Dear Friends If you followed this blog during its heyday, you’ll know that the Vital Signs project wrapped up back in early 2019 after a wonderful run. We thank you for all your support and interest during that time and since. Some of you will know that subsequently Sarie took up a new post as […]
Vital Signs Wrestling Truth
We’ve now reached the stage where we are running the whole piece each rehearsal and going back over individual scenes to rework the detail. If I’d ever boldly thought I was getting the hang of this movement performance thing, this passage of work is stretching me to my limits and beyond, and each session is […]
Vital Signs in Quarantine!
On Wednesday last week we were visited by Kate and Sarah from Quarantine, who are bringing the company’s latest show ‘Wallflower’, to the New Adelphi Theatre on Friday 19th October (details here: http://www.wallflowerdances.com/). The concept of the show is that the performers will be trying to remember every dance they’ve ever danced, and, to aid […]
Vital Signs setting the scene
With two weeks left before the Vital Signs festival begins, our studio work has been intensifying, not least as we start to prepare for the onset of the new academic year. But we had a productive week revisiting key passages and making the final sections of the performance – and delighted that we now have […]
Vital Signs making our marks
After a much needed vacation we were back in the studio in earnest this week, accompanied by our dramaturg Kate Adams. We managed to revisit all the material composed so far, identified a few remaining sections to work up in the coming weeks, and created some new material based on our previous explorations. The piece […]
Vital Signs Floor it!
Our studio rehearsals continued this week, enlivened by the arrival of a brand new dance floor (well, fancy lino) in the studio — see image above where Scott takes it for a spin. This has transformed the space and made our work a lot easier now that we are no longer struggling to move on […]
Vital Signs Studio Work
We were back in the studio this week rehearsing and meeting with Clarissa – our publicity manager – and Nic – our website designer. We also enlisted the help of Dave Dewsnip – one of our colleagues at the University of Salford and director of Dave D Events – in sourcing some door frames to […]
Vital Signs fifth session with Kate Adams: working on structure
Following the exertions of yesterday’s extraordinary wrestling session with Steven Fowler, we welcomed Kate Adams back to the studio to pick up our dramaturgical work from last month. Also present was Clarissa Smith, our publicity manager, working away in the studio office getting our social media campaign underway and creating some wonderful images for Instagram. […]
Vital Signs wrestling with Steven Fowler
Today we were delighted to welcome the prolific writer and artist Steven Fowler, whom Scott has known on the UK poetry scene for many years, having been involved in a number of the extraordinary international collaborative projects that Steven has made his name curating. Steven has the distinction of having practised wrestling since the age […]
Vital Signs fencing with Szilvi Naray-Davey
Today I had a fencing lesson with Szilvi Naray-Davey, a colleague in the English department at Salford who has been fencing competitively most of her life, as well as being an actor, director, playwright and translator! My maternal grandfather used to fence and I took a single fencing lesson about ten years ago, but recently […]
