COLLABORATIONS
Besides my ongoing collaboration with Daisy Orton as Accidental Collective, I also work with other artists (both internationally and in the UK). To date I have collaborated with Richard Schechner, Japanese company Gekidan Kaitaisha (Theatre of Deconstruction), Roanna Mitchell, Heidi Wiren Bartlett, and Niamh Lyman-Cotter.
Lens 2
26th September 2015
Historic Dockyard, Chatham Conceived, devised and performed with Niamh Lynam-Cotter, Roanna Mitchell and Daisy Orton. Lens 2 was commissioned as part of the launch of the University of Kent’s Beacon Institute, and celebrated the organisation's aim to bridge arts and science. Navigating the relationship between these fields is, perhaps, a matter of perspectives (of distances and angles, of learning each others’ languages, of reflecting, and being reflected upon). Whilst thinking about this, we also found ourselves confronted with the science and poetry of nautical navigation evoked by Chatham’s historic dockyards, and the Beacon Institute’s name and ethos. We responded to these themes through the lens of two texts: Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse, and the strikingly poetic instructions for the use of a nautical sextant. In bringing the two texts together we navigated distances, angles, languages of the word and of the body. In all of this, we found joy in the humour of miscommunication, and pleasure in moments of shared imagination. |
Images courtesy of Kyla Wight.
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Images courtesy of Daniela Bolaños, Mauricio Cantillo and Heidi Wiren Bartlett.
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Untitled live art installation12th & 18th July 2014
La Cueva del Cadejo, Heredia (Costa Rica) Conceived and directed by Heidi Wiren Bartlett. This live art piece was created in the context of La Pocha Nostra's international Summer School 2014. In its first iteration, performed privately for other workshop participants, it took place on a bed of salt. Its second iteration, during the final public group performance, it took place on a bed of sugar. Read features which appeared in the local press about the final group performance sharing here and here. |
Imagining O7th -9th July 2011
Jarman Building, University of Kent, Canterbury 1st - 8th February 2012 International Theatre Festival, Thrissur, Kerela (India) "Pablo's contribution to "Imagining O" remains embedded in the piece as it goes through its various iterations." Richard Schechner, director, East Coast Artists Conceived by Richard Schechner Directed by Richard Schechner and Benjamin Mosse Choreography and Movement Direction by Roanna Mitchell Devised in collaboration with the ensemble Imagining O was a dispersed performance taking place in a variety of environments. It was part theatre, part dance, part installation art. It investigated sexuality and artistry, abjection and power, as imagined by Shakespeare’s Ophelia, O from Pauline Reage’s Story of O, and the ensemble. The piece was devised in this first iteration through a research and development phase at the University of Kent, with a cast made up by students, graduants and members of staff. It was then invited to be performed in its second iteration at the International Theatre Festival in Kerala. A third iteration opened the 2004 Peak Performances season at Montclair (New Jersey). Read Exeunt's review of the first version here. Read The Hindu's review of the second version here. View a trailer of the second version here. |
Images courtesy of Benjamin Mosse an Ken Plas.
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Images courtesy of Gekidan Kaitaisha, Jens Femerling and Katsu Miyauchi.
"When I first worked with Pablo in 2001, I was impressed by his presence and substance (which suggested what in Japan is called “the European body”, a complicated and compounded notion). I was immediately interested by Pablo as a performer, and so we went on to work twice again in 2004. Since Pablo speaks several languages, our collaborations led me to rethink what to me is an important issue: bodies and their mother tongues. I'd love the opportunity to work together again."
Shimizu Shinjin, Director of Gekidan Kaitaisha |
Dream Regime #2
10th & 11th August 2004
Pro-Existence Festival, Bröllin Castle, Bröllin (Germany) Directed by Shimizu Shinjin Choreography by Hino Hiruko Devised and performed with Gekidan Kaitaisha and three guest performers Dream Regime is an intercultural and international project which brings together performing artists from across Asia and Europe. It considers hidden histories of cultural diversity in a post-Cold War, post-9.11 world and an age of continuing migration and globalisation. This was the project's second instalment. The piece was the result of three weeks of collaborative work, created on site at Schloss Bröllin. More information, including credits, can be found here. |
Dream Regime #1
24th January 2004
Theatrum Europa 04, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff Directed by Shimizu Shinjin Choreography by Hino Hiruko Devised and performed with Gekidan Kaitaisha and guest performers This was Dream Regime's first instalment. It brought together an international group of twenty-two performers. The three week residency culminated in a work-in-progress. Read The Western Mail 's review here. More information, including credits, can be found here. |
Images courtesy of Gekidan Kaitaisha.
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