SOME OF WHAT’S COMING UP
Rogue Encounters; Blue Chevy Physical Theatre Masterclass
Part of Bounce Festival 2024 run by University of Atypical
Sunday 6th October 2024
11:00 am to 4:00 pm
Duncairn Arts and Cultural Centre
Delivered by David Calvert, SoSo Ni Cheallaigh and Paula Clarke.
This masterclass is open to d/Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent participants who are interested in pursuing a career in professional theatre.
The masterclass will be 5 hours of dynamic physicality, involving Qi Gong muscle and tendon stretching, Yoga Nidra exercises that challenge mind and body awareness, contact improvisation and the creation of physical imagery.
Rogue Encounters is seeking to develop a profile for a new Blue Chevy Physical Theatre Ensemble that will create new work in 2025 for performance in professional venues.
To book your ticket go to the link
Rogue Encounters Workshop and Performance; Affirmations of personal identity through performative physicality
Part of the Being Human festival 2024 facilitated in Belfast by Ulster University
Tuesday 12th November 2024 - workshop at The Black Box, Belfast
Friday 15th November 2024 - performance at 2 Royal Avenue, Belfast
A demonstration of the empowering impact of performance-based participatory arts practice and the efficacy of art interventions for mental and physical well-being.
Rogue Encounters Physical Theatre Artistic Director, David Calvert, will guide a group through imaginative movement and gesture in preparation for a group exhibition of identity rituals.
Physical gesture/movement signatures will be created from associations/resonances connected to a personal object.
Imagining that they must leave/flee home, never to return, taking only one object from amongst all their belongings, participants will be asked to present the object that would remind/connect them with home and the earthing of their being.
The object and its associations will be shared with the group and incorporated into a ritual choreography.
Brain Injury Matters performance of new work; THE RHYTHM OF TWO HEARTS
Tuesday 3rd December 2024 - International Day of Persons with Disabilities
Lyric Theatre - Stories of love and trauma
Devised and Performed by The Unusual Suspects
Directed by David Calvert, Rogue Encounters Artistic Director, assisted by Jade Quinn, Rogue Encounters Outreach Director
The ‘many splendored’ thing that is love, exemplified in the many-faceted stories of people who have survived catastrophic brain injury. Stories of devotion and desertion, high romance and comedy, longing and contentment. Love as food is to life, love that feeds the will to go on after trauma and love that vanishes in the face of the realities of life after trauma.
The Unusual Suspects is a physical theatre ensemble that has been two years in the making; two years of theatre training and intimate sharing of life experiences, that have resulted in the successful Broken Bodies production featured in the 2023 Bounce Festival and more recently to widespread acclaim at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast.
This new work will have new things to say about something we all think we know everything about already.
OTHER UPCOMING EVENTS
All Doors Open performance introducing 2 new facilitators at Duncairn Arts Centre, Sunday 1st December 2024, 3pm. Doors open 2.45pm.
Launch of New Arrivals film;
Made by the students of All Saints College, Belfast. An insight into the life of a young new arrival in Northern Ireland and the reality of having one single childhood photograph that was salvaged from the rubble of their bombed home back in Syria and the importance it has.