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The One Square Foot Project
Photos: The One Square Foot Project, 2003
The research premise of this ongoing practice-as-research project is ‘an investigation into the role of the ‘creative actor’ within interdisciplinary processes leading to performance’.
- Dorinda’s role in the project as a whole is that of co-director with Arianna Economou of Echo-Arts Living Arts Center, Cyprus.
- Her roles within the artistic processes leading to performance are those of Director and Dramaturg.
- The project as a whole is a collaborative investigation between Echo-Arts Living Arts Center, Cyprus, and Theatre Alibi, UK (Artistic Director, Nikki Sved).
- The project has been funded by a grant from the AHRB Changing Places scheme as well as further grants from USAID, UNDP, UNOPS, the Cyprus Theatre Organisation, The Ministry of Education and Culture, Cyprus, The Youth Board of Cyprus and the Mark Ward Fund. It has also been supported financially, and in kind, by Theatre Alibi, UK, the School of Performance Arts, Exeter, and EMAA.
- The project has been conducted in three stages each of which has culminated in performances of ‘new work’ collaboratively authored by established professional creative artists using innovative interdisciplinary methods.
Stage 1
- In May 2003 Site specific performances were presented near the military border in Nicosia, Cyprus, and in the Troodos mountains, Cyprus. Studio performances took place in the Open Studio Season, Nicosia, and also at the Chorotheatro dance-theatre Studio, Nicosia.
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Horst Weierstall The One Square Foot Project 2003
Peter Hulton: Video
Stage 2
- In July 2003 the artistic director of Echo-Arts Living Arts Center, Cyprus, travelled to Exeter to work as part of an extended professional team led by Dorinda, to create three further performances, in collaboration with Theatre Alibi.
- These performances were presented both on site and, with a public license, at the School of Performance Arts, Exeter.
- Professor Anderson from the School of Biological Sciences, Exeter, acted as a consultant to this stage of the project.
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Daniel Jamieson The One Square Foot Project 2003
Composer: Helen Chadwick - Sound Designer: Duncan Chave
Stage 3
- In September 2005, a series of further performances were created in conjunction with Echo-Arts Living Arts Center, Cyprus, and with artists from north of the military border in Cyprus.
- Site specific performances were presented on both sides of the military border in Nicosia. Theatre performances took place at Ayios Andreas Market Theatre, south of the military border on the 21st and 22nd September 2005, and also at the Arabahmet Cultural Centre, north of the military border, on the 23rd and 24th September 2005
- In June 2006, a performance entitled one square foot represented Cyprus in the NEW PLAYS FOR EUROPE festival in Weisbaden, Germany. This performance was tri-lingual and contained seven different performance languages.
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Horst Weierstall with Ilker Kaptanoglu The One Square Foot Project 2005
Composer: Larkos Larkou, Video: Peter Hulton
Other research outcomes include:
- An article entitled Sites of Micro-Political Theatre in the Performance and Art Journal (September, 2008). (Editor: Bonnie Marranca).
- An article entitled The One Square Foot Project in Studies in Theatre and Performance (June, 2007). Volume 27. Number 2. (Editor: Peter Thomson). Published by Intellect, Bristol. ISSN number 1478-2761.
- A DVD-ROM published in Arts Archives by the Arts Documentation Unit, Exeter, entitled ‘One Square Foot’: An Exploration into Interdisciplinary Performer Training’. This documentation includes video documentation of process and performance related to Stages 1&2 of the project, written journals by each of the performers in Stage 2, and documentation of preparatory ‘tasks’ by each creative artist including tasks authored by Dorinda, as dramaturg.
- A short article on Horst Weierstall’s One Square Foot performance (pp 63, 64, including translation into Greek and German) entitled Re-turn in From Sign to Action published by Moufflon, Nicosia, 2004. ISBN 9963-642-6.
- A seminar paper presented as part of the SITE/SIGHT - SOURCE/RESOURCE series at the School of Performance Arts, Exeter. This paper was also presented in shorter form as part of the final symposium (2004).
- A seminar paper presented as part of the PLAYWRIGHTING/DRAMATURGY series at the Drama Department, Exeter (2006).
- A Theatre Alibi production for adults, and young adults, entitled Close to Home (2005), which grew out of Stage 2 of the project.Research premise of production: tracing the autobiographical stories of three ‘creative actors’ from different ethnic backgrounds, to their development for performance by a writer. Performance details: Feb 25th 2005-May 7th 2005. National tour to middle and small-scale venues. Documentation for the project is in the form of video, as well as educational material documenting the development of the project. Both of these are available through Theatre Alibi and have been widely disseminated nationally to schools teaching drama at GCSE and A Level.
- An APPLIED DRAMA seminar on the research premise and processes of Close to Home presented at the School of Performance Arts, Exeter (2005).
Photos: The One Square Foot Project, 2005
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Dr Deirdre Heddon has written a chapter on Phase 2 of the project to be published by Intellect, Bristol (2007) in a book entitled Walking, Writing and Performance: Autobiographical Texts by Deirdre Heddon, Carl Lavery & Phil Smith, ed. Roberta Mock. Further citations by Dr Deirdre Heddon are published in an article; ‘One Square Foot: Thousands of Routes’, Performance Art Journal (Spring, 2007); and three papers: “Autotopography: The Place of Self”, - Strange Behaviours, Suspect Culture, St. Andrews, October 2005; “Autotopography: The Place of Self”, University of Glasgow, February, 2006; and “One Square Foot: Thousands of Routes”, Women’s Writing for Performance, Lancaster University, May 2006.
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