Student work at the Symposium

Some of our MA/MFA Performance students shared work at the Future of Practice Research Symposium last month. Four students, Lisa Ford, Gin Niemtus, Allan Purves, and James Stanley shared their 1-1 performances during the lunch break, and two others, Nathan Burt and Silvana Maria Zuluaga Gomez, shared solo performances at the social to mark the end of the conference.

Lisa Ford

Lisa Ford is a theatre director, performer, producer, maker, facilitator. Engaging communities, telling stories, connecting disparate ideas, to a shared creative goal. Working reactively, with multidisciplinary techniques, shaping work with found stimulus. 

She takes thread, some yours, some hers, some found in streets and in libraries. Often the threads are words and images or conversations with people. She weaves these to create theatrical pieces, that wrap audiences in collective feeling. 

‘Heirloom’ is a piece for one performer and one audience member. The soundscape is made from stories of invisible work in women’s lives. It is an invitation to sit, sew and share and to add your thread to the repair.

Gin Niemtus

Inventive and eclectic multidisciplinary UK-Artist blending music, puppetry, live art, theatre and facilitation. Using TTRPG’s and creative, accessible and immersive experiences. Kaleidoscopic in technique and committed to catalysing through art, I hope I can connect with you. Let me cradle your weird with mine.

Allan Purves

Allan Purves is an interdisciplinary artist based in Manchester. Allan creates work that works across the mediums of theatre, live art, film and live music. His work explores themes of adaptation, translation, utopia, intertextuality and climate. 

In creating a piece of work he aims to synthesize a wide range of elements, texts, people, landscapes and soundscapes in an effort to weave and orient things in an intertextual manner.

James Stanley

My name is James Stanley! I am an autobiographical artist based in Merseyside exploring the power of trauma healing and the unique aspects of human connection through performance! I hope I can create spaces for people to feel safe whilst giving people an opportunity to explore themselves too!

Nathan Burt

Based in Manchester, Nathan Burt is multi-disciplinary performer. Specialising in the techniques of Theatre Laboratory, Writing and Storytelling; blending these practices to create versatile performances and experiences. In his most recent performance Things That Happen In The Night, Nathan Burt explores the themes of imagination, loneliness and the nocturnal; while displaying the practices and techniques of Theatre Anthropology, Character and Story.

Silvana Maria Zuluaga Gomez 

Colombian performer and Theatre maker, Silvana explores the actor’s training and its potential to shine a light on the migrant identity and Latin American culture. She works with songs, physical scores, poems and archive intervention creating evocative and imaginative scenic experiences.