The Dinosaur Show

The Dinosaur Show is about legacy. It’s about all we want to leave behind.

Inspired by an argument in Bath and a museum about a prehistoric age this is a five chapter performance of epitaph and memory, faith and uncertainty.

Using a fascination with the age of the dinosaurs as motivation, the company articulate their desires, hopes and ambitions for the moment when the meteor strikes, the fatigue sets in and all that’s left of them is a distant memory.

Created and Performed by Crushed Arts

Produced by Peter Reed

Lighting Design by Ziggy Jacobs

Media Design by Ziggy Jacobs

Costume Design by Esme Duncan

Lighting and Media Assistance by Sian Ni Mhuiri 

Thanks to The Carriageworks for all their time and support in the production of The Dinosaur Show. Thanks also to LCCT for funding the first stage of the project. 

A video of the performance will be available soon. Crushed Arts make contemporary performance in Yorkshire. They have made studio work and site specific participatory shows for Leeds Light Night, Carriageworks, Leeds, Seven Arts, Halifax Sqaure Chapel, Leeds Emerge Festival and The Edinburgh Festival Fringe. More information about their work can be found on their Facebook Group. 

Scenofest

                                                                  Scenofest 
16-26 June 2011
Various Locations, Prague 
www.scenofest.org


Peter is currently the Assistant Producer for Scenofest, Prague Quadrennial 2011.


In June 2011 thousands of students will descend upon Prague for Scenofest at The Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space. There will be over performances, workshops, debates and special events in Prague and online to celebrate and explore all aspects of design led performance making. 


Street Performances, shows in the DISK Theatre, 6 Site specific performances created during the festival led by artists of international repute and a programme of over 50 workshops and lectures will transform the city alongside the already huge and exciting PQ2011 programme. 


More information can be found at www.scenofest.org or by finding us on twitter @PQ2011 or Facebook PQ2011.

Primary 1

Publicity  Image by Jemima Yong 

3 - 23 January 2011

Esplanade's Jendela Visual Arts Space

Mon - Fri: 11am - 8.30pm

Sat & Sun: 10am - 8.30pm

Admission is free
Part of the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2011

Drawn from a personal experience of an education in Singapore, Primary 1 is an investigation into the potency of educational imagery as a tool that shapes the young minds of society. Exploring the balance between idealism and reality, globalisation and nationalism, the installation looks at the images we enshrine and wonders why we chose them. 

Primary 1 inherently deals with the theme of art and education. The piece has been created as a direct response to the visual imagery in primary education and our research has taken us through educational materials across continents. The work questions and aims to discuss how education shapes young minds (both positively and negatively) as it traverses the delicate line between asserting homogeny and celebrating diversity. Drawing on Jemima's experiences in various forms of education in and out of Singapore, Primary 1 offers both a personal and universal response to growing up and out of lessons that were once held dear.

Produced by Peter Reed

Lighting Design and Conceptualization by Sian Ni Mhuiri 

Created by Jemima Yong

Safe Keeping (2010)

Safe Keeping is a Collaboration with Jemima Yong

Safe Keeping is a photographic installation created by Jemima Yong and Peter Reed. The duo have created an immersive installation which is concerned with telling the personal stories of Jemima's subjects - their relationships to her and the world around them. Dozens of identical cardboard boxes contain carefully selected collections of prints which offer clues and fragments of feelings and stories held together by time, place and circumstance. Each box also contains a tape player with a special recording made by the artists/subjects in response to the images in the box.

Audience members can engage with the piece on an explorative level - hunting through the boxes of half-remembered memories; finding their own meanings and stories. There is also space to observe other narratives played out in collages which make vast mosaics of images on the walls around them.

Safe Keeping breaks down the rules of the gallery space and the way in which audiences interact with photographs. It encourages a childlike curiosity and a leap into the imagination through a gesture of generosity and storytelling.

Safe Keeping will have it's UK premiere at The Bowery Gallery, Leeds from 6th January - 2nd April 2011.

 

Archive of Projects

Piano/Paintbrush (2008)

Piano/Paintbrush was a collaboration with Isabel Lyster. The performance was shown as part of an exhibition by London't notorious Da! Collective at a disused £6million Mansion on Upper Grosnevor Street. It was a durational piece which ran for 3 hours in two performers and a white piano occupied a huge whita canvas which covered two walls and a lare portion of the floor. Using music and black paint, the musician and the blindfolded artist set about a tentetive, comic and near impossible conversation using the only mediums available to them.

Thanks to Jemima Yong for documenting the Piano/Paintbrush. This was a one off performance for a special event.

Wrecked (2009)

Wrecked

Wrecked was a collaboration with writer and director, John East. 

‘You understood me and I loved you. Now everything escapes me. Our earthly hopes and desires are only vain fancies, our successes mirages that we try to grasp. If there is one thing certain in this world, it is our pains. Suffering is real, pleasure only imaginary.’ Théodore Géricault, 1817

Set against the political instability of Nineteenth Century Paris, Wrecked tells the tumultuous true story of the artist Théodore Géricault. His paintings and surviving historical documents create the visual and dramatic world in which a doomed love affair takes him from brink of madness to creation of his greatest painting, The Raft of the Medusa.

Verbal Declarations of love flow into passages of dance-theatre and as the artist chases fame and recognition, he edges closer to drowning aboard his own shipwreck.

 Photo: Jemima Yong

Wrecked was commissioned by LCCT and supported by the egg, Theatre Royal Bath. The piece premiered at Leeds Emerge Festival before touring to Theatre Royal Bath and Wilton's Music Hall, London.