2006
Battersea Arts Centre "BURST"
In association with Post-Operative Productions, CROMT curated a programme of new works-in-progress in the 2006 "Burst" season for experimental music theatre at the Battersea Arts Centre in London. The programme included works in development by composers Paul Barker and Andrew Lovett, and extracts from the CROMT NewMediaPocketOpera project. BAC May 13 & 14.
Clore Research Fellow (2006-2008)
Opera director John Fulljames was Clore Leadership Programme Research Fellow at CROMT for two years from January 2006. John undertook research into the use of the chorus in 21st-century opera.
2007
Wagner Dream Study Day
2008
Clore Research Fellow
Conductor Oliver Gooch, Artistic Director of Opera East, was appointed as the Clore Leadership Programme Research Fellow at CROMT for two years from June 2008. Oliver's research was into the role of the conductor as leader.
2009
2010
(Re) Performing the Posthuman Conference
2011
Katie Tearle, Head of Education at Glyndebourne Opera, was Visiting Research Fellow in the Spring Term.
Laurel Zeiss, Baylor University Texas, was Visiting Research Fellow in the Summer Term.
Time, Realism and Convention in Contemporary Opera Symposium
2012
TIM HOPKINS - END OF AHRC FELLOWSHIP EVENT
Marking the conclusion of Tim Hopkins' five-year AHRC Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts, CROMT hosted a two-day programme of exhibitions, discussion and performance-in-progress reflecting on uses of digital media in relation to opera.
Creativity Zone, June 22/23 2012
“Astonished and Terrified”: opera and the transformation of the world by technology
(“Astonished and somewhat terrified” - Sir Arthur Sullivan’s recorded response to a demonstration of the new Edison phonograph in 1888).
2013
Mary Armentrout Dance Theater @ CROMT
Choreographer/Performance Artist Mary Armentrout will have a mini-residency at the Centre for Research in Opera and Music Theatre, from Friday 8th March - Mon 11th March.
Friday 8th March, 2-4pm Mary Armentrout talks about her recent site-specific work in the San Francisco Bay Area. All welcome.
Monday 11th March, 12 noon – 1pm Mary Armentrout and Ian Winters (video artist) present research in progress. All welcome.
Where:
Mary Armentrout is a performance artist / choreographer who works primarily with repetition and duration to uncover aspects of intentionality and presence. Her recent pieces, reveries and elegies and the woman invisible to herself were both site-specific projects involving collaborations with composers Pamela Z, Evelyn Ficarra and Merlin Coleman, and video artist Ian Winters. Influenced by contemporary philosophical concerns as well as the ongoing critical investigations started by the Judson Church dance deconstructions, she makes works that embody the contradictions of contemporary life, both our conflicted, fractured sense of self, and our discontinuous, collage sense of being-in-the-world. Her choreography consists of small fragments of everyday movement, words, and environments that are distilled, distorted, polished, and stripped down to reveal the layers of ambiguity, pathos, and absurdity underneath the surface. These actions are set in industrial corridors, against urban skylines, on the beach… a compelling mix of location, media and performance.
Mary Armentrout Dance Theater @ CROMT
Residency Details
Friday 8th March
2-4pm Mary Armentrout talks her work, with a focus on recent site-specific projects. Open to all. Talk by Mary Armentrout followed by panel discussion, chaired by Evelyn Ficarra, including collaborator/video artist Ian Winters.
Weekend 9th/10th March
Mary and Ian at large in Brighton, collecting visual material - explorations towards future Brighton site-specific work for 2014
Monday 11th March
12-1pm work in progress research sharing (open to all). Gain further insights into Mary and Ian's creative process and how they relate to issues of the site-specific.
You can find out more about Mary Armentrout Dance Theater here:
Press Quotes
The queen of Bay Area post-modern dance is back with her newest performance installation, 'reveries and elegies'. ... a multi-section, site-specific, mobile work that will live and breathe in four different spaces over the next three months… 'reveries and elegies' invites the viewer on a multi-disciplined journey of process and discovery."
- Dance Commentary, Heather Desaulniers, accessed 22nd Feb 2013
"Mary Armentrout is a choreographer of keen perception and sharp intelligence. As an artist, her pieces are witty and wonderfully theatrical - yet they also explore important ideas. ... The site-specific "the woman invisible to herself" explores issues around identity even as it questions the very nature of performance - as a state of being and as a theatrical practice."
- Rita Felciano, The SF Bay Guardian, 9/15/10
"Mary Armentrout is a performance artist of tremendous range. She utilizes body language as well as verbal acuity: both vocabularies are so carefully attuned and so delicately melded, she seems to be inventing a new kind of dance theatre before our eyes."
- Christopher Correa, DanceViewTimes, 8/9/04
