Rough Krapp Acts
reflect - create - connect
An international collaboration in three acts between moving poets (Charlotte, Berlin & international artists), Cambridge Experimental, Behailu Academy and The Arts Empowerment Project. Advised by Samuel Beckett’s long time friend, biographer and leading authority on Beckett, Professor James Knowlson.
As part of the Inside Box Outside arts & outreach program, Rough Krapp Acts is focusing on a creative dialogue between young people, professional artists and the community. It invites local and international participants from different backgrounds to formulate responses to three works by Samuel Beckett, based on their own unique contemporary lives and perspectives: Rough for Theatre I, Krapp`s Last Tape, Act without Words II. The responses are created through movement, theatre, visual arts, photography, music, multi-media and writing and are shared with the public in performances and exhibitions in Charlotte, England and Germany.
Schedule:
2016
January 10: prologue at Poets`Cabin by Alyce Vallejo, Mike Harris, Till Schmidt-Rimpler
January 18 - February 16: Act 1 - development Krapp's Last Tape [+ movements] at Cambridge University by Cambridge Experimental
February 17-19: Act 1 - performance of Krapp's Last Tape [+ movements] at the Round Church by Cambridge Experimental
March 1 - May 30: Act 2 - workshops & research - students of Behailu Academy and The Arts Empowerment Project & moving poets
October 15: sneak peek presentation of work in progress and performance at Poets`Cabin
2017
Summer: Act 2 - development performance and exhibition - students of Behailu Academy and The Arts Empowerment Project & moving poets
September - November: Act 2 - development & performance and exhibition in Charlotte - moving poets artists, students of Behailu Academy and The Arts Empowerment Project. Details t.b.a
2018Act 3 - development, performance & exhibition by participants of Cambridge Experimental, students of Behailu Academy and The Arts Empowerment Project, moving poets & international artists. Details t.b.a
Rough Krapp Acts began in January 2016 at the Poets`Cabin in Charlotte. In an "on the spot" performance piece of dance, music and theater, moving poets artists Alyce Vallejo, Mike Harris and Till Schmidt-Rimpler created a 15 minute work that was video taped and passed on to Cambridge Experimental, England, a group of Cambridge University students dedicated to facilitate forms of experimental creative expression through multiple art forms. Their response Krapp's Last Tape [+ movements] was presented February 17-19 in Cambridge's stunning 12th century Round Church, where for a good 75 minutes a group of 12 performers and musicians kept the audience spell bound with original (physical) theater and live music. The performance was also taped and then passed on to a group of 12 students of Behailu Academy and The arts Empowerment Project who started working in March 2016 with professional artists from Moving Poets Charlotte and guests. They research the works of Samuel Beckett and immerse in different art forms - photography, visual arts, movement, theater and creative writing. - and develop & create an exhibiton and performance to be presented in Charlotte in 2017 (a sneak peek presentation of work in progress and a performance were held at Poets`Cabin October 2016).
If all goes well, participants from Charlotte and England will join forces in 2018 and collaborate to create a performance & exhibition with each other - to be ultimately presented in England, Charlotte and Berlin.