When: September 29-30 , 2023
Where: BlackBox Theatre, Deree

About the event

Prepare to be immersed in the captivating world of performance art during the Anna Furse Residency, a two-day event that promises to engage, inspire, and provoke thought.

Residency at the Department of Theatre and Dance – Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts. Professor Anna Furse, Artistic Director Athletes of the Heart & Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Hellenic Culture and the Liberal Arts, Deree – The American College of Greece.

Supported by:
Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts
Institute for Hellenic Culture and the Liberal Arts, Deree – The American College of Greece

Event Agenda

Friday, September 29, 2023
17:30-18:30 | Talk with Q&A

Eating Shoes. About Performance Making, Risk and Commitment.

What exactly is Performance Making? What are we making, why and how?  Having nurtured a global community of new makers on her pioneering MA Performance Making at Goldsmiths for twenty years, Furse draws on this heuristic pedagogic knowledge to provoke questions about independent creation, working under the radar of conventional cultural structures, how to think performance and, in effect, how the Performance Maker prepares.

20:00-21:00 |Performance

A Crack .25 Spoken Songs about the Zeitgeist

A new performance by Anna Furse in collaboration with Athletes of the Heart.

Performers | Nicole Dimitrakopoulou & Shona Morris

A reception will be held in the Black Box Theatre foyer after the end of the Performance.

Saturday, September 30, 2023
12:00-16:00 | Workshop

Performance Making Strategies

This workshop will offer a taste of Furse’s methodology. Starting with the body, moving on to considerations of space, activity will move to image making and meaning, approaching the threshold of compositional strategies. The workshop is for a mixed ability group. The only requirement is curiosity and a willingness to throw yourself into the here and now to see what you might find. Appropriate clothing: loose cotton clothing and bare feet. Maximum number of participants :16

The Anna Furse Residency at the Department of Theatre and Dance has been realized thanks to the generous support of the Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts and the Institute for Hellenic Culture and the Liberal Arts, Deree – The American College of Greece.

Free entrance/open to all events – to reserve a seat please contact [email protected]