Love this picture (above) taken by Libby Waite, the Marketing officer at Norwich Puppet Theatre. This is BEFORE everyone arrives. I like making the spaces enticing and curious, without being precious about it. Once everyone was in and got started, there was a very industrious atmosphere. Everybody was busy exploring, making, creating and playing. We transformed the rows of boxes into a bustling city with roads, traffic lights, car parks, railways and volcanoes (!?)
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Very very excited to be part of Team Magic for the 2014 residencies of Magic Adventure. Magic Adventure is an interactive installation for very young children and babies. I will be lucky enough to be working with Charlotte Arculus and Saffron Paffron; amazing performers and makers who originally devised and designed the show. Alongside them, are two fantastic music practitioners and performers; Natalie Willis and Mary Lovett. We spent the first week of 2013 doing research and development for an upcoming residency in the spring. It is a real privilege to be working with such a talented bunch of people I am going to be learning lots. Pictures by Saffron Paffron
A lovely way to end the year off with Little Tots at Norwich Puppet Theatre. I created a fancy dress emporium for children and parents to explore. Full of hats, dresses, cloaks, sunglasses and a whole van load of random fancy dress items! There was a photo booth to record the costumes and a party with balloons to finish up with. It was a blast! Looking forward to the next sessions coming up in the new year. Thank you NPT for inviting me back!
So many magic moments from yesterday's Planet UV at Norwich Puppet Theatre. Watching two brothers playing with shredded paper for nearly half an hour was well worth the spectacular art installation called "Mess" that was created as result of these children playing! Paper, Paper EVERYWHERE! was the first of this season's Little Tots sessions at Norwich Puppet Theatre. We had all sorts of paper related fun... paper rain, paper bunting, paper beds and a paper moon....
Next up Planet UV on the 21st Nov Dress-up Mayhem on the 19th Dec This is what Charlotte K Arculus, of Magic Adventure fame, wrote about my Towers workshop, which she took part in last year. Charlotte has had a massive influence on my work and continues to do so ! " Fox’s Boxes (my term) was a workshop session run by Sophie Fox. It is a piece she has developed for running with family groups. In short, as a group, we built a very large tower together but this risks ignoring the process over the outcome (even though the tower was really, really beautiful). Sophie took us through several exercises and games in order to prepare us for the big task. The group I was in was very large - about 15 people – and what was particularly outstanding is the sense of complicité I felt towards my fellow group members by the end of the session – something I would have previously thought could only be accomplished through group music making and drama exercises – but of course is was musical – it was visual art music! The tower worked on macro and micro levels with some people working on the large structure and overview while others created tiny environments with small toys and others worked on decoration and mark making. This of course is how it would work with parents and very small children together. The tower build was improvised and undirected – which pays testament to Ms Fox’s skills as a facilitator, able to trust in the process she has set up. There will be photos on Earlyarts website – they won’t do justice to the three dimensional space we created together."
Pictures from today's session at Norwich Puppet Theatre. I really think we could have carried on playing all day!
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