Vocal Production Workshop 8th October 2011 with Pip Jones

I'm really looking forward to the POWOW workshops with Pip which will now begin on 8th October at the Performance Centre, Tremough Campus of University College Falmouth.  This is where we'll add vocalising to movement, explore devising strategies and discover more about our own voices.

Here's Pip's C.V. for those who'd like to know her background and influences.  I feel so fortunate that she's agreed to travel from Totnes to lead the workshops and has been supportive right from when I first expressed the POWOW ideas:-

CV  - Pip Jones                              

W o r k  E x p e r i e n c e

 1984-85: Teaching in a village school in Kenya (9 months)

1986: Research assistant to anthropologist studying Jainism in Rajastan, India. 

1991: Dance workshop leader on children’s arts camps in Northern Spain                                                   

1992-93: Performer in “A Midsummer Nights Dream,” directed by Jonathon Kay                                                                                                           

1993: Performer in “Slick and Sloppy,” directed by Guy Dartnell.                                       

1994-96: Co-founded and toured internationally with “The Wrong Size,” an acrobatic stilt theatre company.

                                                                                             

1996-99: Created solo street and cabaret show and toured nationally and internationally. This show won awards at the Rotterdam International Street Theatre Festival and on the T.V. “Streetwise” series.

1997-98: Created a solo indoor dance theatre piece, which was devised with Guy Dartnell, and toured venues around England.

                                             

1998: Taught stilt and movement workshops at Circus Space, London.                                 

1998: Taught workshops on Street Theatre at Brunel University.                                          

1999-2003: Co-founded “Lighthouse Theatre Company” and created “Perambulators,” street theatre animation, fusing stilts, dance and puppetry.                                 

2001-2003: Commissioned by the Arts Council of England and Zap Arts to create “Tango Peligroso” a street theatre show integrating giant puppetry and tango. Toured extensively, including at “Just For Laughs” Festival in Montreal.                           

2002-2003: Teacher placement at South Devon College in the Performing Arts Faculty.     

2002-2003: Evaluator of street theatre commissions for Zap Arts, Brighton.                         

2005-7: Running “Tiddlers” – dance and movement sessions for 2-5 year olds and “Loop-the-Loop” – dance, drawing and storycreating sessions for 5-7 year olds.

2003-2008: Associate lecturer at Dartington College of Arts. Specialist teaching areas –  children’s theatre and movement teaching.

2008: (12 weeks) Artist on the “Art-To-Start” programme run by DAISI, working with a reception class in Heathcoat Primary School in Tiverton.

2009-2010: Artist on “Creative Play Journeys” – annual site-specific project working with the Moveable Feast and children from different play settings, through Torbay Play Forum    

2009 “Out of this World” - a collaboration with a visual artist on a cross-artform project exploring alternative universes at Dartington Primary School.

2009-10 – leading various movement and theatre workshops in schools through DAISI, including running an inset day for teachers

2010 – working with year 5 and 6 children from Appledore Primary School to create the  festival finale for the Arts Festival (a site-specific project)         

2011 – part-time lecturer at University College Falmouth

P r o f e s s i o n a l    T r a i n i n g

1990: Laban Centre for Movement and Dance, Diploma in Community Dance and Movement (1 year)

1992: Fool-Time Circus Theatre School, Diploma in Performance Skills (1 year)

1999: Roy Hart Pantheatre Professional Intensive, Paris (6 week)

Choreographic Theatre and Voicework

 Many workshops and projects – including butoh, contact improvisation, puppetry and animation, solo improvisation, release-based dance, and site-specific devising. These have all informed and enriched my on-going practice.

At present I am collaborating with Chris Crickmay and Miranda Tufnell (authors of Body, Space, Image and A Widening Field).

E d u c a t i o n

2005:  South Devon College:  Post Graduate Certificate in Education, post 16yrs

1988:  Jesus College, Cambridge University: B.A. Honours in Anthropology and English Literature