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Tag: Traction

9 August 2022 Uncategorized

Virtual Realities, Part One

If you invite people to co-create a Virtual Reality opera no one has the first idea what you have in mind. 

23 June 2022 Traction / Uncategorized

‘Write this down’

It was the end of a long day. We’d run out of time and the guards needed to get us

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6 June 2022 Traction

The meaning of risk in community art

Three days ago, anticipating the first performance of the Leiria prison opera, I wrote that I didn’t expect to see

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2 June 2022 opera / Regular Marvels II / Traction

This is special

In the dusty hall of a disused prison workshop, 30 people shuffle into a big circle. Silence falls. They draw

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20 March 2022 Traction / Uncategorized

Reflecting on ‘El Cabaret de la Gata’

A long journey needs resting points It is a surprise, in my sixties, to find myself working on opera, as

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17 March 2022 Traction / Uncategorized

‘Cabaret de la Gata’– Traction takes off

As the pandemic recedes—or perhaps becomes normalised—it is becoming hard to recall the strangeness of those lockdown months, and the

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6 March 2022 Traction

Building bridges

It’s just over two years since I met the people involved in the Traction co-creation opera projects, in Donostia, at

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10 December 2021 Traction

Without access, nothing is possible

For decades, longer even, cultural policy in Europe has been imagined as a conflict between two ideas. The first is

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5 October 2021 Traction / Uncategorized

Between Beckett and Homer: excellence in co-creation

There are moments in every good community art project when you watch, suspended between wonder and terror, as it takes

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3 September 2021 Traction

The difference between a professional and a non-professional artist – Part 1

This photograph of the artists working on Irish National Opera’s Out of the Ordinary project was taken on 20 August 2021, at

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