common humanity.

Giving Voice is an established biennial international event mounted in Wales by the Centre for Performance Research (CPR). It aims to advance the appreciation and understanding of the expressive voice and celebrate its many and varied manifestations across time and culture. Sharing ideas and practice through workshop, performance, and discussion, the festival brings together those - performers, teachers, scholars, healers - who have an interest in the voice but who may not necessarily meet in the usual course of their practice.

From the 10th - 14th November 2010 a special edition of Giving Voice will hosted by
Theatre Pontedera, Italy

To register your interest in the project please contact us by email and a full programme of events will be sent to you as soon as it is available.

The Directors' Forum: The Six Senses of the Director, 9 – 18 April 2010, Aberystwyth

CPR invited some of the most exciting and diverse Wales-based and international theatre directors to Aberystwyth for an intensive participatory project that offered a rare opportunity for both experienced and emerging directors to gather and share the methods, approaches and skills of professional directing practice via laboratories and presentations, demonstrations and dialogue.

Guest Directors included: Veenapani Chawla (Adishakti Centre, India), Das Beckwerk (Denmark), Richard Gregory (Quarantine, UK), Bill Hamblett (Small World Theatre, Wales), Natalie Hennedige (Cake Theatre, Singapore), Adrian Jackson (Cardboard Citizens, UK), Ruth Kanner (Ruth Kanner Theatre Group, Israel), Julian Maynard Smith (Station House Opera, UK), John McGrath (National Theatre of Wales), Anders Paulin (Sweden), Ralf Richardt Strobech (Hotel Pro Forma, Denmark), Tore Vagn Lid (Transiteatret-Bergen, Norway)

Throughout the forum our team of bursary barters and other participating directors updated the Directors' Forum blog with exploratory findings and news from inside the laboratories.

http://thedirectorsforum.blogspot.com/

The Centre for Performance Research (CPR) is a multi-faceted theatre organisation located and rooted in Wales, working nationally and internationally. CPR produces innovative performance work: arranges workshops, conferences, lectures and masterclasses (for the professional, the amateur and the curious); curates and produces festivals, expositions and exchanges with theatre companies from around the world; publishes and distributes theatre books, as well as the journal Performance Research, and houses a resource centre and library that specializes in world theatre and performance.

CPR aims to develop and improve the knowledge, understanding and practice of theatre in its broadest sense, to affect change through investigation, sharing and discovery and to make this process as widely available as possible. Its programmes of work combine cultural co-operation, collaboration and exchange practical training, education and research, performance, production and promotion, documentation and publishing, information and resource.

CPR was established in Cardiff in 1988, by Richard Gough and Judie Christie. CPR's predecessor was Cardiff Laboratory Theatre, which began in 1974.

CPR is now in its new home enjoying its new and expanded facilities – CPR Information and Resource Centre, Foundry Studio, Cavanagh International Theatre Collection – and the many other facilities of the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies at Aberystwyth University, with whom CPR works in close association. These, and the attractions of neighbouring Aberystwyth Arts Centre, combine to form a stimulating hub of theatre and performance activity all in close proximity (and with fantastic sea views).

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Chronology_3.pdf
cpr_A3_post_1.pdf