The Engine Application Form

Please return this application form by email to NWY at newworkyorkshire@googlemail.com by 28.11.10.

1. Name
Douglas Thompson
2. Phone Number
07733457732
3. Postal Address
Bradford Playhouse, 4 Chapel St Bradford

4. Email Address
dougalterego@googlemail.com cc: office@bradfordplayhouse.co.uk

5. Website www.alteregoarts.com www.bradfordplayhouse.com

http://dougalterego.blogspot.com/

6. Title of Project Streets alive: Outdoor performance art and temporary flash instalations.

7. Describe the Project A series of performance art workshops to create inspiring temporary
(max 150 words) performance art installation's. Space will be provided in kind by playhouse to
the project. The installations will seek to highlight underused urban areas
within city centres and their potential for regular use to engage the public
enlightening celebratory creative stimulus. The work will be multidisciplinary
and challenge notions of street performance.

The performance to include live music, temporary moveable outdoor sculptural

installations & beautiful costumes will brought together to transform the
environment and interact with the urban spaces regular use and rhythm. There
is possibility for support from the west Yorkshire playhouse wardrobe.

Workshops and performances will be filmed and photographed by a number of

film makers and photographers. This will form the basis of an indoor exhibition.
This exhibition will be a way of communicating the findings of the project.

Facilities and contacts will be networked to all participants.

8. Timescale/will it take Ten two hour workshops over 14 weeks with 3 outdoor performances & 1
place indoor installation. Option to tour indoor installation.

9. Location of project – Bradford city centre, Huddersfield Town Centre, Halifax.

if relevant or type of Poss. Wakefield or Barnsley or Keighley as alternate choice
location

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10. Aims of Project Enliven urban spaces that have the potential for performance art
(max 150 words) and flagship models for new live multi media/disciplinary
performances within spaces to potentially reinvigorate current
modes of street performance/art.

Discover, compare and contrast indoor and outdoor modes of

performance.

Work with time based arts in conjunction with other media ie

sculpture.

To compare and contrast the semiotics of live performance and

recorded performance

Skill share through workshops cross fertilization between a variety

of disciplines

Attract new members/audience to NWY project through

accessible workshop rollout, public outdoor performance and final
indoor installation

Hub and network artists in with the resources available through

Bradford Playhouse and West Yorkshire Playhouse Wardrobe

11. How does your We will Build NWY's community or NWY's sense of community by providing a
project address collective workshop meeting place on a weekly basis for ten week rollout. We
3. Project Criteria will develop a shared sense of ownership by manifesting and engaging in the
product. The workshops will engage members in NWY activity directly through
rehearsal and creation of materials for the performance/installation to create
something shared and solid to anchor the effective ephemera of the internet i.e.
there will be something direct, shared, solid being created and thus there will
be a need to communicate across the network about this shared and
manifested vision. The skills share represented by the hosted workshops will
provide a platform providing growth through collaboration and direct creative
investment. The project which will constitute 20 hours of workshop and 12
hours total of performance we will seek to develop and combine movements
across disciplines to provide a new platform for New Work sector collaboration.

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12. What kind of Practical on the ground input and joyful participation, a knowledge
support can you of networking and integrating multi disciplinary projects and an
envisage the
Management Group ability to liaise with council departments re. Planning and
link member offering? execution of temporary public art installations. i.e. someone who
This will help us match is a jack of all trades, doesn’t mind getting their hands dirty, and is
you with the most a people person.
appropriate
Management Group Also help setting up feedback criteria and monitoring of the project success.
member for your
project.