Dance United I PCI Partnership Development Project
Victoria Hunter

This application for HEIF 4 funding seeks to develop further a partner relationship between the School of Performance and Cultural Industries and Dance United. This relationship began in 2007 with a week-long residency supported by Creative Partnerships, the application is intended to develop this relationship over a two-year period and aims to support further knowledge transfer and collaborative research activities. This project will foster a mutually beneficial and sustainable relationship through the identification of research and knowledge transfer activities which can ultimately develop beyond the initial two-year period.

Russian theatre laboratories: incubators of the C21 avant garde
Bryan Brown

This project is an intercultural and international collaboration between a UK research-led HEI (the School of Performance and Cultural Industries, Leeds, UK), an
American grassroots arts organization ([via] Corpora Performance Research and
Development House, Los Angeles, California, USA), and Russian conservatoire-style centers and their emerging laboratories (The Meyerhold Center, School of Dramatic Art,
A.R.T.O. creative studio, the Laboratory of Dmitry Krymov, and Teatrika, Moscow and St.
Petersburg, Russia). The aim of the project is an exchange and dialogue of contemporary incubation and performer training practices within theatre cultures that have different approaches to the transmission and dissemination of theatrical knowledge. The project will be undertaken by an advisor to, and instructor at, ( [via] Corpora as well as current
School of PCI postgraduate researcher, Bryan Brown, under the supervision of Prof.
Jonathan Pitches, in partnership with the above mentioned organizations. This project engages in the activities of EKT as outlined by PVAC through a focus on numbers 1 and
2 within the 'Background and Purpose' section, and enhances the mission statement in all areas as expressed in the 'Writing the Proposal' section but particularly through
'cultivation of valuable partnerships leading to new research and associated funding opportunities' and 'promotion of internationalism in our activities'.

'Song at the Year's End' Mobile Theatre Production - Phil Kiszely
In association with the March 2010 conference, 'Digging the Seam: cultural reflections and the consequences of the 1984-5 miners' strike' led by ICS, internationally known Yorkshire writer, poet and broadcaster Ian Macmillan has composed a song cycle entitled Song at the Year's End. This composition has been supported by ICS and Opera North.
Funding is now sought to support the realisation of this song cycle as a music and performance-based portable theatre piece and for Ian McMillan to work with staff and students from the Schools of Music, PCI (performers, managers, designers) ICS (documenters) and with Opera North personnel. There will be initial performances next March at stage@leeds, the Howard Assembly Rooms, and Experience Barnsley. Further performances could utilise other communities as the participants.