Uni of Hull Students at PQ

13/11/2023

05/09/2023

One of our PQ Interns Jaye featuring in this post🙂

Throwback with our main media partner Český rozhlas!
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We extend our gratitude to our main media partner, the esteemed public broadcasting service Czech Radio for¨promo, interviews and critical reviews in the Czech air-time.
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You can listen to an interview with our keynote speaker, theatre activist Julian Maynard Smith or our team members on the Vltava channel. A promo spot with the voice of esteemed rapper Arleta Berndorff could be heard sneaking in before the festival.
How did you like it?
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▪️Julian Maynard Smith:
https://vltava.rozhlas.cz/divadlo-me-rozciluje-s-blizicim-se-koncem-sveta-zacinam-postradat-jeho-smysl-9016989
▪️Pavla Petrová:
https://vltava.rozhlas.cz/nejvetsi-svetovy-festival-scenografie-a-divadelniho-prostoru-po-ctyrech-letech-9010302
▪️Markéta Fantová & Adam Pánik:
https://vltava.rozhlas.cz/prazske-quadriennale-testuje-mlade-tvurce-studentska-vystava-poprve-vzdoruje-9010068
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📸Viktor Tuček

05/09/2023

26/06/2023

Day 10 of PQ… the last day for us before travelling back the next day.🧡

PQ Day 10 saw everyone finishing up with their roles.

It was the last chance to see the sights of Prague and take a last look at anything from PQ…

24/06/2023

For the Student Witness Blog, practicant Jenny Smith wrote a blog post after her experience watching the “Victor X” performance…

Here’s a snippet:

“What is it to be human then? Does being created in a laboratory mean that you are not human? Or is it by featuring human characteristics that allows one to possess humanity?

Does the appearance of these tendencies that I have confirm or deny my own humanity? Am I an experimental product of society? Have I developed in a similar manner, friends, family, teachers, all curating and shaping my personality as I grew?

I’m sure that Victor Frankenstien would argue after the rejection of his Creation, that it is the appearance of traditional human-like features that defines humanity. Of course this is not the case…”

Check out Day 9 on the blog (link in bio) to read the rest… 🧡

20/06/2023

PQ Day 9…🧡

Day 9 saw more people from The University of Hull joining us in Prague!

A load of us set off to DAMU, to watch the “Devising the Collaborative Imagination” Workshop outcome performance! Well done to practicant Lin for doing such a great job assisting in the workshop!

We of course grabbed a cheeky Chimney cake (😋) before heading back to Fragments. Everytime we look around the exhibition there is always a new perspective to see!

On the evening the whole cohort headed to PQ Headquarters, The Market for the staff party!🎉

19/06/2023

Here’s practicant Maya speaking about her experience working as an assistant for the “Drawing performance workshop”….

“This workshop was led by Lucy Algar, a BA Theatre Design course Leader at Wimbledon College of Arts. It was an exploratory workshop in which the participants used different mediums and methods to draw around dancers and performers to create movement-inspired pieces focused on the feel of the movements and environment.

Day One -
On the first day of the workshop, we rolled out a large roll of paper and used charcoal and coloured chalks to draw around the performers. In the afternoon, we used these drawings to make costumes for our performers inspired by their dances and how they moved, and paraded these in the streets outside DAMU.

Day Two -
On the second day, we did some more chalk drawings, but then used brightly coloured tapes as a drawing medium that we placed down strategically whilst performers were dancing to change their movements/create new spaces for them to move in. In the afternoon, in small groups, we were given two large sheets of paper with drawings on them that we were tasked to turn into 3D models imagining stage spaces.

Day Three-
On the final day of the workshop, we split into two groups, with one group focusing on learning how to move and the other focusing on drawing on top of each others work. In this second group, we were sat in a circle with a piece of paper in front of us and a mover in the middle, and each person had a minute to draw whatever they were inspired to by the mover on their paper before rotating to the next paper and switching movers until we had 7 works of layered reactions to the dances. We followed this by having dancers dance to a soundscape made by one of the performers. We finished the day with a reflection of all of the work over the past three days.

Overall, this experience for me as a workshop assistant but who also got to take part in these workshops, I’ve learned so many new ways of thinking about drawings and what they are and how they are, as well as how designing set can be so much broader than just making a model box, but can be inspired by movement and simple line drawings.” 🧡

19/06/2023

Day 8 of PQ was a day spent revisiting exhibitions! And taking it all in…🧡

🔵PQ Talks was full of all sorts of interesting lectures about different types of scenography and previous works.

Both the student and country exhibitions are always changing, so it was well worth a trip back around!

And we visited some of our practicants who were working very hard! 🧡