Call for proposals
Twofold: the Particularities of Working in Pairs
Friday 3 & Saturday 4 March 2017
Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre,
Haranczak/Navarre Performance Projects & Camden People’s Theatre
**Deadline: Friday 27 January 2017**
This is an open call for proposals from academics, artists, students and writers, for the symposium Twofold: the Particularities of Working in Pairs.
Twofold: the Particularities of Working in Pairs focuses on the dynamics of working in pairs across disciplines and contexts. It marks the conclusion of a long-term series of duet performances entitled The Difference Between Home and Poem, undertaken by Karen Christopher, Artistic Director of Haranczak/Navarre Performance Projects.
Twofold: the Particularities of Working in Pairs takes Haranczak/Navarre’s duet series as a starting point, to investigate how practitioners in a range of settings work in pairs. In the field of collaborative performance making, a duet offers the most direct form of collaboration. If even one member leaves, the duo or dyad dissolves. However, live performance is only one area that offers the duet form. The proposed symposium examines a range of working relationships to think about how the pair functions as a working collaborative unit, and why it is so often chosen.
Contributions are invited from people who work in pairs and from those who study the dynamics of such working relationships. While the symposium departs from the world of arts research and practice, we seek input from researchers across the arts, humanities and social sciences, and from those working in arts, science, healthcare, athletics and construction contexts. Examples for exploration might include athletes (including visually impaired athletes with guides), double acts (comedy, magic, circus acts), duos (dance, music, theatrical performance, visual art, photography, cinema, writing, arts management), surgeons, construction teams, climbers, or humans paired with animals.
Twofold: the Particularities of Working in Pairs is a forum for sharing ideas on the theme of working in pairs, and an opportunity to develop new work.
Call for proposals
Twofold: the Particularities of Working in Pairs invites proposals for 20 minute presentations in either of the following formats:
- academic papers;
- practice-based or performative presentations.
Additionally, we invite proposals for 20 minute extracts from performance works on this theme that are in development. Two performance proposals will be selected. A fee of £100 per performance is on offer to non-affiliated artists.
Questions for exploration include (but are not limited to):
- what are the differences and similarities in working in pairs between different contexts?
- what rituals and practices attend working in pairs?
- what is the role of structure, system, pattern, repetition, intuition and spontaneity in such work?
- how does working in pairs compare to other modes of collaborative practice?
Deadline for proposals
Please submit 300-word proposals and 50-word bios to birkbeckcct@gmail.com by **Friday 27 January 2017**.
Twofold: the Particularities of Working in Pairs is a collaboration between Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre, Haranczak/Navarre Performance Projects and Camden People’s Theatre.