Richard Antrobus has been awarded a Fellowship at the Donald Gordon Institute for Creative and Performing Arts (GIPCA), at University of Cape Town for 2012.
GIPCA is an innovative institution at UCT promoting new interdisciplinary creative research in the disciplines of Music, Dance, Fine Art, Drama, Creative Writing, Film and New Media, and in particular collaborations among disciplines. Interdisciplinarity is a key theme of the institute, defined here as consisting of two or more disciplines, with at least one being a participating GIPCA department at UCT. Projects should be created specifically for development in our Institute.
Applications should be made by individuals who graduated with Masters degrees or an equivalent in any discipline in the performing and creative arts. All applicants must be able to show currency in their fields. Fellows will work full-time in the departments of their choice (most likely the department from which they graduated) as well as with the Institute's various projects and be involved in the creative research life of university staff and students. Each year-long fellowship must culminate in a creative project of the fellow´s design. At least four fellowships are available of R120 000 each, and some provision will be made for material expenses where possible.
About GIPCA: The University of Cape Town´s Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA) facilitates new collaborative and interdisciplinary creative research projects in the disciplines of Music, Dance, Fine Art, Drama, Creative Writing, Film and Media Studies. Interdisciplinarity is a key theme of the institute and projects are imbued with innovation, collaboration and dialogue with urbanism and community. GIPCA was launched in December 2008 with a substantial grant from Sir Donald Gordon, founder of Liberty Life. An Advisory Board comprising Heads of Departments of all Performing and Creative Arts Departments at UCT helps to shape contexts for the instigation and development of projects by students and staff, as well as a wide range of institutions and individuals outside the university. For more information on the 2011 GIPCA programme, visit www.gipca.uct.ac.za.
Richard's Project Abstract Proposal:
Richard graduated in 2010 with a MA Drama in Contemporary Performance (course-work/thesis), with Distinction, from Rhodes University. His dissertation entitled: The Advent of the ‘Festivore’: An Exploration of South African Audience Attendance in the Performing Arts at the National Arts Festival, looks at South Africa’s changing theatre audience profile and explores factors that draw people to live performance art, while his coursework focused on the body at risk in performance. His final examination production, “Stilted” questions the notion of ‘contemporary performance’, where the boundaries of theatre and other performance art genres are blurred with the stylistic cross-disciplinary use of theatre, dance, mime, multi-media, circus/street-performance and design in a single ‘physical theatre’ production.
As a GIPCA fellow, Richard proposes to continue this exploration of the cross-disciplinarily nature of contemporary performance, culminating in his final project entitled: “Delayed Live”. Through the use of multi-media, live-camera feed, pre-recorded footage and simultaneous live performance from actors and dancers in a live (as well as a delayed-live) performance space, “Delayed Live” takes an introspective into the private in-between moments in the lives of dancers/actors, which is simultaneously projected as a public, delayed-live performance by the dancers/actors who are (a)live and present on stage themselves. Richard’s contribution toward the host department may include teaching and assistance in the facilitation of practicals pertaining to the areas of movement, voice, mime, physical theatre, and theatre-making, especially in the BA in Theatre and Performance and Performers Diploma undergraduate programmes.
JULY 2011
Richard Antrobus - DSG Staff - Arts and Culture
After the National Arts Festival Richard Antrobus was awarded a Standard Bank Ovation “Encore” Award, which was one of 3 awarded for “Excellence and Innovation in the Arts”. The official citation was as follows:
“A total of seven Silver, two Gold and three Encore Ovation awards were presented at the end of this year’s National Arts Festival…Encore awards are presented to individuals or productions that have made a noteworthy contribution towards the Festival Fringe in various capacities, or who have shown significant potential… Richard Antrobus is awarded an "Encore!" for his evolving artistic skills, creativity and flair for developmental theatre. These qualities position him at the fore-front of an exciting movement in South African theatre with his ability to bridge cultural and aesthetic gaps”
NEW STAFF 2011
Mr Neale Howarth – Life Orientation and Junior School Sport Mrs Salome Roche – Music School Mr Sim Xeketwana - isiXhosa
Mr Albert Bill and Mr Headman Bottoman were awarded Long Service Awards. Each have more than 35 years of service to the school!
FEBRUARY 2009
Long Service awards were awarded in Assembly to Kevin Mhase for 25 years, Vivian Frans for 15 years and Eric Zonke for 10 years at DSG.
FEBRUARY 2010
ADVANCED DRIVING RE-AWARDS
Kelly Long to represent South Africa 25th January 2012
Kelly Long will represent South Africa at the 5th International Sustainable World Project Olympiad in the USA
