Frances Barbe
was awarded a Creative Fellowship in the Performing Arts from AHRB and
Daiwa Anglo Japanese Foundation to continue her exploration into
intercultural performance during 2001, 2002 and 2003.
Qualifications
and Training
Butoh
Dance 1992 to the Present
Tadashi Endo
(Germany) Intensive training and performance since
1997
Bishop Yamada
(Japan) 2 months intensive training and performance
in 1997
Zen Zen Zo
(Australia) 6 years of choreographing, teaching and
performing
Katsura Kan
(Japan) Intensive training and performance in 2001
Carlotta Ikeda,
Yumiko Yoshioka, Mianko Seki Short intensive workshops
Tadashi Suzuki
Method 1992 to the Present
The SITI
Company, New York Month long residency in Saratoga
Springs, NY May 2002
Frank
Productions (Australia) 3 years of intensive training
and in Australia and yearly intensive training ’00 & ’01 in Croatia
Theatre Training
Initiative (London) Co-Founder and facilitator since
May 2000
Workshop
Producer ‘Ellen Lauren Workshop’ Sep 2000
Ichiro
Nakayama Weekly sessions and intensive training in
London ’00 – ‘01
Ellen Lauren /
SITI Company One week workshop in London 2000
Planned - SITI
intensive training program, May-June 2002
Modern
Dance 1987 to the Present
The Jerwood
Space, Independent Dance (London) Contemporary
technique classes 2000
The Place
Evening School (London) Release-based classes 1999
Bill Louther
(London, UK) Classes in Graham Technique 1997 and 1998
ISTD Syllabus
(Australia) Syllabus-based work completing exams to
teaching level 1986 – 1988
Ballet
Since 6 years of age
Danceworks,
(London) Weekly classes with Renato Peroni 2000
Royal Academy of
Dancing
(Australia)
Completion of RAD Syllabus to Intermediate including one year
full time study. (total of 15 years)
Drama
1989 – 1993
Bachelor of Arts
(Hon) in Drama and English Literature, Uni of Queensland
(Australia) Including a thesis on the connections between dance
and theatre in twentieth century. Graduated 1st Class Honours.
Recent Experience
The Way of Butoh
and Contemporary Choreog. August – September 2002
Choreographer -
Butoh Choreographic research at The Place’s
Choreodrome supported by The Place, London Arts and AHRB.
Migration
Jan 2001, Jan 2002, Oct-Nov 2002
Performer -
Butoh Re-working of Tadashi Endo’s choreography for
Butoh Mamu and Jazz International festival for German tour 2002
Curious
Fish August 2001
Performer –
Butoh - Butoh production choreographed by Katsura Kan for Edinburgh
Fringe Festival. Two week run, 5 star rating from The Scotsman.
Instruments of
Darkness: Tanden’s Macbeth May 2001
Director -
Director of circus theatre piece based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth for
ensemble of actors, dancers and circus performers. London &
Canterbury.
Powerful
Women Feb 2001
Co-Director -
London Arts funded research project training circus performers in
Suzuki method, and collaborator with a designer to integrate design and
bodies.
Macbeth: A Work
in Progress Dec 2000
Director / Actor
- 2 week research period supported by The Jerwood Space combining
actors and circus performers using Suzuki training and working with
Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
Tojirareta
Fune 2000 (Tokyo)
Assistant
Director / Performer Tour of Makki Ishii’s opera to
Nissay Theatre, Tokyo. (see below), also featuring Dairakudakan Butoh
group.
Dress
2000
Choreographer /
Dancer - Collaboration with circus performer, Kirsty Little combining
Butoh and stilts, and improvisational voice artists, Viv Corringham.
Jerwood Space, London.
Tojirareta
Fune 1999
Assistant
Director / Performer - New opera by Makki Ishii, directed by Henk
Schut, featuring fourteen Buddhist monks chanting, English tenor, Nigel
Robson, and dancer Valerie Valentine of Dutch National Ballet. Utrecht
and Berlin’s (Hebbel Theatre).
Pandora’s
Box 1999
Actress / Dancer
- Music Theatre piece directed by Olivia Fuchs, with new music composed
by Issie Barratt A Work In Progress exploring the Pandora myth
using movement, music and singing. Drill Hall, London.
Bluebeard
1999
Performer -
Visual Theatre production combining movement, puppetry and mask to tell
the harrowing tale. London season, Riverside Stuidos and Little Angel
Theatre, and National Tour including Moving Parts Festival, and The
Green Room in Manchester.
Dress
Duet 1999
Choreographer /
Dancer - A collaboration with Nick Parkin on Shakuhachi, using an
evening dress to transform a woman’s body from one creature to another.
Jackson’s Lane, London.
Steel
Flesh 1998
Choreographer /
Performer - Exploring the impact of technology on the human body and on
what it means to be human. For Zen Zen Zo, Brisbane International
Festival, Australia.
Hysterical
Angels 1998
Choreographer /
Performer - Solo work exploring the dedication and insanity of the
ballet student. Turtle Key Arts Centre, London.
Migration
1997
Performer –
Butoh - One of 7 European performers chosen to work with Bishop Yamada
of Hoppo Butoh Ha and one of only three to join Tadashi Endo’s Mamu
Dance Theatre’s tour; including Berlin’s Kultur Brauerei and Budapest’s
International Meeting of Moving Theatre.
Salome
1997
Performer -
Experimental film directed by Henk Schut, filmed by Claudia Kappenberg
and involving actors, singers and puppetry on-site in warehouses at the
Docklands, London.
Unleashed
1996 and 2000
Choreographer -
Choreographing for Zen Zen Zo Company Butoh, Brisbane. Tight, Red
and Deadly, a humorous look at behaviour-modifying clothing. Steel
Ribbons the self-mutilation of women’s search for ‘beauty’. The Horror,
a harrowing journey into the realm of pure fear.
Romance of
Orpheus 1996 and 1994
Actor - Frank
Productions earliest work, based on Suzuki Actor Training Method.
Directed by Jacqui Carroll and starring John Nobbs as Orpheus
Macbeth
1995
Choreographer -
Choreography and co-direction of bilingual production of Macbeth for
Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre and involving an international cast of
actors and dancers. Kyoto, Japan.
Yellow
Wallpaper 1994
Choreographer /
Performer - Training and choreographing actors and dancers for a
staging of Charlotte Gilmore-Perkins Victorian tale of madness and
women. For Fractal Theatre Company, Australia.
Royal Hunt of
the Sun 1993
Choreographer -
Choreographing a physical theatre production for Briboco Youth Theatre
involving high school boys of various ages for performances in Brisbane
and Melbourne.
The Way of
Mud 1993
Choreographer /
Performer - Choreographing cast of 10 for Zen Zen Zo Company Butoh,
including the premiere of The Horror and Hysterical Angels,
co-choreographing the title piece The Way of Mud, and the humorous
Cowboy Lovesong.
Life of
Galileo 1992
Choreographer /
Performer Training and choreographing actors and
chorus of dancers for stylised physical theatre production of Brecht’s
script..
Teacher &
Trainer
Theatre Training
Initiative Weekly sharing of Suzuki training and
intensive workshops with participants of varied levels and background.
2000 – present www.theatretraining.org.uk
University of
Exeter Butoh Workshop for students studying
intercultural theatre. 2001 and 2002
University of
Kent at Canterbury Movement for First Year Drama
Students2001 and 2002
Japanese Butoh
Practice Project for Fourth year Drama Students
University
College Cork, Ireland MA Lecture on Documentation
BA & MA
Workshop in Physical Theatre Practice
Organised as
Private Artist Butoh dance and Suzuki Actor training
workshops at Drill Hall, Chisenhale Dance Space.
London Butoh
Network Butoh - Weekly training and Weekend Courses -
Holborn Centre for Performing Arts and The Drill Hall 1998
Butoh Centrum
Mamu Butoh -Two Day Workshop plus assisting Tadashi
Endo’s Workshops, Gottingen, Germany 1997and One Day workshop April 2002
Zen Zen
Zo Butoh - Weekly training sessions for company
members - Brisbane, Australia 1993 and 1996
Physical Theatre - Training and choreography for bilingual
production of Macbeth - Seibu Kodo, Kyoto, Japan 1995
Makki
International Academy Ballet, Jazz and Creative Dance
– workshops for young dancers Kyoto & Hiroshima, Japan 1995
Uni of Southern
Queensland - Uni of Queensland - Uni of New England
Training Methods and Choreographic Process for Physical Theatre -
Workshops for Undergraduate and Post-Graduate Theatre Students:
Brisbane, Armidale and Toowoomba, Australia 1994
Queensland
Performing Arts Trust Elements of Movement - Movement
awareness for high-school students, of varying levels of
experience. Brisbane, Australia 1994
Brisbane Boys
College Movement for High School Drama - Using
movement to release creativity and self-development in high school
boys. Brisbane, Australia 1993
Briboco Youth
Theatre Choreography for Peter Schaffer’s Royal Hunt
of the Sun - Creating movement and devising training for high shool-age
cast - Brisbane & Melbourne, Australia. 1994
St Joseph’s
Primary School Choreographing movement for primary
school students within a dramatic text. Brisbane, Australia 1993