BIRTH - The Discussion
Our autumn tour of BIRTH is postponed and new dates in 2021 will be announced very soon.
In the meantime we will keep collaborating with nationwide charity Aching Arms and Josephine Tremelling (who works with creativity & wellbeing) in raising awareness of the lasting impact the death of a baby has on parents and their family across generations.
This discussion is open to all but will be especially relevant for creatives currently (or in the future) making their own work which focuses on sensitive subjects.
As part of Baby Loss Awareness Week 2020 and taking BIRTH as a starting point, we have hosted an online live discussion focusing on the value of staging sensitive and taboo subject matters. Theatre offers a space to understand and navigate the impossible but what is the legitimacy of portraying these difficult experiences and what is the relationship between imagination and real life?
It is curated by Karen Quigley (Senior Lecturer in Theatre, York University) with Leanne Turner (CEO and Founder Aching Arms), Guillaume Pigé (Director Theatre Re), Eygló Belafonte (Associate Artist Theatre Re) and Josephine Tremelling who works with creativity and wellbeing.
Participants
Karen Quigley:
Karen is Senior Lecturer in Theatre at the University of York. Her first book, Performing the Unstageable: Success, Imagination, Failure, was published in February of this year and explores, amongst other things, staging violence, blood, ghosts and seemingly unstageable stage directions. Her research on a range of other subjects including site-specific performance pedagogy and solo spectatorship has been published in European Drama and Performance Studies, Journal of Contemporary Drama in English and Theatre, Dance and Performance Training.
Leanne Turner:
Leanne is the Founder of Aching Arms. In June 2010, a year after her son James died, she set out, to support the mental health and emotional well-being of parents who experience the loss of their much loved baby. When the charity gained its registration with the Charity Commission in 2013 the trustees appointed Leanne as part time Charity Coordinator. In January 2019 she was appointed full time CEO. Leanne’s role is to provide effective leadership and management of the charity’s strategic and operational aims. James remains at the heart of all the work she does for Aching Arms. Prior to founding Aching Arms, Leanne was an Education Consultant for an Inner London Education Authority for 8 years and teacher of secondary English, Drama and History for 11 years. achingarms.co.uk/
Josephine Tremelling:
Josephine co-founded Anyone Everyone Inclusive Theatre Company in 2014. With her drama therapist co-founder Lisa Harmer she runs creative workshops for children and adults, also running specialist projects for pregnant women and their families. She ran a project called the Silent Trimester which questioned the silence surrounding pregnancy loss. In 2017, she was invited to become an external advisor for Theatre Re and their production of BIRTH. Josephine’s other current Theatrical projects include working with Ephemeral Ensemble, Invisible Ensemble and The Little Angel Theatre. She also runs cabaret and alter ego workshops, and a weekly life drawing class.
Eygló Belafonte:
Eygló studied contemporary dance at the Icelandic Dance Academy and graduated from the International School of Corporeal Mime in London. She has performed at the National Theatre of Iceland and for award-winning choreographer Helena Jonsdottir in her Rite of Spring. She worked with the international touring company Theatre de l'Ange Fou and extensively for Theatre Re, performing in The Nature of Forgetting and Birth. Eygló has taught at The International School of Corporeal Mime, Icelandic Academy of the Arts, Icelandic Film School and Fourth Monkey. She is a co-founder of Ephemeral Ensemble and co-directed its recent productions Carsick and OFFSTAGE.
Guillaume Pigé:
Guillaume is an actor, director, mime and magician. He established Theatre Re in 2011 and has directed each of the company's productions to date. Originally from France, he has been living in the UK for the past 13 years. He trained with theatre makers and directors such as Andrew Visnesvski, Steven Wasson, Corinne Soum, Daniel Stein and Thomas Leabhart. He is an associate teacher at Rada, head of devising at Fourth Monkey Actor Training and a tutor at E15 Acting School. He is regularly invited to give workshops throughout the UK and internationally.
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