Director/Designer Workshop with Jennifer Tang and Moi Tran
Wednesday 2, 16, 30 September 2020
7.00pm – 9.15pm
In this series of three workshops, director Jennifer Tang and artist/designer Moi Tran will explore the director/designer relationship, examine how to build a shared language for the visual world of a production and unpack the initial design process.
Open to early career directors and designers, the workshops will walk through the design process from preparing for your first meeting with your director/designer, sharing of early ideas and concepts, compiling research boards, making storyboards, and first drawing of a set design.
Each participant will be paired with a peer director/designer counterpart. As a group, all exploring the same set play, Jennifer and Moi will guide participants through the early stages of their design process for this play. Each director/designer pair will then have the opportunity to develop their own design concept, working with the Clare Theatre at the Young Vic.
Each partnership will have the opportunity to share back their ideas for production and their findings on their individual and shared process in the final week.
The sessions are as follows:
Week 1: Wednesday 2 September
Reading a play, translating theme to concept, meeting your partner, sharing ideas, how to research and storyboard
Week 2: Wednesday 16 September
Translating early ideas into design reality, artistic questions and considerations, how the director can support the designer at this stage of the process.
Week 3: Wednesday 30 September
Sharing of production ideas and drawings from each partnership (five-minute sharing, with five-minute discussion per pair with Jennifer and Moi about ideas and process). General Q&A about the process and the artistic relationship, and a chance to network and share contacts
It is hoped that participants are able to work in their pairs outside of the set workshop sessions to develop ideas through discussion and to complete some set tasks. Ideally this would be up to five hours between each session – across each two-week period. To get the full benefit of the sessions you should be able to attend all three dates.
In order to pair each director and designer with a good artistic match, please provide some information about yourself HERE!
If you are interested in attending, please click the sign-up button above and fill in your details by 10am on 1st September.
Closed captions will be available for this session via Otter AI and details on how to use this will be provided on the day.
We will ensure that access provision is in place for all participants.
Please let us know if you have any access requirements using the space on the sign up form so we can get appropriate provision in place.
Zoom details will be sent to you the day before.
Jennifer Tang is the next Young Vic Genesis Fellow/Associate Director. She is an award-winning UK and International theatre director, specialising in new writing and fusing theatre with music. She has worked with buildings and organisations including The Royal Exchange, The Young Vic, The Gate, Hampstead Theatre, The Royal Opera House and The Royal Shakespeare Company. Her practice also spans devised work and opera, and she has extensive experience of working with communities and young people.
Moi Tran is an artist/performance maker/researcher and designer, her practice explores the intersections between contemporary art and live performance. Tran’s work includes set & costume designer for theatre, film, dance and opera. Her work advocates the power of Diaspora space, she is founder of East Asian Ticket Club, an engagement platform for the EA/SEA community. Recent/ Upcoming Theatre include: Rare Earth Mettle Royal Court); In The Blood (Donmar); Chiaroscuro (Bush). Recent/Upcoming art performance include: The Bolero Effect - (VCCA Vietnam ,Hanoi); The Circuit- A Movement Scenario (Prague Quadrennial/OvalSpace/SPILL Festival); Three Women and a Duck (Vietnam, Laos, Thailand Recent/Upcoming awards/commissions include: ArtHouse Artist in Residence; Curator Encounter Bow Festival;Chisenhale Dance Space; Curator; Royal Court Climate Open Festival.