Tramway Family Day: Impossible Bodies

Across the building a range of drop-in, free activities suitable for ages 0-12 plus parents and carers will take place offering the opportunity to make puppets, create mobiles and streamers, and play with live visual projections.

Performance tickets cost £2 each and are available in advance from Tramway box office.
All other activities are free, drop-in and places will be allocated on a first come first served basis.

FULL PROGRAMME

PERFORMANCE

Colette Sadler / stammer productions

We Are the Monsters
11am – 11.30am AND 2pm – 2.30pm

TICKETS: £2 each available from Tramway Box Office

Ages 0-12 plus parents and carers

(Children under 6 must be accompanied by an adult)

 

Colette Sadler’s performance, We are the Monsters, places moving objects, puppet limbs and humans together on stage. The humans’ imitation of each other appear to be the same, and by changing their positions in space, they begin to blend into each other as the dancers transform into strange alien beings with puppet arms and legs that move in strange and impossible ways. This performance asks the audience to think about what it means to be a human – or not – and what it means to be the same or different from one other. 

WORKSHOP

Colette Sadler / stammer productions

Impossible Bodies

12noon – 1pm AND 3pm – 4pm

FREE with a ticket to a performance of We Are the Monsters,

Limited capacity, first-come, first-served.

Ages 5-9

Part one of the workshop will involve physical games and dance exercises that will encourage physical confidence, creativity, musicality and interaction. We will improvise movement, looking at physical principles such as: weight, falling, rolling, jumping and catching. The focus will also be on learning how to lead and be led in partners and how to use the body like a writing tool, using the limbs and joints like pencils. These simple movement strategies will help us warm-up for our work on transformation! 

 

In part two of the workshop we will look at the geometric form of the body and how to both extend and dissolve it. Using puppets and specially made costume /objects – by visual artist Ewan Hunter – we will work with movement and sculpture to think about what it means to change shape, form an identity, and how that produces our movement and interactions differently. Impossible Bodies will develop with the children the idea of how it is possible to transform a body or human form into something else, and then to explore what kind of space or world these bodies might inhabit – as these new human forms will bring with them a logic that challenges our everyday. 

DROP-IN FREE ACTIVITIES

(all children under 6 must be accompanied by an adult)

 

Cassandra Barron

Dancing Streamer Workshop

10am – 11.30am AND 12noon – 1.30pm

Ages 0-12 plus parents and carers

Mirrored card, ribbon, cellophane and sequins will be transformed into colourful streamers that you can bring to life through dance, movement or in the wind!

 

Fly Arts

Puppets on Parade: Animation of the Imagination

11am – 1pm AND 1.30pm – 3.30pm

Ages 4-12 plus parents and carers

Let your imagination run wild and create a puppet that can be worn on your finger, hand or even your head. Join us and bring the inanimate world to life!

 

Greer Pester / Archipelaglasgo

Mobile Mee

10am – 11.30am AND 12noon – 1.30pm

Ages 0-12 plus parents and carers

Come create your very own fluid and colourful mobile. Using coat hangers as a basic frame to attach to, we will be exploring movement with combinations of materials, light and air. Expect devilish details, magical sparkles and facets alongside tactile, reflective and transparent paper and textile shapes.

 

Automatic Exposure

Toy with Us!

11.30am - 12.30pm AND 2.30pm – 3.30pm

Ages 4-12 plus parents and carers

An interactive live visual performance: Automatic Exposure invites you to interact with us live to make your own animation movie. With magical digital and drawn worlds to explore: all you have to do is play!

Illustration: Erin McGrath

Photography: Anna Van Kooij 2011