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Workshops Golden Ratio Investigation Seed Research Workshops Barabbas often facilitates workshops for theatre practitioners and students, the general public and for corporate clients. The company ran its own workshop programme for professional theatre practitioners for many years and is regularly invited to teach by third level institutions. Barabbas recently taught a module "Making Theatre" on the MA in Drama and Theatre Studies at NUI Galway. The company facilitated a variety of workshops for Common Purpose - an organisation which provides cross-sector leadership training and designed training modules for the Go Kids! programme of the Mc Eniff hotel group. Organisations for which Barabbas has taught include FÁS, Waterford City Council, Dún Laoghaire/Rathdown Council Council, Tralee County Council, Cork City Council, Louth County Council, The National Folk Theatre (Síamsa Tíre), Saint Patrick's Festival, The National Theatre (Abbey & Peacock Theatres), Replay Productions Northern Ireland, Granary Theatre, Calipo Theatre Company, Drogheda, City Arts Centre Dublin, The Institute of Drama & Communications, National Association for Youth Drama, Marino College, The National University of Ireland, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ulster Bank, Maote Business College, Arts Limited. Golden Ratio Investigation In January 2005 Barabbas initiated an investigation into the principals of the Golden Ratio in theatre design and staging. The Golden Ratio is 1:1.618, a proportion which is observed often in nature and which has been used in art, architecture, design and composition over the ages. Raymond Keane assembled a team of theatre practitioners, Mark Galione (lighting designer), Miriam Duffy (set designer),Roger Gregg (composer) and Eoin Lynch (performer) to work with two physicists (Iggy McGovern and Wiebke Drenkchen), a visual artist (Seán Hillen), and an interior architectural designer (Caroline O'Connor) to play with ideas for one week. This project was funded by Open House, an initiative led by the Peacock Theatre, providing a facility which was process based in which artists were encouraged to experiment. Seed Following from the success and stimulating dialogues that emerged during the Golden Ratio Investigation, Raymond Keane was asked to join SEED, a Dublin based group devoted to developing creative projects connecting art and science, including informal salons, exhibitions, workshops and performances. SEED aims to provide a place for the germination of new creative ideas through dialogue and action. Seed members include Wiebke Drenckhan, Iggy McGovern and Sean Hillen, all Golden Ratio participants and Anna Hill, Mary Mulvihill and Catherine Fitzgerald. For further information on SEED visit seedartscience.blogspot.com Research Raymond won a Travel and Mobility Award from the Arts Council to travel to Stourbridge, England, to take a course in Mask Using facilitated by Mask expert, Mike Chase. The course ran over four weekends from late January to early March and included master classes in Neutral Mask, Playing with Paradox/Mask of the Seven Planets and Mask of the Four Temperaments. Material gleaned from these workshops was used by Raymond Keane during the Golden Ratio Investigation at the Abbey Theatre in 2005. Barabbas company members travelled to Newfoundland on a research and exchange trip in 2004. Funded by the Ireland Newfoundland Partnership, the primary purpose of this trip was to research Love and Geography. The company also taught theatre of clown workshops to a group of local actors at the main performance centre of St John's, The Resource Centre for the Arts and undertook library research at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. |
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