dreamthinkspeak's site-responsive installation / performance: Absent

On Wednesday 21st October 2015, there will be a coach trip to experience Absent, a site-responsive performance realised by pioneers working in this field: dreamthinkspeak.

The work has simulated a Hotel in Shoreditch Townhall, London and, along with a very special guest, performers appear to be stewards and hotel workers. Spectators are taken on a journey into the past of the central character, Margaret de Beaumont, whom we first meet in a low-budget version of the Hotel.

We explore the actual history of the building, investigating architectural features and anomalies, but we are also taken on an experiential, kaleidoscopic journey into time-looped video, which appears in models, on walls and, in one memorable instance, in the caste-iron oven that originally was used to cooked food.

Throughout the installation, we meet ghosts of Margaret de Beaumont, who has inhabited the Hotel since the 1950s and is reluctant to leave.

The trip is aimed primarily at 2nd year students who study site-responsive performance, but will be opened to 3rd & 1st years closer to the time.

MACDEATH at the Camden Fringe Festival

Our students already take their first steps in the professional theatre world:
Glow Worm Theatre Company was formed by Jenny Wade, Ben Rogers, Steph Dacre, Tom Ramsay, Laura Halfon and Josh Hayes as part of their final year Advanced Production module. Together they devised the hugely entertaining and imaginative Macdeath, and performed it not only at Bucks New University but also in the Etcetera Theatre in Camden, London.

Their performance was so successful that they are doing it all again: The Etcetera Theatre has invited them to perform Macdeath as part of the Camden Fringe Festival.
So, catch them in Camden on August 4th and 5th, at 10pm, with tickets costing £7.50 / £5 only!
You can get tickets via this link:
http://www.camdenfringe.com/detailact.php?acts_id=270

Well done, Jenny, Ben, Steph, Tom, Laura and Josh!

Some pictures of our final year performance in London

Me, myself and I was a showcase of some of our final year students' dissertation work and saw their first venture into the professional world of theatre. After a long day setting up the theatre and setting up the technical requirements for the performances, the students (or rather, ex-students) successfully performed to a full house. Well done, everyone, and many thanks to our technicians Josh and Joe and the Courtyard Theatre for making the evening happen. We are already looking forward to the next one next year :)

Me, myself and I - a showcase of autobiographical performances

The Courtyard Theatre

Tuesday 30 June

Tickets £5 /£3 concession

We are very excited to present five autobiographical performances by final year performing arts students from Bucks New University. Combining song, multimedia and dance to create a varied and multifaceted night, each of the performers takes a different approach to exploring the personal, cultural and social history that makes them the people they are
today.

Performed by Jenny Wade, Cassie Fletcher, Modupe Salu, Adam Zaman and Esther Abe.

The BA (Hons) course at Bucks New University offers a unique opportunity to study Performance with the latest technology in every conceivable context, including stage, film, emerging media platforms, multi-media and site-specific work.

The performances presented were created as part of the students’ individual research for their final year dissertation.

to book tickets, please go to:http://www.thecourtyard.org.uk/whatson/591/me-myself-and-I

Read on to find out more about the performers and their work:

30hrs and a lot of fun . . .

The academic year is drawing to a close, and we want to congratulate all of our students for their achievements over the last twelve months!


Our first year students are the first to finish all their course work, so we invited them to an informal, creative and fun challenge to celebrate their start of the summer break . .




The 30hrs Film Challenge was an extra-curricular collaboration between first year Performing Arts students and first year Film&TV Production students. As part of this challenge, students from each course collaborated with each other in small teams in order to devise, script, shoot and edit a short film from scratch within just 30 hours!

in favour of interdisciplinary approaches . . .

During a performing arts degree, students are often expected to collaborate; with each other, with students from the years above or below, or with visiting practitioners and guest lecturers.
At Bucks New University, collaborations often emerge from across different courses, and the range of creative degrees on offer encourages interdisciplinary projects amongst students and staff alike.

With degree courses in Performing Arts, Dance, Film & TV Production, Audio & Music Production and Graphic Arts, there is a network of creative opportunities that connects students from various disciplines. Furthermore, all of our lecturers are professional practitioners and researchers at the forefront of their field.

It is always exciting to explore the similarities and idiosyncrasies of our respective disciplines and we want to keep you informed about what is happening in the various departments with which our students collaborate.
We were particularly excited about a music and performance event, which involved Dr. Fil Leropoulos, senior lecturer in Media Production and expert in experimental film and video art.

Read on to hear more about Sound Acts, which was held in Athens from 24-26 April 2015 . . .

10 TIPS FOR BEING A THEATRE PRACTITIONER - by James Grieve

Our third year students will soon graduate and enter the professional world; to help them with this transition, we held an Industry Panel in March, and a great range of guest speakers gave useful and inspiring tips on how to enter the industry.

For anyone who has missed the events, below are link to the videos from the day.

Simon Darwen:
https://vimeo.com/122130548

Jen Malarkey, Katy Balfour, James Grieve and Liam Jarvis:
https://vimeo.com/125348262

We also wanted to remind you of the 10 tips that James Grieve shared, as we think they are very useful.
Read on and enjoy!