Generation workshop 世代工作坊

Duration | Jan. 2020 - Mar. 2020 Location | Central Saint Martin, London, UK 

Collaborate organization: All Change Community & Camden People Theatre

Workshop Design: Aziza Kadyrova, Elly Rutherford, Ella Jackson, Fanying Yang, Francesca Beard, Michael Spencer, Ronnie Kommené, Sharo Liang, Violeta Valcheva, Yuan Yue.

Collaborating with elder participant from Camden People Theatre and All Change, the motif of this project is about resolving the gap between young and elder people, by giving the performance practitioners freedom to curate and improvise performative workshop that allow us the freedom to explore topics and issues remain between two generation, such as relationships and family. Within two months, every week the participants will be invited to engage in the workshop we designed, and afterwards we exchange experience and reflect on the design in next workshop. Repeating this pattern 7 times, and in the end, with an interactive performance open to family members of the participants and people who work in relevant career to join. By improvised few chosen topics to represent the process we had been through, and slowly we encourage audience to engage with the scenarios, which blur out the boundary of actor and audience. As a result, we develop connectivity through bodily interaction, story sharing, playing and conversations.

這個工作坊為期一個月半，在每週五邀請來自不同社區擁有不同背景的長輩們來參加由學生們舉辦的工作坊，期間加入長輩們的回饋為下星期的工作坊進行調整以及更新。利用劇場即興創作（improvisation）的遊戲方式探索一系列以世代間的溝通為核心的主題。在初步我們探討語言功能，製造情境簡化語言並嘗試用肢體眼神溝通，再之後融合音樂或更加複雜的情境，來實驗每個個體表現自己的方式以及語言。最後，利用物件，分享每個人的記憶，並發現就算在來自不同文化，人對物件的理解和回憶有一定程度上的共鳴性。建立在這個概念之上，用即興對話的形式，共同創作了一系列與對話相關的工作坊。