The biggest challenge for the making of The Imagination Museum was that I could not cover every possible kind of museum artefact in one piece, so had to make some decisions about which artefacts to explore in more depth for our initial repertoire of museum objects.
Following on from the observations I made whilst shadowing Enrique Cabrera from Aracaladanza and Full House Theatre Company early in 2013, I have had the opportunity (with support from a Surrey Dance Collective mentoring bursary) to work with choreographic mentor Niki McCretton during the development of my Dancing in Museums project in order to further understand what it means to make work for younger audiences.
My three month internship has involved me working alongside Katie and her company, Made By Katie Green, during the rehearsal process, initial performances and associated workshops of her Dancing in Museums project. I primarily applied for the internship because I was passionate about broadening my knowledge and experience of the professional industry that I aspire to work in.
As we go into re-rehearsal of The Imagination Museum for our forthcoming performances at Dance Woking (3rd April, 1pm schools matinee; 6.30pm evening performance) and Northampton Museum & Art Gallery (9th April; 11am, 1.30, 2.30pm), I’m looking over rehearsal/performance footage and old notes, and thought I’d share some more updated information about what the piece has grown into since we started researching it in March 2013.
Our intern Kate has put together some video extracts from week 5 of rehearsal for The Imagination Museum. This gives a taster of the huge range of movement material we are including in the theatre version of the piece.