Work-based learning
Reciprocal staff learning
DARE Dramaturgy Think Tank
Created in 2010, the Think Tank is the first initiative of its kind. Academic specialists and arts practitioners come together to explore, research and interrogate identified themes, providing a wealth of information that will inform artistic thinking, planning and teaching.
- During December 2011, the fifth Think Tank will explore the music and folk traditions of countries and regions that claim St. George, to provide perspectives and thinking which might inform Opera North's Resonance project on the subject.
- In July 2011, over thirteen participants from a broad spectrum of external galleries, museums and cultural organisations, plus Opera North and the University, shared thinking on potential collaborative themes to mark the centenary of the First World War.
- In June 2011, participants including a poet, singer, set designer, composer and autism specialist, plus academics and practitioners from Opera North and the University of Leeds, explored the challenges involved in thinking about opera as conceived from an autistic perspective .
- Two workshops took place in June and December 2010, bringing academics from areas such as Health Services, Psychiatry & Behavioural Sciences and German together with Opera North practitioners from Projects, Publications and Planning, plus an independent opera director, to explore the influences of and upon Berg's Lulu.
Publications
PCI lecturer Dr Kara McKechnie was commissioned to create two pieces of work. A monograph on opera, using Opera North as a case study, will be published by Emerald Publishing; and she wrote a piece for the 2008 programme booklet of Pinocchio under the headline 'Make Me!' based on rehearsal observation and interviews with the creative team and cast of the production