DON JUAN WHO? - FROM CYBERSPACE TO THEATRE SPACE : a strategy for developing international performance collaboration using online cyber research tool

这个独特的欧洲剧院项目以创新和富有想象力的技术在一个特别设计的网络工作室中创建了新的剧院，该工作室为分散在不同地理位置的合作者进行现场在线、反思和档案研究提供了无数可能性。我们选择使用我们创造的这个新工具，通过跳进网络空间的亲密关系中进行现场表演，直面当今全球化文化中长期棘手的性别关系主题。因此，我们从网络提供的潜力出发，让私人生活变得公开，暴露欲，忏悔信件和伪装。我们探索我们在这里是如何行为的，匿名的角色扮演和集体写作，并将其改编成独特的充满活力和生动的戏剧文本。作为联合制作，这部创新的作品将两个完全不同的组织带入了密切和开创性的合作中，这些组织分享了戏剧目标和创作策略。导演和合作伙伴组织Mladinsko Theatre(卢布尔雅那)都致力于戏剧研究，每个人都受到彼得·布鲁克的启发。姆拉丁斯科的演员团队今天仍在共产主义文化雇佣模式下工作，年薪、长期排练和终身合同，他们在智力和艺术上为新作品的创作做出贡献，并对每个新项目进行长达数月的密集文学和实践研究。虽然在英国资金较少，创作时间要短得多，但导演也鼓励表演者在戏剧创作中成为积极的智力和艺术合作者。在唐·胡安项目中，习惯正被延伸到新的方向。这里的技术提供了非常长的艺术研究和开发期，导致在排练中采用物理/设计方法来完成最终的制作。发展戏剧的创造性和原创性方法/将网络空间用作研究工作室/是如何利用技术实现艺术协同的实验。联合制作涉及一个由五名姆拉丁斯科/三名英国研究人员兼表演者和一名Dramaturg组成的核心公司。在彩排现场研究之前，他们每周都会在网络工作室见面并在定向研究、即兴表演和角色扮演中表演一年。他们使用现场写作和视觉和书面素材来审问唐·胡安的偶像，作为古典和现代戏剧、诗歌、歌剧、电影、网络和他们的想象力的跳板。与Mladinsko Dramaturg，Zeljko Hars一起，Furse将从这种虚拟交流中设计出一个表演文本草稿。该公司将在两个时间段内进行为期十周的现场排练过程，在此期间，将在具体实践中进一步研究这篇文章--培训、即兴创作和设计--并将其重建为最终的表演文本。结果应该被证明是一部激动人心的、发自内心的、犀利的实体戏剧作品，所有人都将在其中投入大量资金，这应该会吸引广大观众，以及当代欧洲戏剧和表演、媒体研究和性别研究的学者和研究人员。这部作品将于2007年9月在伦敦和姆拉丁斯科的金史密斯剧院首演。它将在国外和英国的场地巡回演出，在2008年为大学戏剧/表演系提供研讨会、讲座和实习。一旦我们的研究取得成果，CyberStudio的软件将与手册和知识共享许可证一起在线发布到公共领域，这样它就可以作为模板继续服务，并被实践者和研究人员改编，从而鼓励潜在的全球分散的合作。计划在2008年举行一次国际联合制作模式会议，与英国巡演同时举行。

This unique European theatre project uses technology innovatively and imaginatively to create new theatre in a specially designed CyberStudio that offers myriad possibilities for live on-line,reflective and archival research by geographically dispersed collaborators. Our chosen use of this new tool we have created, confronts the enduringly thorny subject of gender relationships in today's globalised culture by plunging into the intimacy of cyber space to make live performance. We thus work from the potential the Web offers for private lives to become public, for exhibitionism, confessional correspondence and masquerade. We explore how we behave here, role-playing anonymously and writing collectively, and adapt this into a uniquely energetic and lively theatre text. As a co-production this innovative work brings two very different organisations that share theatrical aims and creative strategies into close and pioneering collaboration. Both Director and partner organisation Mladinsko Theatre (Ljubljana), share a commitment to theatrical research, each inspired by the example of Peter Brook. Mladinsko's ensemble of actors, still working today from a Communist cultural employment model with annual salaries, long rehearsals and tenured contracts, contribute intellectually and artistically to the creation of new works and conduct intensive literary and practical research over many months on each new project. Whilst less funded in the UK, creating work over much shorter periods, the Director also encourages the performer to be an active intellectual and artistic collaborator in theatrical creation. In the Don Juan Project habits are being stretched in new directions. Technology here offers an exceptionally long artistic research and development period leading to a physical/devising methodology in rehearsals towards final production. The inventive and original approach to the development of a dramaturgy / using cyberspace as a research studio / is an experiment in how to harness technology to artistic synergy. The co-production involves a core company of five Mladinsko/three UK researcher-performers, and a Dramaturg. Prior to live research in rehearsals, they will have met and played in the CyberStudio in directed research, improvisation and role play for one year on a weekly basis. They use live writing and visual and written source material to interrogate the icon of Don Juan as manifest in classical and modern drama, poetry, opera, film, the Web and their imaginations as a springboard.Together with Mladinsko dramaturg, Zeljko Hrs, Furse will create a draft performance text devised from this virtual exchange. The company will assemble live for a ten week rehearsal process in two blocks of time during which this text will be further researched in embodied practices - training, improvisation and devising - and reconstructed into its final performative text. The result should prove to be an electric, visceral and trenchant physical theatre production in which all will have invested a great deal of themselves and which should appeal to a wide audience as well as to scholars and researchers in contemporary European theatre and performance, media studies, and gender studies in particular.The production will premiere for performances at Goldsmiths Theatre, London and Mladinsko in September 2007. It will tour abroad and to venues in the UK, offering workshops, talks and residencies to University Theatre/performance departments in 2008. Immediately our research has come to fruition, the software for the CyberStudio will be released into the public domain on line together with a Manual and a Creative Commons license, so that as a template it can continue to serve and be adapted by practioners and researchers, encouraging potentially globally dispersed collaboration. A conference on international co-production models is planned for 2008 to coincide with UK touring.