NEWS & PROJECTS

  • nervousystem were invited to Lamezia, Italy as special guests to participate in Linea Trasversale an intercultural theatre exchange twinned with the 15th University of Eurasian Theatre in June 2007. We were the first theatre company ever to represent Ireland at this prestigious international event led by world renowned director Eugenio Barba (Odin Teatret, Denmark) and hosted by Teatro Proskenion (Italy). The company gave several talks and presented work demonstrations to participants from Europe, South America, and the U.S. Mr. Barba paid special tribute to nervousystem and highlighted the importance of our presence this year and our significant contribution to the Theatre Research endeavor at large.
  • This event led to the forging of relations with Teatro Proskenion. We have just returned from Calabria, Italy where the ensemble continued work on The Myth and The Flesh and started preliminary work on a new project: The Resurrection. nervousystem also hosted a six day workshop led by Singaporian actress Gey Pin Ang (formerly of the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards). The company also invited Irish musicians Eoin Dillon (Uilleann pipe player with well known Irish band Kíla) and Frank Tate to engage in a cultural exchange with local musicians in the area which culminated in a live concert. To see some footage search www.youtube.com for "Irish music in Calabria"All of these activities were housed in Donna Luna an artists workcentre where we were were facilitated and hosted as special guests by Teatro Proskenion for the month of November. Nervousystem was awarded funding by Culture Ireland to facilitate this project. We would like to extend our sincere gratitude to Teatro Proskenion for their inexhaustable generosity in hosting us and to all those who made these activities possible.
  • Development and presentation of Project Solo: a piece composed and performed by Marián Araújo and directed by Aiden Condron. This performance was presented with the working-title The Myth and the Flesh in Project Upstairs, Dublin in September of this year. Nervousystem has been invited to present this work in Valladolid, Spain in March 2008
  • An extended period of free worksessions led by nervousystem at DCC’s The Lab from March to July 2007. Theses worksessions served to facilitate training and research within a safe concentrated laboratory environment and were open to emerging and experienced Dublin-based Irish theatre artists. These sessions proved a huge success and, owing to a high demand, the company aims to offer more worksessions in 2008
  • Irish actor Joseph Moylan joins the ensemble. We are delighted to welcome Joe who was chosen out of number of actors who participated in a rigorous selection session conducted by the nervousystem in August '07.
  • January 2007: Dublin City Council awards nervousystem a Seeder Grant for Myth and the Flesh (Project Solo)
  • The completion of the final phase of Theatre Haiku Project, for which the company was awarded an Arts Council Project grant in 2005. This final phase led to a public, open-air performance: Park Action. We presented this work in Phoenix Park, Dublin and also in Malta where we were invited to do an exchange with two other companies; Icarus Project (Malta) and C.I.R.T. Centro Indipendente Ricerca Teatrale (Italy). In Malta the piece was adapted for a site specific space on the outskirts of the city of Valletta and re-named Malta Action.
  • nervousystem perform a work in progress selection from Aversion; a reworking of the original with the new title AVERSION THE I - EYE. This was performed as part of OFFSIDE II: a new Live Art event at the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, hosted by Pallas Studios and curated by Fergus Byrne.
  • Marián Araújo receives a personal invitation from Thomas Richards of The Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards to participate in their month long Intervention in Moscow as part of Tracing Roads Across. This invite was extended on the basis of video footage of AVERSION seen by Richards. This is a great tribute to the quality of Marian's work and that of nervousystem.

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  • AVERSION DEVELOPMENT: nervousystem will continue to expand the performance practice evolved during initial rehearsal for this innovative piece of work and develop its mise en scene, strengthening its place in our repertoire.

  • THEATRE HAIKU: An ongoing project creating small pieces of theatre based on the structure and aesthetic of the traditional form of the haiku poem. This project will allow the company to develop its dramaturgical skills, will incorporate the writer fully, and give the artistic staff opportunities to diversify from their own disciplines into directing for stage. The fruits of the project will provide the company with material to develop a more informal platform for the presentation of their work to diverse audiences.
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  • WORKSHOPS FOR ACTORS & THEATRE PRACTITIONERS: An opportunity for the company to share the practices of our Performance Research and Development to date, and develop further the pedagogical aspect of our work. Through these workshops we hope to continually refresh the ensemble, both through contact with new and upcoming practitioners from our own and other artistic disciplines, and as a recruiting process for the company.

  • TOURING: We intend to develop this dimension of our work. It is important to our artistic and financial health to bring our work to audiences, national and international, and facilitate creative exchange with other companies and artists and institutions.

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