Performance practicum 2010: realization of a solo or small group project

Performance Practicum 2010 is a collegial company for the independent artist providing a context for the development of singular works—offering direction, dramaturgy, support, guidance, advice, the company of others and the facilities required to make a viable original devised performance piece that can be mounted easily almost anywhere. Practicum will traverse performance and directorial methodologies, dramaturgical ideation, scenography and design principles, vocal training, performance techniques, writing performance, basic technical skills for light and sound and a performance outcome. It is a continuation of the work that Margaret Cameron and John Howard have been doing with final year students in Performance Studies at Victoria University over the past three years.

• Performance Practicum runs for 12 weeks, one day a week in two groups. The proposed day is TUESDAY. There are 3 concurrent rehearsal spaces available at Body Voice Centre.
• PERFORMANCE WEEK Nov. 22—29. The venue is TBC. Each work will have two public performances.

Cost: the fee for performance practicum is $2000. Participants must raise the fee from their community–family, friends, local, state or national grant agencies, philanthropic funds or corporations. Participants will be expected to acknowledge their patrons each time their work is performed. Expressions of interest for performance practicum 2010 are now open. Please send an outline of your project idea and a brief CV to Margaret and John: mcameron@labyrinth.net.au and jdhoward@alphalink.com.au. Detailed information will be posted to you on receipt of your expression of interest.

Margaret Cameron is a writer, director, performer and teacher. Her original works are situated somewhere between performance art and theatre and have been produced by La Mama Theatre, The Playbox Theatre, DanceHouse, Aphids, Melbourne, The Deborah Hay Dance Company, Austin, Texas, Radio Austria (ORF), Podewil Theatre, Berlin, The Ludwig Forum for International Art, Germany, ABC Radio, Transit V, Denmark, Magdalena Australia, Magdalena USA and Magdalena Barcelona. They include Things Calypso Wanted to Say! (1989) The Mind’s a Marvellous Thing (2000), Knowledge and Melancholy (1996), Bang! A Critical Fiction! (2001) and the proscenium (2005). Margaret received the prestigious Australia Council Theatre Fellowship in 2004, The Gloria Dawn and Gloria Payten Fellowship in 1997 and The Eva Czajor Memorial Award For Female Directors in 1998. She has directed works for Aphids, Melbourne and The Next Wave Festival, Melbourne.

Margaret has presented papers at a number of forums including The National Performance Conference, Ecologies of Practice (DIY), The Ewa Czajor Memorial Conference, and The Articulate Practitioner – Articulating Practice, Aberystwyth University, Wales. Her works are published through Masthead Literary Ezine, The Open Page and Currency Press. She has conducted workshops at The International Workshop Festival, Melbourne, Magdalena Australia, Victoria University and The Victorian College of the Arts, Magdalena Rhode Island, USA and The Centre of Performance Research, Wales.