Blog Category: Dance theatre

New for 2010, all about our Dance theatre projects.

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25/01/2010

Friday Dance Theatre workshops - the first blog!

Ed here, Friday was the first of 10 Dance theatre workshops and yours truly is facilitating (that means helping out) for the first five weeks.The group was made up of different age ranges.  I knew some of them from other Outreach and Mind the Gap projects.Mia, Karen and Rio did a session each throughout the day.  Mia did the first one which was just name games to get to know each other.

Blog Category: Sounds like Graffiti

A week long project for young people in Bradford with Mind the Gap and Nation of Aslam

www.soundslikegraffiti.net

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26/04/2010

Sounds like Graffiti - the performance blog

Friday was the final performance day and for those of you worrying, it wasn't affected by the Icelandic volcano!I was the leader of the expedition team and all the stories that were performed were linked by the expedition team's findings and where they were.  So it was like the path was coming alive through the expedition.

Blog Category: Acting Company Blog

Keep up to date with all the news and gossip from Mind the Gap's Acting Company. Projects in development, new workshops available for commission and everything that goes on 'behind the scenes' at Mind the Gap Studios.

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16/07/2010

The last blog and testament of Edmund Davies

I Edmund Davies, of sound mind, do honestly and truthfully declare this is the end of my time…in the Acting Company.I will not be coming back with the rest of the Acting Company in September. I have decided it is a time for pastures new. But I’ll still be doing lots of other things with Mind the Gap.I came to the decision to leave a few months ago because I just didn’t feel it was for me anymore.

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Blog Category: Making Theatre Blog

Hear from the students on our Making Theatre training course: what they are working on, the new skills they are learning and of course what they really think of their tutors and Learner Support Worker!

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26/05/2010

Mediabox

Hello we are Anna, Emily, Liam A, Alison, Matthew and Liam B from Making Theatre and Chris, Jonny, Ed and Jonathan from Acting Company.  We are going to tell you about Mediabox a new project Mind the Gap is doing.Mediabox is a project that includes 3 different types of technology – audio which is just sound, photography and filming.  All the participants will learn about the technology.  The end product will be a 10 minute piece put together by the participants with guidance from experts.

Blog Category: Shadow People Blog

On 30th October 2009 we hosted Shadow People, an open-air event in the central courtyard of Lister Mills to celebrate our 21st birthday and a full year in our new home. Ed Davies gives us a daily account of the preparations and the event itself.

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03/11/2009

Shadow People - The Final Blog

It happened!After all the hardwork and planning it all went according to plan.  All the participants performed really well, and if they were nervous they didn’t show it.The event started off in the courtyard where friends and family of the participants were led out to.  There were also the people who live in the mill.  Most of them came out of their apartments entrance but there were also loads of people on their balcony and looking out of their windows watching.

Blog Category: Ars Electronica

Assistant Theatre Director was selected as one of only a handful of delegates from Yorkshire to attend the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria. The Festival is all about using new technology to make great art - in between playing with all the exciting equipment she found time to upload a couple of blog entries.

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09/09/2009

I'm back... Ars Electronica- what it was like!

So I'm back from Linz and had an amazing time! The group of 15 artists and programmers met in Leeds on Friday morning and travelled to Austria together. They were a fab bunch of people and over the coming days I got to know them and the work they make.

Blog Category: Brasil Blog

In July 2009 our Artistic Director Tim Wheeler, actor and musician Jez Colborne and Matt Hargrave from University of Northumbria traveled to Brazil to be part of the International Theatre of the Oppressed Conference. Find out all what they got up to and why it’s with an 's' not a 'z'!

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05/08/2009

Brasil Blog 4: Breaking the Mould

On the shores of another sea, another potter, in his twilight years, retires. His eyes are cloudy, his hands tremble—the time has come to say goodbye. And then the ceremony of initiation takes place: the old potter offers the young potter his finest piece. That is the tradition of the native peoples of the American Northwest: the artist who is leaving the craft presents his masterwork to the artist who is setting out.

Blog Category: Hong Kong Blog

Determined to build up their Air Miles, earlier in the year Tim and Jez also traveled to Hong Kong to do some work over there.

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24/05/2009

Hong Kong Blog 10: Time travelling

We we’re on our way home now. We set off at 7.30pm in Hong Kong and get back to UK by 7.30am, which makes 12 hours but because of the time difference we will actually be travelling for about 18 hours. We’re going to squash time! It’s Tim’s birthday as we travel back which means that the day will actually expand and he will be a year older for about 30 hours. Weird isn’t it?!

Blog Category: Boo Blog

Roving reporter, Acting Company member and Blogging obsessive Ed Davies' weekly interviews the cast of Boo, Mind the Gap's most recent national touring piece… he asks the questions no one else would dare!

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22/04/2009

Boo - The 'Interval' Blog

The Boo tour has reached the halfway stage and the actors have had a well deserved rest.  So your faithful blogger thought, lets get on the phone and ask them how it's been going, Alan wasn't free to talk but the others had plenty to say.